The prosecutor's office of the Krasnodar Territory organized additional checks on the legality of land redistribution decisions following complaints from local farmers. The decision was made after a meeting with farmers, which was attended by Governor Veniamin Kondratyev, the regional prosecutor and law enforcement officials. “Despite the fact that the problems raised by farmers are ten years old, they still need to be addressed in the interests of the people,” quoted the governor as saying.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that one of the reasons for the flooding of a number of Moscow streets in the summer of 2016 was the inability of storm sewers to cope with "tropical showers." “Naturally, the storm drain, which was built not for tropical downpours, but for a completely different climate, does not withstand everywhere,” he explained during a program in which he answered questions from VKontakte users.

The FBI is investigating the involvement of hackers believed to be linked to Russian intelligence in hacking attacks on The New York Times and other American media. This is reported by CNN, citing sources in the US government. According to the channel, hacking attempts have occurred in "the last months." What exactly they were and what damage was done to The New York Times is not reported. What other media became the targets of hackers, CNN also does not specify.

The Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Ulyanovsk Region has charged Danila Alferyev, an activist of the Left Block coalition, with extremism. The activist himself told Interfax about this. According to him, the case is related to his speech at a rally in Ulyanovsk on November 7, 2014. This also follows from the message on the website of the regional department of the UK, in which the name of Alferyev is not called.

Short: "Channel One" Russian media published notes that Russia will cease to finance the World Anti -Doping Agency (Vada). At the time of writing this article in Yandex.No, there were 79 materials in the appropriate plot. The plot about this has already been shown on the air of Channel One. On the website of the most popular channel of the country, the material is called " Russia refused to finance Vada ." All the media refer to the government decree of August 19.

In the Rostov region, participants in the action of Kuban farmers who went on tractors to Moscow were detained. Nikolay Maslov, who is participating in the run, told Meduza about this. According to Maslov, the participants of the action were detained when they were talking to the authorities in a cafe. Among the officials was Deputy Presidential Envoy to the Southern Federal District Leonid Belyak.

Municipal authorities in the Russian beach resort city of Sochi have ordered entrepreneurs and companies to provide law enforcement with information about all new employees hired. This decision, according to the administration's website, came to at a meeting of an antiterrorist commission tasked with "strengthening security measures in the city." Such transparency is especially important, the report says, in the case of nonresidents (i.e. non-Sochians) being hired to work.

The leaders of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) could instruct the head of the Moscow Anti-Doping Laboratory, Grigory Rodchenkov, to destroy the doping samples of Russian athletes. This was stated in the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. “Rodchenkov, being the head of RUSADA, one of the divisions of WADA, was administratively subordinate only to the World Anti-Doping Agency.

During a televised debate yesterday among candidates running for seats in the Russian parliament, Vyacheslav Maltsev—representing the opposition party “Parnas”—openly called for the impeachment of Vladimir Putin. “One man has fooled us into going to war with a brotherly people, and then fooled us into another war with the Sunnies,” Maltsev said during the debates. “And we get the same situation as always: the boyars are to blame—they're bad—and the tsar is good.

Michael McFaul explains how Russia became a major theme in the US presidential race Photo: Spencer Platt / Getty Images / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Russia has become one of the major themes of this year's presidential contest in the United States.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the decisions of international sports authorities to prevent Russian athletes from competing were taken in accordance with the principle of "objective imputation" common in Soviet justice in the 1930s.

Updated: after a few days, the code that blocks the operation of the button in non -working hours was removed from the page. The DIRTY site user with the Migorod pseudonym discovered that the Moscow prosecutor’s office refuses to accept electronic complaints at non -working hours. The page for receiving appeals contains a JavaScript code that deactivates the “Send” button when the prosecutors rest.

Governor of St. Petersburg Georgy Poltavchenko said that the information about the completion of the construction of the stadium for Zenit at the expense of social facilities does not correspond to reality.

Governor of the Volgograd region Andrei Bocharov approved the idea of ​​​​renaming the Volgograd airport to Stalingrad. As reported on the website of the head of the region, the chairman of the regional council of veterans, Sergei Nazarov, came up with this idea at a meeting with the governor.

On August 22, Russia celebrated National Flag Day. In Yakutsk, there was a public fair, and state officials and ordinary locals joined a bike race. And there were a lot of free cakes. There were 280 kilograms (617 pounds) of free cakes. And Yatkutia's local sights and attractions were painted in frosting on top of the cakes. The 1,400 cakes were meant for local orphans and children living in poverty, and the plan was to distribute the confections after the bike race.