Eight years ago, on August 8, 2008, Georgian troops attacked the positions of South Ossetian separatists, subjected Tskhinvali to shelling from the Gradi plants and began “Operation to restore the constitutional order” in South Ossetia.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) opened a case against Apple for coordination of pricing during iPhone sales is reported on the FAS website. As specified in the message of the department, the case was opened under part 5 of Article 11 of the Law on the Protection of Competitor (a ban on the restriction of the agreements of business entities).

Businessman Gleb Frank, the husband of the daughter of billionaire Gennady Timchenko, reduced the share in the capital of “Russian aquaculture” to 25%, ceasing to be its largest shareholder. This was reported by the press service of the company. Frank shares were bought by Maxim Vorobyov, brother of the Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov. The share of Maxim Vorobyov in the company increased to 47.78%.

The tender of the Ministry of Culture for the research work “Technology of Cultural Deerification (Rossiyeephobia) and state-management answers to the call” was won by the co-author of the former head of Russian Railways Vladimir Yakunin Stepan Sulakshin, the deputy Dmitry Gudkov writes on his Facebook. Sulakshin leads the "Institute of Legislation and Regulatory Development", the results of the competition were summed up at the end of July.

The American Delta Air Lines canceled on August 8 all flights due to the failure of the computer system, the airline said . The reasons are not specified. As adds The Wall Street Journal, the flight flights are suspended around the world. Those flights that flew before the failure continue in normal mode. The airline advises passengers to check the status of their flights in advance.

The defendant of the case of a shootout at the restaurant on Rochdelskaya Street in Moscow, in which the “thief in law” Shakro, the retired colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Eduard Budantsev, was arrested from home arrest under the recognizance not to leave. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the lawyer Shakro young Alexander Gofstein.

The Russian distant Bi-22M3 bombers for the first time since July 21 flew to Syria to attack the positions of the Islamic State. It is reported by Interfax .

The recession in Russia has ended, according to the ballot prepared by the Department of Research and Forecasting of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. “The index assessment of the Russian GDP suggests that the recession was left behind, and the slow growth of the economy is ahead,” the document says.

Russia successfully performed on the very first medal day in Rio - judoka Beslan Mudranov defeated the current world champion and won gold. But so far in their homeland rejoiced at the athlete’s successes, foreign commentators in social networks raised a wave of accusations of doping. The first answers to the BBC Sports tweet about the victory of Mudranov - all the calls to send him for tests or accusations of crook.

The Presnensky court of Moscow returned a criminal case to the prosecutor’s office against the former head of Mirax Group Sergey Polonsky. It is reported by Interfax . “Return the case to the prosecutor's office to eliminate procedural violations,” said Judge Tatyana Vasyuchenko. It is clarified that the case was returned to re -qualify Polonsky’s actions to more difficult ones. Earlier, the prosecutor’s prosecutor’s return was requested by the businessman’s defense.

The Federal Property Management Agency sent a directive to state -owned companies, according to which they need to reduce operating costs by 10%. The manager of a large bank told Vedomosti about this. For the commission of the Federal Property Management Agency, state -owned companies have a month. During this time, according to the directive, they must develop or update the plan for reducing operating costs by 10%.

The Ministry of Communications abandoned the idea of ​​regulating the work of Russian VOIP (Voice Over IP) operators, Kommersant writes . The publication explains that in the new version of the project of the Ministry of Conducting, which establishes the rules for the interaction of operators, there is no ban on calls of VOIP users to subscribers of other mobile and fixed networks.

To solve the problem of unemployment in the single -industry towns, the Monnogorod Development Fund (Federal Migration Service) proposed to spend 180 billion rubles. This follows from the project of the Russian FRM work strategy until 2020, which RBC got acquainted with. The Fund considered that on average, 23% of the employed population work in city -forming enterprises for city -forming enterprises.

The American Delta Air Lines resumed part of the flights, reports Reuters . At the same time, the company noticed that passengers can still be expected by delays and cancellation of some sorties. The airline announced the suspension of flights around the world earlier on August 8. Delta Air Lines explained this from a failure in the work of software caused by turning off the electricity in Atlanta. In Atlanta is the company's headquarters.

The anecdotal development of the plot with the attacks of Alexei Navalny on Igor Shuvalov-the editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow, Alexei Venediktov, intervened in the conflict and explained that Shuvalov was all right, because the aircraft on which the first Deputy Prime Minister and his dog fly not Shuvalov, but to his son, and Shuvalov, according to Venediktov, pays each time for the use of use for use by plane, as if it were a taxi.