About a thousand Google employees have signed an open letter to the company's management after it became known that Google plans to launch a censored search engine in China.

Petersburg "Zenit" with a score of 8:1 beat the Minsk "Dynamo" in the second leg and on the sum of two games reached the playoffs of the Europa League. Zenit striker Artem Dzyuba scored a hat-trick, scoring goals in the 75th, 78th and 115th (from the penalty spot) minutes of the match. A week ago, the St. Petersburg club lost to Dynamo in Minsk with a score of 0:4.

Turkish companies have begun canceling orders for iPhones after the country's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a boycott of American electronics, Hurriyet reported, citing sources. In particular, orders for iPhones worth a total of $50 million were cancelled by three large companies operating in Istanbul's Dogubank shopping mall. According to Hurriyet, Turkish companies are also turning away from other American electronics.

Moscow’s courts have agreed to transfer Anna Pavlikova and Maria Dubovik to house arrest, granting a request by state prosecutors filed hours before hundreds of people demonstrated against the teenagers’ incarceration on August 15. Police arrested Pavlikova and Dubovik in March for allegedly belonging to the “Novoe Velichie” (New Greatness) extremist movement.

The Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow changed 19-year-old Maria Dubovik, accused in the New Greatness case, a preventive measure from detention in a pre-trial detention center to house arrest, Interfax writes. for a change in the measure of restraint for Dubovik and another defendant in the New Greatness case, 18-year-old Anna Pavlikova The investigators asked . Earlier on August 16, the court also transferred Pavlikova from the pre-trial detention center to house arrest .

Investigators in Volokolamsk have reportedly charged one of the leaders of local “trash protests” with failing to report his dual citizenship to the Russian authorities. According to The Village , Artem Lyubimov allegedly hid his American citizenship from Russia’s Federal Migration Service, risking a fine of up to 200,000 rubles (almost $3,000) or up to 400 hours of community service. Lyubimov says he isn’t a U.S. citizen.

Krasnoyarsk resident Alexei Sverdlov, who was charged with extremism because of pictures on VKontakte , reported that an NTV employee offered him an interview so that he would be "definitely released." TJournal was the first to notice Sverdlov's message. The young man posted a screenshot of his correspondence with Kristina Karpova on Twitter, who invited him to give an interview for the program "Emergency Incident" on the NTV channel. "Believe me, we have saved many people," she wrote.

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August 16. The court has mercy on Anna Pavlikova. But this is not a victory yet The main news today: 1. Anna Pavlikova was released from the pre -trial detention center The 18-year-old person involved in the case of “new greatness” (recall that there is a considerable chance that the whole thing is the provocation of the security forces) Anna Pavlikova was transferred under house arrest. Formally, this was done at the request of the Investigative Committee.

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Rossiya Airlines has announced for the first time that it is recruiting foreign pilots, RBC reports, citing a representative of the carrier. "Russia" is recruiting foreigners for the position of aircraft commanders; they are offered a salary of up to 500 thousand rubles per month and a one-time bonus of the same amount. The airline has a quota for recruiting 40 foreign pilots , a representative of Rossiya told RBK; he did not specify how many foreigners the carrier plans to recruit.

Maxim Grigoryev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta 18-year-old defendant in the “New Greatness” case Anna Pavlikova, her mother Julia and sister Anastasia after a court session, at which Anna Pavlikova was released from a pre-trial detention center and transferred under house arrest.

The court changed the 18-year-old defendant in the case of the “New Greatness” Anna Pavlikova preventive measure from detention for house arrest . Pavlikova spent five months in the pre -trial detention center. The Ombudsman and the head of the HRC, and then the investigator, were asked to let her go under house arrest. On August 15, Moscow was held in Moscow in support of Pavlikova and another arrested in the case of New Greatness-19-year-old Maria Dubovik. Subscribe to our YouTube

Investigators opened a criminal case against one of the leaders of the "garbage protests" in Volokolamsk Artem Lyubimov - he is accused of having dual citizenship. This is reported by The Village, which got acquainted with a copy of the decision of the UK. According to the Investigative Committee, Lyubimov is a US citizen, about which he did not notify the migration service.