Russian citizen Sergey Mironov has been detained in Armenia on suspicion of illegal transfer of military technologies and money laundering, his lawyer Karen Nersesyan told Interfax. Mironov, the lawyer said, was detained on August 26 by the security service of Armenia at the airport in Yerevan, where he flew from Moscow with his wife. The request for the detention of Mironov, according to the lawyer, was sent from the United States.

Activist Filipp Galtsov, who received political asylum in Sweden, said that “Russian-speaking people” tried to kidnap him in Stockholm. As Galtsov told OVD-Info, on August 10 he noticed that he was being followed. On the evening of August 14, on the way home from work, two men sat in the subway car opposite him. “From that moment on, I have a rather vague memory of what happened. Several times for a short period I came to my senses.

The victims of the shipwreck were saved from the uninhabited island in micronzia thanks to the inscription SOS, which they left on the sandy shore. The inscription was noticed by the helicopter of the US Navy from the base on the island of GUAM and reported what they saw emergency services. By that time, the victims of shipwreck have been on the island for eight days “with extremely limited food supplies and without any emergency communications,” the coastal guard of Guam said.

In one of the office centers of Omsk, the elevator, in the cabin of which there were passengers, fell from the eighth to the fourth floor. The passengers were not hurt. On the fact of the incident, according to the website of the Main Investigative Committee of the Investigative Committee for the Omsk Region, a pre-investigation check is being carried out. The audit will be made a procedural decision.

A draft resolution on lifting the ban on charter flights from Russia to Turkey has been submitted to the government, but has not yet been signed. This was announced by the press secretary of the Prime Minister Natalya Timakova.

Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted for consideration by the parliaments of North Ossetia and Karachay-Cherkessia candidacies for the post of heads of the republics. The lists of applicants included acting heads of the republics - Vyacheslav Bitarov in North Ossetia and Rashid Temrezov in Karachay-Cherkessia. North Ossetia .

Restrictions on charter flights to Turkey have been lifted from Saturday, August 27, a source in the Federal Air Transport Agency told RIA Novosti. Russian airlines, he said, can apply to the Federal Air Transport Agency for charter flights to Turkey.

Netflix began to show “slow television”, but you can watch it right here In August, the “slow television” appeared in the base of the American Streaming Service of Netflix - many hours of video in which nothing happens. Just the train travels by rail, the ship floats on the water, or the fishermen catch fish. "Medusa" offers to see some videos of "slow TV" - fortunately, they are posted on YouTube. “Slow Television” owes its success to the Norwegian cable channel NRK.

Direct broadcast from the Latvian National Library Medusa is conducting a live broadcast from the Latvian National Library in Riga, where “open dialogs” are held. Open Library 15:00 - 16:30 Ilya Krasilchik, Oleg Kashin, Alexey Venediktov, Roman Badanin: "Double solid" 17:00 - 18:30 Alexander Etkind - Andris Wilks: "Institutes of memory: Russia and Baltic states" 19:00 - 20:30 Lyudmila Ulitskaya - Boris Kherson: "Difficulties of understanding: from culture to politics"

The head of the Merkator company, which created a screensaver for the new television program “Good morning, kids!”, Said that the red tractor, standing in the house at Khryusha, has nothing to do with the vehicle of Peter's pig . “I did not even know about the tractor and about this meme,” said the director of Mercator Andrei Skvortsov in an interview with the Radio Says Moscow.

The Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko said that the report of the independent commission of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) on the doping program in Russia was falsified. “His legal technique does not hold water,” Mutko said on Match TV, commenting on a report prepared by the WADA commission headed by Richard McLaren. According to the Minister of Sports, the Russian side intends to file claims in civil courts. “And those who wrote will be prosecuted,” he stressed.

Valery Goncharov, deputy chairman of the board of the Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System (FGC UES), was detained by FSB officers at one of Moscow airports while trying to leave the country. According to the publication, Goncharov is suspected of large-scale fraud during the construction of an energy bridge to the Crimea, which was led by FGC UES. The official website of FGC UES reports that Goncharov served as deputy chairman of the company's board until July 8, 2016.

Polish athlete Piotr Malachowski, who won silver in the discus throw at the Rio Games, sold a medal to help a child with cancer. The award, put up for public auction, according to Malachowski, was purchased by Sebastian and Dominika Kulczyk, members of one of the richest families in Poland. What amount was paid for the medal, the athlete did not disclose, emphasizing only that the funds required for the treatment of the child were collected.

All 17 people who died in a fire at a warehouse in the north-east of Moscow were citizens of Kyrgyzstan, Interfax reports, citing the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations in Moscow, Ilya Denisov. The Embassy of Kyrgyzstan in the Russian Federation is checking information about fellow citizens who died in a fire. Employees of the diplomatic mission are at the scene, the embassy said.

And the first biography of designer Alexander McQueen. Overview of Galina Yuzefovich The literary critic Galina Yuzefovich tells at Medusa about the most interesting book novelties. In this material there is one autobiography and two biographies: the “reverse address” of Alexander Genis, “Alfred Hitchcock” by Peter Akraida and “Alexander Makkuin. Blood under the skin ”Andrew Wilson. Alexander Genis. Return address.