The president of video game developer and publisher Blizzard Entertainment, J. Allen Brack, has resigned after California authorities filed a lawsuit alleging discrimination and harassment at the company. According to Bloomberg, Blizzard employees learned of Brack's departure in an email sent on August 3. Activision Blizzard, Blizzard's parent company, officially confirmed the information.

Ukrainian police launch murder investigation after missing Belarusian activist is found dead in Kyiv Belarusian House in Ukraine Ukrainian police have opened a murder investigation after finding missing Belarusian activist Vital Shyshou hanged in a Kyiv park on the morning of August 3. Shyshou, who left Belarus in the fall of 2020, was reported missing a day earlier after he went out for a morning jog and never returned.

Belarusian athlete Yana Maksimova, who competes in the all-around, refused to return to Belarus after what happened to runner Kristina Timanovskaya at the Olympics. She announced on Instagram that she would stay in Germany, where she is now with her family. “Thinking and thinking for a long time, we decided not to return to Belarus. To our great regret, now you can lose not only your freedom, but also your life...

Update . The invaders left the tanker, AP reports on the morning of August 4, citing the British Navy. The UK Maritime Trade Organization (UKMTO) has warned of a "possible hijack" of a vessel in the Gulf of Oman, 60 nautical miles (111 kilometers) east of the UAE port of Fujairah. Other details in the department, controlled by the Ministry of Defense of Great Britain, were not given.

Russian citizens, along with illegal migrants from other countries, tried to enter Lithuania through the Belarusian-Lithuanian border, Deputy Foreign Minister of Lithuania Mantas Adomenas said on the air of Ekho Moskvy. We had a dialogue with the representative of the Russian Federation, because there [among illegal migrants] there are also Russian citizens who cross this border. We will return them too.

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo, as of August 3, Russian athletes won 52 medals - 13 gold, 21 silver and 18 bronze. Almost half of them are on the account of military personnel, employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Russian Guard.

The FSB of Russia claims that the consul of the Estonian Consulate General in St. Petersburg, Mart Lyatte, who was declared persona non grata in July, "showed interest in obtaining information about Russia's plans in the Arctic." This was reported by Interfax with reference to the Center for Public Relations of the FSB.

The Pskov Region Electoral Commission refused to register Yabloko party members Lev Shlosberg and Nikolai Kuzmin as candidates for the Pskov Regional Assembly of Deputies. This was reported by the party's press service. As Open Media writes , the election commission established “the candidates’ involvement in the activities of a public association that carries out extremist activities,” namely, Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation .

Russian referee Anastasia Pustovoitova has been appointed to the final of the women's football tournament at the Tokyo Olympics. FIFA tweeted that Pustovoitova will be the chief referee, another Russian Ekaterina Kurochkina will become an assistant referee. Canada and Sweden will meet in the final of the women's football tournament. The match will take place on August 6th. Anastasia Pustovoitova is a FIFA referee. In 2019, she refereeed the final match of the Women's Champions League.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Have you noticed that the obsessive advertising of online casinos and bookmakers has become less? The state partially defeated them, partially taken under control by patriotic boxers At the beginning of 2021, the rules of financial transfers were tightened for online casinos and bookmakers in Russia.

American national Paul Whelan, who is serving a 16-year sentence in Russia on espionage charges, hasn’t been in touch with his family or the U.S. Embassy in more than four weeks, his lawyer Olga Karlova told Interfax. Karlova said that she reached out to the administration of Prison Colony No. 17 (located in Russia’s Republic of Mordovia) to inquire about Whelan, but received no response.

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Belarusian house in Ukraine On August 3, in Kiev, the 26-year-old chapter of the “Belarusian House in Ukraine” Vitaly Shishova, who disappeared the day before, was found dead. He was found hanged on a tree in the Svyatoshinsky Forest Park at the Seagull LCD on the western outskirts of Kiev, not far from the place where he lived. Vitaly Shishov disappeared on the morning of August 2. The Belarusian House in Ukraine said that he did not return from the morning jog.

In Washington, the Pentagon building was closed to the entrance and exit after a nearby shooting took place. The shooting incident took place at a bus stop near the main building of the US Department of Defense. The reasons for the shooting are unclear. According to the Associated Press, several people were injured. What condition they are in is not specified. The correspondent of the agency, who happened to be at the scene, reports "numerous shots." Update.

Homemade rooster named Kodzhi lives and does not know worries. Firstly, he is from California. Secondly, he is allowed to rush around the house. Thirdly, Kodzhi loves his owners and their relatives. Moreover, the bird has favorites, to whom he rushes through the whole house, jumps into his arms, and then joyfully chips. Viralhog One of these lucky ones is the daughter of the hostess of Kodzhi.