Federal officials put a regressive spin on their latest decision against sexist advertising Nastya Krasilnikova / The Robber's Daughter / Telegram An apartment building advertisement from Akvilon Invest reads, “We’ve got small prices and a lot of complexes!” A battlegrounds for both progressive social justice and traditional morality, Russia sometimes struggles to produce advertising that does not offend.

The Nasdaq Composite stock index, calculated on quotes from high-tech companies, for the first time in history exceeded the 8,000 mark. The record was set against the background of preliminary agreements between the US and Mexico on a new trade agreement that will replace the decades-old North American Free Trade Area (NAFTA) agreement. The other two largest US indices, the Dow Jones and the S&P 500, also reached new record highs. In recent months, US markets have been growing significantly.

Pink Floyd founder Roger Waters is included in the database of the Ukrainian site "Peacemaker". The basis for this was an interview with the musician to the Izvestia newspaper. In an interview with reporters, Waters, answering a question about Crimea, said that "Sevastopol is very important for Russia and the Russians." “There are many agreements and papers according to which Russia has all the rights to this city,” the musician said.

The publication of the Fan published the correspondence of journalists killed in the TsA. Short Thomas Koehler / PhotoK / Getty images French military patrol on the street in Bangs The publication of the Federal News Agency published deciphering and screenshots of the correspondence of Alexander Rastorguev, Orhan Dzhamal and Kirill Radchenko with the chief editor of the “Center for Investigation Management” (CUR) Andrei Konyakhin and journalist Rodin Chepel.

The Office of the Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia for the Arkhangelsk region recognized as offensive the advertisement of a construction company with images of half-naked women. The department received a complaint about two billboards - on one of them a woman measured her breasts with a centimeter tape under the caption "We have low prices and a lot of complexes", on the other - a woman stood with her back without a shirt with the caption "Cheaper than taking off!".

The government does not intend to increase the length of service required for military and security officials to retire as part of the pension reform. According to the BBC Russian Service, this topic is no longer being discussed in the government. According to the BBC, the financial bloc of the government intended to carry out the corresponding initiative, but this was not possible.

On August 25, the final of The International 2018, the main dota championship 2. The first place was taken by the European team OG, the second - Chinese PSG.LGD, and the third - the American Evil Geniuses. After the final game, many spectators and e -sportsmen called this tournament the most dramatic in its entire story. Some even think that the show turned out to be cooler than the World Cup.

August 27th. Ordinary day: gasoline rises in price, Navalny is in prison News The government will raise excise taxes on fuel (hello, new rise in gasoline prices). sharply in Russia The level of xenophobia has risen (migrants are to blame for raising the retirement age, of course). Amnesty International called for a ban on the development of combat robots (but who will listen to them). In the New Greatness case, was found another police informer (with the code name "Cat") .

Navalny gets another 30 days in jail, xenophobia rebounds in Russia, and Roskomnadzor wins another court case Monday, August 27, 2018 This day in history. On August 27, 1922, the first issue of the Soviet magazine Krokodil (Crocodile) was released as a satirical supplement to the Workers' Gazette .

A year ago, police in Kaliningrad charged a local man with hate speech because of a sexist picture he shared online. The suspect, 27-year-old Artur Smirnov, has been diagnosed with Asperger syndrome, and his mother has spent the past 12 months lobbying the district attorney’s office to close the case against her son.

The newspaper Novaya Gazeta says its learned the identity of another police informant who helped build the controversial extremism case against the “Novoe Velichie” (New Greatness) extremist movement. The lawyer for one of the suspects told journalists that a woman named Olga Pshenichnikova went by the code name “Koshka” (Kitty). Pshenichnikova allegedly socialized with the group’s members early on and reported back to the police.

Things have gone from bad to worse for Alexander Shestun, the head of the Moscow region's Serpukhovsky district. Previously charged with abusing his authority, he now faces new criminal charges that he stole and laundered roughly 150 million rubles ($2.3 million) through several real-estate companies that he allegedly headed while in office.

The Moscow Arbitration Court has dismissed a lawsuit against Russia’s federal censor and Finance Ministry claiming five million rubles (almost $75,000) in damages because of Roskomnadzor’s scattershot approach to banning IP addresses in its effort to block the instant messenger Telegram. The company “Investor” says it was targeted by accident, leading to a service disruption and loss of business.

Russia’s Justice Ministry has once again refused to register anti-corruption activist Alexey Navalny’s political party, citing yet another disqualifying technicality. Officials say Navalny’s team failed to include a full copy of their party’s charter in their application to resume the registration process, attaching only a list of the most recent amendments.

Roskomnadzor has significantly expanded the list of information dissemination organizers, the Roskomsvoboda project reports. In particular, the registry included: the LiveJournal blog platform, the Avito ad service, the online dating site loveplanet.ru, and the Russian version of the BlaBlaCar ride-sharing service. The organizers of the dissemination of information under the "Yarovaya law" must store and transmit to law enforcement agencies data on the correspondence and calls of users.