Employees of the Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) removed a portrait of the President of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) Philip Craven from the wall. This was done after the removal of Russian Paralympic athletes from the Games, which will be held in September in Rio de Janeiro. A photograph of the wall without a portrait of Craven was posted on Instagram by Natalya Tedzhetova, who works in the same office as the RCC.

The football club "Krasnodar" entered the group stage of the Europa League, defeating the Albanian "Partizani" in two matches of the playoff round. Krasnodar won the first game 4-0. The second leg on August 25 ended with the score 0:0. Petersburg "Zenit" will also take part in the group stage of the Europa League. CSKA and Rostov will play in the group stage of the Champions League. The composition of the groups will be determined during the draw on August 26.

In Seattle, the jury found 32-year-old Russian citizen Roman Seleznev, son of State Duma deputy from the LDPR Valery Seleznev, guilty of cyber fraud. According to the prosecution, Seleznev stole 1.7 million credit card numbers. The damage from the sale of stolen numbers on the "black market" amounted to about $169 million. Seleznev was found guilty on 38 of the 40 charges, according to The Seattle Times. He will be sentenced later.

Kenyan athletes had to spend the night in Rio de Janeiro to the sound of gunfire as the country's Olympic Committee bought them cheap tickets. The captain of the Kenyan national team, runner Wesley Korir, published on his Twitter the accommodation that was rented for athletes. They were forced to stop there because the Olympic village closed and they had tickets for 25 August. According to Korir, the athletes were advised not to leave the building at night.

Apple has released an update for the iOS mobile operating system after discovering three vulnerabilities in it that allowed hackers to be able to remotely control other people's iPhones. The existence of Apple vulnerabilities was reported by specialists from the Canadian Citizen Lab and the American company Lookout Security, who were contacted by Arab human rights activist Ahmed Mansour, who had previously become a target of hackers.

Real Madrid's Cristiano Ronaldo has been named European Footballer of the Year by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). In the voting, which was attended by journalists from UEFA member countries, Ronaldo scored 40 points. Antoine Griezmann of Atlético Madrid and Gareth Bale of Real Madrid scored 8 and 7 respectively. Last season, Ronaldo won the Champions League with Real Madrid and the European champion as a member of the Portuguese national team, UEFA noted.

Shot: Videnskabernes Selskab / YouTube In Copenhagen, an unusual meeting of physicists recently took place. They met to finish the dispute, begun more than 16 years ago. Then the scientists argued that with the help of a large Adron Collider, the theory of super -symmetry would be confirmed. This did not happen, and the 20 losing physicists had to be affixed to the winners. Medusa talks about this story.

Football club "Rostov" in the group stage of the UEFA Champions League will play in group D, which will also include Bayern, Madrid "Atletico" and the Dutch PSV. The draw took place on 25 August in Monaco. Moscow CSKA got into group E along with the German club Bayer, the English Tottenham, and also Monaco. Real Madrid, who won the last Champions League, are in Group F with Borussia Dortmund, Sporting CP and Legia.

The earthquake in central Italy killed, according to the latest data, 250 people. 365 people are in hospitals. This was stated by the Italian Civil Defense Department. 193 people died in the village of Amatrice in Lazio, 11 people died in the neighboring village of Accumoli. 43 people died in Arquata del Tronto in the Marche region. On the afternoon of August 25, a new shock of magnitude 4.3 was recorded, as a result of which new destruction occurred in Amatrice.

The American actor Steven Seagal took a break from spending time with the Chechen dictator Ramzan Kadyrov to visit the Belarusian dictator Alexander Lukashenko, who's served as president of the ex-Soviet republic for the past 22 years. Honored guest that he was, Seagal received a whole array of gifts from the Belarusian head of state, including a book and a dagger, before Lukashenko brought Seagal to his farm and treated him to fresh carrots and watermelon.

The Tambov Communal Systems company has limited water disposal in military camps in Tambov due to a debt of 10 million rubles. This was reported by Interfax-AVN. According to the press service of the company, water supply and sanitation services at the facilities of the Ministry of Defense in Tambov have not been paid since December 2015.

The leader of Leningrad Sergey Shnurov presented a song for the new program “Good morning, kids”, invented by the creators of the program “Good night, kids”. In the song, the musician and his vocalists sing: Morning is very cool If you want - sing, you want - dance All routes are open to you Good morning, kids! Elisy Fedorenko song by Shnurov to "Good night, kids" The new program will be released from September 1 on the Carousel channel. At the same time, “good night, kids” will not go anywhere.

Last week, State Duma candidate Natalia Gryaznevich's campaign published a video on social media titled “100 Years of Beauty: Women Politicians.” Modeled on the Cut.com viral video series “100 Years of Beauty,” which features quick montages of different hair styles and aesthetics from a particular country over a century, Gryaznevich stars in the video herself, dressed as ten different historical women in politics: Bolshevik revolutionary Nadezhda Krupskaya, first lady of Argentina Eva Perón,

Russia is organizing its own competition for disabled athletes, in light of the ban on Russian contestants in the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, says Vladimir Putin. "I want to say to our Paralympians: of course we will support you and organize special events where you will be able to show all of your skills," the president said. Putin stressed that winners of the Russian competitions will be awarded in the same manner as they would have been the Paralympic Games.

Magazine W Make stars read the texts of famous songs on camera The glossy magazine W sometimes puts celebrities in front of the camera and asks them to read out the text of the famous song. A fresh example: actresses Holly Berry, Priyanka Chopra and Jody Foster recite the texts of Britney Spears before the release of the new album of the singer. "Medusa" offers to look at these and other stars reading songs. Holly Berry got the song of Britney Spears “Oops, I DID It AGain”.