Donat Sorokin / TASS On August 6, 15-year-old Marina passed away at the Sredneuralsk Women’s Monastery — the same convent outside of Yekaterinburg that was taken over by the recently defrocked Orthodox priest Sergii Romanov in June. A source told the news outlet 66.ru that Marina had been living at the monastery’s “hospice,” and that she had died of cancer.

The ban on American companies from dealing with the Chinese service WeChat (owned by Tencent) threatens the sale of iPhones in China, one of the most important markets for Apple. Bloomberg writes about it. Due to a ban that US President Donald Trump signed on August 7, Apple will not be able to distribute WeChat through the app store. All transactions related to WeChat will be blocked.

In June 2020, almost 12,000 people who were diagnosed with COVID-19 died in Russia. This is data . reported by Interfax with reference to Rosstat The main cause of death of coronavirus infection was for 5.4 thousand people out of these 12 thousand, specified in Rosstat. Another 1,600 cases are still being investigated - COVID-19 is still only assumed to be the main cause of death.

Minsk court jails two sound engineers for ten days for playing a famous protest song at a pro-government event Maxim S. for “Meduza” Sound engineers Kiryl Halanau and Uladzislau Sakalouski in Minsk On Friday, August 7, a Minsk court jailed sound engineers Kiryl Halanau and Uladzislau Sakalouski for ten days on administrative charges of minor hooliganism and disobedience, reports Mediazona.

In Minsk, on Independence Avenue - the main street of the city - a rally was held in support of two sound engineers who were imprisoned for 10 days for turning on Viktor Tsoi's song "Change!" at a concert organized by the authorities. According to a Meduza correspondent, drivers on Independence Avenue honk their horns and turn on Change! TUT.BY.

She was raped at the age of 14. She moved to another city due to persecution Netflix Daisy Kolman In the United States, 23-year-old Daisy Coleman, the heroine of the Netflix and Daisy documentary, who was raped at the age of 14 years old. Dezi's death was reported on Facebook by her mother Melinda Cowlman. “She was my best friend and wonderful daughter <...> how I would like to take on her pain! She never recovered from what these boys did with her, and it is simply unfair.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Six years of food counter -sanctions. If you finally cancel them, will the prices of products fall? Not a fact On August 6, 2014, six years ago, food counter -sanctions were introduced in Russia. That is, restrictive measures against agricultural producers from the European Union, USA, Australia, Canada and Norway. This happened after these countries imposed sanctions due to the entry of Crimea into Russia.

Well-known political consultant Vitaly Shklyarov, who was arrested in Belarus on July 29, is facing charges of inciting riots under Article 342 of the Belarusian Criminal Code, Shklyarov’s lawyer Anton Gashinsky told the news outlet Tut.by. According to Gashinsky, Shklyarov is complaining about coming under pressure from the authorities in pretrial detention and considers his case politically motivated.

Updated . According to police sources, 16 people were killed. Authorities confirmed the death of 14 people, and also reported that 138 people were injured, 15 of them were seriously injured. In the Indian city of Kozhikode, Kerala, the Air India Boeing-737 made a hard landing and rolled out of the runway. It is reported by the Times of India. The aircraft was flying from Dubai with 191 people on board.

Now it is poisoned by "dual" and "male state" What does the meme look like "Hello, will I get in?" In Tiktok @SSSR_CHAN ##приветяподсяду ##ussr_chan ##ссср ##ussr ##история ##колхоз ##коммунизм ##сталин ♬ Original sound - USSR_CHAN @vzcreator No need to joke with Stich.

A drug against Covid has been patented in Russia. Three and a half million doctors in India went on strike. How the pandemic drove gold prices to record levels Good evening, This is Meduza's newsletter about the coronavirus during the pandemic. It is published on weekdays instead of Evening Medusa. If this letter was sent to you by someone you know and you have not yet subscribed to the mailing list, subscribe here . If you are reading this on the website, share the link on social networks.

The first lawyer of Mikhail Efremov - about what happened immediately after the accident. And about the new line of protection of the actor, who now does not admit guilt Roman Kanshchuk / TASS / Scanpix / Leta In Moscow, the third day in a row continues the trial of actor Mikhail Efremov: according to investigators, in the evening of June 8, an SUV, at the wheel of which the actor was located, rammed Lada for the courier delivery service of the Delicatesa products.

In 2019, the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, earned 147.9 million rubles, according to his declaration. Over the year, Kadyrov's income grew 20 times: in 2018, he declared 7.8 million rubles. The income of Kadyrov's wife increased from 60,000 rubles in 2018 to 2.4 million rubles in 2019. Over the past year, the head of Chechnya got a land plot of 28.4 thousand square meters. As in 2018, Kadyrov owns a plot of 3,600 square meters and a residential building of 2,344 square meters.

The Telegram messenger began to block users under the pseudonyms "Favorites" and "Saved Messages". One of Meduza's readers reported that for the sake of experiment, he created the Saved messages account, and it was blocked after a few minutes. “I was thrown out of the account, it is now impossible to log in from it, the message “phone number is blocked” when trying to log in. There is no information about the methods and possibilities of unlocking in the message, ”he wrote.

Maxim Trustlyubov analyzes why Lukashenko’s power was weakened - and advises books that help to better understand what is happening there Sergey Gritz / AP / Scanpix / Leta On Sunday, August 9, Presidential elections will be held in Belarus. The leader of this country, Alexander Lukashenko, was in an unusually difficult situation for himself - perhaps the opposition has never led such a successful campaign against him and, apparently, enjoys such high support as never before.