Grigory Gritsenko The next air show in Zhukovsky once again recalled that Russia is rather an exhibition site for demonstrating the successes of foreign manufacturers than a proportion of its own achievements. Although everything was conceived, of course, strictly the opposite.

During the launch of the shuttle scheduled for the spring of 2005, a video camera will be installed on the fuel tank, which will help to monitor the heat -insulating foam that caused the death of the COLUMBIA ship, CNN reports. The camera will be located closer to the top of the fuel tank, and within about 15 minutes after the launch will transfer information to the flight center. A group of NASA engineers will look at the recording and determine how much foam has come off during the start.

The Court of the Amur Region by three years of imprisonment was conventionally sentenced by the police captain, who, using his official position, extorted money from local entrepreneurs, Interfax reports. In addition to a conditional term, he is deprived of the right to serve in law enforcement agencies and plenipotentiary state structures within three years.

** President of the Russian Federation and his administration ** President V. Putin met with the chairman of the CEC of the Russian Federation A. Vveshnyakov . During the meeting, the president said that he considers it appropriate to hold parliamentary elections in Chechnya next in the spring of next year. ** Regional news ** On August 14, the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory A. Khloponin went on vacation, which will last until August 31. The first deputy governor V.

The representative of the coalition command Arthur Damansky said that four Ukrainian soldiers were injured in Iraq, Echo Moscow reports. According to AFP, this happened in the city of Suvaira, where the Ukrainian Peacemaker was blown up today. The Ukrainian military contingent in Iraq is 1.6 thousand people. The Prime Minister of Ukraine has already stated that the Ukrainian peacekeeping contingent in Iraq must be reduced. To date, eight Ukrainian soldiers died in Iraq.

The Provisional Government of Iraq called for Shiite militants to lay down their weapons and leave the city of En-Sadzhaf. This appeal was made by the Minister for Regions Vail Abdel Latif, reports Reuters . Only in this way, in his opinion, the militants of the “Mahdi Army” can help the peaceful completion of the armed conflict , which has been going on 11 days.

Journalists of the Bureau of Iranian Information Agency Irna in Baghdad were detained in Iraq. They are accused of a crime by “Karaem large punishment,” a temporary attorney in Iran in Baghdad said on Monday on Monday of the Saudi newspaper Er-Riyad. According to the diplomat, the deputy minister of the internal affairs of the country informed him about this. He did not bring any other details.

Russian judoka Vitaly Makarov (weight category up to 73 kg) won a silver medal at the Olympic Games in Athens. In the final battle, the Russian lost to the South Koretsi Lee Vun-hee. Thus, in the piggy bank of the Russian national team, there are currently seven medals (1 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze).

The US team basketball players provided a sensation with the Minus sign. The American team, composed mainly of players speaking in the championship of the National Basketball Association (NBA), lost to the Puerto Rico team with a score of 73:92 in the first round of the Olympic tournament.

At the Olympic Games in Athens, 14 sets of medals will be played today, and four of them in swimming disciplines. Theoretically, part of the medals may be in the hands of Russian athletes. So, today in the finalva in synchronous jumps from a 10-meter springboard will participate in the domestic couples of Natalya Goncharova/Yulia Koltunova in the female, as well as Dmitry Sautin/Alexander Dobroskok-in the male programs.

A delegation from Japan arrives today at Sakhalin to get acquainted with oil and gas projects on the shelf of the island, RIA Novosti reports. The delegation of 17 representatives of the largest Japanese corporations is headed by the Minister of Economics, Trade and Industry of Japan Seiti Nakagava. The delegation will examine the drilling installation of the sloping and controlled wells "Hawk" at the Chauvo field.

Daily television broadcasting in Korean was started on Sakhalin. This was announced on Monday by RIA "Novosti" by the editor -in -chief of the Korean Broadcasting Studio of the GTRK "Sakhalin" Kim Chun Dia. About 40 thousand Koreans live compactly in the Sakhalin region. From the time of the USSR, a broadcast in Korean has been conducted on the island and a weekly newspaper "New Korean newspaper" - "SE KOURO SIMUN" has been published.

The South Ossetian side denied information about the 15 killed Ossetians who died during night shelling. As the chairman of the Information and Press Committee of South Ossetia, Irina Glogloeva, said by phone of RIA Novosti, there were no victims from the Ossetian side. “Fortunately, no one died. There are three wounded, ”she said.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) began checking the facts of discrimination of independent gas suppliers - Rospan CJSC, NOVATEK OJSC and Northgaz LLC from Gazprom OJSC. On its initiative, the FAS requested the necessary documents from these companies in connection with the refusal of Gazprom to pump their gas in its pipes. “Within a month, we will decide whether violations of antimonopoly legislation were committed and there are grounds for initiating a case against Gazprom,” FAS reports.

The leaders of several public organizations of Transnistria wrote an appeal to the chairman of the State Duma Boris Gryzlov. In this appeal, they ask to consider the issue of Kisinev and Tiraspol and adopt a decree on the recognition of the sovereignty of the self -proclaimed Transnistrian Moldavian Republic (PMR).