Hackers who stole more than $600 million in various cryptocurrencies from users of the Poly Network blockchain platform began to voluntarily return the stolen assets. Poly Network itself announced this on Twitter. According to the platform's latest data , $260 million worth of assets have already been returned. It remains to return the cryptocurrency for 353 million dollars.

BBC investigation sheds new light on Russian mercenaries’ presence in Libya Mahmud Turkia / AFP / Scanpix / LETA A demining operation in a district south of Libya’s capital, Tripoli. June 15, 2020. Journalists from the BBC published a new investigation (available in English and Russian ) about the operations of the Russian mercenary group Wagner in Libya.

In the Leningrad Region, two brothers were detained, who escaped from the court of the court in Vyborg after the announcement of the sentence. This was written by RIA Novosti with reference to the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk. The police detained the brothers in the small city of Sertolovo, located near St. Petersburg. Media Ministry of Internal Affairs The escape was perfect the day before.

A criminal case on hooliganism was opened against Moscow resident Olga Kuzmina (Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to Kuzmina's lawyer Katerina Tertukhina. The reason for the case was the action that Kuzmina staged in Moscow on August 9th. She climbed a tree in Babushkinsky Park and sat there for about 10 hours, holding a crossbow in her hands.

The co-founders of the financial pyramid Finiko Edward Sabirov, Marat Sabirov and Zygmunt Zygmuntovich were put on the wanted list. This is reported by TASS with reference to the department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Tatarstan. “According to Finiko, we are actively working on the search for the remaining three suspects who are abroad, and on the search for property,” the representative of the department said.

A psychiatric examination conducted at the Serbsky Institute as part of the case against Mikhail Khachaturyan has established that he committed violence against his three daughters, who are accused of murdering him . This was reported to TASS by the lawyers of the Khachaturyan sisters.

What happened in the Black Sea? On Saturday evening, on August 7, at the Marine Terminal of the Caspian Pipeline Consortium (KTK; among others, the Russian state owns it). The spill occurred when loading raw materials into the Greek tanker Minerva Symphony through a remote mooring device, which is located six kilometers from the shore. The terminal itself is located in South Ozerevka (Novorossiysk).

Navalny was charged with new charges. Facebook banned a network of accounts that attacked Western vaccines and was coordinated from Russia. The Taliban captured two-thirds of the territory of Afghanistan Good evening, THIS MESSAGE (MATERIAL) IS CREATED AND (OR) DISTRIBUTED BY A FOREIGN MASS MEDIA PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT AND (OR) A RUSSIAN LEGAL ENTITY PERFORMING THE FUNCTIONS OF A FOREIGN AGENT This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the important news of the day.

Belarusian kickboxing champion Alexey Kudin (Aliaksei Kudzin) has been handed a prison sentence in Belarus, just weeks after Russia delivered him to Minsk. On August 11, a court in the Belarusian city of Maladzyechna sentenced Kudin to two and half years in prison for resisting arrest at a protest rally, the Viasna Human Rights Center reported.

A wrestler from Dagestan, Abdulrashid Sadulaev, said that State Duma deputy Magomed Gadzhiev gave him a million dollars for winning the Tokyo Games. RIA Novosti writes about this with reference to Sadulayev himself. I want to thank my fellow countryman from the Charodinsky district, State Duma deputy Magomed Gadzhiev, who decided to reward me with $1 million for winning the Tokyo Olympics. Also, my coach Shamil Omarov did not go unnoticed.

Remembering Yassen Zassoursky, the journalism scholar who midwifed Russia’s post-Soviet free press Photo by Evgeny Feldman Yassen Zassoursky helped shape generations of Russian journalists. Earlier this month, he died at the age of 91. Before becoming the president of the journalism department at Moscow State University (MSU), Zassoursky served as dean from 1965 to 2007.

Vitaly Danilchenko / TASS Wild Northern Deer in the Krasnoyarsk Territory On the night of August 3, dozens of dead deer discovered on the river in the vicinity of the village of Khatanga Krasnoyarsk Territory, the local Hatanga.rf edition reported . It posted a photo of the dead and wounded individuals and noted that the animals were "literally shot." Since the carcasses of the dead deer were not taken away, “Hatanga.rf” suggested that it was shooting from “sports interest”.

Detained Russian national Sofia Sapega appears in Belarusian state television interview On the evening of August 10, Belarusian state television aired a brief interview with Russian national Sofia Sapega. The 23-year-old was detained in Minsk alongside Belarusian opposition journalist Roman Protasevich on May 23, shortly after the forced landing of a Ryanair plane.

Samsung showed two new phones - Galaxy Z Fold3 and Galaxy Z Flip3. The broadcast was on the company's website and Samsung social networks, including on the channel in Utube ( with a translation into Russian ). Meduza Samsung showed Galaxy Z Fold3 and Galaxy Z Flip3 Galaxy Z Fold3 is a flagship phone with a folding flexible screen, a lifted front camera and Support for Styluses S Pen Fold Edition and S Pen Pro. Galaxy Z Flip3-a flexible screen.

The Russian state television channel RT interviewed Roman Protasevich, former editor-in-chief of the telegram channel Nexta, who is accused in Belarus of organizing mass riots. RT is the first Russian media to talk to Protasevich after his detention in Minsk. But there's not much new in this interview - especially if you've seen other similar conversations before.