The United States offered Russia assistance in extinguishing forest fires. According to the Kremlin press service, US President Barack Obama said this in a telephone conversation with Russian leader Dmitry Medvedev. There is no information about whether this assistance will be accepted. The number of those who died as a result of fires that arose due to a long abnormal heat in the central regions of Russia exceeded 50. Nizhny Novgorod, Moscow, Ryazan and Voronezh regions were especially injured.

In Bosnia, the four former fighters of the detachments of the Bosnian Serbs were charged with complicity of the massacre of Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenitsa in 1995. Then - after the capture of this enclave by the Serbian forces - about 8 thousand Bosnian men and boys were killed in Srebrenica. The 44-year-old citizen of Slovenia Franz Kos and three Bosnian Serbs accuse 800 people on the farm north of Srebrenitsa.

Former Prime Minister of Kyrgyzstan Igor Chudinov was released on a recognizance not to leave. He will be placed under house arrest. The other day, Chudinov, who is accused of corruption and abuse of official position, voluntarily surrendered to the authorities. Igor Chudinov headed the Cabinet of Ministers of Kyrgyzstan from 2007 to 2009, when Kurmanbek Bakiev was the president in April. After the rest from the post of Prime Minister Chudinov, he led the Kyrgyzstan Development Fund.

Vasily Vadimovich Boyko was not always great. He was engaged in the high -end business of the land in the Ruzsky district of the Moscow region, he was engaged in his original name, and in a pre -trial detention center he sat as a prisoner of Boyko, accused of fraud. And when he was released, having bail a record for covered rooms, he was also not yet a person with a double surname.

The fate of Lake Baikal excites many in Russia. UNESCO at a recent session dealt with the problem of preserving world cultural and natural heritage objects in Russia . The Supreme Court of Russia almost simultaneously with this session rejected the requirement of ecologists to recognize as unlawful the government decree, which allowed the Baikal pulp and paper plant to resume work in full capacity.

Belarus can refuse to cooperate with Russia in the construction of the first nuclear power plant in the country. According to President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, if it is not possible to overcome the disagreements that arose with the Russian side, Minsk will attract other investors to the construction of nuclear power plants, the proposals from which Belarus has.

In a number of regions of Russia, the situation with natural fires is still complicated. The Ministry of Emergency Situations calls the Nizhny Novgorod, Sverdlovsk, Ryazan, Moscow and Vladimir regions dull for today. Additional forces of the Ministry of Emergencies are transferred to the Nizhny Novgorod region to extinguish fire, which threatens the nuclear center in Sarov. Earlier, Rosatom’s employees evacuated all nuclear materials from the center.

Askar Akayev skeptically evaluates the legality of the decree of the Rosa Otunbaeva. The authorities of Kyrgyzstan were deprived of the inviolability of the first president of the country Askar Akayev. The corresponding decree was signed by Rosa Otunbaev on August 13. According to the document, the Prosecutor General of Kyrgyzstan was instructed to take the necessary measures to bring to Akayev’s criminal liability, as well as his extradition from Russia to Kyrgyzstan.

In Saratov, the roof of one of the shopping complexes collapsed, 9 people were injured. One of the hospitalized is in serious condition. The collapse area was 250 square meters, the Ministry of Emergencies reports. According to preliminary data, the roof that was repaired collapsed when a ton of sand was unloaded at it.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Plato Lebedev study the materials of their business. On August 13, the Khamovnican Court of Moscow, where the case is listed in relation to the former co -owners of Yukos , will consider the issue of extending the deadlines for detention. Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev were accused of assigning shares, theft of oil and the legalization of criminally acquired funds.

Mikhail Khodorkovsky in the Khamovnichesky Court, June 2010 The court postponed until August 16 a decision on the extension of the terms of detention of former co -owners of Yukos Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev . On August 13, the defendants presented their objections to the previously stated prosecutors, requiring Khodorkovsky and Lebedev in the investigative insulator until November 17.

Former co -owners of the Yukos concern Mikhail Khodorkovsky and Platon Lebedev, accused of embezzlement of oil, will express his arrest to extend their arrest until November. After the previous extension of the arrest in May - Khodorkovsky announced the hunger strike, because he considered that the court decision did not take into account the amendments to the Criminal Code on the initiative of the Russian President.