On August 7, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation is going to appeal to the chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation, Ella Pamfilova, with a request to dismiss the head of the Moscow City Electoral Committee, Valentin Gorbunov. Valery Rashkin, the first secretary of the Moscow branch of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, announced this on the air of Ekho Moskvy.

Three major US stock indexes fell more than 3% after the value of the Chinese yuan hit an 11-year low, according to the Associated Press. The Dow Jones index by 21 o'clock in Moscow fell by 3.2%. As the agency notes, if trading closes at this level, it will be the biggest decline since February 2018. The S&P 500 lost 3.4% and the NASDAQ Composite fell 4%. The Washington Post called August 5 the worst day of 2019 for the US stock exchange.

How Russian state TV covered Moscow’s election protests for the first time Rossiya 24 On August 3, more than a thousand people were arrested during Moscow’s latest unsanctioned protest for fair citywide elections. Similar protests have been a regular sight in the Russian capital since mid-July, but this week represented the very first time Russian federal television stations all covered the demonstration in their weekend roundups.

21-year-old midfielder of the Dutch football club AZ Guus Thiel moved to Spartak, according to the website of the Moscow team. Thiel signed a four-year contract with the club. On August 11, he will play for Spartak for the first time in a match against Grozny Akhmat. Til received the eighth number in Spartak. under him played Previously , the former captain of Spartak Denis Glushakov , who moved to Akhmat in June. Gus Thiel is a graduate of the Dutch club AZ from Alkmaar.

The founder of the Flame vocal and instrumental ensemble, composer Sergei Berezin, has died at the age of 81, poetess Larisa Rubalskaya said on Instagram. The director of the Flame group, Helena Dorfman, confirmed this information. Sergey Berezin is known as the author of the songs "Snow is spinning", "Golden Balls", "Maybe I made you up." His compositions were performed by Lev Leshchenko, Nikolai Karachentsov, Iosif Kobzon, Philip Kirkorov, Valentina Tolkunova, Mikhail Shufutinsky.

Update: Three hours after his arrest, Maksim Kondratyev was released . A report was drawn up against him for violating picketing rules and public insult. The police detained one of the authors of the telegram channel "Avtozak LIVE" Maxim Kondratyev, who went out with a single picket to the building of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow at Petrovka, 38.

A British Airways A321 flying from London made an emergency landing at Valencia, Spain, after the cabin filled with smoke, The Telegraph reports. Passengers posted photos taken during the incident on social media. One photo shows a cabin filled with smoke, while another shows passengers leaving the plane along the emergency slide. Video footage posted by another passenger also shows smoke in the cabin.

Novaya Gazeta has launched an online petition demanding that the so-called Moscow case , initiated against participants in the protest for free elections to the Moscow City Duma, which took place on July 27, be dropped. The appeal is addressed to the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin.

Evgeny Lonely / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta Participants in the unauthorized action for freedom of election, which took place on Saturday, August 3 in the center of Moscow, complained about failures in the work of a cellular network. The interruptions were also reported by journalists illuminating the event. Most often, problems were observed with mobile Internet: subscribers found that at about 13:00 (the action officially started an hour later) 3G and LTE stopped working.

Share prices of video game makers Activision Blizzard, Electronic Arts and Take-Two Interactive Software fell by 5% on August 5, Bloomberg reports. Stocks fell after US President Donald Trump condemned the "glorification of violence in society", including in video games, following two mass shootings in the US. Bloomberg notes that game makers have previously denied that there is a link between games and real-life violence.

AKG / Scanpix / Leta July 12, 1943. Soviet infantry steps after the tanks under Prokhorovka 76 years ago, on August 5, 1943, Moscow gave a salute for the first time since the beginning of the Great Patriotic War, noting the liberation of the eagle and Belgorod. The capture of these cities marked the victory of the Soviet Army in the Battle of Kursk (officially ended on August 23, when Soviet troops entered Kharkov).

Beathed on Moscow protests - about the cruelty of the police and the Russian Guard Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On August 3, Moscow was held in Moscow due to the refusal of the election commission to allow independent candidates to the Moscow City Duma. Citizens demand competitive voting since mid -July.

Fast food chain McDonald's said its partners were having trouble recycling paper straws for drinks used at the chain's locations in the UK and Ireland. According to BBC News, citing a spokesman for McDonald's, the straws are made from recyclable material, but the process is hampered by the thickness of the straws, which have been reinforced after customer complaints. Paper straws arrived at McDonald's in September 2018, replacing plastic straws.

This is the phlegmatic cat Filya - he has a sad face and a complex character. He loves to meditate and can stare out the window for hours. His mistress, whom he adored and licked tenderly on the forehead, suffered a stroke a few years ago . She was taken in by the children, and the cat was left on the street. After that, Filya, also known as Felix and Fima, changed many owners.

US President Donald Trump addressed the nation on the twin mass shootings that took place on August 3-4, saying, among other things, that "hate has no place in America" ​​and that the country must condemn racism. Among the factors influencing the commission of mass shootings, Trump named the Internet, which, in his opinion, provides opportunities for radicalization of “troubled minds” and is used to commit other crimes.