The Supreme Court of Pakistan summoned to the hearing of the Prime Minister Raju Perevz Ashraf, demanding from him to explain why he still did not order to resume the case of corruption against Asif President Ali Zardari. Two months ago, the Supreme Court resigned the predecessor of Ashraf as the prime minister, Yusuf Gilani, finding him guilty of disrespect for the court due to an unfulfilled order to give a new course to investigate the case against the president of the country.

The eighth day of the court in the case of Pussy Riot. The defendants performed with the last word. The sentence is scheduled for August 17.

Viktor Rezunkov: Today in the Petersburg studio Radio Liberty at a party - a member of the board of the International Society "Memorial" Vladimir Shnitka and co -chairman of the political council of the St. Petersburg branch of the Solidarity movement Joseph Skakovsky. Today, August 8, the 75th anniversary of the beginning of mass executions in the USSR is officially celebrated.

Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Ekaterina Samutsevich, Khamovnican Court, 8 August 2012 The Khamovnican Court of Moscow will appoint a date for the sentence to Pussy Riot to the sentence. Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Ekaterina Samutsevich are accused of hooliganism-for the “punk-spring” “Theotokos, Putin of the run” in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

The Olympic Russian champions will be given cars again. The Sports Information Agency "All Sport" reports that the champions will receive Audi A8 . According to the official Audi website, the cost of such a sedan is 3 million 950 thousand rubles. Silver winners will receive Audi A7 Sportback (2 million 390 thousand), and bronze - Audi A6 (1 million 720 thousand). This message appeared just when the Russian Olympians began to win more than one gold medal per day.

In Iraq during an explosion in the Shiite village of Al-Tanmiy south of Baghdad, at least 11 people were killed, about 40 were injured. The explosive device laid down in the car was put into effect in the center of the village, where people gathered to celebrate the end of the day of the day of the day of the day. Earlier on Wednesday, in the city of Baiga north of Baghdad, unknown people shot a local lawyer, his wife, five children and another relative - only 8 people.

Dmitry Volchek: This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first publication of the novel by Anthony Burdessa “Clothing Orange”. On this occasion in Britain - primarily in the homeland of Berges, in Manchester - various actions are arranged: theatrical productions of the novel, the premiere of the musical of the same name, the libretto and music to which the author wrote, the conference dedicated to the “Orange”.

Simonovsky Court of Moscow imposed a conditional punishment for the director of the Puppet Theater named after Obraztsov Andrei Luchin on charges of embezzlement of 12 million rubles of budget money. Luchin loses freedom for five years, and his wife Natalya Peshenkova, as an accomplice, is conditionally for four years. The defendants were also obliged to pay a fine to the state - 600 and 500 thousand rubles, respectively.

Glory to Tarotin Dmitry Volchek: The Astrel publishing house was published by the “Born TV” collection. The book included columns that telecritic Glory Taroshchina wrote for periodicals for the last four and a half years. Glory to Tarotin in our studio.

Inflation in Russia for the period from July 31 to August 6 amounted to 0.1%, and from the beginning of the year - 4.6%, the Federal Statistics Service said. For comparison, last year, over the first week of August, consumer prices have not changed, and since the beginning of the year, their growth rate amounted to 5%. According to the official forecast of the government, in the current year, inflation in Russia will be from 5% to 6% against 6.1% - a year earlier.

In the south-west of Pakistan, additional police units were sent to the Belujistan province. The day before, in this province, as a result of the explosion in the city of Turbat, four police officers died and 14 were injured. The authorities report that the militants installed a remotely controlled explosive device on the side of the road and put it into effect when a police car was passing by.

Fighters of the rebel free Syrian army took responsibility for the murder of a Russian general in Syria, who, according to them, worked as an adviser to the Minister of Defense and the head of the General Staff of Syria. About this, with reference to the rebels, was announced today by the Arab television channel Al-Arabia. According to him, together with General Vladimir Kodzhiev, the translator of Russian Ahmed AIK was killed.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) confirmed that at the Olympics in London 7 athletes from Cameroon disappeared. IOC said that Cameroon's Olympic Committee was notified of this. The head of the Cameroon delegation David Ojong announced the disappearance of five boxers, a swimmer and a football player from the national team team. The reason for the incident is unknown. It is reported that the missing athletes have visas for a stay in the UK until November.

Kazakhstani journalist Lukpan Akhmedyarov Kazakhstani journalist Lukpan Akhmedyarov was awarded the Prize of Peter McLaner "For Courage and Ethics in Journalism," the International Fund for Protecting Freedom "Adil SAZ" said in Alma-Ata. The prize is awarded by the organization "Reporters without borders" for commitment to the forces of honesty in the presentation of information and its report to the inhabitants of those countries in which the independent press is plunged by oppression.

July was the warmest months in the United States in the history of observations. According to meteorologists, the average temperature in the main territory of the country (with the exception of Alaska and the state of Hawaii) in July was 25 degrees Celsius, overcoming the 1936 record. The first 7 months of this year were also the warmest in the history of observations that have been conducted since 1895.