State organizations Mosgortrans and Avtomobilnye Dorogi , as well as the company Ankor , which rents premises on Tverskaya for a catering establishment, have filed lawsuits for more than 13 million rubles against the organizers of the uncoordinated action on July 27 in Moscow. This was reported to Interfax by the Moscow City Court. Mosgortrans is asking for 1.2 million rubles to be recovered due to the cancellation of flights or changes to routes on the day of the protest.

The burst of gamma radiation detected in the city of Severodvinsk after a supposed rocket explosion on August 8 could be related to a cloud of radioactive noble gases that passed through the area, according to Russia’s Federal Weather Service. “The meteorological situation in the Arkhangelsk region contributed to the rapid dispersal of the cloud,” Roshydromet announced on August 16.

The surge in gamma radiation power observed in the city of Severodvinsk in the Arkhangelsk region after the rocket explosion on August 8 could have been associated with the passage of a cloud of radioactive inert gases , Roshydromet reported. “The meteorological conditions in the Arkhangelsk region contributed to the rapid dispersal of the cloud,” the department said.

How the Russian authorities forced the country’s top news aggregator to purge unwanted stories Casimiro PT / Shutterstock.com On August 15, 2019, top lawmakers in Russia’s State Duma said they will consider new legislation that would restrict foreign citizens’ right to own major Russian websites. The announcement came after an inaccurate story (about Russia possibly banning the sale of some older cars) reached the top of Yandex’s news aggregator.

Irina Kravtsova / Meduza The garbage dump near Zhukovsky. August 15, 2019 On August 15, two Ural Airlines pilots landed their Airbus A321 liner in a cornfield when both of its engines failed shortly after takeoff. The airplane’s crew indicated that birds fell into both engines during a collision with a flock of seagulls.

Update. The representative of "Yandex" called "rumors" information about the possible closure of "Yandex.News". Yandex is considering closing the Yandex.News service if additional regulation is introduced for news aggregators. It is reported by Kommersant, citing a source. The press service of Yandex refused to comment on the information about the possible closure of Yandex.News, but said that the company considers the current legislation sufficient to regulate news aggregators.

In the Ulyanovsk region, eight people were poisoned by an unknown substance. Two of them died. According to the regional Ministry of Health, all eight victims had the same symptoms - bleeding of various localization. Seven of them (five adults and two children) were admitted to a hospital in Ulyanovsk. They turned out to be relatives or colleagues and, as it turned out, consumed home-made vegetable oil. On August 16, one of them died.

The Baza publication named the names of the policemen who are mentioned in the documents about the delivery to the police department of Daria Sosnovskaya, a participant in the protests in Moscow on August 10, who was hit in the stomach by an unknown employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs during her arrest. According to Baza, these are employees of the 2nd Operational Regiment of the Moscow Police S.A. Glumnushin and O.G. Pletnev.

The Higher School of Economics, Russia’s most prominent university specializing in the humanities and social sciences, has begun investigating the behavior of literature instructor Alexander Kuznetsov, who teaches at the HSE’s lyceum. The news and culture outlet Snob reported that Kuznetsov has been accused of sexually abusing teenage girls at schools where he previously worked.

Journalists Elizaveta Nesterova and Ilya Azar announced the launch of a project to raise funds to pay administrative fines imposed on participants in the action in support of Ivan Golunov . On the website of the "Accomplice" project, those wishing to help can send a donation, and those who were fined for the action on June 12 can leave a request for help with paying the fine. 530 people were detained at the rally in support of Ivan Golunov.

The Higher School of Economics launched an internal audit after reports appeared that a lyceum teacher at the university had sexual relations with schoolgirls at their previous jobs. This is reported by "Snob". We are talking about literature teacher Alexander Kuznetsov, who has been working at the Lyceum since 2015.

9 ways to get rid Over time, more and more things are accumulating around us - and more and more things become unnecessary. Nevertheless, it is not easy to part with them: it is not always clear where to children. In this article, we talk about nine simple ways to get rid of old objects. One of them is to use trad-in in Re: Store . So you can hand over the phone, laptop, tablet or smart hours of previous generations and get a discount on new equipment (more in the fifth paragraph).

An ecologist near Moscow two years ago predicted an aircraft accident due to a landfill in Zhukovsky. We talked with her Irina Kravtsova / "Medusa" landfill near Zhukovsky, August 15, 2019 On August 15, the pilots of the Ural Airlines put the A321 liner on the corn field after the engines were refused during the departure from the Moscow airport Zhukovsky. The malfunction, apparently, occurred due to the end of the seagulls: the plane collided with a flock of birds right on the runway.

Alexander Shcherbak / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Theater directors Sofya Apfelbaum and Kirill Serebrennikov sit with producer Alexey Malobrodsky during a hearing for the Seventh Studio case on August 16, 2019. On August 16, the results of a new inspection in the Seventh Studio case were revealed in court. Judge Irina Akkuratova had ordered the inspection in April.

UFSIN of Russia in Moscow On August 10, a lot of interesting things took place in Moscow. For example, the Meat & Beat festival in Gorky Park, an agreed rally for the election freedom on Sakharov Avenue, as well as a competition of car drivers. What can be expected from such a competition? Drift Avtozakov? Cross -country racing? Mass races? No!