The residents of Krasnaya Turbina, a village in Chechnya, were reportedly forced to attend a “repentance rally” in Grozny, after signing an open letter to Russian Attorney General Yuri Chaika, complaining about torture by local police officers. According to the newspaper Novaya Gazeta , there were plans to force the villagers to gather in downtown Grozny at Putin Avenue and shout, “We were misled!” It’s unclear if the demonstration actually took place.

Residents of the Chechen village of Krasnaya Turbina, who signed a letter to Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika with a story about police torture, were forcibly taken to a “repentance action” in the center of Grozny, Novaya Gazeta reports without specifying the source of the information. As the newspaper wrote earlier, they planned to take the signatories to Putin Avenue and make them shout “We were misled!”. How the action actually took place is still unknown.

US President Donald Trump has decided to fire his strategic adviser Steve Bannon, according to The New York Times, citing sources. Bannon's dismissal is also reported by CNN and AP sources . However, NYT interlocutors admit that Trump can still back down. Update. White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders has confirmed that Bannon is leaving the Trump administration. Update August 19th.

The van driver who killed more than 100 people in Barcelona on August 17 was among the alleged terrorists killed in Cambrils hours later. This is reported by El Pais, citing police sources. Earlier, this was reported by El Periodico, according to which this person is Musa Ukabir, the younger brother of Driss Ukabir, who was detained in the case of the terrorist attack. According to media reports, he, like three other people, is on the wanted list .

August 18. Terrorist attacks in Catalonia: a policeman alone killed four terrorists Terrorist attacks in Catalonia. 14 dead, more than 100 wounded The attack in Barcelona occurred in the evening of August 17, but events developed all night. Soon after the van shot down several dozen people in the capital of the region, it became known about another attack.

Two people were killed and six were injured in an attack on passers-by in the Finnish city of Turku, police said. Earlier, AFP, citing hospital representatives, reported the death of one person. On the evening of August 18, a man armed with a knife attacked passers-by on a square in the center of Turku. The police managed to detain him, wounding him in the leg. There is no information about his motives yet.

The pro-Kremlin television network Life , owned by Aram Gabrelyanov’s “News Media,” will shut down on August 18, company sources told the news agency TASS . The news website FlashNord confirms that the tabloid TV station will close down and lay off all its staff today. On August 16, citing Gabrelyanov himself, the news agency RBC reported that Life ’s television network was planning major cutbacks and abandoning its production of news stories, but would still remain on the air.

The Life TV channel, which is part of Aram Gabrelyanov's News Media holding, will stop broadcasting on August 18, TASS reports, citing its own source in the holding. The FlashNord edition also claims that the channel will be closed, and all its employees will be fired; that Life is preparing to reduce news broadcasting wrote Earlier, RBC . At the same time, Gabrelyanov himself said that there were no plans to close the channel, but that it was about reducing news releases.

The FAS Department for Moscow ordered the State Budgetary Institution "Avtomobilnye Dorogi" to cancel tenders for road repairs totaling 4.7 billion rubles due to violations. This was announced by the activist of the project "For Fair Purchases" of the All-Russian Popular Front Alexander Kulakov, who filed a complaint with the FAS.

Police in Catalonia have put four men on the wanted list with links to the attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils. Photos of the wanted are published by La Vanguardia, but the police have not yet officially distributed them. Musa Ukabir (17), Said Aallaa (18), Mohamed Ichami (24) and Yones Abuyaakub (22) have been put on the wanted list. They are shown in the photo from left to right, top to bottom. All wanted are natives of Morocco. Aallaa lived in Ribes de Freser, the rest in Ripoll.

In late July, opposition politician Alexey Navalny traveled to France to celebrate his wife’s birthday. In early August, the pro-Kremlin tabloid Life reported Navalny’s trip, publishing footage from his visit to Western Europe. Life says it received the video from a “citizen journalist” through its special app “LifeCorr,” which it created to receive photos and videos from eyewitnesses to news events.

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New York City judiciary spokesman David Bookstaver has lost his job after he accidentally dialed a journalist's phone while talking to colleagues about how he was doing nothing at work. Bookstaver has served as spokesman for the state's unified judiciary since 1996.

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In the center of the city of Turku in southern Finland, an unknown criminal attacked passers-by on the street with a knife. According to preliminary data, several people were injured. Eyewitnesses report one dead. The attacker has been arrested. The police shot him in the leg during the arrest. The perpetrator's motives are still unknown. Police said he may have accomplices and advised Turku residents to refrain from traveling to the city center.