The US State Department has announced new sanctions against Russia over the use of chemical weapons in the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in the UK. The sanctions will come into force on August 22. The State Department's statement does not specify what the sanctions will consist of. The Washington Post writes that the sanctions include a ban on the sale of "certain defense technologies" to Russia.

Personal page of Cyril Romanovsky on Facebook by Kirill Romanovsky Update dated 23.15 August 8. Details of dating Kirill Romanovsky with Alexander Rastorguev and Fixer Martin are added to the material. He told them "Medusa" after the publication of the first version of the material. Alexandra Rastorguev introduced the Fixer to Cyril Romanovsky - journalist of the publication RIA FAN About this Medusa was told by several acquaintances of Rastorguev and Romanovsky.

RKS-Samara Police in Samara have opened a criminal case against a local man who stole the three-ton “pyramid of shame” planted outside his cottage by his utility company. Stamped in bright yellow letters, the landmark reads, “ A debtor lives here! ” The man in question (whose name hasn’t been released to the public) reportedly owes more than 45,000 rubles ($690) for water and sewer service.

The Greek club accuses the Russians of provocation Alexander Sturnikov / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta In Greek saloniki, fans of the local football club PAOK attacked Russian journalists before the match of the 3rd qualification round of the Champions League against the Moscow Spartak. This is reported by the correspondents present at the match.

The Ministry of Transport of Russia proposed to increase the fine for violations when crossing railways from 100 to 2,000 rubles. The draft law on amendments to the Code of Administrative Offenses has been published on the portal of regulatory legal acts. The department proposes to consider as a violation not only the crossing of the railway in the wrong place, but also with a prohibitory traffic signal, in front of an approaching train, as well as “being on the railway tracks”.

8 August. Another sanctions against Russia: it will be bad for banks and the ruble. But not as bad as it could be! daily News The Central Election Commission approved the wording of questions on the pension referendum. There are three initiative groups that want to hold this referendum, and now they will compete with each other - whoever manages to register 43 regional branches first will hold the referendum. Well, if, of course, he can collect two million signatures in his support.

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has announced that it will introduce a new award category for Outstanding Popular Film starting in 2019. It is expected that this category will be awarded to high-budget box office blockbusters like The Avengers or Mad Max, which regularly fall into the main category, but usually lose out there to drama films. In addition, the awards ceremonies will be shortened from four to three hours to make them more convenient for viewers.

The Dozhd TV channel published the story of Mikhail Kalmanov, a prisoner of the Trans-Baikal IK-5, about torture by the colony staff. Earlier, two other prisoners told about torture in this facility after the Russia-Croatia match . According to Kalmanov, on the morning of July 8, he was given a "complete search" of the library premises.

Mother of three Melanie Dudley from Austin, Texas, was feeding her baby in a hotel restaurant in the Mexican city of Cabo San Lucas when a strange man approached her and asked her to “cover up.” Dudley was not taken aback - she asked her husband to give her the scarf, and then threw it over her head. A friend's daughter-in-law was told to "cover up” while feeding her baby, so she did!🤣 I've never met her, but I think...

Natalia Kaplan, the cousin of Oleg Sentsov (the imprisoned Ukrainian filmmaker now 87 days into a hunger strike), says Sentsov’s health is now “catastrophically bad.” Kaplan says she received a letter from her cousin through his lawyer, where Sentsov claims to be bedridden and “near the end.” She says her cousin told her that he’s living in an “information vacuum” and isn’t receiving any correspondence.

Deutsche Welle correspondent in Belarus Pavlyuk Bykovsky was detained in Minsk. This was reported by his wife Olga Bykovskaya, an activist of the opposition movement "For Freedom". A search was conducted in the Bykovskys' apartment, during which the security forces seized "all the equipment that they found." Olga Bykovskaya, having reported on Facebook about the detention of her husband, noted that she was writing “from the player”.

The head of the Serpukhov district, Alexander Shestun, who has been in custody in the mid -June on charges of abuse of authority, tried to kiss his young children, whom his wife brought to court. The bailiffs did not let him do this. The video shot in the Basmanny Court is published on Facebook of Shestun. Subscribe to our YouTube

Rosneft and Interfax have agreed to out-of-court settlement of a dispute related to the publication of the theft at the Zvezda shipyard. The oil company is its shareholder. The suit for the protection of business reputation, filed by Zvezda with the Moscow Arbitration Court, will be withdrawn, according to an official statement on the Rosneft website. The reason for the lawsuit was an article by Interfax about the theft of more than 7.5 billion rubles during the construction of the shipyard.

Blogsochi, editor -in -chief of the Blogschi site, Alexander Valov sits in a pre -trial detention center for more than six months.

Simply Cycling Jay Austin and Lauren Gheegagan, 2017 On July 29, in the Dangarinsky district of Tajikistan, a car rammed a column of cyclists. After that, several men got out of the car and attacked shot down travelers with knives. Three people were injured, four died. Among the killed were one Swiss, one subject of the Netherlands and a couple of 29-year-old Americans-Jay Austin and Lauren Ghehegan.