On August 30, a rotation of the Georgian peacekeeping contingent will be held in the Georgian-Ossetian conflict zone, news-group reports. The peacekeeping divisions of the Ministry of Internal Affairs will change the troops of the Georgian Ministry of Defense, which have been training according to NATO standards. Georgian Minister of Defense Georgy Baramidze, at a meeting with the residents of the villages of the Great Liahv gorge, assured them that the population’s safety would be ensured.

Today, the bodies of 2 Turkish hostages were found in Iraq. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to Al-Dzhaziru. Two days earlier, Turkish television distributed a record on which militants threaten to kill the captured Turkish engineers in the event that the company they worked for will not turn its activities in Iraq for 72 hours.

Yemena President Ali Abdullah Salekh announced the defeat of the Islamists and the liberation of the Saad’s mountain region they had previously captured in the north of the country. This was written by Gazta .ru, according to the British media. The leader of the Islamists Hassan al-Khuti "is forced to move from place to place," escaping from the persecution of government troops, Salekh said.

Russian duet Alexander Kostologlod/Alexander Kovalev became bronze medalists of the Olympics in a rowing at a canoe at a distance of 500 meters. With the result of 1 minute 40.442 seconds, the Russians finished third, RIA Novosti reports. Olympic champions of Athens were the Chinese Guyanlyan Meng/Wenzyun Yang. Representatives of the Middle Kingdom showed the best result - 1 minute 40.278 seconds.

Border guards vote ahead of schedule in the elections of the President of the Chechen Republic. According to RIA Novosti in the press service of the North Caucasus Regional Border Administration of the FSB of Russia, in the formations deployed in Chechnya, the early voting of border guards that perform tasks at the highestors and temporary border posts began. Representatives of local commissions with urns for voting went to these areas.

From the scene of the Tu-154 fall near the Don village of Glubokoy, the evacuation of fragments of the aircraft ended, ITAR-TASS was told in Kamensk-Shakhtinsky EMERCOM. The work was complicated by the fact that the Earth in the Tu-154 fall area was saturated with kerosene, pouring out of fuel tanks. Having rolled up the fuel with powerful pumps, the wreckage was collected and sent to Rostov-on-Don 12 heavy loads. At the air repair plant of this city, experts will continue their research.

The suspect in the involvement in the organization of explosions in the Kiev Troeshchina market, Alexander Pastukh, works at the election headquarters of the presidential candidate Bogdan Boyko, said Roman Immorta, the head of the central headquarters of the presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko. As Interfax-Ukraine reports, Alexander Pastukh, born in 1981, admitted that he made a home-made explosive device.

In Karachay-Cherkessia, the roof of the district hospital collapsed. According to Echo of Moscow , among them a 68-year-old woman.

A citizen of Yemen, accused of terrorism, was sentenced to death. The verdict was announced today at a meeting of the tribunal in the dignity. Husam Saleh Majally was recognized as involved in the explosion on the French tanker "Limburg" in 2002 and in the murder of a policeman. It is reported by AFP . The other 14 terrorists associated with al-Qaeda are sentenced to imprisonment for a period of 3 to 10 years.

The FSB officially confirmed the detection of traces of explosives on the wreckage of the Tu-134 airliner , which broke in the Tula region, reports Echo of Moscow. Based on the latest data, the prosecutor's office should re -qualify criminal cases of aircraft disasters. The formulation of the article “Crime against traffic and operation of transport” will be replaced by an article “Terrorism”. The prosecutor’s office does not exclude the unification of affairs into one.

Iraqi militants took the hosts of two citizens of France. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Katar satellite television channel Al-Jazira. The militants, presumably belonging to the Iraq Islamic Army group, require the France authorities to cancel the ban on wearing religious symbols, including Muslim hijabs.

Russian Gaidarbek Gaidarbekov (weight category up to 75 kg) won the final boxing fight against Gennady Golovkin (Kazakhstan) and became the Olympic champion. Today, another Russian boxer - Alexei Tishchenko (up to 57 kg) received a gold medal.

Maxim Opalev brought Russia a bronze medal in rowing competitions at the canoe at the Olympics in Athens. It is reported by RIA "Novosti". On Saturday, an athlete from Volgograd in the final swim of the canoe single -lonely finished 500 meters finished third - 1 minute 47.787 seconds. Gold went to the representative of Germany Andreas Dittmer, who showed time - 1 minute 46.383 seconds.

A meeting of the Council of Ministers of Foreign Affairs (UMD) of the Member States of the Central Asian cooperation organization (CAS) has opened today in Astana. According to Interfax , the heads of the foreign policy departments of Kazakhstan Kasymzhomart Tokaev, Kyrgyzstan Askar Aitmatov, Tajikistan Talbak Nazarov, Uzbekistan Sadyk Safaev, as well as the deputy minister of foreign affairs of Russia Sergey Zapov take part in the meeting.

Eight bodies of the dead as a result of the Tu-154 disaster were sent from the Rostov airport to Domodedovo today. As reports " Echo of Moscow ", e The relatives of the dead passengers are returning Tim by plane. Today, identification of the bodies of the dead will continue. So far, the bodies of forty -two passengers are identified. Among those whose personality is not established, perhaps the body of the passenger, about which Siberia Airlines still has no data. Her surname Dzhebirkhanova.