The mayor of the city of Rubtsovsk, Altai Territory, Petr Gamaleev filed a resignation for health reasons. As the Radio correspondent, Freedom Oleg Kupchinsky, Gamaleev underwent surgery and was on sick leave for a long time. On August 15, he began to work, but two days later he wrote a departure statement. At the end of July, Gamaleev was excluded from United Russia for the poor preparation of Rubtsovsk for winter and the communal problems of the city.

The police of the American city of Tampa, in Florida, announced the prevention of the impending explosion in one of the local schools. After an anonymous call to the police, 17-year-old Jared Cano was detained, previously excluded from the school, whose students and teachers were planned. According to the investigation, during a search in a teenager’s room, the materials necessary for assembling a home -made bomb were found.

In Krasnogorsk near Moscow, two people were injured as a result of a robbery on the store. As Interfax was told in local law enforcement agencies, a man entered the store on Wednesday night in a store on the Volokolamsk highway and, threatening a gun, demanded money from the employees and buyers. The store manager managed to translate the alarm, however, the robber noticed this and opened random shooting, and then disappeared. The search is now being conducted.

An annual inflation in 17 countries in July amounted to 2.5%, the Eurostat agency said. In June, the annual increase in consumer prices was 2.7%. The maximum annual growth in July was noted in Estonia (5.3%), Belgium (4%), as well as in Austria and Slovakia (3.8%each). The minimum - in Ireland (1%) and Slovenia (1.1%). In Germany, annual inflation amounted to 2.6%in July, in France and Italy - 2.1%.

Robert Sturua On the evening of August 16, Robert Sturua learned that by order of the Minister of Culture he was removed from the post of artistic director of the Tbilisi Academic Theater named after Shota Rustaveli. Radio Observer Freedom phoned the famous director. On September 27, the theater, famous throughout the world by Sturua's performances, will open a new season without it.

So looked like a machine room of the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station immediately after the accident On August 17 , two years have been performed since the accident at the Sayano-Shushenskaya hydroelectric power station. The victims of the world's largest technogenic disaster were 75 people who were in the machine room of the station. The investigation of the criminal case on the fact of the accident continues. Now the accused are introduced to the materials.

Turkish fighters struck the bases of Kurdish militants in the north of Iraq. On Wednesday evening, the positions of extremists in the mountain regions of Kandil and Zap were subjected to the air raid. The dead and victims are not reported. The operation was preceded by an attack on military personnel in the Turkish province of Khakkari, near the border with Iraq.

Vladimir Kara-Murza: German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozi presented a plan for the release of the euro zone from the financial and economic crisis. It is set out in a letter sent to the EU President Herman Van Rompey. The plan is based on decisions adopted on Tuesday, the Franco-German summit.

Barack Obama The last survey of the Gallup Institute showed that the rating of President Obama for the first time during the presidency fell below forty percent. Three of his predecessors, who achieved re -election, had more serious support for voters at this stage of the presidency. Does this mean that the president’s chances of the re -election fell noticeably?

The prosecutors of the Livan UN special tribunal published an indictment against four persons suspected of involvement in the murder of the former prime minister of the country Rafik Hariri in 2005. Investigators and prosecutors consider the four members of the radical Lebanese Shiite group "Hezbollah" involved in the crime. We are talking about 50-year-old Mustafa Badreddin and his three accomplices, who, according to the investigation, organized an attack on Hariri on February 14, 2005.

First Vice Speaker of the State Duma of Russia Oleg Morozov The first vice speaker of the State Duma of Russia, Oleg Morozov, filed a lawsuit against the blogger Alexei Navalny for the protection of honor and dignity. This was announced by RAPSI today by the press secretary of the Lublin court of Moscow Maria Balakshina.

Igor Matveev The court in Vladivostok refused to consider the lawsuit of the commander of one of the units of the internal troops to the majority of reserve Igor Matveev on the protection of honor and dignity. The court decided on this because of the repeated failure of the plaintiff, Colonel Valentin Sultanbekov, to the meeting.