British director Danny Boyle will not direct a new James Bond film. According to the franchise's official Twitter account, citing producers Michael Wilson and Barbara Broccoli and starring Daniel Craig, Boyle stepped down as director due to creative differences. It's unclear if Boyle's departure will affect the start of filming for the film, which is scheduled for December 2018. His successor has not been officially named.

The Russian authorities intend to carry out an operation to lift a rocket with a nuclear power plant from the bottom of the Barents Sea, where it ended up after unsuccessful tests in November 2017. This is reported by CNBC, citing sources familiar with the report of one of the American intelligence services. The operation, according to the TV channel, will involve three ships, one of which has special equipment for working with radioactive materials.

Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen, accused of tax fraud, made a deal with the investigation. It is reported by NBC News, citing multiple sources familiar with the case. The details of the deal are still unclear. As noted by NBC, it may include Cohen's obligation to cooperate with investigators in other cases, such as testifying to prosecutor Robert Mueller in the case of alleged Russian interference in the US elections. The American media call Cohen one of the closest people to Trump.

A jury found former Donald Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort guilty on eight of 18 charges. The jury found Manafort guilty of five counts of tax evasion, concealment of information about a foreign account and two counts of banking transactions. On the remaining ten counts, the jury could not reach a unanimous decision. The judge will announce Manafort's sentence later.

Actress and director Asia Argento has called false allegations of sexual abuse of underage actor Jimmy Bennett. “I am deeply shocked and saddened after reading news that is completely false. I have never had a sexual relationship with Bennett," the actress said in a statement. According to Argento, Bennett, with whom she has a long-term friendship, filed a lawsuit against her due to financial difficulties. She recalled that the actor had previously sued his own parents for money.

August 21st. Discussion of pension reform in the Duma: Mironov reads poetry, Zhirinovsky recalls Gaddafi Hearings on raising the retirement age The State Duma held a public discussion of the pension reform today. It was attended by representatives of trade unions, public organizations and economic experts.

Journalist Oleg Kashin found a post on Facebook that all men have a scar on their left index finger. And then I found such a scar on myself! And one more. Kashin even remembered how they appeared. Kashin was written by dozens of people who also had scars on their left index fingers The statement about scars "all men" sounds like women do not have them.

One of the accused, perhaps, was going to fight for the DPR Community "New Greatness" in VKontakte On August 16, Dorogomilovsky District Court changed the measure of restraint to the defendants of the “New Greatness” case of Maria Dubovik and Anna Pavlikova from the detention in the pre -trial detention center for house arrest. Among the defendants in the case are eight more men, from 20 to 38 years old; Four are in jail, the rest - under house arrest. "Medusa" talks about three of them.

Update . The detainees were issued protocols on violation of the rules for holding public events. All of them were released from the police station. The police detained on Chistoprudny Boulevard in Moscow participants in a rally in support of Oleg Sentsov. According to Novaya Gazeta, seven people were detained. MBH Media reports about 10 detainees. In total, about 30 people took part in the action, according to Novaya Gazeta.

In St. Petersburg, due to strong winds, scaffolding installed on the arch of the General Staff building collapsed. Three people were injured, RIA Novosti was told in the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. “We are taking measures to prevent a further threat of collapse,” the source said. Eyewitnesses said a child was among the injured. Scaffolding collapsed from the western wing of the General Staff, which houses the command of the Western Military District.

Vladimir Gerdo / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Ekaterina Konnova with her son Arseny The mother of the child’s patient tried to sell the remnants of the medicine. She was accused of selling psychotropic substances In June 2018, the police opened a criminal case against a resident of Moscow Ekaterina Konnova, the mother of six -year -old Arseny, a patient with cerebral palsy and epilepsy.

The former head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, received a category D visa, which allows him to live and work in Germany, Deutsche Welle reports citing the German Foreign Ministry. Yakunin is a co-founder of the Dialogue of Civilizations Institute in Berlin.

US Department of Justice Jacob Pali, a photograph on an American visa taken in 1949 The United States was deported to Germany of the former overseer of the concentration camp Yakov Pali. He was one of the most famous Nazi criminals, who until recently in the United States: due to the lack of any citizenship, the authorities could not deport Pali for 15 years. Yakov Paliy was born in 1923 in the village of Padiki in Poland (now part of Western Ukraine) in a Ukrainian family.

The Investigative Committee opened a case on abuse of power by a policeman who beat a passenger during his arrest at Domodedovo airport. The police officer, according to the official Twitter of the UK, “during the arrest of a citizen, used violence against him that went beyond the limits of permissible.” On August 19, at Moscow's Domodedovo airport, a police officer beat a passenger who, according to preliminary data, was intoxicated.

The management of the Naberezhnye Chelny Cardboard and Paper Mill, which produces cardboard packaging and toilet paper, complained to the police that a fake company page appeared on VKontakte. Chelny-biz.ru about this . told The press service of the enterprise The concern of the plant was caused by the public “Toilet paper from Naberezhnye Chelny”, which appeared on August 7, 2018.