Georgian media claim that Russian planes are carrying out air strikes on Georgian positions in the Tskhinvali region. According to these data, bombings of Georgian villages are carried out at intervals of once every twenty minutes, Ekho Moskvy reports. Until now, Russian military and official representatives have denied the fact of bombing by Russia. However, according to Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, the Georgian armed forces managed to shoot down two Russian combat aircraft.

The Council of National Security of Georgia said that if reports of the entry of Russian tanks are confirmed to the South Ossetia, Georgia will declare war on Russia, reports France Pre SSE with reference to the Secretary of the Council of Alexander Lomai. According to some reports, a column of approximately 150 Russian tanks and armored personnel carriers is in the immediate vicinity of Tskhinvali or has already entered it.

Prokhorov in April-May 2008 did not fulfill the obligations to Potanin to conclude a number of transactions with the shares of Norilsk Nickel, the Interros holding, which controls the assets of Vladimir Potanin, said. Potanin and Interros do not prepare and do not make any new transactions with him, the company claims. “We believe that the public statements of the ONEXIM group are misleading and aimed at manipulating shares.

On the night of August 7 to 8, 2008, war began in South Ossetia. Mobilization has been declared in Georgia, and officials declare the “constitutional measures to bring peace and law and order”, up to the successful end of which no negotiations are impossible. “We are too familiar to us in Russia. The Russian Federation brought the“ constitutional order ”in 1994, in the first Chechen war.

** President of the Russian Federation and international news ** Georgia last night began hostilities in the Zhino-Ossetian conflict zone. The South Ossetian authorities report that planes, tanks and infantry are involved in the attack on Tskhinvali. It is known about more than 15 dead civilians. Tbilisi claims that he was forced to abandon the moratorium on firing in response to the shelling of Georgian villages by Yugoseti formations. Russia calls for stopping violence.

On August 8, 2008, the chairman of the State Duma, Boris Gryzlov, held a meeting with the leaders of parliamentary factions and the State Duma committees on defense, security and international affairs. The meeting discussed the situation in South Ossetia and the development of operational and urgent measures on our part. The State Duma has repeatedly declared its position on measures to settle the Georgian-Ossetian and Georgian-Abkhaz conflicts.

Today, the Presnensky District Court of Moscow fined the head of the TNK-BP Robert Dudley for 500 rubles for failure to fulfill the requirements of the metropolitan state inspectorate for labor, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. Dudley is found guilty of violation of Part 1 of Art. 19.5 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of Russia - “Failure to fulfill the legal order of the body that exercises state supervision of the elimination of violations of the law”.

The Turkish Minister of Energy, who arrived at the place of fire, Hilmy Guler said that fire on the gas pipeline would be extinguished throughout the day. "We do our best to prevent the spread of fire. The movement of oil through the pipeline will be restored within ten days," the Minister of Radio " Freedom " reports. The fire on one of the valves of the BTD oil pipeline occurred on the night of August 6 as a result of the explosion. The authorities do not specify the cause of the explosion.

The cases of four explosions in Sochi - from April to July this year in the Lazarevsky district, thundered on April 7, June 11 and August 7, 2008 and in Adler, which happened on July 30, 2008, were combined into one criminal case. As the Investigative Committee at the Sochi Prosecutor's Office stated, the investigation has reason to consider “explosions in the villages of Lazarevskoye and Adler to the links of the same chain”, reports “Newsru.com”, citing ITAR-TASS.

** Themes of the day ** The central press notes that yesterday the collegium of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (SCP) took place, at which the UKP summed up the work of the first half of the year. According to its chairman A. Bastrykin, crime is reduced in Russia. In the first six months, about 1.6 million crimes were registered, which is 10% lower than in the same period of 2007. However, in certain categories of crimes, on the contrary, growth is noted.

The Georgian Foreign Ministry turned to the world community with a request to protect it from Russia's actions, AFP reports. Georgian Foreign Minister Eka Tkeshelashvili called on foreign countries to put pressure on Moscow in order to stop “direct military aggression” in Georgian territory. However, commenting on the events in South Ossetia, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Sergey Lavrov recalled that Georgia urged Russia on Friday in the morning to act as a peacemaker.

Military investigators completed the investigation and sent criminal cases to the court against six Russian generals. According to the official representative of the military investigative department (Armed Forces) of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (SCP (RF), today there are 12 criminal cases against 12 higher officers in the production of military investigators, Newsru.com reports with reference to Interfax.

Georgian tanks entered the city of Tskhinvili, reports Georgia-Online. “Georgian tanks entered Tskhinvali, there are many of them, they appeared in all areas of the city and are firing at the buildings,” eyewitnesses said. It is also specified that you can currently contact the residents of Tskhinvali only by Georgian numbers. They say that from the basements they see the caterpillars of tanks. Georgian troops already control 60% of the city.

Leo Uskin On August 24, 1553, in front of the monks located at the mouth of the North Dvina of the Nikolo-Karelsky Monastery, as well as the population of nearby villages, a spectacle appeared, hardly visible to them: near the shore anchored a real European ship with guns and a large team from the "Germans of an unknown country".

This morning in the village of Peklati, Senaki district of Western Georgia, a collision between an intercity bus and a passenger train occurred at a railway crossing, Novosti-Georgia reports . The accident killed 14 people. They are all bus passengers. No other information about the accident has yet been received.