The captain of the Azerbaijani football club "Gabala" Javid Huseynov was arrested in connection with the murder of journalist Rasim Aliyev. He is accused of covering up a crime. In addition, his cousin Elshan Ismayilov and four other people who beat Aliyev were arrested.

Why a 19-year-old farmer threatened to burn down her own wheatfield Photo: Andrey Kozenko / Meduza Anastasia Dolgopolova, a 19-year-old from the Kursk Region, became a household name throughout Russia after she recorded a video address to President Vladimir Putin. In the video, she explained that, given Russia's sanctions against foreign produce, she had decided to become a farmer and plant wheat in her field.

The pro-Kremlin Anti-Maidan movement asked the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, to check the words of opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who promised to take people out into the streets. Anti-Maidan wants to check Navalny's statement on the air of Ekho Moskvy on July 28.

By August 11, 2015, Rosselkhoznadzor destroyed 552 kilograms of sanctioned products that people brought to Russia in hand luggage. Products were confiscated in the Primorsky Territory, the Sakhalin Region, the Kaliningrad Region, St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. In total, the authorities destroyed 41 tons of sanctioned food. For how long the Rosselkhoznadzor reported is unknown. On the first day of the government's decision to destroy food, 290 tons of food were destroyed .

Photo: onf.ru Activists from the All-Russia People's Front (ONF), a social movement launched in 2011 by Vladimir Putin, have discovered a curiously uncompleted road in the city of Yaroslavl, complete with a fully functioning traffic light. ONF, which Putin created as prime minister to expand his political base beyond the political party United Russia, says it stumbled onto the spectacle of government inefficiency while making rounds throughout the city to monitor the state of the local roads.

Professor Yulbars Mansurov, a faculty member at Russia’s Far Eastern Federal University in Vladivostok, was arrested at a Moscow airport and will be deported to his home country of Uzbekistan. Mansurov was returning to Russia from Berlin, after participating in Tempus, an EU-funded program supporting the modernization of higher education in the EU’s partner countries.

New Zealand showed 40 works, of which a new national symbol will be chosen In New Zealand, the next stage of choosing a new national flag ended: on August 10, a special government commission published a list of 40 images, of which four finalists will be selected. At the end of 2015, a nationwide referendum will be held and the winner will be determined. Medusa talks about how a competition is going on, which is often called the most important event in the political life of New Zealand.

Russia’s battle with banned European food products continues. Officials have released a video showing the destruction of 16 tons of nectarines at night during a thunderstorm. The fruit was smashed by a bulldozer and dumped into a landfill. The operation took place just outside of St. Petersburg. Russia’s Federal Service for Veterinary and Phytosanitary Surveillance Special footage of the destruction of illicit nectarines at a landfill in the Leningrad region.

Shirley Tigress, like any self -respecting cat, really likes to sit in a box. True, in this video she chose someone else's box - she belongs to a white Bengal Tigress named Nora .

Sergei Dorenko, editor-in-chief of the Govorit Moskva radio station, said that he had nothing to do with the book “Donbass – Putin’s smoke screen?”, which the Ukrainian authorities have included in the list of banned literature. According to the journalist, the book he is working on is due out at the end of August by the Eksmo publishing house. In addition, Dorenko noted that it is ridiculous to ban books in the age of the Internet.

Ukrainian customs officials have released a blacklist of Russian books that authorities won't allow to be imported to Ukraine. According to the Russian newspaper Kommersant , the list (which was drawn up by the Security Service of Ukraine) includes 38 books from various genres, from science fiction to nonfiction, including texts like history books, as well as collections of articles.

The exchange rate of the European currency in trading on the Moscow Exchange has overcome the mark of 71 rubles. Compared to the close of previous trading, the euro rose in price on August 11 by almost 1.8 rubles. The dollar on the Moscow Exchange during trading on Tuesday rose by almost 1.3 rubles. As of 16:15 Moscow time, 64.12 rubles were given for the American currency. The euro and the dollar previously reached such values ​​on the stock exchange in February.

What you need to know about Alphabet - the new corporation of the founders of Google Larry Page. Photo: Eduardo Munoz / Reuters / Scanpix The founders of Google Sergey Brin and Larry Page on August 10 introduced the new company Alphabet, which will combine all the projects that work on Google-from the Internet post to self-governing machines.

Maxim magazine removed material with the heading “ Tatiana Navka. Pre-wedding photos! ". Maxim Online project director Danil Khasanshin told TJournal that materials are usually removed at the request of the girls. The magazine's editor-in-chief Alexander Malenkov declined to give a reason for removing the material. The publication is available in the Google cache . In addition, one of the photographs published in the material is still on the magazine's website .

Rosselkhoznadzor demanded to suspend the processing and production of semi-finished products in the Auchan hypermarket chain. During the inspection, according to a message circulated by the supervisory agency, listeria and E. coli were found in the meat products produced by Auchan LLC. Based on the results of the audit, a protocol was drawn up under Part 3 of Art.