Bayern Munich became the second finalist of the Champions League football. In the semi-finals of the tournament on the evening of August 19 in Lisbon, the German club beat Lyon 3-0. In the final match, which will take place on August 23, Bayern will play with the French PSG. Bayern is a five-time European Cup winner, the last time the club won the trophy in 2013. PSG have never won a tournament.

The heads of law enforcement agencies - the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the FSB, the FSO, the SVR, the Investigative Committee and the National Guard - published declarations of their income for 2019. According to RBC, the largest income among all high-ranking security officials was with the Deputy Interior Minister Vitaly Shulika. It amounted to 26.7 million rubles.

‘Meduza’ visits the volunteer camp outside of the infamous Okrestina detention facility in Minsk The Okrestina Street detention facility in Minsk, where many arrested demonstrators have been processed and held, has become a symbol of police brutality in Belarus. Just outside its walls, volunteers established a camp where they offer medical, legal, and psychological aid to released detainees — hundreds of whom say the police abused them in custody.

Kremlin sees no reason for military intervention, EU leaders do not recognize election results Protests and strikes continue. Two rallies are dispersed by riot police — the security forces intervene in them for the first time in several days. In Brest, a local resident dies from a gunshot wound — this is the third death since the protests began. Svetlana Tikhanovskaya publishes an appeal to the EU — in English — and asks not to recognize the election results.

In the court in the case of Efremov, the actor's friends spoke. And the expert suggested that hackers and "energy anomalies" could provoke an accident Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On August 19, the Presnensky District Court continued the consideration of the case of Mikhail Efremov. The actor is accused of the fact that in early June he got drunk and provoked an accident on a garden ring, in which 57-year-old courier Sergei Zakharov died.

The Lithuanian Foreign Ministry has included the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in the list of persons who are prohibited from entering the country. Delphi reports. Together with Lukashenka, 31 more people appeared on the list, who, according to the Lithuanian authorities, are involved in falsifying the election results and unjustified use of force against protesters. The list for entry into force will have to be approved by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Lithuania.

Russia’s mass media and state officials can’t seem to decide where they stand on Alexander Lukashenko. That’s because the Kremlin doesn’t know, either. Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Generally speaking, the major media outlets in Russia (whether controlled directly or indirectly by the state) report important domestic and international political events as dictated by the Kremlin. This same code of conduct applies to public remarks by members of Russia’s Parliament.

The Presidium of the Coordinating Council of Belarus, following the results of the first meeting on the evening of August 19, adopted a resolution with the main requirements for the authorities. The purpose of the existence of the coordinating council is to find ways to overcome the crisis. "The Coordinating Council does not aim to change the constitutional order and foreign policy," the resolution says.

Alyaksandr Lukashenka, whom the Central Election Commission of Belarus announced as the elected president of the country following the election results, named the composition of the new government. BelTA reports. Roman Golovchenko was reappointed as Prime Minister. This appointment must be formally approved by the lower house of the Belarusian parliament. The composition of the cabinet remained virtually unchanged. In particular, the ministers of the power bloc retained all their posts.

Special Corps of Medusa Lilia Yapparova restored the chronology of his trip and detention Archive of Mikhail Dorozhkin Petersburger Mikhail Dorozhkin disappeared in Minsk on August 9, on the day of the presidential election, which ended with mass protests. In the capital, Dorozhkin visited friends, and in the evening he had to go to relatives to the east of the country.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov finally comments on the crisis in Belarus STR / EPA / Scanpix / LETA Belarus has witnessed sustained opposition protests since August 9, when state officials declared a landslide re-election victory for long-time incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko (Alyaksandr Lukashenka). The united opposition, led by presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya (Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya), says the election was rigged and refuses to recognize the results of the vote.

How many volunteers actually tested the Russian vaccine. Italy is preparing for the second wave. Australian authorities are going to vaccinate the entire population for free Good evening, This is Meduza's mailing list about the coronavirus during the pandemic. It comes out 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 .

The capitalization of Apple for the first time in its history exceeded two trillion dollars. Over the past year, the company's shares have grown in price by almost 60%. In March, against the background of the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting partial suspension of production, Apple's value began to fall sharply - the company's capitalization returned to the trillion-dollar level, having decreased by more than 300 billion in a month.

A symbol of the cruelty of the Belarusian security forces was the Minsk isolator in the alley of the surroundings, where many protesters were taken. A volunteer camp grew right under its walls, where doctors, lawyers and psychologists helped from the insulator. But on August 19, the camp began to be removed : some of the volunteers say that it was done at the request of the security forces, others due to the fact that there were almost no detainees left inside.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The Russian vaccine, which Putin called the first in the world with a registered cure for coronavirus. Why is this more propaganda than a breakthrough? On August 11, Russian President Vladimir Putin said that a vaccine from coronavirus has been registered in the country. Vaccination will occur voluntarily. As Tatyana Golikova, Deputy Prime Minister of Russia, said, doctors will receive the first vaccine. This can happen in the next two months.