The leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro and President of Bolivia Evo Moles left their signatures under the manifesto in defense of the inhabitants of the Gaza sector. This was reported by the Cuban newspaper Granma .

Ukraine will file a lawsuit against Russia to the UN International Court, the Minister of Justice of Ukraine Pavel Petrenko said on the air of the Shuster Live TV show. According to Petrenko, the basis of the lawsuit leaves the "question about events in the east of the country." The Ukrainian side accuses Russia of violating the International Convention to Prohibition of Financing Terrorism. The head of the Ministry of Justice of Ukraine said that Ukraine has irrefutable evidence.

Russia tried to influence economic sanctions on manufacturers and suppliers of imported products, but how did they affect the Russians themselves? Polit.ru talked with representatives of large supermarket networks, as well as with buyers in them, and found out why people below the average wealth protect the figure, people of average abundance at all costs are fighting for foreign goods, and people of high prosperity will be happy to accept the domestic manufacturer.

Entrance to the center of Kiev can become paid in the next three to four years, today.ua reports with reference to the deputy of the Bun party Igor Kononenko. According to Kononenko, the issue of road repair is no longer resolved by lending.

Andrey Lankov North Korea We continue to publish a cycle of articles of a wonderful vestibule, and the Ssociated Professor University of Kukmin (Seoul) Andrei Lankov about how North Korea lived under Kim Il Sene when she was the most controversial society in world history.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on August 9, in television mode, launched a reconnaissance drilling on the West Alpha platform on the well of the Kara Sea. It is reported by Interfax. The Universitetskaya-1 oil well is the northernmost in the Russian Federation and will storm in the conditions of open water over the next season-from August to the end of October.

During the traditional survey, readers of Polit.ru gave preference to Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev in the nomination of the Media Person of the week.

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov at a press briefing in Sochi denied the statements of the Ukrainian side about attempts to penetrate the Russian troops into the territory of Ukraine under the guise of a humanitarian convoy. This was reported on August 9 by Interfax . “We find it difficult to understand what was meant by the Ukrainian side. There were no attempts to penetrate the Russian troops, ”Peskov emphasized.

On Sunday, August 10, in Sochi it is planned to hold a tripartite meeting of the presidents of Russia, Azerbaijan and Armenia. This was stated by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov at a press-breaking in Sochi on August 9, Interfax reports. “We do not exclude that a tripartite meeting will be held tomorrow afternoon,” Peskov explained.

The typhoon “Halon” hit the life of four local residents, another 26 injuries of varying severity. It is reported by Kyodo . To date, the country's authorities have already sent the recommendations of 1.32 million people living in 15 prefectures of the country, including Sikoku, Tokai and Kinka. The element damaged a number of infrastructure facilities, as a result of which several thousand residential buildings were without power supply.

The Lithuanian company Pieno Zvaigzdes, presented in Russia by the Swala brand can suffer 15% of the turnover and will be forced to look for other sales markets in connection with the response measures of Russia for the EU and the United States. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the general director of the company Alexander Smagin. Under the Swala brand, the company produces cheese, granular cottage cheese, butter, yogurt and sour cream.

The mayor of Kiev Vitaly Klitschko said on the TV show “ Shuster Live ” that he had agreed with Maidan activists about the liberation of Khreshchatyk. According to Klitschko, negotiations continue, although they are quite difficult. On the evening of August 8, it was reported that Euromaidan activists allowed employees of city utilities to dismantle part of the barricades in the center of Kiev.

Maxim Russo ISS NASA According to Interfax, in the near future, experiments with biological objects with the help of special equipment of the Expose series will be resumed at the International Space Station. Expose is a special containers in which the examples under study are placed for a long time on the outer surface of the ISS to study how the conditions of space space affect them. They were developed by the European Space Agency.

More than half of the inhabitants of Lugansk were left without light, reports Interfax-Ukraine . The reason for the disconnection of electricity was the damage to the last operational line of power transmission during hostilities. Employees of NEC Ukrenergo argue that the restoration of damaged power lines and resumption of energy supply residents is possible only in case of termination of hostilities.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held a telephone conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs and the Commonwealth of Great Britain Philip Hammond, according to the official website of the Russian Foreign Ministry. The parties discussed various aspects of the crisis in Ukraine, including the humanitarian situation in the conflict area.