The OVD-Info project announced the detention in the village of Krasny Yar, the Astrakhan Region, five people who removed the flag of Russia from the flagpole and hung the flag of the USSR instead. The incident was announced by a man named Alexei Glazunov, who calls himself the “chairman of the Astrakhan branch of the Union of the SSR”. Glazunov claims that the detainees were accused of organizing an inconsistent action. The police did not report the detentions.

Greece has decided to recall its ambassador to Russia, Andreas Friganas. This was reported on the evening of August 10 by TASS and RIA Novosti , citing sources, as well as the Greek media . Greece plans to appoint a new ambassador to Russia, sources said. RIA Novosti notes that it is not known when this will happen.

Reddit users have created a topic where they collect 24-hour webcam broadcasts from the most beautiful and recognizable places in the world. According to Lifehacker, the discussion immediately became one of the most popular, because webcams "add a little magic to this world." In addition, 24/7 webcasts have not only survived the 17 years of existence on the Internet, but have constantly evolved from almost static, hazy images to high-quality broadcasts.

In California, a jury ordered fertilizer maker Monsanto to pay $289 million to Dwayne Johnson, an American who claims glyphosate-containing pesticide Roundup caused him to develop cancer. This is the first court decision in a similar lawsuit against Monsanto. More than 5,000 similar lawsuits have been filed against the company in the US.

Two shareholders of electric car maker Tesla have sued the company's founder Elon Musk over his recent announcement of plans to delist the company's shares. The plaintiffs allege that Musk intended to fraudulently drive up the stock price and harm those who profit from its decline. They say that Musk lied about finding the money to buy back the shares. According to Bloomberg, other investors are also planning to go to court; their claims will be combined into one lawsuit.

About life on the eve of the First World War and the funny adventures of governesses The Literary critic of “Medusa” Galina Yuzefovich tells about three English novels that were written many years ago and have already become classic in his native language - but they still have not been released in Russian: “End of the parade: to each of his own Ford Madox Ford,“ carefree years ”Elizabeth Jane Howard and“ Miss Petigerus ”Winifred Watson. Ford Madox Ford. The end of the parade: to each his own.

Sergey Tsepek / Photobank Lori Assumption Church in Kondopoga, 2016 On August 10, a wooden church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary burned in the Karelian city of Kondopoga. The church was built on the shore of Lake Onega in 1774 and was restored three times in the 20th century.

John Waldron / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta aircraft Bombardier Q400 shortly before the fall, August 10, 2018 At the International Airport of the Ceith-Takom (Washington, USA), an airplane employee stole an empty plane and then crashed near the city. This happened on the evening of August 10 (early morning on Saturday in Moscow). The 29-year-old man, whose name was not officially named, stole the Bombardier Q400 of the Horizon Air turboprop aircraft, accommodating 76 passengers.

Prisoner Yevgeny Makarov, who was beaten in 2017 by employees of the Yaroslavl IK-1, received state protection. His lawyers told Dozhd about this. The duty to ensure the protection of Makarov is entrusted to the head of IK-8, in which the prisoner is currently serving his sentence. Yevgeny Makarov's lawyers asked for state protection for him, pointing out that they "do not trust the prison authorities." In 2017, Makarov said that he was subjected to torture and abuse in this colony as well.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. "To be faded to the boss is not a crime." Promotive issue Galya Timchenko, Katya Kronhaus and Lika Kremer answer new questions of the audience. I handed over the exam well, but I miss the points for the university where I want. I plan to spend a year on training. But my friends do not understand me, and want me to act with them, they say that I was arrogant. What to do? I'm afraid to be left without friends.

Excerpt from the book "sad facts about animals" The Livebook publishing house published a book by the American artist Brooke Barker “Sad Facts about Animals”. For several years, the author collected curious facts about animals, fish, birds and insects and invented how the animals themselves could react to them. With the permission of the Medusa publishing house, he publishes an excerpt from the book.

NASA delayed the launch of the Delta IV Heavy rocket with the Parker solar probe, which was supposed to launch from Cape Canaveral on August 11, by a day. Initially, the launch time was moved from 10:53 Moscow time to 11:28 due to a check of the data transmission system from the spacecraft to Earth; then NASA announced a lack of time until the end of the launch window. The mission of the Parker probe is to study the solar wind and the Sun's atmosphere.

Web programmer Ivan Shukshin from Gelendzhik wrote a small script that records changes in the Rosfinmonitoring "list of extremists and terrorists". This list is interesting because people are included in it even before a court decision - it is enough that a criminal case has been opened against them (in particular, under Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation "Incitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity").

Usually, in partial families in Russia, children are brought up by mothers. But sometimes they stay with the fathers Peter Weller / Ullstein Bild / Getty images According to Rosstat, in Russia there are about 650 thousand single fathers who raise their children without a mother. In the USA and the countries of Western Europe , there are 10-15 percent of such families, in Russia-less, but the courts also began to leave children to fathers more often during divorce proceedings.

Ultra -short reviews (140 characters!) On the main films of the week Every weekend at Medusa, ultra -short reviews come out - approximately 140 signs each - from the film critic of Anton Valley, which help to navigate in the box office.