Major US stocks fell about 3% on August 14 amid fears of a recession, Reuters writes. The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 3.05%, the S&P fell 2.93% and the Nasdaq Composite fell 3.02%. For the Dow Jones, which fell 800.49 points, it was the largest drop since October 2018. One of the factors attributed to the fall was that the yield on 10-year US Treasury bonds briefly fell below the yield on two-year bonds.

A comprehensive guide to all the criminal cases launched against activists in Moscow's crackdown on opposition protesters Maxim Blinov / Sputnik / Scanpix / LETA Sergey Abanichev, charged with rioting in Moscow on July 27, at his arraignment in a Moscow district court on August 5, 2019 The ongoing conflict between Moscow’s Election Commission and a group of unregistered independent City Duma candidates has led to some of the largest protests in years, as well as several criminal investigations

FBK employee Lyubov Sobol announced her decision to end the hunger strike she declared on July 13 due to not being allowed to run in the Moscow City Duma elections. She explained that she was doing this at the request of the mother of Alexei Minyailo, who trained signature collectors at her headquarters.

The winner of the last Champions League, Liverpool, beat the winner of the Europa League, Chelsea, in the UEFA Super Cup match in Istanbul. The main time of the match ended with the score 2:2. The winner was determined by penalties: at the end of the series, Liverpool goalkeeper Adrian saved the shot of Chelsea striker Tammy Abraham. For the first time in history, the UEFA Super Cup match was judged by a predominantly female team of referees led by Frenchwoman Stéphanie Frappart.

Sergey Yakovlev / Photobank Lori Memorial Sandarmokh The Ministry of Culture of Karelia asked the Russian Military Historical Society ( RVIO ) to carry out new excavations in the tract of Sandarmokh , arguing this with the damage, which is caused by the image of Russia a generally accepted version of the burial of the repressed there. The letter of the Deputy Minister of Culture of Karelia Sergei Solovyov was published in the Dmitriev case group.

Valery Melnikov / Sputnik / Scanpix / LETA Russia’s Science and Education Ministry sent its institutes an order outlining harsh “ recommendations ” on contact with foreign colleagues. In July 2019, Russia’s Science and Education Ministry sent a list of what it later said were “recommendations” to the institutions it controls, which deal predominantly with the natural sciences but span a range of other fields as well.

More than 300 teachers and staff members of the Higher School of Economics have signed a letter to the Investigative Committee calling for the closure of the "Moscow case" in which university student Yegor Zhukov is accused. A link to it was published by HSE professor Anna Kachkaeva.

Archaeologists have discovered the fossilized remains of a previously unknown species of penguin Crossvallia waiparensis in New Zealand. Scientists have found leg bones and shoulder joints of an ancient bird and suggested that its height could reach 160 centimeters, and weight - 80 kilograms. According to scientists, the penguin lived in the Paleocene epoch 56-66 million years ago.

Fernando Veludo / EPA / Scanpix / Leta On August 13, the Krasnodar football club at a party beat Portuguese Porto in the third qualifying round of the Champions League with a score of 3: 2 and entered the playoff round, which means access to the main, group stage of the tournament. Krasnodar has a chance to get there for the first time in its history; “Porto” will not play there for the first time in a decade . In Russia, the game was supposed to show Match TV.

The Control and Disciplinary Committee of the Russian Football Union fined the Akhmat club for insulting the referee during the match against Spartak in Grozny. During the game, which took place on August 11, from the announcer's booth in Chechen they shouted "Judge, you are a goat" (according to another version, "Judge condom").

The Russian Investigative Committee seized 2.3 million rubles from the Vitaly Kolesnikov Vitaly Kolesnikov video editor. This was the press secretary of Alexei Navalny Kira Yarmysh in the video “The Investigative Committee robbed an employee of the FBK”, published in the Utuub-channel “Navalny Live”.

Valery Melnikov / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta The Ministry of Education and Science sent the institutes an order with hard recommendations regarding contacts with foreigners In July 2019, the Ministry of Higher Education and Science of Russia sent recommendations to subordinate organizations on contacts with foreign and international organizations and the reception of foreign citizens. The scans of the order on August 13 were published by the popular science newspaper “Trinity-Science”.

Electronic Arts has released the first trailer for the NEED For Speed ​​Heat racing video game, which was developed in the Ghost Games studio. Need for Speed The game takes place in the fictional city of Palm City. In NFS Heat, racers will be able to participate in competitions, as well as to resist the police whose aggression level depends on the time of day. Legal competitions are held during the day - they give money for them that can be spent on improving the machines.

Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Quote The head of the CEC of the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova in an interview with Kommersant FM : Of course, a number of candidates [in the elections to the Moscow City Duma] would be more advisable to appeal to the court [with a complaint] than to us. But everyone makes their choice. What was concerned about our competence, we pulled as much as possible.

Searches are being conducted in Moscow in connection with a case of embezzlement of funds from one of the largest contractors of Russian Railways, the 1520 group of companies, Vedomosti reports, citing several sources. According to the publication’s sources, searches are taking place at several addresses associated with the co-owners of “1520”.