Anastasia Kapachinskaya. Photo: Wikipedia The International Olympic Committee annulled the results of the Russian runner Anastasia Kapachinskaya at the Beijing Olympics for the use of doping, according to the IOC website. All the results shown to her at the 2008 games are canceled. The solution also applies to a relay race of 4x400 m, in which Kapachinskaya fled for the Russian team at one of the stages. Then the team took second place and received silver medals.

FBI agents. Photo: fbi.gov The FBI and the US Ministry of Justice are investigating a number of American companies due to their possible involvement in corruption schemes in Ukraine, CNN reports . It also applies to the company of Paul Manafort, who retired to the head of the election headquarters of the Republican Donald Trump.

Flags of Turkey and Israel. Photo: News.az The Turkish parliament approved an agreement on the normalization of relations with Israel, the BBC reports . This opens the way to the complete restoration of diplomatic relations, between countries torn due to an incident with the Freedom Flotilla in 2010.

On August 20, the Museon Park of Arts in Moscow will host the Ostrov-1991 festival dedicated to the anniversary of the victory over the August coup. The festival is organized by the online publication Colta.Ru, the Presidential Center of B.N. Yeltsin and the portal "Your Story" with the support of the Zimin Foundation.

Petro Poroshenko and Recep Tayyip Erdogan The position of Turkey to support independence and territorial integrity of Ukraine within its international recognized boundaries remains unchanged. This was stated by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in a telephone conversation with Ukrainian colleague Peter Poroshenko, the press service of the President of Ukraine reports .

Julia Latynina. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru In Moscow, near the editorial office of Echo of Moscow, journalist Yulia Latinin was doused with feces, the radio station reports . According to Latinina, there were two attackers. According to the journalist, the attackers prepared well. "One of them was in a motorcycle helmet so that it could not be identified. The second was waiting on a motorcycle," said Latynina According to Latinina, she was tracked over for several weeks.

On August 20, in Moscow in the Sakharov Center (Earth Val 57 p. 6), the third annual Cryptoinstallfest will host - a practical conference on the problems of freedom of speech on the Internet, state regulation, privacy and data protection. The conference involves IT specialists, lawyers and public figures. Program and registration Facebook event

25 years ago, on the evening of August 20, 1991, while trying to stop a convoy of eight infantry fighting vehicles in a tunnel at the intersection of the Garden Ring with Novy Arbat, three defenders of the White House were killed - Vladimir Usov, Dmitry Komar and Ilya Krichevsky.

Pentagon. Photo: Defense.gov The US Department of Defense announced their readiness to protect coalition servicemen if their lives are in danger of air at air attendants of Bashar al -Assad's government troops. It is reported by The Wall Street Journal. “We are in the most serious way that the coalition employees find themselves in a risky situation, and we have an integral right to self -defense,” said Pentagon representative Jeff Davis.

25 years ago, on August 20, 1991, the Estonian Supreme Council adopted a resolution "On the State Independence of Estonia".

Olga Vasilieva. Photo: mggeu.ru The on the eve of the head of the Ministry of Education and Science, Olga Vasilieva, claims that she called her appointment "obligation", and not "deity." She stated this to the Moscow Agency. “To the question“ How do you consider your purpose? ”I answered as“ obligation ”. In Russian, the word“ obligation ”is the need for what should be done. This is one meaning.