The head of the Federation Council Committee on International Affairs, Deputy Head of the Russian Delegation at the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) Mikhail Margelov said that he considers it right to leave the European Council if the Assembly at his October session violates the consensus decision of the presidential committee PACE and deprives the Russian delegation of powers.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed an order "On the signing of a friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance between Russia and the Republic of South Ossetia," the press service of the head of state reports. "To accept the proposal of the Russian Foreign Ministry, agreed with the interested federal executive bodies, the signing of the contract of friendship, cooperation and mutual assistance between the Russian Federation and the Republic of South Ossetia.

The European Union intends to revise the sanctions against the leadership of Belarus if the OSCE is recognized as democratic on September 28 in the Republic of parliamentary elections, the European diplomatic source in Brussels said. According to him, the corresponding position is reflected in the draft resolution, which will be approved today by the gathered for the next meeting in the Belgian capital to the leaders of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of 27 EU member states.

The total income from the Championship-2007/2008 amounted to 824.5 million euros. This exceeded the financial results of the 2006/07 (530 million) campaign and promises solid young ladies to the participants of the upcoming draw. As the Sport day after day notes, each participant in the 2008/09 group tournament will receive 5.4 million euros, and the bonuses for victory in the group stage match will amount to 600 thousand.

The Moscow Internet Telecom Internet Provider established LLC Gorky, which will include three more large home networks of Moscow-Biryulyo.net, Privy.net and Butovo.com plus several small ones, Writes Vedomosti. According to experts, the “city committee” is created with the aim of selling the network to one buyer. The combined provider will serve more than 70,000 customers, ”Alhas Mirzabekov, executive director of Su 29 Telecom, told the publication.

Russia is outraged by the actions of the Georgian leadership, who sent confidential messages to international government and non-governmental organizations demanding not to undertake any humanitarian and restoration projects in South Ossetia, until South Ossetia became part of Georgia, said Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov at the Tskhinvali press conference. Lavrov emphasized that the degree of destruction of the South Ossetian capital makes a strong impression.

After the war in Georgia, the West noticeably activated the search for energy resources and ways to transport them bypassing Russia.

Russia will not allow itself to exhaust itself, but will take measures to strengthen defense capabilities, said Russian President Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting with the Bureau of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP), adding that Russia's response to possible sanctions will be a symmetric nature. “We understand that sanctions are a double -edged weapon,” Vesti -24 said the president on the air of the television channel.

Last Friday, a meeting of the Board of Norilsk Nickel, the General Sponsor of Moscow, at which the future of the club was discussed, took place. We will remind, earlier it became known that Mikhail Prokhorov is no longer the chairman of the board of directors of the Sports Project company, which ruled all sports (BC and HC CSKA, IFC Norilsk Nickel and FC Moscow) in Norilsk Nickel.

The Japanese diplomat was beaten in Moscow. According to the law enforcement agencies of the capital, the incident occurred on Sunday evening, Vesti reports. The incident occurred at the entrance to the Park of Culture and Rest named after Gorky. Two unknown people beat the Japanese diplomat and disappeared. How much the diplomat has suffered, is currently being specified. The investigation is conducted. There is no additional confirmation of information yet.

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Did the Moscow Interregional Investigation Department have opened a criminal case on non -payment of more than two months of salary in the company "Eiryunion"? The representative of the Investigative Committee at the Prosecutor's Office (UPP) Vladimir Markin said. "A criminal case was instituted on the grounds of a crime under Part 1 of Article 145.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (non -payment of wages).

The number of current high-clay television channels / HDTV / in Russia will increase from 7 to 62 channels by 2014, Prime-Tass reports. This was stated at the IBC-2008 International Television Association of the Russian Association of Television of High Clarity and Digital Cinema Gerasim Gadiyan. It is expected that by 2010 the number of existing HDTV television channels in Russia will be about 25 compared to 196 in Europe. Now the number of HDTV channels in Europe is 112.

The transfer of power in the Iraqi province of Anbar from American security forces to Iraqi ones on September 1, 2008 is a reliable indicator that the situation in Iraq is really changing for the better. Indeed, much of the area shows signs of improvement, although some must be assessed in light of the context in which they appear.

Mid-September, one can hope, will mark an exit from the lowest point in Russia’s relations with the West, a transition to monitoring the level to which relations have slipped, and those actions that are possible for their gradual correction in a situation where disagreements have not disappeared.