On August 26, it will be a year since Russia recognized the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. The consequences of a five -day war will respond for a long time for a long time throughout the Caucasus. Human losses fighting sides are still calculated. According to the Investigative Committee under the Prosecutor General, in August 2008, 67 Russian military personnel and 162 civilians of South Ossetia were killed.

A hanging war. Georgian villages on the border with South Ossetia are gradually recovering from last year's disaster, but their inhabitants look at tomorrow without any optimism The anniversary of the war: the sky cries over Tbilisi and Gori On the day when Georgia celebrated the anniversary of the war, in Tbilisi pouring heavy rain. In the cemetery to the memorial of the dead soldiers, the president arrived. I didn’t talk a lot, I did not stay long. Relatives stayed, they had nowhere to hurry.

AvtoVAZ conveyor stands, the workers were sent on forced leave The quarters of the Togzavodsky district of Togliatti are noticeably empty. Until September 1, the AvtoVAZ conveyor will stand, the workers are sent on forced vacations - mainly to summer cottages. The situation in the city is glow, and autumn in Togliatti is expected to be hot.

Russia is becoming calmer and calmer, more and more stable. If something is growing and accelerating in our country, it is the rate of killings of human rights activists. No sooner had Natalia Estemirova been buried than in the center of Moscow they launched KamAZ onto a chain of enthusiasts who were protesting against the construction of another branch of the Bank of Moscow among historical temples and mansions. Human rights activist Lyudmila Melikova got in the way of this KamAZ.

Woodstock Festival turns 40 Woodstock graft. The rock festival, named after the American town of Woodstock, has turned 40 years old. Some believe that he ended the era of hippies, others - that he became the culmination of the sexual and drug revolutions in the Western world, and others - that it was the apotheosis of the breakthrough to freedom of the generation that is now in power in many countries. The latter is still relevant for us and for the whole world.

How Dick Lawyer broke up with Zenit Inconvenient. With a wild lawyer, the most successful coach in the history of Zenit, the club parted ... at night. In the afternoon, the team lost Tomi, the coach after the match announced that there was a “serious conversation” inside the team, and after midnight he was called from the Gazprom office ... “It was no longer possible to hold a lawyer in the team.

Boris Berezovsky speaks of his healist only as a "traitor" In November 2000, Boris Berezovsky, then one of the most influential people in the country, said: "Putin is the person in whom I can not only live in Russia, but I can also be useful." A year later, he ended up in exile, after 7 years - he was in absentia to 6 years in prison.

Crisis as an occasion to completely change your life The crisis changes the life of people around the world. Someone breaks, and someone sees the opportunity to live another life.

"Bruno": the most scandalous film of recent months The most scandalous film of recent months was "Bruno" with Sacha Baron Cohen in the title role. In Ukraine, he was banned for "an artistically unjustified demonstration of the genitals." In the US, he became the leader of the rental weekend, earning $ 30 million on the move (then interest in him faded). With us, he shocked the hall, laughing loudly, but nervously.

The term of detention in the pre -trial detention center of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev is extended Judge Viktor Danilkin once again extended the detention period of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev in a pre-trial detention center-for another three months (renewing for a longer period prohibits the Code of Criminal Procedure). The base is all the same - they will run away. "How can the defendants run away if they are sitting in the first case?" - the defense asks.

Natalya Morar decided to leave journalism - Russian at least - and leaves the magazine The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation issued a refusal by the complaint of Natalia Moral, not seeing the absurdity that the journalist of the Russian publication, who once born in a common country, in the USSR who graduated from the Moscow State University, but having a passport of now sovereign Moldova, the FSB forbade the FSB to enter Russia “in order to ensure the defense or safety of the

Chrysostom metallurgists switched to pasture The government intends to develop a separate anti -crisis program to support the single -industry towns. In the meantime, the situation in them remains critical. The New Times from the very beginning of the crisis follow the situation in one such city - the Ural Zlatoust Zlatoust Metzavod after one and a half -month downtime began work Located in the Southern Urals, 1400 km from Moscow, the city of Zlatoust became famous largely thanks to the crisis.

Two sides of one wall. The Berlin wall looks like a Pizan tower: even having fallen, it still continues to fall-which is the certificate of a large photo exhibition, which the Moscow House of Photography opened in advance in the capital's arena to the 20th anniversary of the destruction of the Symbol of the Cold War Klaus Lenartz. Berlin Wall: The last days before demolition From the last hall of the exhibition, the chopping barking of dogs is heard.

The Constitutional Court made the decision to reject the complaint of Natalia Morar as back in May. Two judges of the Constitutional Court opposed this decision, and Judge Anatoly Kononov even wrote his "special opinion" on this subject. It is worth noting that the KS was in no hurry to report his decision and nothing has been said about him on the court’s website. Moreover, the Constitutional Court built his refusal, supposedly, based on the decisions of the European Court.

How Stalin managed to spend Chamberlain and Daladier 70 years ago, the Second World War became inevitable. On August 14, 1939, Klim Voroshilov brought to a standstill negotiations in Moscow with the military missions of France and Great Britain. The overture to the signing of the Molotov -Ribbentrop Pact was played.