Athlete Inna Trazhukova accused the president of the Russian Wrestling Federation of beating her. According to Trazhukova, after she lost the fight for third place, a drunk Mikhail Mamiashvili hit her twice in the face. “All this happened in front of witnesses. Upon arrival in Russia, I plan to write a statement to the prosecutor's office, as well as report this incident to the Russian Minister of Sports. I am not in slavery to do this to me because of a lost battle!

The Russian track and field athletics team was deprived of silver medals at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing in the women's 4x400m relay. This happened due to the fact that the doping test of one of the participants in the race - Anastasia Kapachinskaya - turned out to be positive. Turinabol and stanozolol were found in the doping test of Kapachinskaya.

State Duma candidates running in the Moscow region won't be getting televised debates, thanks to a new ruling by Moscow Municipal Election Commission. By law, all the candidates in the Moscow race are allotted a total of 300 minutes for debates on television. There are so many candidates this year, however, that each individual would only have had 100 seconds to make a speech, which violates an election statute that says TV debates can't take place if candidates have less than five minutes each.

Viktor Yanukovych, the fugitive ex-president of Ukraine, sailed into the Russian city of Volgograd on August 18 aboard a triple-decker yacht. Security guards kept people away from the boat, but the newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda says passersby could easily make out Yanukovych on the yacht's stern. The ousted president, now wanted in Ukraine on criminal charges, was reportedly visiting Volgograd “in a private capacity,” and so his presence was not announced officially, says Komsomolskaya Pravda .

The new Minister of Education, Olga Vasilyeva, said that her appointment to this post is the "divineness" of her activities. “In relation to emotions, divinity, if you understand. The deity of what you are doing, ”she said in response to the question of Komsomolskaya Pravda about what emotions she experienced after the appointment.

Meduza profiles Konstantin Kilimnik, the right hand of Donald Trump's former campaign head Photo: Win McNamee / Getty Images / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Paul Manafort Journalists have widely reported on Paul Manafort’s dealings in Ukraine and his role in the administration of Viktor Yanukovich, the country’s former president who was toppled and forced into exile after 2014 Euromaidan protests.

Police officers detained the driver of a BMW X6, who drove through the pedestrian zone of the Moscow Muzeon park. He was taken to one of the traffic police departments. No other details were given by the police. appeared on the outlaw.777 instagram, where the video from Muzeon was originally published, At the same time, a record that its owner was not detained. It is assumed that this account belongs to the driver of the car. Earlier it became known that the police identified the driver .

Two-time Olympic pole vault champion Yelena Isinbayeva has announced her retirement. She posted on VKontakte a video of her last jump. Elena Isinbayeva is one of the most titled Russian athletes. She has won the Olympic Games twice (in 2004 and 2008), three World Championships and four World Indoor Championships. In 2009, she set a world record (5 meters and 6 centimeters), which has not been beaten to this day.

In Sochi, a case was opened against a couple of pensioners Valentina and Klara Donchi-ool, who fought against cutting down trees in their yard. They are suspected of illegal cutting of trees. In the prosecutor's office they were told that the case had been opened on their own application, where they complained about the felling.

The women's water polo team won bronze at the Rio Olympics. In the match for third place, the Russians defeated rivals from Hungary. At the end of the last, fourth period, the Russian team was one point behind the opponents. The Russians equalized the score one second before the end. On penalties, the Russian team was stronger. In the final, the teams of the USA and Italy will meet, which the Russians lost in the semifinals.

The Russian team in synchronized swimming took first place in the team competition at the Olympics. Russia was represented by Natalia Ishchenko, Svetlana Romashina, Alla Shishkina, Alexandra Patskevich, Vlada Chigirneva, Svetlana Kolesnichenko, Gelena Topilina, Maria Shurochkina and spare Elena Prokofieva. The second place was taken by China. The third is synchronized swimmers from Japan. After the victory of synchronized swimmers at this Olympics, Russia has 13 gold medals.

What will be remembered by the dismissed Minister of Education Dmitry Livanov Photo: Mikhail Metzel / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On Friday, August 19, the Minister of Education and Science of Russia Dmitry Livanov, who headed the department for more than four years, resigned .

Photo: Marcelo Machado de Melo / Fotoarena / Sipa / Scanpix / Leta On August 18, Risako Kawaii from Japan won the gold medal in the freestyle wrestling in the weight category up to 63 kilograms. Adjusted to the victory over the Belarusian rival, Kawai grabbed her coach Cazhito Sakae and threw him at the mat. After that, the athlete put the coach on his shoulders and ran a circle of honor with him.

Director General of the Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending Alexander Plutnik visited Saratov. First, he went to a government meeting and promised to find 300 million rubles for the construction of a beautiful boulevard. Then Plutnik went for a walk. Olga Batalina, deputy of the State Duma of the sixth convocation, decided to conduct a tour of her native city. And during the walk, Batalina and Plutnik met a sleeping Saratov.

Gazprom Media holding banned sports websites from showing videos of the most interesting moments of matches. We are talking about moments of broadcasts, the rights to which belong to the holding. Because of this decision, now the sites Chempionat.com, Sports.ru, Sovetsky Sport and others will no longer be able to use videos that they previously bought from the holding in their materials. According to Vedomosti sources, in this way it is planned to increase the audience of Match TV.