The leadership of South Ossetia stated that it would go to negotiations with Georgia only if the Georgian troops were withdrawn from the territory of the unrecognized Republic, NTV reports. Today, Georgian State Minister for Settlement of Conflicts, George Haindrava, announced tomorrow's visit to the Prime Minister Zurab a Zhevka to Tskhinvali . Eduard Kokoita, the leader of South Ossetia, stated that no officer statements about the upcoming negotiations, adding: “We are ready for this meeting.

Moscow director Andrei Eshpay completed work on the screen version of the novel by Anatoly Rybakov “Children of Arbat”, ITAR-TASS said today. The film company “New Russian series”, which carried out this project, said that for the first time on television screens the heroes of the book will appear in the fall.

Georgian statements about the opening of firing for defeat in the courts near the shores of Abkhazia are not consistent with international law and resemble piracy. This is reported by RIA Novosti , the Minister of Defense of Russia Sergey Ivanov told reporters. “I was surprised by the statements that the Georgian leadership made in relation to the sea in the Black Sea off the coast of Abkhazia. In general, it looks like piracy and does not agree with the norms of international law, ”Ivanov said.

The RFFI will announce the initial price of the sale of the LUKOIL State Conference at an open auction. In late August - early September. This was announced on Wednesday by RIA "Novosti" Representative of the Russian Federation Vladimir Zelentsov. “In the last decade of this month - the first decade of the next month, we will publish an information message, which will contain the initial price of the sale of the state -owned law of the LUKOILA shares (7.59%) at an open auction,” Zelentsov said.

According to the new version of the FIFA rating list, published today, the Russian national football team sank from 26th to 27th place. The team, which still, despite the failure of Euro 2004, is headed by George Yartsev, 653 points. The three leaders are identical to the events of the month ago: 1. Brazil (849 points), 2. France (809), 3. Spain (790).

The Federal Arbitration Court of the Moscow District rejected the company's complaint about the court ruling about the refusal to suspend the execution of the decision to recover 99.342 billion rubles from the company, RIA Novosti reports. The arbitration court confirmed its previous ruling of July 16, 2004. Speaking today at a court session, representatives of the oil company officially confirmed the likelihood of the sale of yukos property.

Martin Bir from the University of Lucher (Great Britain), claims that the solar system may be completely unique, reports Nature. Over the past half a century, astronomers have discovered many planets around other stars, both in our galaxy and beyond. Scientists optimistically began to declare that the planets like the Earth exist in the universe in many. However, recent studies make it doubt this.

American scientists have found that the neighborhood of coffee plantations with forest increases the crop of coffee by 20%, and farmers' income by 7%, writes Nature . This is due to the bees living in the forests. Taylor Rects and his colleagues from Standford University studied coffee plantations on Costa Rica, where plantations are in close proximity to the forest.

A field uniform for the British military will be sewn in China. The Cooneen Cooneen company, Watts & Stone, which concluded a 50 millionth contract for the supply of military uniforms with the Ministry of Defense of the United Kingdom, hired Chinese subcontractors, reports the Air Force . It is expected that British taxpayers will save up to 23 million pounds in this transaction (more than $ 41 million).

In Japan, a tourist discovered the bones of a dinosaur that lived 78 million years ago. According to Haruo Saegusa, a researcher at the Museum of Nature and Human Activities in the Japanese city of Sumoto, the found fragments of teeth and bones probably belonged to a lambeosaurus. According to RIA Novosti, this animal was approximately ten meters long and weighed about four tons.

From August 6 to September 8, in St. Petersburg, in the Literary and Memorial Museum of Dostoevsky, an exhibition “Letters without Words” will be held, at which the works of the St. Petersburg photographer Nadezhda Kuznetsova will be presented. The exhibition opens the project "Photiniature", organized by the state center of photography, RIA Novosti reports. The exhibition will show 18 photos.

The Prime Minister of Georgia Zurab Zhvani will hold negotiations on August 5 to Tskhinvali with the authorities of South Ossetia, the Georgian Khindrava, State minister of Georgia to resolve conflicts, told Interfax. “Most likely, these negotiations will take place tomorrow. The issues of economic interaction, political settlement of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict will be discussed, ”the Georgian minister said.

In the zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict, a car of peacekeepers with the chairman of the Duma Committee on CIS Affairs Andrei Kokoshin was fired. Kokoshin reported this by RIA Novosti by phone from the scene. According to him, there were identification signs of peacekeeping forces by car. In addition to the deputy, the car was the North Settian and Georgian representatives. “We are in South Ossetia in the conflict zone, in the area of ​​responsibility of peacekeeping forces.

On Wednesday, Buryatia President Leonid Potapov met with the chairman of the board of RAO UES Anatoly Chubais. According to IA REGNUM, the main topic of discussion was the most important issues of the life support of the Buryatia energy system, in particular the crisis of energy supply in Ulan-Ude. Anatoly Chubais was handed over a package of documents. He assured the President of Buryatia that within a week he would give the leadership of the republic an exhaustive answer.

Currently, the development of the joint holding of Russia and neighboring states of the hockey championship is being actively underway. “An analysis of all international professional hockey leagues that exist in the world today and have a centenary experience of such competitions,” said Vyacheslav Fetisov, head of the Federal Agency for Physical Culture, Sports and Tourism. This idea is supported at a high level.