How Russia’s war in Georgia sparked Moscow’s modern-day recruitment of criminal hackers Anna Shnygina for Meduza On the night of August 8, 2008, Georgian troops started shelling Tskhinvali, the capital of South Ossetia, and then began their assault on the city. Within a few hours, Russia’s armed forces entered Georgia, leading to a five-day war that cemented South Ossetia’s secession.

In Estonia on the afternoon of August 7, a Spanish Eurofighter fighter, part of the NATO mission, mistakenly fired an air-to-air combat missile. This happened north of the city of Otepaa in the area provided for the exercises at an altitude of 3-7.5 kilometers, where civilian aircraft are prohibited from entering, the Estonian air traffic service said. The fighter was at an altitude of six kilometers.

Elon Musk, founder of electric car maker Tesla, has said he is thinking of "taking the company private" and is ready to buy back the publicly traded shares at $420 a share (that is, about 20% more than the recent price of around $350) Musk added that he had found funding to buy back the shares.

The unofficial "group of friends of Georgia" in the OSCE published a statement on the "10th anniversary of the Russian military invasion of Georgia." The authors of the statement called on Russia to refuse to recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia and "withdraw its troops from the occupied territories of Georgia." The text was signed by the United States, Great Britain, Canada, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Czech Republic, Poland, Romania, Sweden and Ukraine.

Sakis mitrolidis / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Minister of Foreign Affairs of Greece Nikos Kotzias and his Macedonian colleague Nikolai Dimitrov, June 17, 2018 On August 6, the Russian Foreign Ministry handed over Greece to Andreas Friganasa a note about "mirror measures in response to the unfriendly actions of Athens in relation to Russian diplomatic employees and citizens." Two Greek diplomats will be sent from Russia.

The media write about the criminal case. President of the Foundation Ksenia Sokolova announces his "raider seizure" Evgeny Feldman for "Medusa" director of "Fair Assistance" Ksenia Sokolova participates in the distribution of food homeless, March 8, 2017 Sources in law enforcement agencies say that a criminal case of abuse in the Fair Assistance Foundation has been instituted. It was created by Dr.

Since the beginning of August, "social advertising about elections" has been spreading in Samara publics. In it, two men walk around Samara and criticize the government and the elections. At the end, viewers are made to understand that they are homosexuals. "Let others go there to vote, but we have more important things to do here," says one of the characters, undressing as he walks. After that, a date appears on the screen - September 9.

Journalist Yuri Dud published a film about the author and host of children's television programs by Sergey Suponev, who died in 2001, on his Yetuub channel “Vedud”. Supone, in particular, conducted the programs “Star Hour”, “Call of the Jungle” and “Marathon-15”.

August 7. Things about reposts are the fault of Russians, and the war in Georgia - whose? The funeral of journalists. Today in Moscow they said goodbye to the correspondent Orhan Jemal, director Alexander Rastorguev and cameraman Kirill Radchenko, who died in the Central African Republic. Jemal was buried in the Khovansky cemetery, Rastorguev - on Troekurovsky, Radchenko - on Bulatnikovsky. Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Farewell to Orhan Jemal The war in Georgia is 10 years.

Rosneft became the most expensive company in Russia by market capitalization. According to the results of trading on August 7, it is estimated by traders at 4.534 trillion rubles, and Sberbank - at 4.532 trillion. During the session on August 7, Rosneft rose by 2.04%. According to Vedomosti, this is due to the company's good reporting for the second quarter. Rosneft's revenue amounted to 2.1 trillion rubles, which is 20% more than a quarter earlier.

Ronald Wittek / Pool / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Berrin T. (left) and Christian L. (right) next to lawyers in the courtroom. The faces of the accused in this photo are hidden In Germany, the court sentenced a 48-year-old woman from Staufen (a city next to Freiburg in the south of the country) to 12.5 years in prison, who sold her seven-year-old son to the Pedophiles network. Her 39-year-old partner, previously convicted of pedophilia, received 12 years in prison.

The Supreme Court of Chechnya sentenced Yusuf Krymshamkhalov and Adam Dekkushev, who were sentenced to life for bombing houses in Moscow and Volgodonsk, for attacking military personnel in Chechnya in 1999. This is reported by the Investigative Committee. In the message of the Investigative Committee it is said that, taking into account the already passed sentences, Krymshamkhalov and Dekkushev were sentenced to life imprisonment.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation refused to satisfy the administrative claim of Pobeda Airlines against the Ministry of Transport regarding the transportation of items in the cabin. The low-cost airline asked to remove from the federal aviation regulations the list of items that airlines are required to accept for carriage in the cabin in addition to the free carry-on baggage allowance.

Olga Shukailo / Tut.by searches in the Minsk office TUT.BY, August 7, 2018 On the morning of August 7, searches began in the offices of three independent Belarusian media The founder of TUT.BY-the largest information online publication in Belarus-Yuri Zisser told Medusa that at about eight in the morning he was called an employee of accounting and complained that he could not get into the editorial office located in one of the business centers of Minsk.

Chris Wattie / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Foreign Minister Canada Christ On August 1, human rights organizations reported new arrests of activists in Saudi Arabia. Among the detainees was the human rights activist Samar Badavi, the sister of Blogger Raif Badavi, who criticized the highest clergy of Saudi Arabia and in 2014 was sentenced to 10 years in prison and 1000 lashes on charges of insulting Islam.