Russian wrestler Davit Chakvetadze won the gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in the weight category up to 85 kilograms at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. This is the tenth gold medal for the Russian team at the 2016 Games. In the final, Chakvetadze defeated Ukrainian Jean Beleniuk. The match ended with the score 2:9. 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 .

Co-owners of Nota-bank Dmitry and Vadim Erokhin were arrested on charges of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). It is reported by Kommersant, citing a source. The arrest was sanctioned by the Tverskoy Court of Moscow. When exactly this happened, the publication does not report. The former financial director of the bank, Galina Marchukova, is also involved in the case.

Russian boxer Evgeny Tishchenko, competing in the weight category up to 91 kilograms, won a gold medal at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. In the final, he defeated Kazakh athlete Vasily Levit with a score of 3:0. Materials for the table were provided by Sports.ru. For more details, see the Sports.ru project “Rio 2016: all medals, news, calendar, results, Russian team” . Evgeniy Tishchenko is the 2015 world and European champion, winner of the 2013 Universiade.

Earlier today, Archpriest Vsevolod Chaplin, a former spokesperson for the Russian Orthodox Church, endorsed a policy of killing Russia's internal enemies. “In the end, what's so bad about destroying certain parts of [Russia's] internal enemies?” Chaplin said on the radio station Echo of Moscow . He then clarified that he was indeed discussing the “physical destruction” of Russia's enemies at home. “Of course physical elimination,” he said. “There are some people you can and must kill.

Photo: Issei Kato / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta wrestler crushes Chakvetadze hugs the coach Levan Kisaevadze after winning Ukrainian Jean Belenyuk in the Greco-Right Wrestling Finale up to 85 kilograms at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

The Minister of Transport of the Russian Federation Maxim Sokolov at a meeting of the State Council on August 15 proposed raising fares for the passage of heavy vehicles on federal highways during the period of river navigation, that is, from April to November. In his opinion, this measure will contribute to the reorientation of cargo transportation from road transport to river transport.

Russian wrestler Sergei Semenov won a bronze medal in the Greco-Roman wrestling competition in the weight category up to 130 kilograms. In the match for third place, he defeated Estonian Heiki Nabi with a score of 0:7. In the final, Cuban Mihain Lopez Nunez defeated Turkish wrestler Riza Kayalpa. Materials for the table were provided by Sports.ru.

Russian gymnast Denis Ablyazin won his second medal of the day at the Rio Olympics. He finished second in the vault. The first place was taken by the representative of North Korea, Lee Segwan. Kenzo Shirai was third Earlier, on August 15, Denis Ablyazin won the “bronze” in the rings, and even earlier at the Olympics in Rio - “silver” in the team competition. Materials for the table are provided by Sports.ru.

Russian gymnast Denis Ablyazin won a bronze medal in the ring exercises in Rio. The first was the Greek Eleftherios Petrunias, and the second - Arthur Zanetti from Brazil. Ablyazin's performance was rated by the judges at 15.700 points, and Zanetti - at 15.766. Petrunias received 16.000. Chinese Liu Yang, who won the qualifying, was fourth. Materials for the table are provided by Sports.ru.

In Crimea, in the vicinity of Armyansk, on the night of August 7, the Russian military wounded two civilians. This was reported to Dozhd by Muzafar Fukala, whom the TV channel calls “a representative of the [banned in the Russian Federation] Mejlis of the Crimean Tatar people in Crimea” (according to other sources , he is the head of the Mejlis of the Crimean village of Voinka).

Analysis of the scientific article that the new head of the presidential administration could write Photo: Dmitry Azarov / Kommersant Head of the Presidential Administration Anton Vaino On August 12, Anton Vaino was appointed the new head of the presidential administration. Little is known from the official biography of the official - but users of social networks have discovered scientific articles about the relationships of space, time and protocol written by a person with the same name.

In Minsk, on Nemiga Street, there is a road sign with a difficult fate: it is constantly knocked down. In 2016 alone, this happened at least six times. The sign on Nemiga is so famous that it has its own microblog with 286 subscribers. And on August 14 he was shot down again. By evening, flowers and candles appeared at the scene. Later, the remains of the sign were taken away, but the place of the murder was circled with chalk.

The British duo The Slow Mo Guys released a new video in which a toy plane crash is filmed on a high-speed camera: a league-sarkelet is carried in slips of Lego-Gorodok. It was not the first time to shoot the video - at first the plane did not hit the structure, and bloggers had to spend several hours on re -assembly of the entire structure. It may seem that Lego Aviakatastrophe is boring, but in the slush it turns out no worse than in blockbusters.

How Anton Nosik is judged by the 282nd article of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation. Report "Medusa" Photo: Artem Korotaev / TASS Anton Nosik in the Presnensky court In the Presnensky district court on Monday, August 15, the court continued in the case of journalist Anton Nosik-he is accused of part 1 of Article 282 (“arousal of hatred or enmity”) due to a recording in a LiveJournal called “erase Syria from the face of the earth”.

The bathing suit of Muslims seemed to the court not just a "religious sign" Photo: AP / Scapix / Leta In France, shortly after the attack in Nice, in mid -July, Burkini began to ban - a bathing suit for Muslims, covering almost the entire body. The ban was introduced already in three cities, including Cannes. Human rights activists sue the administration of cities in court, but so far it stands on the side of officials. "Medusa" says what led to the criminalization of a bathing suit.