Representatives of the White Helmets delivered chemical weapons to a warehouse in Idlib province used by the Ahrar al-Sham group, said Russian Defense Ministry spokesman Alexei Tsygankov. After this, according to Russian military data, the cargo was transported to the southern part of the province for the future staging of the use of chemical weapons by government forces. On August 26, the Russian Defense Ministry announced that it was preparing to stage a chemical attack in Idlib.

Real Madrid striker Cristiano Ronaldo's goal against Juventus in the quarter-finals of the Champions League was named the most beautiful in the European football season 2017/2018. On the official website of UEFA, 197 out of 346 thousand fans voted for this goal. Second place went to Marseille's Dimitri Payet's goal against Leipzig in the Europa League quarter-finals.

International human rights organizations Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch and Front Line Defenders wrote an open letter to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In it, they asked him to condemn the statements of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. According to the authors of the letter, Kadyrov's recent statements about banning human rights activists from visiting Chechnya suggest an intention to commit illegal actions.

Federal TV channels have changed the broadcast schedule for August 29 to show a video message from Russian President Vladimir Putin, in which he will talk about raising the retirement age. The appeal will be shown by Russia 1 , NTV , REN-TV , Channel Five , TV Center . There are no changes in the program on the First Channel website yet. TV channels have allocated from 30 to 40 minutes to broadcast the appeal, which will begin at 12:00 Moscow time.

August 28. Putin - speak, telegram - will issue data The main news of the day. The Telegram messenger agreed to give special services to users who were suspected of terrorism: by court decision, IP addresses and suspect phones can be issued. Pavel Durov did not bring details, so we have many questions to this solution. And today in Russia again, the Web version of Telegram again worked again. Hmmm, coincidence? The main news of tomorrow.

What to expect from Cyberpunk 2077 - a brutal game of future and technology from the authors of the Witcher On August 27, the Polish studio CD Projekt Red introduced the Cyberpunk 2077 gameplay - one of the most anticipated games of the coming years. Medusa watched this (almost hourly!) Roller and chose the most interesting of what was shown to us.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has ordered the allocation of three billion rubles in 2019 for the development of gas turbines and the construction of a power plant by billionaire Alexei Mordashov's Power Machines company. This was reported on the company's website. The decision was made at a meeting of the commission on issues of strategy for the development of the fuel and energy complex, which was held in Kemerovo on August 27.

A chain of events StarPro / YouTube frame from the clip "Blue mood color" The RU.TV channel no longer shows Philip Kirkorov's video “Blue mood color”. The singer himself decided to remove the clip from the air-perhaps due to the fact that the television channel “smeared” the face of his friend, rapper Timati in the video. But six years ago, Timati and Kirkorov cursed among themselves.

Interview of Savva Terentyev - the first Russian convicted of comments on the Internet Yuri Kabantsev Savva Terentyev in Tallinn, April 2018 On August 28, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Russia violated the right of the Syktyvkar blogger Savva Terentyev to freedom of expression and ordered the state to pay him 5000 euros of compensation for legal costs.

Telegram agrees to share some user data, regulators try to protect ‘disabled’ small-chested women, and the Duma becomes a lobbyists' haven Tuesday, August 28, 2018 This day in history. On August 28, 1924, Georgian insurgents launched an ultimately unsuccessful insurrection against Soviet rule. The August Uprising would be one of the last major rebellions against the Bolsheviks, cementing Soviet rule in Georgia for the next 67 years.

Alexey Temirev says he’s being mistreated in pretrial detention, where guards are allegedly keeping him indoors, denying him needed medical treatment, and delaying his access to medications. You remember Alexey Temirev, right? He’s the 74-year-old Russian scientist who allegedly passed secret information to the Belgian von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics. Just kidding — that’s Viktor Kudryavtsev.

According to a new report by Transparency International Russia, nearly 20 percent of the State Duma (a total of 86 deputies) currently acts as lobbyists for the country’s military and law enforcement agencies — the siloviki .

After a meeting with his cabinet on Tuesday to discuss the plan to raise Russia’s retirement age, Vladimir Putin promised to make a national address on Wednesday, when he will “elaborate” his position on the matter.

The European Court of Human Rights has ruled in favor of Savva Terentyev, the first Internet user in Russia ever convicted of extremism for a comment posted online, finding that Russian courts violated his freedom of expression by sentencing him to a year’s probation for writing in February 2007 that “it would be nice to burn crooked cops.” The ECHR declined to award Terentyev any non-pecuniary damages, determining that its verdict is sufficient “moral compensation.” Russia will, however, have

Twitter user @anxwz posted photos of a girl drawing a cat. Apparently, she could not portray the animal, and she decided to circle the pet. It didn't turn out very well. Reddit users turned photos of the girl into a meme illustrating the attempts of different companies to copy other people's services.