Russian football champion Spartak lost with a devastating score to Zenit in the fourth round of the Premier League. The match was held in St. Petersburg and ended with the score 5:1. This is the first defeat of "Spartak" in the championship of Russia 2017/2018. The second leg against Zenit will be held in November in Moscow. At Zenit, Alexander Kokorin, Alexander Erokhin, Domenico Crisito and Daler Kuzyaev scored. Another own goal was scored by Spartak goalkeeper Artem Rebrov.

In St. Petersburg on Sunday, August 6, a series of joint rap battles Versus and Slovospb were filmed. Four battles took place at the event, including the duel between Oksimiron and Gnoyny, the most anticipated battle of 2017. A photo taken by one of the visitors to the event was published by the public page “Rhymes and Punch”. You can also watch a short fragment of the battle on YouTube.

On August 6, a group of armed men in northern Venezuela announced an uprising against President Nicolas Maduro. Members of the group, dressed in military uniforms and calling themselves fighters of the 41st Brigade of Valencia, posted a statement on social networks in which they claimed that they were not seeking a coup, but only wanted to restore the constitutional order in Venezuela.

The Israeli government has decided to revoke the accreditation of the Qatari TV channel Al Jazeera. This was announced on August 6 by the head of the Israeli Ministry of Communications, Ayub Kara. The channel's bureaus (both Arabic and English) should stop working in Israel, and cable and satellite networks will stop broadcasting the Al Jazeera signal. In his statement, Kara accused Al Jazeera of supporting terrorist organizations.

On the evening of August 5, cards and ATMs of Otkritie Bank, one of the largest in the country, stopped working. As it turned out, the reason was a broken fiber optic cable going to the bank's data center. It was repaired only at night. Due to a broken cable, the cards also did not work for the clients of Rocketbank, a virtual bank that uses the Otkritie infrastructure. "Rocketbank" focuses on a young advanced audience, so in social networks he got both for himself and for "Opening".

The Game of Thrones is one of the most expensive in the production of television series. The cost of production of each series is estimated at $ 10 million, and a team of 100 people operate above costumes. However, this does not mean that the creators of the show are thoughtlessly boasted by money - sometimes they are looking for props for actors in the most ordinary stores.

12 best adaptations of Stephen King in ultra -short reviews (140 signs!) On August 3, the “Dark Tower” was released - a film adaptation of the main cycle of novels by Stephen King, shot by Danish director Nikolai Arsel. The Tower became one of the most discussed films of this summer, but mostly gathered negative reviews from critics. On the Rotten Tomatoes website, the picture has a very low rating - 18 percent.

The Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has announced that he has lung cancer. In an interview with the Mail on Sunday, Wood said he was diagnosed back in May after being examined by the band's primary care physician. Shortly thereafter, the musician underwent a five-hour operation to remove part of his lung. 70-year-old Wood said that before the operation he said goodbye to his family and friends.

The failure of cards and ATMs of Rocketbank and Tochka Bank, which are part of Otkritie Bank, affected no more than 1.5 percent of the bank's customers. About this, as reported by RBC, said the managing director for retail business of Otkritie Bank Alexei Karchazhkin. According to Karchazhkin, the failure was fixed around midnight on August 6, and now ATMs and cards are fully operational.

Three miners are blocked in one of the sections of the flooded Mir mine. This was reported on August 6 in the Yakut Department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. In total, after the accident at the mine, the search for eight people continues. “At horizon 310, we are working to unload the rock mass with two loaders to reach three people, who, according to our information, are blocked in the workings of horizon 310,” he said.

The US President praised the support that Russia and China gave them in the UN Security Council during the vote on sanctions against North Korea. This is stated in the official statement of the White House, published on August 6. The statement said that Donald Trump intends to continue to work with US allies and partners to increase diplomatic pressure on the DPRK.

Alexander Tarasenkov / Photobank Lori The financial group "Open" is the largest private financial organization in the country. In addition to the bank of the same name, it includes Rocketbank and Point Bank, as well as companies engaged in insurance business, brokerage and analytical structures. The two largest shareholders of the group are its founder Vadim Belyaev and the Capital Foundation.

If we imagine that Russian football is a long (and popular!) Series, then the series of August 6 will be one of the central this season: the Russian champion Spartak and the Zenit last season played. Medusa briefly retells the last five seasons of this confrontation. Season 2012/2013 The complete superiority of Zenit over Spartak. 5: 0 at home, 4: 2 visiting, nine goals in two matches.

Antonin Thuillier / AFP / Scanpix / Leta American runner Justin Gatlin overtook Jamaician Usain Bolt at a distance of 100 meters at the World Athletics Championship in London. After the race, which was the last single performance in his career for the bolt, the American knelt before the legendary sprinter.

Medusa continues to choose the main songs from the most interesting albums of the month. You can listen to the playlist in Apple Music and Google Music The heroes of the playlist Lana Del Rey. On the cover of his fourth studio album “Lust for Life”, Lana Del Rey smiles, and the names of the songs (“Love”, “Thirst for Life”) are configured that the main preacher of the slurry in pop music suddenly recorded a cheerful album.