The new prime minister of Thailand was elected Yinglak Chinavat, the younger sister of the leader of the Thai opposition and former Prime Minister Taxin Chinavat, the website of RIA Novosti reports. At a meeting of the House of Representatives of the Thai Parliament, 296 votes out of 500 possible were cast for its election.

The daughter of the deceased pianist Nikolai Petrov Evgeny said that her father died of blood poisoning in the Moscow clinic, RIA Novosti reports. Thus, she denied previously widespread information , according to which Nikolai Petrov died of the consequences of a stroke, transferred by him during a tour in Belarus. The assistant to the musician in an interview with the agency, in turn, clarified that after a stroke Petrov was transferred to Moscow, to the clinic of Medicine OJSC.

The heavy ballistic missile of the Voivode RS-20 (aka Satan according to NATO classification), which was supposed to bring eight commercial satellites into orbit on August 4, 2011, will fly no earlier than August 17. Such a decision was made at a meeting under the Dnipro program, a source in the Ministry of Defense told Izvestia .

Leonid Chernovetsky will not be able to deprive the post of Kiev mayor, while he is a citizen of Ukraine, said, according to the information of the Gazeta.ua , the head of the citizenship department of the State Department for Citizenship, Emigration and Registration of Individuals of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ukraine Irina Fadeeva. Information about the possible receipt of second citizenship first appeared in February 2011, when the mayor of Kyiv was absent in Ukraine for a long time.

In 2011, the celebration of the City Day in Moscow will not be as usual, on the first Saturday of September, but a day later, on Sunday. This was reported on the website of RIA "Novosti" . The fact is that this year on Saturday, September 3, the anniversary of the school capture in Beslan, and Moscow will recall the victims of the tragedy. In this regard, the main entertainment measures, including on Red Square, will be held on September 4. Only sporting events can take place on Saturday.

The famous British musician Paul McCartney, the ex-participant of Bittles, said that journalists could listen to his voice mail, AFP reports. Sir Paul McCartney did not call which tabloid, presumably, could listen to his phone. Earlier, the ex -spouse McCartney Heather Mills complained of listening. She claims that in 2001, one of the journalists of Mirror-groups admitted to her in 2001.

The investigation was arrested by aircraft belonging to the bankrupt Continent airline. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee. Investigators arrested the carrier liners in order to subsequent compensation for damage to the injured passengers. In addition, measures are taken to arrest property of the company's owners.

The assistant vice president of Mail.ru committed suicide in Moscow, Interfax reports. The day before, the body of the deceased was found in his apartment in the north of the capital. During the audit, it was found that the man shot himself in the head from the hunting rifle. According to preliminary data, suicide occurred on Wednesday, and by the time the body was detected, about a day passed.

On August 4, 2011, a farewell passed with a geographer and geomorphologist, a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Honored Professor of Moscow State University, Doctor of Geographical Sciences Andrei Petrovich Kapitsa , the son of the outstanding physicist of Peter Kapitsa and the brother of the famous scientist and popularizer of science Sergey Kapitsa.

Biotechnologists from the University of Kyoto (Japan) used the stem cells of the mouse embryos in order to grow mouse sperm in the laboratory. This study can help in the fight against infertility. This was reported by Reuters and the Japanese newspaper The Mainichi Daily News with reference to the publication in the journal Cell ("Cell") of August 4, 2011.

The ex-Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko, arrested on August 5, is located in the hall of the Pechersky District Court of Kiev, the route of its further movement is still unknown, the correspondent.net reports “Tymoshenko, most likely, is now in the building of the Pechersky District Court of Kyiv, the people's deputies were completely blocked in the courtroom, the employees of Berkut did not let them out, there were skirmishes, fights,” said People’s Deputy Sergei Vlasenko.

In Moscow, on the night of August 5, an attempt on the notary of Fail Sadretdinov was made, who previously passed the accused in the case of the murder of the chief editor of the Russian journal Forbes Paul Khlebnikov, the website of RIA Novosti reports. The unknown tried to shoot Sadretdinov in the center of Moscow on the night of Friday. As a result of the attempt, the notary was not injured.

The movement of trains from the Partizanskaya station to the Shchelkovskaya station of the Arbat-Pokrovskaya line of the Moscow Metro will be canceled for three days in connection with repair work. This was reported on the website of the Moscow Metro. Thus, from 22.00 on August 12 to 5.30. On August 15, the Izmailovskaya, Pervomaiskaya and Shchelkovskaya station will be closed for the entrance and exit of passengers.

On August 5, the Ostankino court of Moscow arrested the first deputy director of the Tretyakov Gallery Oleg Belikov, suspected of embezzlement of 87 million rubles at the previous place of work, RAPSI reports. Thus, the court granted the application of the investigation. Belikov himself said that he did not admit guilt, but was ready to cooperate with the investigation and contribute to the disclosure of the crime.

Russian President Dmitry Medvedev signed a decree on the pardon of actress Natalya Zakharova. This was reported on the official website of the Kremlin. In January of this year, the French court sentenced Russian actress Natalya Zakharov to three years in prison for the arson of the apartment of the ex -husband Patrick Wari. At the end of May, Zakharova was taken to Russia and was serving a sentence in the colony of the Kostroma region.