Main news of August 7

A roundup of what has happened in the past 24 hours

RUSSIA

*Moscow airports operate according actual weather conditions because of the smog from wildfires, a spokesman for the Russian air transport agency Rosaviatsiya said

*Wildfire is threatening to engulf the military command of the Russian anti-missile alert center in the Moscow region, a spokesman for Russian Space Forces said

*Russian Police may engage citizens for freelance, a new bill published in Internet for the public discussion said

*Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has personally donated 350,000 rubles (some $12,000) to the victims of wildfires raging across the central part of European Russia, his spokesperson said

*Russia’s emergency services have begun extinguishing round-the-clock wildfires raging near Moscow that have seen the city shrouded in thick, toxic smog for a second day
*Heavy smog has stayed in Moscow throughout night, and the Russian capital is waiting for a "wind of change" to disperse it

WORLD

*Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi pledged his country would send to Russia several planes for battling wildfires, Russian Government's spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said

*U.S space agency NASA will not send their specialists to Russia for working on ISS mission's program until the acrid smog in Moscow dissolves, the deputy head of NASA's Human Space Flight Program in Russia (HSFP-R) said

*Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili has urged Georgians to fulfill their “historic mission” to “liberate” the country

*Russia is dissatisfied with the U.S.’s fulfillment of its obligations in the sphere of the non-proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, the Foreign Ministry said
*Russia’s recognition of South Ossetia on August 26, 2008 could go down in history as the moment the world ceased to be unipolar, South Ossetian leader Eduard Kokoity has said

*Arnold Schwarzenegger, governor of the U.S. state of California, has said he will travel to Russia to work with the country on developing its high-tech industry

*The US State Department has warned Americans to "carefully consider" the risks involved in travel to parts of Russia, as heavy smog continues to grip Moscow and wildfires rage

*Russian women won four golds and one silver at the Diamond League track and field event in Sweden's Stockholm

*Bulgarian Prime Minister, Boiko Borisov and Serbian President, Boris Tadic have decided on onshore route of the South Stream pipeline designed to transport Russian gas to western Europe, Borisov told bTV channel