Currency exchange point. Photo: mirsovetov.ru On Thursday, when opening the auction, the dollar rate amounted to 68.72 rubles, RBC reports with reference to the data of the Moscow Exchange. This is a record high price of the American currency for this year. At the next hour, the dollar rate decreased slightly - to 68.59 rubles. Previously, the record price of the dollar for this year was 68.66 rubles. So much for the American currency was given on August 13 .

White House. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru The government criticized the initiative of the Ministry of Communications on the extrajudicial blocking of sites for the "justification and justification" of terrorism and extremism. This was reported by "Kommersant" with reference to the review of the work group "Communications and IT" of the expert council under the government.

Vladimir Ratnikov in the picket at the State Duma. Photo: komitetns.org The Coordinator of the Black Bloc Vladimir Ratnikov (Komarnitsky) added charges of calling for extremism via the Internet (part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code) and the organization of the extremist community (part 1 of Article 282.1), the Grana correspondent from the Basmai District Court of Moscow, where the Politsyk extended the arrest. He is also charged with calls to riots (part 3 of Article 212).

Beating in the corridor IK-1. Shift video "Novaya Gazeta" New videos of bullying of prisoners in the Yaroslavl IK-1 were published, against whose employees a criminal case of torture has been instituted. The lawyers of the Public Verdict Foundation handed over to the Novaya Gazeta records from portable video recorders made in the colony. The publication is difficult to date video recordings; Presumably they were made in December 2016.

Collage Mid.ru US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo in a telephone conversation with the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Lavrov raised the question of the fate of Oleg Sentsov. The head of American diplomacy "was given appropriate explanations," the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement . The State Department has not yet released the community about this conversation. As emphasized in the Foreign Ministry, the call took place on the initiative of the American side.

Peter Miloserdov in the convoy room of the Moscow City Court. Photo from the FB page Politzeck The judge of the Moscow City Court Pavel Melekhin again extended to the political technologist Peter Miloserdov, who accused of extremism, the term of detention of a pre -trial detention center until September 24. This was reported by "Mediazona" with reference to Matvey Zen, the lawyer of the Politzek.

Emblem "Rostelecom" Rostelecom and Megaphone prepared a bill that involves the recovery of a fee from foreign Internet companies for storing their content provided for by Russian providers, provided for by the "Spring Law". This was reported on Wednesday by Reuters. In case of refusal of foreign companies from payments, the bill gives Roskomnadzor the right to limit the speed of passing traffic to their resources.

The provocateur Roman Umatov. Photo with personal VK page In Khabarovsk, eight young people were concluded in a pre -trial detention center in the case of the Male State group, initiated as a result of the provocation of the FSB. It is reported by Daily Storm. All eight, the publication claims, is charged with part 2 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code (participation in the extremist community), which provides from 2 to 6 years of the colony.

75 years ago, on August 23, 1943, Kharkov was finally liberated from the Germans by the troops of the Steppe Front. Thus, the Battle of Kursk ended with the victory of the Red Army, which lasted from July 5 and became the bloodiest battle on the Eastern Front. The losses of the Red Army killed and wounded in July and August 1943 were the largest in the entire war.

Photo: 46tv.ru In Kursk, after the parade, in honor of the 75th anniversary of Victory in the Battle of Kursk, the T-34 tank capsized. According to TASS with reference to the press service of the Western Military District, there are no injured. "August 23 at about 12:10 Moscow time in the city of Kursk, after the end of the parade during loading onto the trawl, the T-34 tank moved off the platform and turned over. The tank driver was not affected.

Canteen of the Russian Guard. Photo: navalny.com The Foundation for the Combation of Corruption of Alexei Navalny has published an investigation on large -scale fraud with the purchase of food for the Russian Guard at high prices. The final beneficiaries of the scam can be Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev or people from his inner circle, Navalny believes.

The landfill of the SOKHE. Hard video from the YouTube channel Nuclear Threat Initiative The DPRK stopped the dismantling of its only SOCE space landfill. This was announced on Wednesday by 38 North with reference to the data of satellite images taken on August 3 and 16. The disassembly of the test stand was actively carried out during July, but as of August 16, compared with the 3rd number, no further progress in this work is noted. The nodes removed from the stand are laid next to him.

Vitaly Portnikov Paul Manafort, the former head of the election headquarters of Donald Trump and a consultant to Ukrainian politicians and chollercomers, may turn out to be the only punished participant in the creation of the authoritarian regime Viktor Yanukovych. Yanukovych himself, along with a number of accomplices, is under the protection of his Russian master Vladimir Putin, and his lawyers are trying to turn the absentee process over the former president into a circus performance.

Credit Suisse headquarters in Zurich. Photo: Wikipedia The Swiss bank Credit Suisse denied information about the freezing of Russian assets in the amount of about 5 billion francs (approximately corresponds to the same amount in dollars). This was reported by RBC with reference to a bank statement made in response to a request from the publication. Speech, explained in Credit Suisse, is not about the freezing of assets, but about their advertising.

Igor Stenin in Lithuania. Source: kavkaz-uzel.eu The Department of Migration of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lithuania provided a political asylum to the leader of the Russian Astrakhan movement Igor Stenin, who hid with his family from Russia after a second condemnation in the real term in the case of extremism. It is reported by the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to the emigrant itself. On Thursday, Stenin said, he received an appropriate notice. It is dated August 14th.