Russian gymnast Aliya Mustafina won the gold medal of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro on the uneven bars. Materials for the table are provided by Sports.ru. See the Sports.ru project "Rio-2016: all medals, news, calendar, results, Russian team" for more details . Taking into account the gold of Aliya Mustafina, the Russian team won eight top awards at the 2016 Olympics. On August 14, Russian tennis players Elena Vesnina and Ekaterina Makarova also won gold medals.

American swimmers who won gold medals at the 2016 Olympics were attacked by robbers in Rio de Janeiro. According to the US Olympic Committee, their taxi was stopped by unknown people who looked like police officers. They forced all the athletes to give up their valuables and disappeared. According to one of the victims, Ryan Lochte, one of the robbers put a gun to his forehead, after which he took his wallet and fled.

Russian Maria Paseka won the silver medal of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in the vault. American Simone Biles became the champion of the Olympics. Materials for the table are provided by Sports.ru. See the Sports.ru project "Rio-2016: all medals, news, calendar, results, Russian team" for more details . In terms of the number of gold medals, the Russian team shares 5th-7th places at the Olympics with the teams of Italy and Japan.

Russian shooter Sergei Kamensky won a silver medal in shooting from a small-caliber rifle from three positions from 50 meters Kamensky scored 458.5 points. The winner - Italian Niccolo Campriani - earned three tenths more points. The third place was taken by the Frenchman Alexis Reynaud. Materials for the table are provided by Sports.ru. See the Sports.ru project "Rio-2016: all medals, news, calendar, results, Russian team" for more details .

Four children died, 26 were hospitalized Photo: Ilya Tatarnikov / Your Irkutsk Irkutsk Regional Infectious Hospital From August 5 to 14, four pupils of the Cheremkhovsky psychoneurological boarding school died in hospitals in the Irkutsk region. The dead girls, like more than 20 pupils of the boarding school, were hospitalized due to the outbreak of intestinal infection, which began in July.

Russian tennis players Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina won gold in women's doubles at the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, beating Swiss athletes Martina Hingis and Timea Bachinsky. The match ended with the score 6:4, 6:4. Materials for the table are provided by Sports.ru. See the Sports.ru project "Rio-2016: all medals, news, calendar, results, Russian team" for more details . This is the first Russian medal in tennis at the 2016 Olympics.

The official portal of legal information published an order of the FSB of Russia on the procedure for transferring to the department “information necessary for decoding ... messages from Internet users”. According to the document, the Organizational and Analytical Department of the Scientific and Technical Service of the FSB will collect encryption keys.

Two-time champion of the Games in Rio, saber fencer Yana Yegoryan and gold and bronze medalist Timur Safin shaved head coach of Russian fencers Ilgar Mammadov. According to one version, Mammadov promised to shave if the women's and men's teams win gold in the team competition. From his commentary to R-Sport it follows that the promise concerned any two gold medals in fencing. Anyway, of the six gold medals won by Russia by August 14, Russian fencers are responsible for four.

The water in the diving and water polo pools in Rio de Janeiro turned green after someone poured 80 liters of hydrogen peroxide into each of them. This was announced by the organizing committee of the 2016 Olympics. According to organizers, hydrogen peroxide neutralized the effects of chlorine, causing the pool to grow organic compounds, which, according to The New York Times, could include microscopic algae.

A 34-year-old woman has died in Switzerland after being injured in an attack on train passengers on 13 August. According to the BBC, the attacker himself, who was hospitalized with burns, also died. Three passengers, including a six-year-old child, are in critical condition, police told The Associated Press. Searches were carried out at the perpetrator's home. According to the authorities, the police do not yet have information about his connection with terrorist or criminal organizations.

The extremist group Boko Haram has released a video message demanding the release of detained militants in exchange for the release of schoolgirls captured in 2014.

In the New York area of ​​Queens, an unidentified person shot and killed the imam of the Al-Furqan mosque and his assistant. Maulama Akonji, 55, and his assistant, Thara Uddin, 64, were wounded on Saturday afternoon a few blocks from the mosque, shortly after prayer had ended. Both of them died in the hospital. According to police, the gunman approached the victims from behind and shot them in the head. Both men were dressed in traditional Muslim clothing.

What is happening at their favorite resort of Russians in Latvia Photo: zane bitere / leta The number of Russians coming to relax in Latvia has decreased by almost 40%since 2014, local authorities report. For two years now, the New Wave, Vocal Kivin and other large events oriented to the Russian audience have not been held in Jurmala.

Russian pilot Sergei Sevastyanov, who was captured by the Taliban on August 4, is on the territory of the Russian embassy in the capital of Pakistan, Islamabad. Sevastyanov was handed over to Russia's Charge d'Affaires in Pakistan on 13 August. “Our citizen is in the Russian embassy at this time. His moral and psychological state is normal, nothing threatens his health, ”said Damir Galliulin, press attache of the embassy.

On August 14, Russian Tu-22M3 long-range bombers attacked Islamic State targets in Syria. The strikes were aimed at targets in the vicinity of the city of Deir ez-Zor in the east of the country , which is blocked by IS militants.