The US Treasury has imposed sanctions on the captain of the Mexican national football team, Rafael Marquez. He was among 20 people whom the United States suspects of links to drug trafficker Raul Flores Hernandez. According to the Ministry of Finance, Marquez has long been associated with Hernandez and, as a figurehead, owns assets that belong to him. The same was stated in the department about the singer Julion Alvarez, a two-time nominee for the Latin Grammy, who was on the list.

Press service of the Ministry of Emergencies of Russia / Scanpix / Leta On August 4, at the Mir Rudnika, owned by ALROSA, in the Yakut city of Mirny, a breakthrough of water occurred . At the time of the accident, 151 people were in the mine. 142 Shakhters were urgently evacuated, another managed to save one day later.

Brothers Joel and Ethan Coen's first series, The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, will premiere on Netflix in 2018. This was announced on August 9th. The fact that the Coen brothers are working on a television anthology about the US Old West became known in January 2017. Where and when the series will be released, then it was not reported. The Coen brothers have written the screenplay for The Ballad of Buster Scruggs and will direct it. Before that, they themselves had never filmed a series.

The former governor of the Kirov region, Nikita Belykh, who has been in a pre-trial detention center since June 2016 on charges of taking a bribe, complained of poor eyesight. This was announced by his lawyer Andrey Grokhotov. Belykh's vision problems began, according to the lawyer, after reading a "large amount" of the materials of the criminal case.

Audio version of Sasha Sulim's report "Body Integrity Syndrome" - a disorder in which people want to get rid of their limbs - scientists have been researching only the last 15 years and so far only in Western countries. However, the problem of voluntary amputees exists in Russia as well. Sasha Sulim's report on how the life of such people works is read by Olga Kuzmenkova . Subscribe to Meduza podcasts. We have versions for iOS , Android and RSS feed

The Simferopol Railway Court sentenced 76-year-old Crimean Tatar activist Server Karametov to 10 days of arrest for disobeying police officers. The day before, he was fined 10,000 rubles for violating picketing rules. He was called to the court "ambulance".

US President Donald Trump promised to answer the threats of a nuclear strike from the North Korean authorities "with fire and rage that the world has not yet seen." The situation became completely tense: the DPRK and the United States continued to exchange threats, and users of social networks and the media spoke that the world was on the verge of a nuclear war. The Sun tabloid even released instructions on how to prepare for the third world.

The United States imposed sanctions against eight citizens of Venezuela involved in the convening of the Constituent Assembly in the country. Among them was Assembly member Adan Chávez, brother of the late President Hugo Chávez. in the list .

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How voluntary amputants live “Syndrome of violation of the integrity of the perception of their own body” - a disorder in which people want to get rid of their limbs - scientists are exploring only the last 15 years and so far only in Western countries. However, the problem of voluntary amputants is in Russia. Sasha’s report Sulim about how the life of such people is arranged, Olga Kuzmenkova reads.

August 9. War of words between the United States and North Korea Good evening! Or, if you follow the news, then not very kind, but rather alarming. And that's why. The main thing: “War of words” between the DPRK and the USA It seems that North Korea now really has a nuclear weapon, and it seems that sanctions are a sure way to increase the chances of using this nuclear weapon.

Comedian Denis Alien spoke about spam from a clothing store that can find you even if you leave social networks, throw away your phone and go to live in the countryside. The joke turned out to be close to many: now on Twitter they remember what other things it is impossible to hide from. Among them are spoilers for battles and series, social media notifications, and letters from Alexei Navalny. By the evening of August 9, the meme had already begun to annoy some users.

The defendant of the “Mature Affairs” Andrei Kosykh received four years of colony. He turned out to be an activist of "United Russia" Anna Kozkin / "Mediazona" On August 9, the judge of the Tver District Court of Moscow, Ekaterina Korotova, sentenced the fourth defendant “CASE 26”, in which participants in the protest against corruption that have passed on this day throughout Russia are judged.

In the United States, five transgender military personnel are suing President Donald Trump over a planned ban on transgender military service. The defendants are also the leaders of the US military, who must implement Trump's decision. The text of the lawsuit, filed in the Federal District Court in the District of Columbia, was published by the legal organization GLAAD, which is engaged in the fight against discrimination based on gender and sexual behavior.

Svetlana Kholyavchuk / Interpress / Photoxpress The mother of the Tyumen first -grader Olga Zenkova faced the fact that at school No. 92 schoolgirls are forbidden to wear trousers - you can only skirts and sundresses. As Zenkova told Ura.ru, at the reception with the director of Yuri Karnaukhov, she asked why such a ban was introduced. “He said: the first argument is the Russian mentality. I look at him - and I just have no words.

Mail.ru Group, the owner of Vkontakte, Odnoklassniki, and an eponymous email service, could get involved in Russia’s next presidential election, according to the news agency RBC , whose sources say the government will likely hire the company to design and implement a “digital strategy” to boost voter turnout in order to dispel concerns about a weak mandate in 2018.