A bowhead whale, which got stuck in a riverbed on Bolshoy Shantar Island in the Khabarovsk Territory on August 10, freed itself and swam into the sea. Minister of Natural Resources and Ecology Sergey Donskoy announced this on Facebook. “The director of the Shantar Islands National Park, Vladimir Andronov, just called - the whale left the mouth of the river into the sea with the tide, colleagues were escorted to the edge,” he wrote. "They'll keep watching!

The players of the football clubs "Krasnodar" and "Akhmat" Pavel Mamaev and Rodolfo got into a fight during the break of the match of the 5th round of the Russian Premier League, which was held on August 10 in Grozny. The match TV commentator Pavel Zanozin reported on the fight in the under-tribune of the Akhmat stadium. According to journalist Adam Zubayrayev, the reason for the fight was Mamaev's insulting statement about Rodolfo - the Russian allegedly called the Brazilian a "monkey".

The Zavolzhsky District Court of Yaroslavl scheduled September 1 to consider the petition for parole of the person involved in the Bolotnaya case, Ivan Nepomnyashchikh, who is due to be released on August 24. “The court returned to the defenders the application for parole of Ivan Nepomnyashchikh due to technical inaccuracies. In early August, the colony sent the characteristics of the convict to the court for a decision on the possibility of appointing parole.

In St. Petersburg, FSB officers searched the Northwestern Directorate for Construction, Reconstruction and Restoration of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. This was reported by the Fontanka website, to which the search was confirmed by the deputy head of the directorate, Denis Kolodko. The search, according to the publication, is connected with a criminal case on embezzlement of funds allocated for the design of a new stage of the Maly Drama Theater (Theatre of Europe).

On August 10, the film by Alexei Uchitel "Matilda" received a rental certificate. Now it can be shown in any Russian cinema for adults and children over 16 years old. The Ministry of Culture did not heed the demands of MP Natalya Poklonskaya to ban the film for insulting the feelings of believers (the history of the conflict can be viewed here ). But some Russian regions have independently decided not to show "Matilda" in cinemas.

A Russian social movement's mixed success memorializing forgotten victims of the Great Terror Evgeny Litvinov for Meduza Since December 2014, a project called “Last Address” has operated in Russia, dedicated to memorializing the victims of Soviet repression. Members of this project mount memorial plaques outside homes where people were once seized by the secret police and taken to be imprisoned and shot.

In May 2017, the OQJAV group announced that they would play the last concerts in their history. Vocalist Vadik Korolev explained this by the fact that Katya Pavlova (“Both Two”) and Daniil Shaikhinurov were unable to devote enough time to the project. Fortunately, Korolev soon changed his mind and re-invented the group. Now OQJAV play piano-based, grown-up, brooding pop; they seem to have shaken off the excess gloss - and have only benefited from it.

The Corruption Foundation (FBK) announced the disclosure of a cartel conspiracy of trading participants for the supply of cars to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The speech, as follows from the documents published by the FBK, is about ten electronic auctions held in 2014-2016, for a total of 4.85 billion rubles. Techno Temp, Tekhinkok, Kan Auto Trade, Kan Auto and Kan Autsovaz participated in the auction.

10th of August. Everything is bad at the mine in Yakutia, RBC journalist was imprisoned for 3.5 years Good evening, alas, today is again not "Evening Medusa", but a messenger of hopelessness. Main The situation in Yakutia, where rescuers are looking for eight miners, is deteriorating , even the Ministry of Emergency Situations admits this.

On May 17, Chelsea Manning was released after seven years in prison for passing classified military material to WikiLeaks. On the very first day in custody, Manning came out as a transgender: before that, she was known under the name Bradley. On May 18, she posted her first photo since her release. Now Manning has become the subject of Vogue material, for which she was photographed by Annie Leibovitz. Material with the headline "Chelsea Manning changed the course of history.

Journalist of RBC Alexander Sokolov and his two associates will go to the colony. Report "Medusa" Artem Geodakyan / TASS / Scanpix / Leta The judge of the Tver District Court of Moscow, Alexei Krivoruchko, found the journalist of RBC Alexander Sokolov guilty of organizing the activities of an extremist organization - and sentenced to three and a half years in a colony of general regime.

Correction: Snapchat has clarified that Russia's Internet censor added Snap Inc. to its list of online messengers without its knowledge. Initial reports that the service registered with the Russian government “are not accurate,” a company spokesperson told Meduza . “It appears that they unilaterally registered us.” As of now, Snapchat does not intend to comply with the regulations placed on registered messengers, the company told Gizmodo . Snap Inc.

Update. On August 11, representatives of Alrosa announced that the brother of the missing miner Dmitry Maryin would be able to go down into the mine with rescuers to monitor the progress of the operation. The Mir diamond mine was not in an emergency condition, and the working conditions in it corresponded to the norms of labor legislation. This was reported to Meduza by the marketing and public relations department of the Alrosa company, which owns the mine.

On the evening of Saturday, August 5, a failure occurred in the work of the banking service "Rocketbank" - customers could neither enter their personal account nor pay with a card. The problems were related to the cable of the Otkritie bank (Rocketbank operates through it), which was cut during work on the improvement of the streets of Moscow.

Director, artistic director of the Gogol Center Kirill Serebrennikov became the laureate of the New Theatrical Reality Award, which is awarded with the participation of the Union of Theaters of Europe. This was reported by theater critic Marina Davydova, who represented Russia on the jury. The decision was made at the end of June; The award ceremony will take place in Rome in December 2017.