Lana Sator A Moscow blogger found her way inside an abandoned police station and migration service building, where she found mountains of old passports. On August 16, blogger Lana Sator, a self-described “urbex [urban exploration] tourist” published photographs from an abandoned building on Bolshaya Cheremushkinskaya Street, which once housed a police station and office of the (now dissolved) Federal Migration Service. Sator says she crawled into the two-story building through an open window.

The American actor and musician Will Smith laid out the video blog on the UTUB, which he recorded during a trip to Russia. Smith came to Moscow in mid -July at the closing ceremony of the World Cup - the musician performed the Hymn of the World Cup with Nicky Jam and Era Strafi.

Disney introduced the first trailer for the animated series Star Wars: Resistance. Disney Trailer of the animated series "Star Wars: Resistance" The main character of the show is a young resistance pilot named Kaz. He must spy on the first order , which at the time of the events of the animated series does not yet open the war with the government of the new republic (its action will unfold a couple of years before the “awakening of force” - the seventh episode of “Star Wars”).

August 17th. “There will be no devaluation. Firm and clear" This day in history. On August 17, 1998, the Russian government adopted "a set of measures aimed at normalizing financial and budgetary policies." This was the beginning of the last economic crisis of the 1990s, the exit from which ultimately ensured the well-being of the 2000s in many ways.

An abandoned gold mine of police records turns up in Moscow, two teens head home, and a KGB poser gets four years in prison Friday, August 17, 2018 This day in history. On August 17, 1977, the Soviet icebreaker “Arktika” became the first surface ship to reach the North Pole.

Federal Security Service agents showed up at Artem Lyubimov’s home on Friday with a warrant to search the premises. The Volokolamsk businessman says the raid is retaliation for his role as one of the leaders of a protest movement against the “Yadrovo” landfill, which locals say is responsible for an “ecological catastrophe.” A day earlier, officials charged Lyubimov with failing to report his dual citizenship to the Russian authorities.

A court in Moscow has sentenced the man who beat Nikolai Lyaskin over the head with a metal pipe to 11 months of community service. In September 2017, Alexey Shcherbakov attacked Lyaskin, who was then serving as Alexey Navalny’s campaign chief in Moscow. Police first classified it as an act of hooliganism, but later downgraded the charges to battery. Lyaskin wants Shcherbakov convicted on felony charges and says he plans to challenge Friday’s ruling.

A court in Syktyvkar has sentenced a local 40-year-old man to four years in prison for inciting extremism and publishing hate speech. The man posed as a “KGB chairman of the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic,” shared anti-Semitic comments, and advocated the restoration of the Soviet Union in posts on Vkontakte.

Human Rights Commissioner Tatyana Moskalkova has joined the chorus of public figures in Russia calling for lighter punishments against Internet users accused of spreading extremist or offensive content. “I believe it’s important for us not to expand artificially the number of people with criminal records,” Moskalkova said on August 17. Two days earlier, Deputy Communications Minister Alexey Volin endorsed draft legislation that would reduce “criminal memes” to a misdemeanor offense.

Moscow authorities refused to approve the holding of Velonoch in the city, the project’s founder, historian Sergei Nikitin, told Meduza. Officials banned the event on August 17. According to Nikitin, the project was rejected by Deputy Mayor of Moscow Maxim Liksutov. Nikitin does not say what caused the rejection. "The commission headed by [Liksutov] met on the fortieth day after the first document was submitted by the organizers.

Lana Sator The Moscow blogger entered the building of the former police and the FMS department - and found mountains of invalid passports On August 16, the blogger and urbex , a tourist Lana Sator, posted on social networks photographs from an abandoned Moscow building on Bolshaya Cheremushkinskaya Street, where the police department and the FMS (the Federal Migration Service were abolished in 2016).

Sealegacy / Caters News / Scanpix / Leta In December 2017, videos and photos of the exhausted white bear appeared on the Internet. He became a symbol of the problem of global warming These personnel and Kristina Mittermeyer - naval biologists, the founders of the Sealegacy, which illuminate the problems of marine ecology, and the regular photographers of the National Geographic magazine, made Paul Mittermeyer a few months before.

Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted to the parliaments of Dagestan, Ingushetia and the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug candidates for the post of heads of these regions. Parliaments, in accordance with the law, will have to choose the head of the region from three candidates. In Dagestan, Putin proposed the candidacies of the interim head of the republic, Vladimir Vasilyev, as well as the two vice-speakers of the parliament, Kamil Davdiev and Makhmud Makhmudov.

The Moscow City Court upheld the decision to arrest for 30 days the coordinator of the "Left Front" Sergei Udaltsov. Udaltsov was detained on August 14, he was accused of repeated violations during the rally. On July 28, he participated in a concerted action against the pension reform, but the police said that then he held another, unsanctioned event.

In St. Petersburg, the Gorelektrotrans company fired trolleybus driver Dina Garina, who was convicted in an extremism case. This was reported to Rosbalt by lawyer Vitaly Cherkasov. In late July, Garina was suspended from work after the Ministry of Internal Affairs ordered that she not be allowed to do "work directly related to ensuring transport security." It was reported that Gorelektrotrans was looking for a new position for her.