An interview with the Russian man who vows to mutilate himself until police release evidence of his wife's rape in jail On Monday, August 8, Igor Gubanov, a man living in Magnitogorsk, cut off his own finger. A week later, he threatened to cut off another one, if the city's police refused to release video footage from a holding cell where he says his wife was beaten and raped on January 26.

Photo: Issei Kato / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta semifinals of fencing on rappers in team competitions at the Olympics in Rio. Russian Arthur Akhmathuzin fights with American Herek Meinhardt. In the final, the Russians defeated the French in a very tense match and won the fifth “gold” for Russia .

At the Rio Olympics, the Russian men's foil fencing team defeated the French in the final. The team match ended with a score of 45-41. For most of the match, the Russians lagged behind the French. The backlog was up to nine injections. Towards the end of the match, Artur Akhmatkhuzin managed to bring the Russian team ahead. He entered the lane when the score was 30-35, and left when the scoreboard read: 40-38. Alexey Cheremisinov, Artur Akhmatkhuzin and Timur Safin played for Russia.

Sergey Ivanov from the successor Putin turned into a clerk Photo: Alexander Shalgin / Press Service of the State Duma of the Russian Federation / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On Friday, August 12, Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the head of his administration Sergei Ivanov - the former deputy Ivanov Anton Vaino was appointed in his place.

Lionel Messi has returned to the Argentina national football team. He stated that he sees many problems in Argentine football and does not want to create another one with his departure. “I want to help in any way I can,” said the player. According to Lionel Messi, after the defeat in the America's Cup final, he "seriously considered leaving the national team." “But I love my country and the jersey of the national team too much,” Messi said.

Russians Anastasia Voinova and Daria Shmeleva lost to the Chinese in the final of the cycling competition in the team sprint and won silver medals. As Sports.ru notes , this is Russia's first Olympic medal on the track since Athens 2004. Anastasia Voinova and Daria Shmeleva previously won gold medals in the team sprint at the World Championships in London in 2016. Voinova also won gold in the 500-meter round (individual speed race) at the World Championships.

Why Putin replaced Sergei Ivanov to Anton Vaino: Carnegie.ru Photo: Photoxpress Russian President Vladimir Putin replaced the head of his administration. The place of Sergei Ivanov was taken by his deputy Anton Vaino.

The sad conversations of astronauts flying to the ISS. Decoding In May 2016, the UP channel, Into Space! He published on Yetuber a video shot inside the Union TMA-16M during the flight to the ISS in March 2015. The video records all stages of the flight, but the main thing is the conversations of the astronauts within the Union.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case after the death of a participant in a riot in colony number 35 in the Republic of Khakassia. Sievush Sabirov died on August 9. The case was opened under article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“Intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm, negligently resulting in the death of the victim”). On July 24, in IK-35, prisoners staged a riot. According to the UK, more than 240 people participated in it.

In Turkey, the court seized the property of the preacher Fethullah Gülen, whom the authorities accuse of organizing a coup in the country. It is not known what property was seized. The coup attempt in Turkey took place on the night of July 16. The military blocked the bridges across the Bosphorus, seized several buildings and began shelling the parliament and other objects. By morning, the rebellion was crushed.

Arianna Haffington left Huffpost to fight the Pandemia of Burning at Work Photo: Gregor Fischer / EPA / Leta The head of the Huffington Post, one of the most influential media managers of the world, Arianna Haffington leaves the publication for the sake of a new project. She will develop a startup on increasing the quality of life of Thriveglobal, the launch of which is scheduled for November 2016.

Ridvan Sulemanov, who was detained in the case of preparing terrorist attacks in Crimea, said that he studied the security system of the Simferopol airport in order to find a place to plant an explosive device. According to Interfax, Sulemanov confessed to this during interrogation at the FSB. In addition, Sulemanov went to the city's bus station for the same purpose. (In another report from the agency, his surname is spelled as Suleymanov).

Ethiopian runner Almaz Ayana won the first medal of the Rio Olympics, which was played in athletics. She covered a distance of 10 kilometers in 29 minutes and 17.45 seconds, setting a new world record. The previous achievement was set by the Chinese woman Wang Junxia and was 29 minutes 31.78 seconds. Kenyan athlete Vivian Jepkemoy Cheruiyot came second to the finish line. She fell behind the winner by more than 15 seconds. Third was Turinesh Dibaba of Ethiopia, 25 seconds behind the leader.

Photo: Feroz Khalil / AFP / Scanpix / Leta on the night of August 12, the Fiji Male team in the rugby-7 won the first Olympic medal in the history of the country. The photo was taken in the capital of Fiji the city of Suva, where the final match was watched right at the stadium.

Three books from people from the world of cinema. Overview of Galina Yuzefovich Galina Yuzefovich’s book reviews in the summer go to Medusa twice a month. This time, a literary critic talks about three books written by filmmakers: “The boy who goes for wild duck” Irakli Kvirikadze, “burdocks and quinoa” by Andrei Smirnov, “F*cking dent” David Dudina. Irakli Kvirikadze. A boy walking behind a wild duck.