Russian President Dmitry Medvedev is meeting on Friday in the GUM Exhibition Hall with a large group of political scientists and analysts specializing in Russian topics - participants in the Valdai International Discussion Club, Vesti TV channel reports. On Thursday, Prime Minister Vladimir Putin met with club members. The main topics of the conversation were Russia's relations with the West, the situation in the Caucasus, and pressing international issues.

Yesterday a meeting was held by Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with participants in the fifth meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club. At a meeting with political scientists, of course, the theme of the South Ossetian conflict was primarily discussed. Today, the Valdai discussion club continued its work in the GUM exhibition center. Political scientists met with President Medvedev.

The introductory word of the Chairman of the Government of Russia V.V. Putin at a meeting with the participants of the fifth meeting of the Valdai International Discussion Club: V.V. Putin: First of all, I want to greet you all. Good afternoon As I understand it, this is already a fifth meeting, and if interest in such a format of communication does not weaken, this means that it is in demand, it means that it is interesting for those present.

Employees of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office (GVP) of Russia stopped the sale by employees of the Ministry of Defense of Russia of missile fuel in the amount of more than 281 million rubles to private organizations, the press service of the Main Military Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation reports.

The EU is considering the extension or completion of sanctions against the President of the President of Zimbabwe Robert Mugab in the light of reaching an agreement on the division of power with the opposition, Reuters reports with reference to the message of the French President Nicolas Sarkozy. “We must study the agreement and evaluate the obligations of the parties,” Sarkozy said.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev meets with a large group of political scientists and analysts - participants in the Valdai International Discussion Club. Dmitry Medvedev assures that Russia will have enough gas for all its partners in the West and East, and it will act based on its own interests in the development of cooperation with them, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to ITAR-TASS. “We have no confrontation between the Asian vector of the European one.

"The Russian leadership did not allow the Russian version of events to spread, since for many days it did not provide the Western media with any access to it, clearly did not give the Russian leaders a thirst for believing that" we are not like "(this is a standard Russian reaction to criticism from the West)," writes Financial Times (full text, see INOPRESSA.RU ).

President Viktor Yushchenko believes that BYuT and his leader Julia Tymoshenko will not go to restore the democratic coalition. He said this, speaking to the residents of the village of Vodyanyki, Zolotopnosti district of the Cherkasy region, UNIAN reports. “Obviously, Buty’s obligations and his leader will not allow this to do this,” the president said, not explaining at the same time what kind of obligations and who are in question.

The work of the "big eight" is impossible without participation in this organization of Russia, Alexander Pankin, Deputy Director of the Department of International Organizations of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, told reporters. “This will mean in a political and strategic plan to cross out the work of the“ eight ”in general. Not because they will not survive without us, but because we are talking about expanding the“ eight ”, the format“ eight plus five, ”he said.

The Governor of Alaska Sarah Paylin, candidate for vice-presidents of the United States from the Republican Party, believes that good relations with Russia are important, but does not exclude the application of “economic sanctions and diplomatic pressure” due to the situation around Georgia. “We have a very narrow border between the United States-the 49th state of Alaska-and Russia. They are our closest neighbors and we need to have good relationships with them.

**"We had a Nemchin interpreter. He needed to translate, but he didn't bother..."** The main topic for the domestic media last week remained the “Five-Day War” (this term seems to be becoming official, like the Six-Day Arab-Israeli War of 1967) between Russia and Georgia. The news in recent days on this matter is numerous and varied.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania has spread today a statement stating that the date of establishing diplomatic relations with Kosovo is September 1, Gazeta.Ru reports with reference to RIA Novosti. “Lithuania holds the position that the Kosovo case is unique and cannot be used as a precedent to resolve other frozen conflicts,” the Lithuanian Foreign Ministry said in a statement. The Lithuanian Sejm issued the corresponding resolution on May 6.

Aleksey Ostrovsky (LDPR), Chairman of the Duma Committee for CIS Affairs, was proposed not to let the US President Bush. He said Bush’s responsibility for the death of people, noted the possibility of an impact on Iran and said that it is clear why the United States turned a blind eye to Saakashvili. Ostrovsky invites the Duma to make an appeal to the UN members on the activities of the Bush administration.

The deputy of the faction "Our Ukraine - People's Self -Defense" Svyatoslav Vakarchuk lures his powers. "The parliament gave me a vast experience. But recently, the political struggle has become self -sufficient, it actually lost its goal and has become a struggle for the sake of struggle," Vakarchuk told reporters. The Elsa Ocean group, thanks to the work of which S. Vakarchuk became famous (he is the author of most texts and music), was created in 1994.

Russia can sign friendship and cooperation agreements with Abkhazia and Southern Ossetia at the beginning of the next week, Vesti reports with reference to the message of the official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrei Nesterenko. “I can assure you that the signing will take place in the very near future, perhaps at the very beginning of next week,” he said.