Shares of Apple, the most valuable company in the world, fell by 13 percent during trading on August 24, but then returned to the levels of the previous day and even slightly exceeded it. By the end of the session they had lost only about two percent. The technology company's shares began to fall along with the entire market during the so-called Black Monday, a stock market crash on stock markets around the world from Japan and China to Europe and the United States.

In the first match of the new season of the Continental Hockey League, SKA St. Petersburg on home ice lost to CSKA Moscow with a score of 3:4. The decisive goal was scored by Jeff Platt in overtime. At the same time, during the match, CSKA took the lead three times, but SKA came back three times. CSKA and SKA met in the first match of the season as the winner of the Gagarin Cup (SKA) and the winner of the regular season (SKA). In the final of the Gagarin Cup - 2015, the St.

Photo: tripadvisor.ru In Dushanbe, the court fined the local resident of Amirbek Isaev for celebrating his birthday in a cafe. Judge Gaerat Sanguinza found that Isaev violated Article 8 of the Law “On the Straving of Traditions and Rites in the Republic of Tajikistan”, which instructs to celebrate birthdays only in the family circle. The proof in the case was photographs published on Facebook by Isaev ( the Medusa account could not be found ).

An arbitration in The Hague awarded compensation to the Netherlands for the detention of the vessel Arctic Sunrise in Russia in 2013. The Netherlands is entitled to compensation for material and non-material damage to 30 crew members, as well as damage to the vessel and costs incurred in connection with obtaining a bank guarantee. The amount of compensation will be determined later. Russia did not take part in the arbitration.

Oleksandr Turchynov, head of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine, called on Twitter the depreciation of the ruble and oil prices on August 24 "a salute in honor of Ukraine." On August 24, Ukraine celebrates Independence Day. On August 24, there was a significant decline in the price of Brent crude - below $43 per barrel. The exchange rate of the euro exceeded 81 rubles.

The plaintiffs who appealed the presidential decree on classifying losses in peacetime received a reasoned decision from the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation. The document explains why the court refused to invalidate Vladimir Putin's decree. The court's eight-page ruling concluded that Putin's decision to classify information about casualties was in line with Russian law.

How did the devaluation of the yuan in China led to the euro 82 rubles? Two simplest chains Photo: Imaginechina / Splash News / Vida Press In the world stock markets “Black Monday”: in the morning, Asian stock indices collapsed, after them - European, and then American. Investors have been waiting for something like this for several weeks: the unexpected devaluation of the Chinese yuan and the fall in the cost of raw materials revealed revaluation of other exchange goods.

Sultan Suleimanov - about how Wikipedia teased Roskomnadzor On August 24, Roskomnadzor introduced the article “Wikipedia” in the register of prohibited sites: this is the first time when the Law on blocking was applied against the Internet encyclopedia. Prior to this, Roskomnadzor repeatedly indicated forbidden information on Wikipedia, but there was no threat further-the department understood the importance of the resource and, apparently, was afraid of possible reputation losses.

How the "consolidated mobile group" of human rights activists in Chechnya works Photo: Daniil Turovsky / "Medusa" In early August 2015, the “committee against torture” was self -destructed in Russia - one of the main organizations in the country involved in public investigations. Instead of this structure recognized by a “foreign agent”, a new one with a similar name is created - the “Committee to prevent torture”; She will be about the same.

Photo: NewsVL.ru A man in Vladivostok called the police on August 16 to report his neighbors, whom he accused of eating illegally imported goose meat. The story was reported by the local website VL.ru , which included a photograph of the police report. It all looked so fake that Meduza didn't even write about this incident, at first. But it turns out that a man really did smell goose meat cooking at his neighbor's home, and he really did call the police.

It was decided not to allocate funds from the National Welfare Fund (NWF), which Rosneft had requested for four of its projects. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation Alexei Ulyukaev. Ulyukaev did not specify what kind of projects he was talking about. “Yes, there is such a decision,” the minister said, [commenting on the refusal to allocate funds from the NWF to Rosneft projects].

Updated: As Russian Internet providers start blocking Wikipedia, the banned entry is taken off blacklist Roskomnadzor, the Kremlin's media watchdog agency, has ordered Russian Internet providers to block a page on Wikipedia about charas (a hashish form of cannabis). Over the weekend, the website' users changed the name and the URL of the article, hoping to satisfy the technical requirements of a court order issued in Astrakhan in late June.

Roskomnadzor directed Internet service providers to block the Wikipedia page on the drug charas, which had previously been banned by the court. The Office notes that the change in the address of the page did not affect its decision. In addition, the Federal Drug Control Service confirmed the illegal nature of the information in the article. Wikipedia operates on a secure https protocol.

Employees of the Russian Media Group wrote a letter to the main shareholder of the holding, Leonid Fedun. The RMG team asked to refuse to sell the company to Gosconcert in order to create a “patriotic media holding.” The authors of the letter note that the events of recent weeks “hardly hit the reputation of the radio stations included in RMG” and mislead advertisers and performers.

The trading session on the US stock exchanges on August 24 began with a sharp drop in the main indices. Thus, the Dow Jones industrial index fell in the first minutes after the opening of stock exchanges by 4.45 percent (732 points) to 15,728 points. The high-tech Nasdaq lost 5.53 percent (259 points) to 4451 points. The broad market index S&P 500 fell 4.46 percent (88 points) to 1883 points. The last time the major US stock indices fell to such levels was in October 2014.