Barcelona Football Club has announced the sacking of head coach Quique Setien. The reason for the resignation was the unsatisfactory results of the team. The name of the new coach will be announced in the coming days, the Spanish media consider the Dutchman Ronald Koeman to be the most likely candidate. Barcelona were knocked out of the Champions League on 14 August after losing 2-8 to Bayern Munich. The Spanish team has not conceded so many goals in an official match since 1946.

A citizen of this country has been detained in Norway on suspicion of spying for Russia. According to the Norwegian Police Security Service, the 50-year-old man met with "a person who is believed to be a member of Russian intelligence" and gave him "information that could harm national interests." The detainee worked for the company DNV GL, which is engaged in consulting services in the field of energy.

‘Meduza’ speaks to four workers at the Minsk factory where Lukashenko was booed while trying to rally his base Nikolai Petrov / BelTA / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Lukashenko addresses workers at the Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant (MZKT), August 17, 2020 On Monday, August 17, Alexander Lukashenko continued his efforts to save his presidency by addressing a group he undoubtedly hoped would welcome his message: workers at the Minsk Wheel Tractor Plant (MZKT).

Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta on the evening of August 17, protest participants in Minsk gathered around the pre -trial detention center No. 1. There, presumably, is Sergey Tikhanovsky, the husband of the country's candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, as well as some of the detainees on protest promotions.

The main events of the ninth day of protests in Belarus Andrey Stasevich / Belta / AP / Scanpix / Leta At the largest enterprises of Belarus, strikes began. During the day the workshop of Belaruskalia was completely stopped ; Employees of the Belarusian Metallurgical Plant interrupted work for several hours and announced that they would reach an unlimited strike from August 20.

Two US residents have been formally charged with complicity in the murder of Run-DMC member Jason Mizell (known as Jam Master Jay) in 2002, The New York Times reports. Prosecutors have charged 36-year-old Carl Johnson and 56-year-old Ronald Washington with ten counts. They are accused of murder, drug trafficking and illegal possession of firearms. They face 20 years in prison to life imprisonment.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. What will happen after Lukashenko. Belarus will become a democracy? Will get closer to the European Union or will it not go anywhere from Russia? On Sunday, August 16, the largest protest in modern Belarus was held in Minsk. According to various estimates, from 100 to 200 thousand people gathered in the city center. All of them opposed the president of the country Alexander Lukashenko.

In Minsk, thousands of people gathered near SIZO No. 1, where protesters are kept. The crowd chanted "Let go!" and "Go away!". According to Tut.by, there are 5-7 thousand people on the square in front of the building. Some of the protesters after the pre-trial detention center marched to the detention center on Akrestsina Street. They agreed not to shout slogans there - earlier volunteers reported that detainees were beaten if employees heard noise in their support from the street.

Aisultan Nazarbayev page on Facebook Aisultan Nazarbayev, the youngest son of the daughter of Nursultan Nazarbayev Darigi, died in London at the age of 29. The official cause of death is a cardiac arrest, but a few years before that he admitted drug addiction and wrote that he could be killed.

Nikolai Petrov / Belta / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Lukashenko appears to the workers of the Minsk factory of wheeled tractors. Minsk, August 17, 2020 On August 17, Alexander Lukashenko spoke to the workers of the Minsk factory of wheeled tractors (MZKT). This was probably the most difficult speech in the biography of the long -term political leader of Belarus.

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With the director of the Belarusian National Academic Theater named after Yanka Kupala Pavel Latushko, the contract was terminated ahead of schedule after his participation in the Freedom March on August 16. This is reported by the Belarusian "Radio Liberty". Latushko "opposed the violence of the Ministry of Internal Affairs against the protesters, called on Minister Yuri Karaev to resign," the publication clarifies.

Alexander Lukashenko arrived at the Minsk Plant of Wheel tractors, whose employees, like many other Belarusian enterprises, demand a review of the results of the presidential election and resignation of Lukashenko from the post of president.

US President Donald Trump called the situation in Belarus "terrible", reports Reuters. The United States is closely monitoring what is happening, Trump said. US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said earlier on August 17 that Washington intends to work with the EU to "help the Belarusian people achieve sovereignty and freedom," Reuters adds.

During the protests in Belarus, two people were killed. This was confirmed by the Minister of Health of the country Vladimir Karanik. Karanik did not give the names of the victims and the circumstances of their death, only noting that one of them died in Minsk. According to the minister, 158 people are in hospitals, three of them are in serious condition. Earlier, independent media reported about the death of 34-year-old Alexander Taraikovsky in Minsk and 25-year-old Alexander Vikhor in Gomel.