The alleged organizer of the attacks in Catalonia, Imam Abdelbaki es-Satti, was about to blow himself up near a monument in Barcelona. The alleged member of the terrorist group Mohamed Khuli Chemlal told about this in court, Associated Press reports, citing a source. It is not specified which monument is in question. According to the agency, Chemlal said that monuments and churches were among the targets of the terrorists.

Director Kirill Serebrennikov, who is accused of embezzlement and is in custody, told Dozhd journalist and member of the Public Monitoring Commission Kogershyn Sagiyeva the details of his detention. Sagiyeva visited him in the temporary detention facility. Serebrennikov said that he was "taken practically from the film set" in St. Petersburg, without being allowed to change clothes, Rain reports.

Game of Thrones characters don't wear hats. Even in winter. Actor Kit Harington, who plays Jon Snow in the series, recently said that he is forbidden to cover his head: so it will be difficult for viewers to distinguish characters from each other. Goods Product Director Ilya Saltanov decided to correct the situation: he added hats to Jon Snow and his companions. It turned out authentic - especially earflaps.

The company "Yandex" on the evening of August 22 announced the launch of a new version of the search engine. It uses an algorithm that, using a neural network, matches the search query and the content of the indexed pages by meaning, and not just by keywords. “This allows the search to answer rare and complex questions with high accuracy,” the company said in a press release.

Opposition politician Alexey Navalny’s campaign manager, Leonid Volkov, published a photograph on August 22 of what he describes as bombshell evidence that Russian police coordinated an effort to seize campaign materials ahead of a national outreach weekend in early July.

The head of the federal headquarters of Alexei Navalny, Leonid Volkov, published a photograph of an order to detain campaign materials, signed in the name of the head of the Western Line Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Transport, Igor Astrakhantsev. The paper is dated July 4 (a few days before Navalny's "campaign subbotnik") and was sent to the heads of the city and district linear internal affairs bodies.

The Investigative Committee named another person who, allegedly on the orders of director Kirill Serebrennikov, “developed action plans within the framework of the Platform project, containing deliberately unreliable inflated information about their number and cost.” E. Voronova is mentioned in the message of the UK. Probably, this is the executive producer of the production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Ekaterina Voronova.

August 22. Kirill Serebrennikov was charged with fraud The case of Kirill Serebrennikov In the morning, it became known that the artistic director of Gogol-Center Kirill Serebrennikov was detained on charges of fraud. This happened in St. Petersburg, where the director shoots a film about Victor Tsoi. Serebrennikov was taken to Moscow, interrogated to the Investigative Committee and taken to a pre -trial detention center. The director refused to admit guilt.

Barcelona football club has filed a lawsuit against its former player, the Brazilian Neymar. This is stated in the statement of the team. The lawsuit was filed on 11 August. Barcelona claims are related to the violation of the terms of the contract, which the player extended for five years in 2016. The club is demanding back the extension bonus paid to Neymar, compensation of 8.5 million euros and an additional 10 percent of this amount. The size of the bonus "Barcelona" did not name.

An editorial by Meduza Petr Kassin / Kommersant In St. Petersburg on August 22, federal investigators detained one of Russia’s most famous and talented living directors: Kirill Serebrennikov, the artistic director of the Gogol Center. Arrested on embezzlement charges, he joins Alexey Malobrodsky, the former general producer of Serebrennikov’s “Seventh Studio”, Yuri Itin, the studio’s general director, and Nina Maslyayeva, its chief accountant.

Thomas Peter / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta With the development of cryptocurrencies (primarily bitcoin ), not only investors, but also robbers became interested in them. It turned out that the owners of the wallets with cryptocurrency are rather comfortable victims. A series of robberies occurred in the winter of 2016 , cases of robbery are continuing to this day. Some victims saw on their monitor how their money was transferred to the wallets of scammers.

In Moscow, after the police raid, the Rabitsa closed-the best techno-club of the city Maxim Panfilov Visitors at the Rabitz club, summer 2017 On Monday, August 21, representatives of the Moscow Techno-Club Rabitsa reported that it was closing. Two weeks ago, the police held an anti -drug raid in the club: law enforcement officers beat visitors and broke the scenery; A criminal case was opened on one of the founders of Rabitsa.

Reddit user thelowflyingowl revealed how he managed to fool a thief who stole his sister's iPhone. The thief tried to figure out the password to the phone, pretending to be a sister, but in the end was forced to hand over the stolen to the police. The thief somehow managed to find out the phone number of the girl’s brother, whose iPhone he stole, after which he wrote to him from another number. The offender pretended to be his sister, who forgot the password to the phone.

Update . Later, the lawyer clarified that Serebrennikov was taken to TDF No. 1 at 38 Petrovka. The artistic director of the Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov, accused of fraud, was taken to the Matrosskaya Tishina pre-trial detention center after being interrogated by the Investigative Committee. This was announced by lawyer Dmitry Kharitonov, reports "Rain". The lawyer recalled that on August 23, the director will choose a measure of restraint.

Anton Kardashov / City News Agency “Moscow” on August 22, the artistic director of Gogol-Center, Kirill Serebrennikov, was interrogated in the Investigative Committee as the accused in the fraud case. After interrogation, the director was sent to a pre -trial detention center. On August 23, a court session will be held as the accused will stop.