Yesterday, at a rally in Tbilisi, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili announced the withdrawal of Georgia from the CIS. According to the head of the CIS Council of the Federation Council, Vadim Zhestov, the decision to enter the peacekeepers is made by the Council of Heads of the CIS. If Georgia officially comes out of the Commonwealth, it can raise the question of the termination of its peacekeeping functions.

The organizers refute reports on the abolition of Vakhtang Kikabidze concerts in Moscow, Gazeta.ru reports. “Nothing is canceled. The concert in the Kremlin will certainly take place, ”said Elena Maslova, spokeswoman for the Mill's concert agency, citing the general director of the agency Sergey Melnikova. “He told me after a conversation with the director of Kikabidze that there would be no cancellation, everything is going according to plan,” Maslova said.

Walt Disney company announced the creation of two research centers on the basis of the Swiss Federal Technological Institute in Zurich (Swiss Feditute of Technology in Zurich) and the University of Carnegie-Mellon in Pittsburgh, USA (Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh), reports Nature. This will be the first cooperation of the company with serious researchers since Walt Disney himself worked with a scientist from NASA Werner von Braun in 1955 and 1957.

The Council of trustees of the Literary Prize "Big Book" decided to posthumously award the prize in the special nomination "For honor and dignity" to the writer and public figure Alexander Solzhenitsyn, writes " Russian newspaper ". “Although the official award ceremony this year will be held at the end of November, the Council considered it necessary to announce his decision ahead of schedule,” Urushadze explained.

The leadership of the largest mobile operator MTS in Russia appointed the head of business in Russia. It was Alexander Popovsky, who was so far as the director of the South Macro -region, ComNews reports. MTS management was replaced in May 2008: the former head of the operator Leonid Melamed became the president of the entire AFK System (MTS main shareholder). The head of the MTS-Russia business unit Mikhail Shamolin took the place of Melamed in MTS and promised to continue his policy.

In the past six months, many participants in the Russian telecommunications market began to talk about the tendency to merge assets. These rumors began with the purchase of a fixed Golden Telecom operator, all 100% of the shares of Vimpelcom acquired. MTS President Mikhail Shamolin today publicly stated that they are not going to follow the example of competitors and unite with other "daughters" AFK System.

According to Washington, the United States intends to refuse to participate in the joint naval exercises in the Pacific, BBC reports. Confirmation from the Russian side has not yet been received. According to the American media, the Pentagon will undertake this demarche in protest against Russian military operations in relation to Georgia. “In the light of the conflict, we cannot currently take part in joint exercises at present,” said a high -ranking US military official.

Kazakhstan will send humanitarian aid to the victims in the Zino-Ossetian conflict zone, Lenta.ru reports with reference to Interfax. Humanitarian assistance will include food, medicines, hygiene products, clothes and building materials. Laws for assistance have already been allocated from the reserve fund.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia said that she established that “two heads of departments, in violation of the law, through their close relatives organized commercial structures, whose main activity is the construction of housing in the suburbs. The founders of commercial structures are also two leaders of the territorial departments of the department.

Yesterday, at a multi -thousandth rally in Tbilisi, Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili announced the victory of Georgia over Russia. The country that wore mourning a day ago and was preparing for the occupation, began to triumph, Kommersant correspondent noted. Those who came to a rally in the center of Tbilisi yesterday were not like people living in a country where martial law is still in force.

The next silver sample medal hit today in the piggy bank of the Russian Olympic team. Oksana Slyvenko reached the second result in competitions in heavy athletics - in the weight category up to 69 kg. Our compatriot scored 255 kg, losing to an athlete from China (Liu Chunhun scored 286 kg, breaking a world record that previously belonged to Slivvenko. The third place was taken by Ukrainian Natalya Davydova (250 kg).

American researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Perdi found a molecule with unusual properties in the earth's atmosphere, capable of reducing the amount of acid rains, the press release from universities said . For more than 40 years, it is known that the atmosphere is able to oxidize its pollutants, including nitrogen oxides that enter the atmosphere along with factory emissions and exhausts of cars.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree "On the announcement of mourning in connection with a humanitarian catastrophe in South Ossetia." This was reported today by the presidential press service. In accordance with the document on August 13, the mourning in Russia was announced in Russia.

In the House of Russia at the Beijing Olympic Games in connection with the Russian, the Russian flag has been visited in Russia, RIA Novosti reports, referring to the head of the Bosco di Chailiegi company, one of the organizers of the club, Mikhail Kusnirovich. "When the mourning was announced, we decided to lower the flag and cancel all entertainment events," Kusnirovich said.

Polish Foreign Minister Radoslav Sikorsky criticized the performance of Polish Polish Lech Kachinsky at a rally in Tbilisi, withstood in tough anti -Russian tones. Gazeta.ru reports. “I believe that it can be supported by Georgians without entering into such far -reaching contradictions,” said Radoslav Sikorsky. “I hope that the performance of Lech Kachinsky will not have any international consequences,” he added.