The Chita Regional Court satisfied the cassation appeal of the lawyers of the former head of Menatep Platon Lebedev. The defense disputed the decision of the lower court, which deviated the complaint about the actions of the investigators. According to lawyer Igor Sapozhkov, episodes with the corporate cards of American Express appear in the complaint, which, according to investigators, were seized during a search at Lebedev’s dacha.

Elena Rykovtseva : How to be ordinary people in different countries, when their politicians fight among themselves? Upstairs - notes of protest, gaps of diplomitions, mutual threats with sanctions - economic, political and even criminal. And below - a joint business, joint families called interethnic, trips to relatives and material assistance by such by postal translations. And all this family and financial stability is at great risk, or even collapses during crises such as today.

Results of Wednesday matches with the participation of Russian tennis players: Svetlana Kuznetsova - Soarana Kirast (Romania) - 7: 6, 6: 1 Lindsay Davenport (USA) - Alisa Kleibanova - 7: 5, 6: 3 Elena Dementyeva - Polin Parrantier (France) - 6: 2, 6: 1 Patti Schnider (Switzerland) - Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova - 6: 3, 6: 3 Ekaterina Makarova - Elena Bychkova - 3: 6, 7: 5, 6: 3 Tatyana Dubinis (Ukraine) - Vera Zvonareva - 6: 3, 6: 3

The program is conducted by Alexander GOSTOV. The Radio Liberty correspondent in Belgrade Aiya Kuga takes part. Alexander GOSTEV: Moscow support for separatist territorial entities in Georgia put in a difficult position the political elite of Serbia. Belgrade is afraid to lose the political support of his ally of Russia.

In Nazran, unknown people threw a grenade into the courtyard of the house, where the assistant prosecutor of the city of Jambulat Zyazikov lives. As a result of the explosion, no one was injured, - Interfax told the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, adding that the household received significant damage. Prior to this, it was reported that the regime of a counter -terrorism operation was introduced in the Ingush village of Surhahi.

China unlocked access to the Apples iTunes music online store. During the Olympics, access to the store was closed by the Chinese authorities. The reason was a collection of compositions, which was recorded by famous musicians, including Sting and Mobile. The compositions, called "Songs for Tibet" ("Songs for Tibet"), express a protest against the occupation of Tibet by China. After the collection appeared on iTunes, access to the site from China was closed.

In Dushanbe today is the Shanghai Cooperation Summit. The leaders of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan will discuss international problems and issues of combating terrorism. As said, the summit will be affected by the question of the situation in South Ossetia.

In the suburbs of the Nalchik in Kabardino-Balkaria, two military servicemen of the internal troops died in a battle with the militants, two more were injured. According to ITAR-TASS in the law enforcement agencies of the republic, military personnel pursued a group of militants in the area of the village of Belaya River, a shootout ensued. The militants managed to hide. Their search is carried out.

The journey through the Pacific Ocean of two marine biologists ended, which made the path from the coast of California to the Hawaiian islands on a raft made of empty plastic bottles. The Americans Marcus Ericksen and Joel Pasha overcame more than 4,100 kilometers in 3 months. According to Radio Liberty correspondent Vladimir Morozov, 15 thousand plastic bottles that tied with the help of old fishing nets went to make a raft of 4 by 8 meters.

The Pakistani military destroyed more than 20 militants in the north-west of the country. This was announced by the representative of the command. The clashes of the army units with the Taliban in the districts bordering with Afghanistan have been going on for several months. Earlier on Thursday, eight people died in the north-west of Pakistan as a result of the explosion. The police car transporting prisoners was blown up on the bridge. Presumably, a device with remote control exploded.

The Head of the Institute of Computer Technology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (Institute of Computing Technology at the Chinese Academy of Sciences) Zhiwei Xu said that China intends to build a supercomputer on its own production processors. The supercomputer will be assembled on the processors of Godson 3, the development of which should be completed over the next year. The supercomputer is planned to be launched in 2010, according to the computard .

In the Kosovo city of Mitrovitsa last night there were clashes between Albanians and Serbs. The police report that four people were injured. The clashes between the two ethnic groups of the city residents were suppressed by local law enforcement agencies and police from the UN forces. In the riots, two UN cars were damaged. Kosovo separated from Serbia and proclaimed independence on February 17 this year.

Senator Barack Obama was officially approved by the US presidential candidate from the Democratic Party. At the Congress in Denver, the delegates spoke out in support of Obama, who was the first African American, running in presidency from the largest political force in the history of the country. In the November 4 elections, Obama will resist the Republican John McCain.

The Czech Republic began the Burchak season - “first wine”, as it is sometimes called. Winemakers throughout the country are already transporting barrels with Burchak in urban winery in order to celebrate the collection of grapes this year. The Czech festival of grape collection does not have a certain date, because, depending on the region, grapes in the country are collected at different times: in the south -east, in Moravia - earlier, in the north - later.