A court in Yekaterinburg has sentenced Sergei Abakin, a local man, to nearly two years of “restricted freedom” because he painted a swastika on the wall of an elevator in an apartment building, and inscribed a phrase that a judge says amounts to illegal hate speech. For his crime, Abakin will spend 1 year and 8 months under restricted freedom, during which time he will be forbidden from leaving his home between specified hours. He's also not allowed to leave the city or the region.

Anonymous user VKontakte Mik Ketov trained a neural network on Chechen head Ramzan Kadyrov's Instagram posts and then launched the Ramzan Neurodyrov twitter, which posts some of the computer-generated sayings. For example, these: project The creator of "Ramzan Neurodyrov" was inspired by the DeepDrumpf , which uses Donald Trump's statements as training material for the neural network. Both systems - both Russian and American - use the same char-rnn algorithm .

Facebook has once again changed the news tape algorithm - now there will be no articles with clickbeat. This is a technique in which the title hides the essence of the material, but remains enticing and provokes the reader to click. For example, “You will never believe what happened to this kitten” (by the way, you will not believe ). The social network has given its own examples of clickbeaters on non -existent resources.

Photo: Marina Lystseva / TASS On Tuesday, August 2, an employee of the Committee against torture Oleg Khabibrahmanov published a post on Facebook in which he indicated that in one of the regions of Russia, thousands of police officers at the same time expired the validity of salary bank cards-and the bank is in no hurry to issue new cards, which is why police officers cannot get money. Khabibrakhmanov did not name the region or the name of the financial organization.

Iranian authorities have blocked the augmented reality mobile game Pokemon Go in the country. They explained their decision for security reasons, according to the BBC. The decision was taken by the Supreme Council of Virtual Spaces, the body that oversees the Internet. The Pokemon Go game has been criticized in some countries, including Russia. However, Iran became the first country to ban the game.

How was the pursuit of the new Borna starred. Says stuntman Martin Ivanov Photo: Universal Pictures The film "Jason Bourne" with Matt Damon is slowly diverging at the world box office: the premiere of the film took place back in July, but every week the number of countries in which the action movie show is growing. The picture will reach Russia only on September 1.

DC Comics about Supergrasts was released. Review Warner Bros. On August 4, a fantastic militant “Suicide Squad” directed by David Aira, shot according to the DC Comics comic book, was released on August 4. A new picture is another act in the confrontation between DC Comics and Marvel, which is increasingly reminiscent of the war of Pepsi and Cola. At the request of Superposits, at the request of "Medusa", the film critic Yegor Moskvitin tells about the film.

Sergei Abakin, a resident of Yekaterinburg, was sentenced to restriction of freedom for drawing a swastika on the elevator at the entrance. In addition, he wrote a phrase, "the content of which called for the incitement of enmity and hatred on a national basis." The term of restriction of freedom was one year and eight months. Abakin was tried under the "extremist" article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Dmitry Alenichev has resigned as head coach of Spartak Moscow. This is stated in the official statement of the club. Alenichev worked in the team for about one year. Until the appointment of a new head coach of the team, his duties will be performed by Massimo Carrera. FC "Spartak" (Moscow) Moscow "Spartak" at the beginning of the season 2016-2017 could not get into the group stage of the Europa League, losing in the sum of two matches to the Cypriot club AEK.

US President Barack Obama's daughter Sasha got a temporary job at a fish restaurant. The Boston Herald writes about it. According to the publication, the president's daughter works in the issuance window at Nancy's. Her duties also include working with the cash register, cleaning tables and preparing the restaurant for opening. According to the Boston Herald, Sasha Obama is accompanied to work by six members of the Secret Service.

Interview of the new editor -in -chief of Esquire Ksenia Sokolova Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS Ksenia Sokolova, a journalist who had previously worked in the GQ and the Snob project, was the new editor of Esquire magazine. The appointment is interesting not only in the sense that a woman will be headed by a male magazine, but also in the fact that Sokolova is parallel to politics and is running for the State Duma from the Growth Party.

The first world record was set at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. In the qualifying archery competition, South Korean Woojin Kim hit 700 points, one point more than the previous record. The second place in the qualification was taken by the American Brady Ellison (690 points), the third - by the Italian David Pasqualucci (685 points). Russian archers did not qualify for the Olympics. The team qualification was won by the South Koreans.

Photo in the announcement: Victor Tolochko / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta Rosselkhoznadzor reported on the destruction of more than 7.5 thousand tons of products, most of which are planted. Vegetables and fruits were destroyed, since they were imported from countries from where Russia forbade to bring food in response to the sanctions of the West against Russian officials and companies. The population of Moscow, according to Rosstat, is 123,30126 people.

A boxer from Morocco, 22-year-old Hassan Saada, was detained in the Olympic village of Rio de Janeiro, the BBC reports, citing a police statement. The police suspect him of sexual harassment towards two cleaners. The law enforcement agencies specified that Saada was detained at the beginning of the week. Judge in Brazil orders boxer to be detained for 15 days to investigate. BBC News Saada's first fight at the Olympics was scheduled for August 6th.

Burger King Russia has filed a lawsuit against Sergei Shnurov over a poem that the musician published on his Instagram, mentioning the company. It is reported by RBC with reference to the marketing director of Burger King Ivan Shestov.