St. Petersburg "Zenith" defeated the Norwegian "Molde" in the round of the playoffs of the Europa League. The match, held in St. Petersburg, ended with the score 3:1. Zenit conceded first, but at the end of the meeting they scored three goals in 20 minutes. Artem Dziuba, Anton Zabolotny and Mikhi Mevli scored accurate shots. Another Russian club "Ufa" in their match lost on the road to the Scottish "Rangers" with a score of 0:1. The return matches will take place on 30 August.

In the center of Moscow, a man opened fire on police officers, the press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow reports. As a result of the incident, one of the policemen was wounded in the leg . The attacker was wounded by return fire, he is now in the hospital in critical condition.

Update . The FSIN said that the video was discovered during an internal check; On August 14, she was sent to the investigating authorities. Lawyers of the Public Verdict Foundation transferred Novaya Gazeta another video of the torture in the Yaroslavl colony No. 1. The exact date of shooting the video is unknown, but the New Gazeta suggests that it was shot in December 2016.

The Russian Orthodox Church commented on reports that naked statues were covered with cloth at the Novosibirsk State University of Architecture and Design (NGUADI) due to priests visiting the university. “Send a fool to pray, he will hurt his forehead. Somehow the organizers overdid it. And in the museums of the world, too, do statues need to be covered when representatives of the clergy come there on excursions? And by the way, why only the clergy? Laity, then, is it possible?

On August 24, the full soundtrack for the film “Summer” Kirill Serebrennikov (mini-album with songs Mike Naumenko from the film, “Animals at the Zoo” was released in June). The soloist of the “animals” Roma Beast and guitarist German Osipov received a special prize of French film critics for him, which is awarded annually at the Cannes festival. "Medusa" represents the premiere of three songs from the film with comments by German Osipov.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev does not take part in public events due to an injury sustained while playing sports. This was reported by the press service of the government, Interfax reports. The press service did not specify the nature and severity of the injury, noting only that there are no plans to hold events with Medvedev's participation for some time.

August 23. Euro - almost 80 rubles, from IZH they make Tesla News (in which, however, nothing new) Planting for reposts (daily section). This time St. Petersburg. A local resident was found guilty of extremism for comments on one of the VKontakte posts made in December 2016. She received two years in prison. Current courses (also slowly becomes a daily section). The dollar on the exchange has risen in price to the maximum since April 2016.

Free Nazanin Campaign / AP / Scanpix / Leta Nazanin Zagari-Ratcliffe with her daughter Gabriela. Archival photo British citizen Nazanin Zagari-Ratcliff, who also has Iranian citizenship, was released from prison in Tehran for three days. In 2016, she received a five -year term on charges of espionage and an attempt to overthrow power. The prisoner was released on the morning of August 23. Now she is with her family in Iran, but she will have to return to prison on Sunday, August 26.

Sub Job / Shutterstock.com In recent weeks, the VKontakte social network has been harshly criticized in the media and social networks due to the opacity of its interaction with law enforcement agencies. After the actual failure of the attempt to explain their position to Twitter users on social networks, they promised to answer the questions of “Echo of Moscow”.

Moscow wants to suspend gasoline exports, Russia grants Poland another look at Kaczyński's plane, and the Big Four telecoms say nyet to Net Neutrality Thursday, August 23, 2018 This day in history. On August 23, 1939, the foreign ministers of the USSR and Nazi Germany, Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim von Ribbentrop, signed a “nonaggression pact” that included a secret protocol dividing the Baltic states, Finland, Romania, and Poland between the two empires.

Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service has reportedly approached several domestic oil companies about a total suspension of gasoline exports during repairs to the country’s oil refineries scheduled for later this year. An official told the news agency Prime that Surgutneftegas has already agreed to halt gasoline exports until the end of September. Why does Russia want to hold onto its benzin ?

Russia’s Communist Party has cut a deal with Moscow City Hall to stage a protest on September 2 against proposed pension reforms. Organizers have obtained a permit to march to up 15,000 people down Academician Sakharov Avenue, but they had to agree to a rally that’s just half as long as what they wanted. The party reportedly asked the city for permission to start the protest at 11:00 a.m.

Two top officials at a children’s psycho-neurological orphanage in Novokhopersky have been sentenced to time in prison for failing to take the proper safety precautions ahead of a fire in December 2015 that killed 23 people, including several physically disabled patients. The center’s director, Sergey Nikiforov, was sentenced to two and a half years and the facilities manager, Yuri Dykhnenko, got two years.

Russia’s Federal Investigative Committee has approved a request by Polish officials to carry out another inspection of the wreckage of the Tu-154 plane that crashed outside Smolensk in 2010, killing then President Lech Kaczyński. The review of the plane’s structural debris will take place between September 3 and 7, conducted by specialists from Russia’s Main Forensics Directorate “in the presence of Polish officials.” Why are we talking about an eight-year-old plane crash?

In Kursk, at a celebration of the 75th anniversary of the Battle of Kursk, a T-34 tank flipped onto its side after slipping off a loading platform during a parade. Neither the mechanic driving the machine nor the spectators were injured. The tank had reportedly been delivered from the Leningrad region specifically to lead a convoy of armored vehicles in the festivities. Is this just a dumb story about an old tank?