AvtoVAZ, together with Nissan, wants to assemble cars of a Japanese company in the Far East, Vedomosti write today. According to AvtoVAZ managers, a aircraft factory in Komsomolsk-on-Amur can become a platform for the production of Nissan cars, where the SSJ liner production will soon begin. AvtoVAZ President Boris Aleshin only confirmed that AvtoVAZ is negotiating the organization of the Nissan models on its squares. Representatives of Renault and Nissan refused to comment.

** What to expect in the coming hours. Announcement of events ** SHOS is a summit Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is involved in the Shanghai Cooperation Summit, which opened in the capital of Tajikistan. The heads of state will sign a declaration of the situation in the world and the region and other documents. The Russian leader will also hold a number of bilateral meetings with foreign colleagues.

NASA experts observed a collision of two galaxies, as a result of which there was a separation of dark and ordinary matter, Space.com reports. This event occurred at a distance of 5.7 light years from the Earth and led to the formation of the Cluster MCSJ0025. With the help of space telescopes, Hubble and Chandra, astronomers compiled a map of the distribution of dark and ordinary matter.

In an interview with CNN, the chairman of the government, Vladimir Putin, said that he did not give an order to enter the Russian troops into Georgia, even foreign viewers and wanted to think so. This, of course, is not so, ”said Putin. - In accordance with the Constitution of the Russian Federation, foreign policy issues, defense are completely in the hands of the President of Russia. The President of the Russian Federation acted within the framework of his authority.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Georgia refuted the approval of the South Ossetian side that the Unmanned Georgian intelligence plane was shot down in the Tskhinvali area. Earlier, the leadership of South Ossetia stated that the drone flew near the South to the northern direction of Tskhinvali. It was argued that a barrage fire was opened by the plane, as a result of which it was shot down.

Scientists of the Novgorod State University have developed a unique method of restoration of ancient Russian frescoes based on the use of computer technology, reports the comprehension with reference to RIA Novosti. Many fragments of painting in the temple of the Savior of Transfiguration on the None of the 12th century were lost irrevocably, but photos of frescoes were preserved.

On September 3, the Moscow City Court will consider the cassation appeal of the defenders of the former vice-president of Yukos NK Vasily Aleksanyan to extend the deadline for his detention, his lawyer Elena Lvova said. On July 18, the Simonovsky Court of Moscow extended until October 23 the arrest of the former vice president of Vasily Aleksanyan. On February 6 of this year, the court suspended the process due to the illness of the defendant.

“To begin with, I went to the Russian National Library to look at this miracle with my own eyes ... Since it was completely impossible to believe that at least one modern competent biologist in their right mind and solid memory, I suggested that, most likely, members of the editorial board and editorial council did not see it in the eye. This hypothesis required an experimental test ... ".

Transnistria hopes for the recognition of his independence by Russia, following the example of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. According to RBC in the press service of the President of Transnistria Igor Smirnov, in his congratulations directed by the peoples of South Ossetia and Abkhazia in connection with the day of recognition of their independence by the Russian Federation, the head of Transnistria Igor Smirnov noted: “We also know that your example will become ours.

The conflict of Russia with Georgia has become a sign of the "weak" of Russia, and not again the stronger country, and now Moscow has threatened its place in the existing world order, said Daniel Fried, assistant to the US Secretary of State for European and Eurasia “In Russia, one can hear:“ We were weak in the 90s, and now we have returned and we will not put up with this more. ”However, bitterness and desire for a revenge victory is not a sign of a strong country.

From the Plesetsk cosmodrome, a testing launch of the intercontinental ballistic missile RS-12M "Topol" has been carried out today, news agencies report.

In Bashkiria, the criminal activity of a group of persons who are the so -called “Bulgarian Jamaat” is suppressed, news agencies report with reference to the statement of the director of the FSB of Russia Alexander Bortnikov. According to him, “during the operational-search measures, data was received about the so-called“ Bulgarian Jamaat ”, created by the leaders of Al-Qaeda.

The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine predicts that the explosions in warehouses will continue on Thursday and Friday, and the Ministry of Emergencies already notes an increase in the number of explosions due to an increase in air temperature, Vesti reports. A fire in a military warehouse in the Kharkov region has been going on for almost a day. By this minute, two victims are already known.

As Polit.ru previously reported, on August 13, 2008, the General Director of Rosatom State Corporation Sergei Kiriyenko signed an order “On the organization of works on the construction of the Baltic nuclear power plant (Kaliningrad region)”. Contributed to the order by the customer - the developer of the Baltic NPP, was appointed OJSC "Concern" Energoatom "(former FSUE concern" Rosenergoatom ").

The Alfa-Group investment unit A1 Investments can become a co-owner of one of the largest retail chains of Eldorado, Kommersant writes today. A source of a competing network told the publication that A1 agrees to buy a 25% of the management company of the network - Eldorado LLC. This information was confirmed by the Eldorado top manager and a source in A1 Investments. “The parties began discussion of this transaction at the end of last year,” he says.