Valentine Gifter Vladimir Kara-Murza: Lyudmila Alekseeva and Igor Yurgens, who previously announced the withdrawal of the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia, agreed to continue their work, this was stated by the head of the council Mikhail Fedotov. Fedotov said to stay in the council, Boris Desertsev and Valentin Gifter, who previously announced the departure, also decided.

Lyudmila Alekseeva Famous human rights activists and experts Lyudmila Alekseev, Igor Jurgens, Boris Desertintsev and Valentin Gifter intend to continue their work in the Presidential Council of Human Rights. It was they who became the last members of the Council, who announced their exit from the HRC in early July this year. The chairman of the Civil Assistance committee Svetlana Gannushkin will not part with the Presidential Council.

XXX Summer Olympic Games. London, Great Britain Sports gymnastics. Women. Bars 1. Aliya Mustafina (Russia) 2. Hy Kesin (China) 3. Elizabeth Twiddl (Great Britain)

Kazakhstan is investigating a criminal case of beating the journalist of the opposition newspaper Voice of the Republic Andrei Tsukanov. The attack was made in Alma-Ata on the night of August 5. He was hit, after which he lost consciousness, and then stole a bank card, mobile phones, documents and a train ticket to Taraz, where the journalist had to go to cover the trial in the case of human rights activist Vadim Kuramshin. Tsukanov, as reported, is already feeling good.

Mikhail Saakashvili Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili on Monday visited several Georgian villages located near the border of South Ossetia. He promised local residents that Georgia would seek the return of the "occupied" lands. “We will unite our country and will certainly return our lands,” Saakashvili said. According to Interfax, the President of Georgia also stated that his country will necessarily become a member of NATO and join the European Union.

In the Tsuntinsky district of Dagestan there is a new attack on law enforcement officials. Today, near the village of Kidero, two policemen were killed as a result of shelling, another was wounded, Interfax reports. Last night near the village of Shauri in the same - Tsuntinsky - district, unknown people fired on a checkpoint, on which police officers from Adygea were on duty, OMON employee died.

In the east of Afghanistan, as a result of NATO forces, one of the leaders of the so -called “Hakkani network” Sher Mohammad Hakim was killed. This was reported today by the command of international troops. According to him, the operation was carried out on Sunday evening in the province of Logar. Three more militants were injured. According to the Afghan authorities, he was engaged in the organization of sabotage and the training of militants.

The Prime Minister of Syrian Riyad Hijab has been resigned today, the country's state television reported. The reasons for this decision of President Bashar al -Assad are not reported. The acting head of government was appointed Deputy Prime Minister Omar Galavandzhi. Riyad Hijab, a former Minister of Agriculture, became Prime Minister of Syria in June-after the parliamentary elections, which Assad’s regime called an important step towards political reform.

Unknown on August 5, he shot six people in the Sikh temple in Miluoki, Visconsin The armed man, whose name is not yet called, shot six people in the Sikh temple on August 5 in the southern suburbs of the city of Miluoi, Wisconsin. The suspect was killed in a shootout with the police. The OUK police scream, a town with a 35,000th population in the state of Wisconsin, calls the massacre that happened in it an “act of internal terrorism”.

Members of the crew of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft with flight attendants on the day of disaster in Indonesia on May 9, 2012. Russian experts who investigated the causes of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft disaster in Indonesia, found that there were no technical malfunctions of the crashed airliner. Such a statement was made by the Deputy Minister of Industry and Trade, the authorized representative of Russia in the Commission for the Investigation of the Disaster Yuri Slyusar.

XXX Summer Olympic Games. London, Great Britain Sports gymnastics. Men. Vault 1. Khan Seok Yang (South Korea) 2. Denis Ablyazin (Russia) 3. Igor Radivilov (Ukraine)

Three armed men who were suspected of preparing seven explosions were killed in Libya. During the operation in the city of Asisia (forty kilometers south of the capital of Tripoli), five special forces fighters were injured. On Sunday, the International Red Cross Committee suspended his work in the Libyan city of Misurat - after shelling his office from grenade launchers. The building caused serious damage, but no one was injured of people.

Gennady Gudkov performs at an anti -government rally in Moscow, June 12, 2012 The Investigative Committee of Russia sent the results of a deputy’s business audit of the deputy from “Fair Russia” by Gennady Gudkov to the Prosecutor General and State Duma. As the Committee representative Vladimir Markin said today, the audit revealed that Gudkov violated the restrictions established by law for State Duma deputies.

In the center of public attention remains the trial over Pussy Riot and the reasons. For which at the Olympics in London the Russian team remains without the amount of gold medals necessary for its officials. Diversifies the program of the day to land on Mars of the American spacecraft Curiosity. It is curious that he pulls there.