A journey into the belly of the beast that is the Kremlin's media watchdog Photo: Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant Earlier this week, for a whirlwind 24 hours, a page on one of the most popular websites in the world, Reddit , was technically banned in Russia.

Samsung introduced two flagship smartphones Galaxy S6 Edge+ and Note 5. They both received four gigabytes of RAM, a new Exynos processor, a three thousand miliamper battery and a 5.7 -inch diagonal screen. Galaxy S6 Edge+ is almost a copy of the last version of the Galaxy S6 Edge smartphone only with an increased screen (the last version had 5.1 inches). The screen of the new model is the same curved. Note 5 differs from the Galaxy S6 Edge+ the presence of a stylus.

The profit of Russian banks from the beginning of 2015 to July amounted to 34 billion rubles. During the same period last year, banks earned 513 billion rubles, that is, 15 times more. This is stated in the message of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation. From January to July, the reduction in deposits and funds in the accounts of organizations amounted to 3.3 percent. At the same time, household deposits increased by 10 percent. Bank assets amounted to 75 trillion rubles.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation refused to invalidate the presidential decree on classifying casualties in the army in peacetime. This was reported to Meduza by Dozhd correspondent Timur Olevsky, one of the applicants who filed a complaint with the court. The applicants were represented by lawyer Ivan Pavlov.

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case on the falsification of signatures that were collected in Novosibirsk in support of candidates from the "Democratic Coalition" in the elections to the regional legislative assembly. The case was opened under the article “falsification of election documents”. Its defendants are unidentified persons from among the authorized representatives of the Parnassus party, on the basis of which the Democratic Coalition was formed.

Reddit, at the request of Roskomnadzor, blocked access for users from Russia to an article called "The minimum and reliable method of growing Psilocybe." As stated in the message of Roskomnadzor, the department received a notification from the site administration. “Fulfillment of the requirements of Roskomnadzor is confirmed by the audit. In this regard, the page has been excluded from the register of illegal information.

About 700 tons of sodium cyanide, a toxic substance used in industry, was stored in an exploded warehouse in the city of Tianjin in northeast China. The warehouse also contained stocks of other chemicals, including potassium nitrate, one of the components of gunpowder. Subdivisions of the chemical defense troops were sent to the site of the explosions. At least 50 people were killed in the explosions in Tianjin, according to the latest reports.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine suspects former President Viktor Yanukovych of taking a bribe of 26 million hryvnia (over $1.2 million at the exchange rate of the Central Bank of Ukraine on August 13). According to the Prosecutor General's Office, Yanukovych received this amount, issued as a royalties, in 2011-2012 from the Novy Mir publishing house in Donetsk.

In the Vladimir region, an illegal "nursing home" was discovered. Reporting Andrei Kozenko Photo: Andrey Kozenko / "Medusa" On the territory of the Garden Partnership, a fairy tale in the Vladimir region for several months, a private illegal “nursing home” functioned for several months. For a monthly fee from relatives, elderly or seriously ill people were taken into it. They were extremely scarce and packed, they were taken away from their phones, they were not allowed to go outside.

Two versions of a mysterious story about a dog, a blind singer and investigative committee Photo: Galina Selicon / RIA Novosti / Scanpix In Moscow and the region, they searched for a week-to-bewoman for the blind girl Yulia Dyakova, who earns singing in crossings and on the street. They engaged in business at the highest level-the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, and the presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, did not bypass him with their attention.

A day after banning a Reddit page on growing illegal mushrooms, Russian censors have removed Reddit from their registry of banned websites. In a post on the social network VKontakte, Roskomnadzor, the Kremlin's media watchdog agency, thanked Internet users for "prompting" Reddit 's administrators to get in touch with their office.

Photo: ESA The European Space Agency (ESA) launched a three-dimensional map of the Cometa Churumov-Gerasimenko, to which the Rosetta probe previously flew. On the site you can rotate the comet model, change the lighting parameters, and also highlight the regions that have names. If you press the “Display Observations” button, the points from which Rosetta photographed it will appear around the comet. By clicking on any of the points, you can see the corresponding picture.

A DNA test showed that US President Warren Harding, who led the country from 1921 to 1923, had an illegitimate daughter, writes The New York Times. The fact that Harding has an illegitimate daughter was told in 1928 in her book The President's Daughter by the mistress of the head of state, Nan Britton. According to her, the relationship began several years before Harding became president and continued until his death in 1923.

Screen capture: Komsomolskaya Pravda / YouTube The Russian newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda has released an audio recording in which two alleged CIA agents are heard forging a plan to bring down Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine. The recording features a series of conversations between two men, identified as David Hamilton and David Lloyd Stern.

The CEC canceled the decision of the Kostroma Electoral Commission, which refused to allow candidates from the "Democratic Coalition" to the elections to the regional legislative assembly. This was announced by the leader of the opposition list in the elections, Ilya Yashin. The regional electoral commission should reconsider the issue of registering candidates from the coalition.