In Minsk in the evening of August 8, a member of the United Staff of the presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya Maria Kolesnikov was detained. This was reported by TUT.BY with reference to the headquarters of the candidate. “When they got into the car and began to leave the parking lot, the silver minibus blocked the road. Representatives of the police came out. Mary was taken by the boset and left, ”said the headquarters. Kolesnikov was taken to one of the police department of Minsk.

Belarusian presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya has left her apartment in Minsk after two of her main aides were detained. She is now surrounded by members of her campaign headquarters and journalists, Interfax reports, citing her press secretary Anna Krasulina. "Tikhanovskaya will not spend the night at home, so as not to be left alone. But she is not leaving Minsk, she remains in the city," Krasulina said.

On the evening of August 8, drivers arranged a joint of solidarity in Minsk with two sound engineers who were arrested for 10 days for turning on the song “Changes!” Group "Kino" at a pro -government rally. According to Radio Liberty, at about 19 hours, motorists began to signal on the main street of Minsk, Independence Avenue, some of them included the song “Changes!”. Drivers, as well as pedestrians, showed white bracelets in their hands. Tut.by.

Demonstrators occupied four ministries of Lebanon, they pull the army into the city Thaier Al-Sudani / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On August 8, several thousand people entered the protest in Beirut, the capital of Lebanon, four days after the explosion in the city port , as a result of which 158 people were killed, and another six thousand people were injured. About seven thousand people gathered on the martyrs in the center of Beirut, reports Reuters.

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya before the election released two video views to the inhabitants of Belarus. And I never mentioned Lukashenko The presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya in a day released two video features to the residents of the country.

The head of the election headquarters of presidential candidate of Belarus Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, Maria Moroz, was detained in Minsk. Maria Moroz was taken to the Central District Department of Internal Affairs “to participate in the administrative process,” according to the Telegram channel “Country for Life,” which is associated with Tikhanovskaya. On August 6, Maria Moroz was detained “for a conversation” in the department for combating organized crime, after which she was released.

The Naked Pravda podcast - about the election of the President of Belarus The chief editor of the international version of Medusa Kevin Rotrok in the new issue of the English-language podcast The Naked Pravda discusses the elections of the President of Belarus with journalists and political scientists on August 9. What to expect from voting and what will be the political struggle after the elections? Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element.

In Kaliningrad, the trial of doctors accused of killing the baby for the sake of statistics began. Their persecution is compared with the "Doctors' Affairs" Vitaly Nevar / TASS / Vida Press Elena Belaya (right) and her lawyer Inna Yuferva in the Kaliningrad Regional Court. February 12, 2020 On August 6, in Kaliningrad, consideration began on the merits of the case of the former chief physician of the local maternity hospital Elena Bely and anesthetist-resuscitator Elina Sushkevich.

And hedgehogs and dogs Petr Kovalev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On August 8, the Fontanka-Sup SAP-surf festival was held in St. Petersburg-its fifth year is organized by the city edition of Fontanka. The organizers call it the largest SAP surfing festival in Eastern Europe. The festival gathered about two thousand participants. Some channels were completely clogged with sappboards.

Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova criticized US President Donald Trump for banning American citizens from entering into deals with the Chinese company ByteDance, the owner of the short video service TikTok.

The 15-year-old girl who died in the Sredneuralsk women's monastery in the Sverdlovsk region died due to a serious illness, the regional Investigative Committee reported, citing the results of an autopsy. The Investigative Committee noted that during the examination, “minor” bodily injury was found on the girl’s body, which “is not of a criminal nature.” A 15-year-old girl with a brain tumor died on August 6 in a monastery "hospice" run by defrocked hieromonk Sergiy (Romanov).

Head of the Department of the Prosecutor General's Office of Belarus Marina Popova proposed restricting the work of the online platform "Voice" . Popova said on the Belarus 1 TV channel that this site could violate the rights of the country's citizens. "The Golos platform is not located on the territory of Belarus. We will not know who used their personal data and for what purposes," she said. The Voice stated that they will continue to work despite the possible blocking.

Archimandrite German (Chesnokov), a resident of the Holy Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius, died on August 8 “after a long illness caused by coronavirus infection,” according to the website of the largest monastery in Russia. Archimandrite Herman, according to information from open sources , was born in 1941. He was the rector of the Resurrection Metochion of the Holy Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius ( since August 2019, the honorary rector).

This is what the capital of Russia looked like then Mikhail Metzel / AP / Scanpix / Leta Ten years ago-in August 2010-due to abnormal heat and forest fires, Moscow was enveloped by strong. In the capital, mortality increased , airports worked with interruptions, and some of the mass events were canceled. Nevertheless, in early August, the then mayor of Moscow, Yuri Luzhkov, went on vacation - and returned only a week after criticism of his address.

Acting Governor of Khabarovsk Krai Mikhail Degtyarev called media reports that he proposed lifting the ban on business class flights for regional officials at the expense of the budget “fake news.” Degtyarev stated that such a decision had not been made, and drew attention to the regional government’s resolution of August 5, which stated that officials could fly on business trips “at the economy class rate.” On August 7, Mikhail Degtyarev posted a video on Instagram, where he asked residents of