French President Nikola Sarkozy said that Iran was playing a dangerous game, developing nuclear weapons, reports Reuters. He also clarified that the country risks becoming an object of attack from Israel. “Iran risks very much, continuing his attempts to acquire nuclear weapons. One fine morning we can find out that Iran was attacked, ”he said.

The editorial office of Ingushetia.ru received an anonymous call, which announced the name of the killer Magomed Evloev. The anonymous announced that Magomed Evloev directly detained and put him in the UAZ police car, OMON, Magomed Tsoroev. He also noted that the murder of Evloev committed the Tsoroev. The caller introduced himself as an employee of the security of Minister Medov.

The head of the TNK-BP Robert Dudley will resign from the position of the executive director (CEO) of the company until the end of this year. As stated in the report of the AAR consortium (Alfa-Group, Access Industries and Renova), a shareholder of TNK-BP, an agreement on this is fixed in the memorandum of understanding, signed on Thursday with BP.

Nicaragua may become the second state after Russia, which officially recognizes the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The program "Times" of Vladimir Pozner on Channel One will no longer be aired. According to Kommersant , on the television channel it considered its format exhausted. And Posner will appear on the air of the first as a permanent interviewer. In an interview with the Favorite newspaper, Vladimir Pozner himself confirmed this information and noted that this decision was made by him himself a few months ago.

Due to the conflict that has unfolded in Georgia, traditional tennis tournaments, which were held annually in Tbilisi and Batumi, are canceled, reports News-Georgia. According to the President of the Georgian tennis Federation, Leila Meskhi, after long negotiations with the International Tennis Federation, had to refuse to hold Tbilisi and Batuman tennis tournaments among women. However, from next year, Georgian courts will be open to all international competitions.

From August 13, each Wednesday at 20:05 at the frequency of 99.6 comes out the Radation “Neutral Territory”, the joint project “Finam-FM” and “Public Lectures“ Polit.ru ”. The project is dedicated to an attempt to figure out how the surrounding us is arranged. We will publish the decoding of the released programs. Two programs were made in test mode. We begin the publication of the publication. It is from them. Dmitry Iskovich: Good evening.

The ex-Minister of Defense of Japan Yuriko Koika became a candidate for the post of prime minister of the country, having secured the necessary support for 20 members of the parliament, Reuters reports. Thus, Koke was already the third candidate for the post of prime minister. Koika is the first female minister of defense of Japan. She established herself as a very liberal politician, still holding the position of Minister of Economics.

** Themes of the day ** Central media notes that Russia initiated the reconciliation of Moldova and Transnistria. On this occasion yesterday, President of the Russian Federation D. Medvedev accepted the president of Transnistria I. Smirnov . The meeting was official, agreed with the President of Moldova V. Voronin. Tiraspol lifted the ban on a moratorium, entered into contacts with Moldavian officials.

Mary Kaldor I For the first time in South Ossetia in the summer of 1995, just when the events in Bosnia and Herzegovina moved to the final stage. I was led to a meeting with the so -called Enclave Foreign Minister; To my surprise, a large portrait of Karadzhich caught his eye on the wall.

According to the investigation, the famous Dagestan journalist Abdullah Alishaev was killed by the local Wahhabit Vadim Butdaev. On Wednesday, he also shot the senior operative of the Republican Non -terminal for Arsen Zakaryaev. In both cases, eyewitnesses identified by the photograph of Vadim Butdaev as a shot. According to the investigation, his accomplice was a certain Rustam Umalatov. writes "Kommersant".

Today, the Moscow Basmanny Court issued a sanction for the arrest of the vice-president of Euroset Boris Levin, Echo Moscow reports. The same decision was made for the deputy head of the security service of this company Andrei Ermilov. According to him, lawyer Levin Marat Fayzulin, there were no significant grounds for arrest. “Events (which formed the basis of the prosecution) occurred in 2003 and were widely known.

Russian Protestants again require law enforcement agencies to close the 2x2 animation television channel. The Russian Union of the Christians of the Vera of the Gospel (Roskhwe) appealed to the Prosecutor General and the Investigative Committee at the prosecutor's office demanding that the South Park animated series be declared extremist and prohibit its import into Russia.

The American vice president on Wednesday began a multi-day tour of Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine. “This trip fits into a completely different context: the Russian war with Georgia has just ended, and this visit will serve to even more annoy Moscow in“ its sphere of influence ”,” notes Le Temps, emphasizing that in this way, Pershini plays into the hands of the Republican Party McCain (full text, see Inopressa.ru ).

In Bosnia, NATO soldiers searched the house of the former colonel of the Serbian army, Petar Jessicich, suspected of covering Ratko Mladich, whom the Hague Tribunal accuses of genocide, reports Reuters with reference to the message of the NATO press secretary. Searches took place today early in the morning. The press service specified that the inhabitants of the house were assisted in a search.