Moldovan sports journalist Sergei Besedin was arrested for trying to organize a match fix in women's football. this to Interfax . The press secretary of the National Anti-Corruption Center (NCC) Angela Starinskaya reported In addition to Besedin, the director of the sports school, Vasily Mungiu, is also involved in this case. According to Publika.md, he has already admitted his guilt. Currently, Mungiu is under recognizance not to leave.

In Moscow, three particularly dangerous repeat offenders escaped while being transported. agency reported this on August 8 The Interfax , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. Repeat offenders were taken in a paddy wagon to the Shchelkovo detention center, located in Zelenograd. At the 85th kilometer of the outer ring of the Moscow Ring Road, the car had to stop due to a breakdown. During repairs, the repeat offenders, handcuffed, managed to escape.

Film company Warner Bros. plans to invite Leonardo DiCaprio to play the role of the Norwegian king Harald III the Harsh, who is called the last great ruler of the Viking Age. The film portal Deadline reports this with reference to its own sources. The film, tentatively titled King Harald, will be produced by DiCaprio's Appian Way.

On August 8, a Belarusian airline plane en route to Minsk was forced to return to Moscow Domodedovo Airport due to a drunken brawl on board. reports this Interfax with reference to a source in the dispatch service. As the press service of the transport department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs told the agency, the alleged instigator of the fight was detained until the circumstances of the incident are clarified. No sanctions have been taken against him yet.

Subscribers in South Ossetia will use the international dialing code of the Russian Federation. The draft agreement with the republic, as Interfax reports , was approved by the head of the Russian government, Dmitry Medvedev.

We work for the camera There are more and more cameras on the roads in Russia The operating principle of a camera for automatic video recording of traffic violations. Image: gps-club.ru The Russian State Traffic Inspectorate reported another increase in the number of violations recorded by traffic cameras. At the same time, the authorities are reporting plans to further develop the system of automatically fining drivers.

Russian bankers are often reproached for writing special conditions in loan agreements in small print, as a result of which inattentive borrowers sign up for expensive additional services that they do not need. Voronezh resident Dmitry Agarkov decided to check how attentive the bankers themselves were, and quietly changed the terms of the loan agreement in his favor.

In Minsk, Svetlana Khinevich, an employee of the Belarusian Central Election Commission, was killed in her own apartment. Secretary of the Central Election Commission Nikolai Lozovik told Solidarity about this. He clarified that the body of a woman with stab wounds was discovered on August 4 by her son. A criminal case has been initiated on this fact.

The paddy wagon from which the escape was made. Frame: NTV channel Another prisoner who escaped from a paddy wagon was detained in the Moscow region, Interfax reports . The man was detained in the Shchelkovsky district of the Moscow region; the circumstances of the operation were not disclosed. According to Life News, the second detained fugitive is named Iso Kurbonazari; in addition to escaping, he is suspected of drug trafficking.

Devendra Banhart is an iconic name in music from the mid-first decade of the 21st century. Then, on the independent scene, there was a renewed surge of interest in the music of large and small nations, and Banhart - the son of a Venezuelan and an American, named after the Hindu god Indra - naturally became one of the brightest representatives of indie folk of the 2000s.

On August 7, the Czech Parliament announced a vote of no confidence in the government of Prime Minister Jiri Rusnok. reports Associated Press . 100 of the 200 members of parliament present at the vote expressed no confidence in the government, while only 93 members of parliament spoke in support of the cabinet. 7 parliamentarians were absent.

Russian grandmaster Igor Kurnosov died in an accident in Chelyabinsk. This was reported by the official website of the Russian Chess Federation (RCF). 28-year-old Kurnosov, who was crossing the road in an unspecified place, was hit by a Ford Fiesta driven by a 20-year-old girl. According to the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Chelyabinsk Region, the accident occurred on Komsomolsky Prospekt on the night of August 8, at 2:45 local time.

“The middle of my beard should be red” Interview with the author of one of the best albums of 2013, Devendra Banhart Devendra Banhart. Photo: Elma Okic / Rex Features / FOTODOM.RU Devendra Banhart is an iconic name in music from the mid-first decade of the 21st century.

A dead shark was found in one of the subway cars in New York. CNN reported this on August 7. The shark's body was found around midnight on a train traveling through Manhattan. According to eyewitnesses, the length of the shark was about 50 centimeters, and its weight could be approximately two to five kilograms. Subway passengers, CNN notes, began taking pictures in front of the shark, adding various objects to its mouth, in particular, subway tickets, cigarettes and soda glasses.

International triathlon competitions, which were planned to be held in Kyiv at the end of August, have been cancelled. This was reported on website . the Kiev Triathlon Cup This decision was made by the organizers in connection with the position of the State Security Administration (the agency responsible for the protection of senior officials). The UGO refused to allow the use of the tracks chosen by the competition organizers.