Vyacheslav Borisov, who is a group of Russian troops, promised that the military would leave Gori The statements of the Russian military that the troops leave Georgia and only Russian peacekeepers remain in the security zone of the Georgian-Ossetian conflict. The area of the peacekeepers covers the most important communications of the country.

Reforming systems of legal proceedings and execution of sentences can take years even with hypothetical support of this idea of the supreme power, says Yuri Schmidt On Friday, the Chita District Court on Friday refused to satisfy the petition of the former head of the NK Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky for parole.

Kirill Kobrin : In the conclusion of the final issue of the Freedom Time program, what is happening at the Beijing Olympics. The next competitive Games Day is already three days before their end. The latest accomplishments and incidents at the Olympics are discussed by my colleague Andrei Sharogradsky and sports observer Radio Freedom Oleg Vinokurov. Andrey Sharogradsky : Oleg, I think you will agree that today, today's competitive day of the Olympiad, was the most interesting in the wrestling?

In Russia today the State Flag Day is celebrated. The holiday was established by the presidential at Kaz in 1994 in memory of the return of the white-red tricolor as a state symbol. For the first time after 1917, he was spontaneously raised in Moscow in August 1991. At the Government House of Moscow, an action entitled “Walk Freedom again!” Dedicated to the 17th anniversary of the August events of the 91st year.

Yuri Zhigalkin: The main news of the presidential campaign these days was the news that surprised political scientists that the election chances of Barack Obama and John McCain, in fact, were equal. Allan Davydov: According to the results of the last joint survey of the CBS television company and the New York Times newspaper, in just two weeks, McCain dealt a heavy blow to Obama's rating advantage.

Venezuela President Hugo Chavez said that Russia intends to send a detachment of ships to the Caribbean region. Chavez assured that he would welcome the visit of ships. According to the President of Venezuela, the question of the possible visit of ships was discussed by him with Russian representatives who recently visited him in Karakas. Moscow has not yet reported plans to visit the Caribbean region by Russian ships.

The victory of Elena Ishimbaeva at the Beijing Olympics is perceived as the victory of the whole country August 22 - Day of the Russian flag. The Russian tricolor was established as the National Flag of the Russian Federation by the Decree of the Supreme Council on August 22, 1991, the day after the failure of the Putcha of the State Emergency Committee. According to sociologists, the events of August 1991 are increasingly replaced from folk memory.

The lawyers Dmitry Dogi, the former head of the Main Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee at the Russian Prosecutor's Office, appealed their clients in the Moscow City Court. On Wednesday, the court authorized the arrest of Dovgia and criminal proceedings against him. The former official was detained on Monday on suspicion of receiving a large bribe - 750 thousand euros.

The President of Pakistan was scheduled for September 6, ”the National Electoral Commission said today. The former president Perevez Musharraf resigned - under the threat of impeachment from the parliamentary majority. The head of state, according to Pakistani laws, is chosen at a simultaneous meeting by deputies of the country's parliament and assemblies of four provinces.

The Chita District Court rejected the petition of the lawyers Mikhail Khodorkovsky about Udo in Moscow, a rally of opposition forces dedicated to the Day of the National Flag

Irina Lagunina: One of the Washington Motor Centers - the American Institute of Entrepreneurship - spent the other day a discussion dedicated to the crisis in the Caucasus. Its participants summed up the preliminary results of the armed conflict and tried to predict the further development of events. Says Vladimir Abarinov. Vladimir Abarinov: The discussion was opened by an expert at the American Institute of Entrepreneurship, the author of fundamental works on military history, Frederick Kagan.

In Moscow, almost all previously detained flights of Air Union were sent from Domodedovo Airport. In total, about two and a half thousand passengers, about a thousand people at the regional airports were expected from the environment from Domodedov. The delays and cancellation of flights was associated with the debt Air Union to fuel suppliers and ground services.