In Massachusetts, a court sentenced 20-year-old Michelle Carter to one year and three months in prison, found guilty of manslaughter due to the suicide of her boyfriend Conrad Roy III. The judge concluded that the text messages sent by the girl to Roy on the day of his suicide were the decisive factor. Carter was sentenced to 2.5 years in prison, of which she will spend half in prison. She was also placed on a five-year probationary period. She will remain at large until the end of her appeal.

The Simonovsky Court of Moscow sentenced opposition leader Alexei Navalny to a fine of 300,000 rubles for organizing the so-called agitation subbotnik held on July 8-9. He was found guilty of holding a mass event again without giving notice. in similar cases were fined Earlier, on August 3 , Leonid Volkov and Nikolai Lyaskin, the heads of Navalny's federal and Moscow headquarters, . They were fined 300,000 and 250,000 rubles, respectively.

The Ozersk City Court of the Chelyabinsk Region sentenced Konstantin Tsybko, a former member of the Federation Council from the Chelyabinsk Region, to nine years in a strict regime colony, who was found guilty of accepting a bribe on an especially large scale (part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Tsybko was also fined 70 million rubles.

In the United States, a court sentenced 41-year-old Russian citizen Maxim Senakh to three years and 10 months in prison for cyber fraud. The US Department of Justice announced this. According to the press release, Senakh and accomplices infected tens of thousands of servers with the Ebury malware and created a botnet that they used to make money fraudulently, including by sending spam. As a result, they managed to receive "millions of dollars," the Justice Department said.

On August 2, 23-year-old Marcus Hutchins, a British cybersecurity expert, was detained in the United States, who in May 2017 managed to stop the spread of the WannaCry ransomware virus. He is accused of creating the Kronos malware (banking Trojan) in 2014 and distributing hacking tools. There is a second person involved in the case, who sold Kronos in the illegal online store AlphaBay, which was closed by special services in July. The Motherboard website reported on the detention of Hutchins.

Vladimir Velengurin / Komsomolskaya Pravda / Photoxpress The Council for Human Rights under the President proposed to conduct a large -scale judicial reform in Russia. Medusa briefly talks about key points.

The Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation sent to the Presnensky District Court of Moscow a case against the former governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh, who is accused of taking bribes totaling 600 thousand euros.

Representatives of the Brazilian footballer Neymar bought his contract from Barcelona. The amount of the transaction amounted to a record 222 million euros - that is how much compensation was spelled out in the contract of the Brazilian. This means that Neymar is no longer a Barcelona player. Update 23:03 Moscow time. PSG have officially announced the arrival of Neymar to the club.

The Simonovsky Court of Moscow sentenced the head of the federal headquarters, Alexei Navalny, Leonid Volkov, to a fine of 300,000 rubles for organizing the so-called campaign subbotnik held on July 8-9. He was found guilty of holding a mass event again without giving notice. 250,000 in a similar case Later, in the same court, the head of the Moscow headquarters, Nikolai Lyaskin, was fined .

Updated: shortly after the publication of Medusa, the link to the situation stopped working. Now she redirects to the main page of the public procurement site. On the public procurement website, a provision on procurement No. 1130019759 from the central pharmacy of the city of Nakhodka with strange details appeared. On August 3, the following method appeared in the “Ways of Purchasing Methods”: “The oar in **** in the framework of 223-ФЗ”.

The company of the Belarusian businessman Viktor Prokopenya VP Capital withdrew the application for the purchase of the Ukrainian "daughter" of Sberbank, filed at the end of June. According to Prokopenya, the company decided to focus on other projects. “After a deep analysis, we decided that the AI ​​projects that VP Capital is involved in are the best use of our time,” he said.

Playerunknownʼs Battlegrounds is one of the most popular games right now. Through the Steam service, hundreds of thousands of users constantly play it. According to Steam statistics for August 3, the maximum number of people who at the same time entered the game amounted to 479 thousand. This is a little less than Counter-Strike: GO, which occupies the second line in statistics, and six times more than in GTA V in the first place with a wide margin-traditionally Dota 2.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow arrested Alexander Orlov for five days, who is suspected of attacking a journalist from the NTV channel. The decision was made under an administrative article on disobedience to a police officer. Earlier, the court took from him a written undertaking not to leave in the criminal case of beatings. In this case, Orlov faces up to two years in prison.

Australia's anti-money laundering transaction think tank has accused Commonwealth Bank, Australia's largest bank, of facilitating illegal money transfers abroad. The supervisory organization intends to recover compensation through the courts. The bank faces fines of up to A$18 million for each of the 53,506 violations. If translated into US dollars, the total fine could be up to $765 billion.

British actor Robert Hardy, who played Minister for Magic Cornelius Fudge in the adaptations of the Harry Potter books, has died. He was 91 years old. Robert Hardy began his acting career in the late 1950s. One of his most famous roles is the veterinarian Siegfried Farnon in the TV series Of All Creatures Great and Small based on the books by James Harriot. Hardy also played British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in several television films.