Turkish artillery fired at the positions of the Islamic State (the organization is banned in the Russian Federation as a terrorist organization) and Syrian Kurds in the area of ​​the Turkish-Syrian border. This is reported by the state agency Anadolu, citing sources in the Turkish army.

All doping tests taken from Russian athletes during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro were negative. This was stated to the R-Sport agency by the head of the Russian delegation at the Games, Igor Kazikov. There is no confirmation of this information from the International Olympic Committee (IOC) or the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) yet. “All doping tests (taken from the Russians) are negative. Are you ready for the fact that they will double-check them?

The Interdepartmental Commission under the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation allowed Yamal Airlines, Ural Airlines and Vim-Avia to operate international flights from Zhukovsky Airport. This follows from a document published on the website of the Federal Air Transport Agency. According to the document, Yamal will operate flights to Vienna, Budapest, Munich, Plovdiv, Prague and Tbilisi, Ural Airlines will fly to Antalya, Burgas and Beijing, and Vim Avia will fly to Frankfurt am Main.

Photo: Andrey Epikhin / TASS The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine published records of conversations , during which, stated, the adviser to the Russian president Sergey Glazyev discusses with the interlocutors mass actions in Ukraine and the accession of Crimea to Russia.

Sportswear makers Speedo and Ralph Lauren have canceled advertising deals with American swimmer Ryan Lochte, who was at the center of a scandal after a false report of a robbery at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Swimwear company Speedo said it "cannot condone behavior that goes against the values ​​the brand has stood for so long." A portion of Lochte's $50,000 fee will be donated to Save the Children, a charity for children in Brazil. Lochte said he "respects" Speedo's decision.

The United States and Finland are negotiating a framework agreement on military cooperation. The parties plan to sign the agreement in the fall, Finnish Defense Minister Jussi Niiniste told Reuters. “It will extend to areas where we are already working together, such as military training, information sharing and intelligence,” the minister said. He explained that the agreement would not include obligations to provide military assistance.

The rain television channel discovered a video, which was allegedly filmed by one of the sailors of the Valery Vasiliev dry cargo ship. The video captures how huge pipes that the dry cargo transported from Arkhangelsk to the Arctic port of Sabetta, take to the sea due to poor fasteners. The author of the video claims that the pipes are “some kind of German order”, and the ship came to Sabett “with a clean deck”.

The Ukrainian Prosecutor General's Office has published audio tapes of telephone conversations with top Kremlin advisor Sergei Glazyev, allegedly recorded two years ago. (The Russian audio is available on YouTube here .) Ukrainian officials say Glazyev can be heard discussing preparations for the secessionist referendum in Crimea, as well the organization of unrest in Donetsk, Odessa, and Kharkov.

Former French President Nicolas Sarkozy officially announced his intention to run for office again in 2017. “I feel I have the strength to lead this battle at a difficult time in our history,” Sarkozy said in a statement circulated on social media accounts. According to Reuters, Sarkozy will need to win the primaries of his Republican Party (formerly the Union for a Popular Movement), which will be held in November, to be nominated.

Russian border guards near Smolensk reported this week that smugglers secretly repaired and expanded roads near the Belarusian border, in order to make it easier to bring in contraband food. According to representatives of Russia's border control, officials discovered heavy equipment used to repair roads that bypass guarded checkpoints. The machines were used to widen existing roads, making it possible for larger vehicles to pass.

How the Anb helped Belgium catch the organizer of Parisian terrorist attacks: BuzzFeed Photo: VTM / AP / Scanpix / Leta detention of Salah Abdeslama by Brussels police officers. March 18, 2016 Belgian special services turned to the USA for help in capture Salah Abdeslam, a participant in the attacks in Paris in November 2015.

In the Chinese city of Tianjin, a ultra -high skyscraper Goldin Faynes 117 is being built, the height of which will be 597 meters. It is planned to complete the construction in 2018 or 2019, but now the first visitors climbed on it - Russian extremals Angelina Nikolau and Ivan Birkus. They made their way to the construction site and climbed to the end of the boom of the crane, standing at the top of an unfinished skyscraper.

Vladimir Medinsky, Russia's minister of culture, has yet again slammed American popular culture, this time declaring that Hollywood feature films like “Suicide Squad” are “trash.” Medinsky delivered these remarks while promoting “Cinema Night,” a national celebration of Russian films. “We spent several months choosing which films to show for ‘Cinema Night.’ We chose ‘Kikoriki’ for children.

The police are trying to stop the column in the Rostov region On the evening of August 21, farmers from the Krasnodar Territory went to Moscow to get a meeting with the federal authorities. Participants in the action are going to get to the capital to “talk about corruption and raider seizures” in the region. The column consists of 17 tractors and several dozen cars, on which about 50 farmers travel, they are accompanied by a small number of truckers.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine published a record of telephone conversations, which was supposedly conducted by adviser to the President of the Russian Federation Sergey Glazyev in 2014. According to the department, Glazyev discusses the preparation of a referendum in the Crimea, as well as the organization of riots in Donetsk, Odessa and Kharkov, 112 Ukraine reports .