Photographs from an expedition by museum researchers trying to catalogue the Soviet Gulag before it disappears On August 12, Moscow’s Gulag History Museum completed an expedition to the Magadan region, where researchers catalogued the remains of the “Butugychag” prison camp. Beginning in the mid-1940s, inmates at this facility mined and enriched the uranium used to create Soviet nuclear weapons.

Garry Kasparov played his first official chess game at the Grand Chess Tour in St. Louis after 12 years. In the first round of rapid chess, he played Sergey Karjakin. The game ended in a draw after the 44th move. In the next game, Kasparov will play the American Hikaru Nakamura, while Karjakin will face the Vietnamese Le Quang Liem. Before the start of the game, Kasparov reminded that he did not intend to return to the sport, but only wanted to take part in the tournament in St. Louis.

The Russian authorities refused to grant political asylum to the Anti-Maidan activist Vladislav Ilnitsky, who fled Ukraine. Political scientist Vladimir Kornilov writes about this. There is no official confirmation of this information. According to Kornilov, before the next court hearing in the case of the riots on May 2, 2014 in Odessa, Ilnitsky left for Russia through a third country.

Two days after the death of an activist at the anti-fascist march, Donald Trump made a statement in which he stated that the Ku-Klux-Clanes and Xenophobes have nothing to do with American ideals. In the first statements in connection with the events in Charlotsville, Trump condemned violence in the city, but did not say who exactly was responsible for him.

The Ministry of Finance proposed to limit the amount of interest and penalties on loans that are issued for up to one year. The amendments, submitted for public comment, state that such accruals should be limited to one and a half the size of the loan itself (that is, the borrower must repay no more than 2.5 of the loan amount). This restriction should be spelled out on the first page of the loan agreement, the draft federal law says.

August 14. Everyone is discussing rap battles. But there are other news Good evening! For the second Monday in a row, rap battles is becoming the most discussed theme of the day, but other events are taking place in the world. Main In the diamond mine “Mir” in Yakutia, the tenth day continues the search for eight missing miners.

In Arkhangelsk, Dmitry Kozlov, an activist of the Last Address project, was charged with an administrative offense report after installing a memorial plaque. Sergey Parkhomenko, the author of the project, writes about this. Kozlov's actions were found to violate Article 7.13 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the requirements of the law on the protection of cultural heritage sites). The punishment under part one of this article is from 15,000 to 200,000 rubles fine.

The Ministry of Transport will amend the new rules for carrying hand luggage on an airplane, adding winter outerwear to the list of items that can be carried free of charge. This was stated by the head of the department of state policy in the field of civil aviation Svetlana Petrova. She noticed that in Russia already in September they begin to take winter clothes on board when flying to the northern regions.

The judge of the Lefortovo Court of Moscow, Margarita Kotova, has arrested three citizens of Tajikistan who are suspected of plotting terrorist attacks in Moscow. Davlater Khodjiev, Sulaimon Burkhonov and Sievush Davronzod were arrested until 11 October. At the trial, Davronzod and Burkhonov pleaded guilty. Khodjiev stated through an interpreter that he was "called", but he "did not want to", and also added that he was sorry about what had happened.

Police in Copenhagen have announced that the private submarine Nautilus, from which Swedish journalist Kim Wall went missing, was deliberately sunk. This conclusion was reached by the investigators, who were able to restore the circumstances of the flood using the instruments removed from the Nautilus. Investigators also found out that the submarine could follow the coast of Sweden.

In Moscow, in the 5th Krasnoselsky Lane, a playground was installed in the form of a police officer. Ilya A. According to the data on the website of the Krasnoselsky district council, the improvement of the court cost 7 million 922 thousand rubles. As indicated in the document, the work is carried out “at the expense of paid parking” and will end on August 25, 2017 (the head of the council, answering questions from residents of the district, called another date - August 15).

The creator of the Wikileaks project, Julian Assange, invited the Russian politician Alexei Navalny to air his program on the RT channel. Assange himself spoke about this in an interview with The New Yorker journalist Raffi Khachaduryan. According to Assange, RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan said "the Kremlin won't like this." Nevertheless, she agreed, since such a guest, according to Simonyan, would show the independence of the channel. Navalny refused to participate in the transfer.

Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo has been suspended for five matches in the first game of the Spanish Super Cup with Barcelona. In the 80th minute of the match, Ronaldo scored his only goal of the meeting and marked it by taking off his jersey. Referee Ricardo Bengoechea gave him a yellow card for this. Then, in the 82nd minute, after a collision with defender Samuel Umtiti, Ronaldo fell in the Barcelona penalty area.

Fazletdin Khasanov, one of the defendants in the GTA gang case, who attacked a convoy in the Moscow Regional Court on August 1 and was seriously wounded, died in the hospital. Interfax writes about this with reference to an unnamed source. Khasanov's death was confirmed in the UK. On August 3, when REN TV reported the death of one of the wounded during the attack, an Interfax source said that Khasanov was in critical condition due to a gunshot wound to the abdomen.

Artem Geodakyan / TASS / Scanpix / Leta, participants in the Red Bull Flugtag 2017 Red Bull Flugtag Championship are dumped into the rowing channel in Krylata (Moscow) Khrushchev’s form. The authors of the project - the team "Nikita Sergeyich" - gathered a house of four parts right on the stage. The team did not take prizes in the championship. Typically, aircraft in Red Bull Flugtag do not fly, but simply fall into the water from the stage.