https://sputnikglobe.com/20080811/115963726.html

Main news of August 11

Sputnik International

RUSSIA * The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) detained 10 Georgian intelligence service officers who were preparing terrorist attacks, including in... 11.08.2008, Sputnik International

2008-08-11T18:00+0000

https://cdn1.img.sputnikglobe.com/i/logo/logo-social.png

Sputnik International

feedback@sputniknews.com

+74956456601

MIA „Rosiya Segodnya“

252

2008

Sputnik International

feedback@sputniknews.com

+74956456601

MIA „Rosiya Segodnya“

252

News

en_EN

Sputnik International

feedback@sputniknews.com

+74956456601

MIA „Rosiya Segodnya“

252

Sputnik International

feedback@sputniknews.com

+74956456601

MIA „Rosiya Segodnya“

252

Sputnik International

newsfeed, business

Main news of August 11

18:00 GMT 11.08.2008

RUSSIA

* The Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) detained 10 Georgian intelligence service officers who were preparing terrorist attacks, including in Russia, the head of the security service said

* Russia's government allocated $200 million in urgent aid for South Ossetia, to tackle a growing humanitarian catastrophe in the violence-torn separatist Georgian province, Russia's envoy to NATO said

* A Russian humanitarian aid convoy entered South Ossetia's capital of Tskhinvali, devastated after major ground and air attacks launched by Georgia to seize control of the rebel republic

* Russia cut sea links between its Black Sea port of Sochi and Georgia's Batumi, the deputy head of the Russian Black Sea port said

WORLD

* Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili said that the Russian military has blocked a central highway linking east and west Georgia

* The U.S. criticized Russia over what it called a 'disproportionate' response to Georgia's attack on the capital of breakaway South Ossetia on August 8

* U.S. military aircraft flew 800 Georgian troops and a number of armored vehicles back home from Iraq amid an armed conflict in breakaway South Ossetia, a senior Russian military official said

* Georgia's breakaway republic of Abkhazia told Georgia that if its troops fail to leave the strategic Kodori Gorge, separatist forces will begin a full-scale onslaught to force them out

* Ukraine wants Moscow to agree to a deal restricting the use of Russia's Crimea-based Black Sea Fleet in armed conflicts, a top Ukrainian diplomat said, following Russia's deployment of warships near Georgia

* Five new world records were set in swimming events on day three of the Olympic Games in Beijing

* A Belarusian court sentenced U.S. citizen Emanuel Zeltser to three years in prison for industrial espionage and the use of forged documents, the country's Supreme Court said

BUSINESS

* Russian steel producer Severstal bought a gold mining enterprise in east Kazakhstan, the company said