Planning a trip to Moscow? Here's how you keep your private information private. Planning a trip to Russia? As you’re probably aware, the government in Moscow is doing everything it can to make it easier for law enforcement agencies to read your private messages. At recent protests in the capital, moreover, police have even confiscated demonstrators’ phones and tried to unlock them.

During the latest publication of the task to check the reliability of online voting, the Moscow City Hall's Department of Information Technology did not post the answers to the previous task on GitHub. The public keys and encrypted messages (task) for August 18 have already been published , but the private keys and original messages (answers) to the task from August 7 have not.

The Twitter administration announced the disclosure of a coordinated information campaign aimed at "undermining the legitimacy" of the protest movement in Hong Kong. According to the leadership of the social network, the campaign was led by the authorities in mainland China.

The plane of Pobeda Airlines made a hard landing at the airport of the Armenian city of Gyumri, Interfax reports citing the press service of the Armenian Civil Aviation Committee. Upon landing, the aircraft hit the runway with its rear end, causing damage. There were 173 passengers on board, none of them were injured. Updated . The airline itself emphasized that there was only a slight touch of the strip with the tail section.

Moscow "Spartak" defeated CSKA in the match of the Russian Premier League. The meeting, held at the Otkritie Arena stadium, ended with a score of 2:1. At Spartak, French defender Samuel Gigot made a double (59th and 79th minutes). Mario Fernandez scored a goal in the 68th minute for CSKA. The victory allowed Spartak to overtake CSKA in the standings: now Spartak has 11 points after six games, CSKA has ten. The leader, Zenit, has 14 points.

The Uzbek prosecutor's office has opened new criminal cases against the eldest daughter of the country's former president, Gulnara Karimova. The cases were opened on the fact of concluding a deal contrary to the interests of the country, theft of state funds and extortion of other people's property on an especially large scale.

Nathaniel Rothschild became the owner of the company Avia Invest, which has a concession for the Chisinau International Airport. TASS reports this. The transaction was completed on behalf of Rothschild's real estate investment company NR Investments; its amount is not named. The airport press service reported that he made an “amazing impression” on the businessman who flew there.

The United States has tested a cruise missile capable of hitting targets at close range. According to Defense News, this is the first launch by Washington since the termination of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. The test was conducted in California, the missile hit a target located at a distance of over 500 kilometers from the launch site. The Pentagon stressed that the type of missile being tested is not designed to carry nuclear warheads.

But opponents of such a scenario cannot agree with each other Rui vieira / pool / reuters / scanpix / leta In the case of leaving the EU without an agreement with European countries, the UK may encounter a deficiency of fresh products, drugs, fuel and a sharp increase in consumer prices. It is to this that the policy of the new prime minister of the country Boris Johnson, who refuses to conclude an agreement previously agreed upon by the EU and his predecessor Teresa May.

Gorard Julien / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Putin during a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with French President Emmanuel Macron on the Cote d'Azur for the first time spoke about mass actions for fair elections in Moscow, which has been going on for more than a month. This is what he said. About the riots in Moscow. All this is due to the electoral cycle.

Evgeny Feldman for Medusa Protesters at the intersection of color boulevard and garden ring, July 27, 2019 On August 16, Mosgortrans filed a lawsuit for 1.2 million rubles in connection with an inconsistent opposition campaign on July 27 in the center of Moscow. The defendants in the lawsuit are oppositionists Georgy Alburov, Julia Galyamin, Ivan Zhdanov, Vladimir Milov, Alexei Navalny, Lyubov Sobol, Alexander Solovyov, Oleg Stepanov and Ilya Yashin.

How the courts consider cases of “mass riots” - on the example of the appeal of Danil the fugitive Yuri Saprykin Danila Begletter, August 19, 2019 On August 19, the Moscow City Court examined the appeals of two defendants in the case “On Massions” on July 27 in Moscow - Sergey Fomin and Danila fugitive.

Apple has released the first trailer for The Morning Show, a series about the life of a morning news show for the upcoming Apple TV+ streaming service. Apple TVThe Morning Show — Official Trailer | Apple TV+ According to the plot, the famous morning news anchor Mitch (Steve Carell) is accused of harassment and fired from his job, as his colleague Alex (Jennifer Aniston) reports on the air.

The Transport Prosecutor's Office has cancelled the decision to initiate a criminal case on the purchase of the drug "Frizium" , which a Moscow resident ordered for her son with epilepsy. This was reported to Interfax by the official representative of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Alexander Kurennoy.

The natural population decline in Russia in January-June 2019 accelerated, according to Rosstat data. The number of deaths in Russia in the first half of 2019 exceeded the number of births by 198.8 thousand people. This is 37.7 thousand people more than in the first half of 2018. The birth rate in Russia, RBC writes with reference to Rosstat data, decreased in the first half of 2019 in all regions except Moscow and Karachay-Cherkessia.