Libya's military prosecutor's office has issued an arrest warrant for Saif al-Islam Gaddafi, the son of former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. According to the BBC, the warrant was issued on August 5 because of the alleged connection of Seif al-Islam with mercenaries of the Russian private military company (PMC) Wagner. about this . also writes The Libya Observer Earlier, BBC and Bloomberg sources reported that Russia wants to see Saif al-Islam as the ruler of Libya.

The Berlin Wall began as a stretch of barbed wire and became a twentieth century symbol of a divided world. Here’s the story of its beginnings, in photos. The Berlin Crisis was already underway in the summer of 1961. This escalation of the Cold War began with the Soviet Union demanding the withdrawal of British, French, and U.S. forces from Berlin. These Western troops, as well as their Soviet counterparts, had been in Germany as occupying forces since 1945.

Russia's GDP in the second quarter of 2021 grew by 10.3% compared to the same period last year, follows from a preliminary estimate by Rosstat. Significant GDP growth is explained by the low base of 2020: then, in the second quarter, the economy fell by 7.8%, writes Interfax. The last time the Russian economy showed growth was a year ago - in the first quarter of 2020, GDP grew by 1.4%. After that, it declined for four quarters.

RT interviews detained Belarusian journalist Roman Protasevich Belarusian state broadcasters have aired multiple interviews with opposition journalist Roman Protasevich since he was arrested in Minsk in May. But until earlier this week, he had yet to speak to any foreign media outlets. The Russian state-controlled broadcaster RT published an interview with Protasevich on Wednesday, August 11.

Singer Marina Maksimova (MakSim) was discharged from the hospital. This was announced on Instagram by its director Margarita Sokolova. Our Marina was discharged from the hospital today! It was her decision. She insisted on it! She said that she wanted to hug the children, she was afraid that she would not be able to do this. She will have professional help at home to help her recover.

Meet the doctors, cosmonauts, and pro-Kremlin youth stars expected to grab seats in Russia’s next Parliament Russia’s State Duma In roughly a month, on September 17, three-day parliamentary elections will begin in Russia. Using party lists, opinion polls, and turnout estimates in each region across the country, it’s relatively easy to predict the results. As ever, the biggest changes are taking place inside United Russia, the nation’s ruling political party.

The leader of the German band Rammstein, Till Lindemann, illegally released a series of NFTs with digital images taken during filming in the Hermitage. The museum reported this on its Telegram channel. The images used for the NFT were taken in the Hermitage in May 2021, during the filming of the video for Lindemann's song "Favorite City".

In Voronezh, an explosion occurred on the bus, two people died. In Moscow, the requirement of the remotes was canceled. We tell you how to choose the most delicious watermelon Good evening, This message (material) was created and (or) widespread by a foreign media that performs the functions of a foreign agent, and (or) a Russian legal entity that performs the functions of a foreign agent This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about important news of the day.

Pro-Kremlin channel to premiere Prigozhin-backed film about Donbas war According to Meduza’s sources, Russian oligarch Evgeny Prigozhin has bankrolled another made-for-TV movie about mercenaries from the Wagner group. The film is scheduled to premiere on August 18, on the pro-Kremlin channel NTV — the same television network that released a Prigozhin-backed action movie about Russian fighters in the Central African Republic earlier this year.

Russian comedians recorded a video in support of their colleague Idrak Mirzalizade, who received 10 days of arrest for a joke about the Russians. The video is placed on the Yetuub channel of the community of comedians of Stand-up Club #1. At the time of writing this news, he scored more than 97 thousand views. Stand-up Club #1 “10 days for a joke are not a terrible punishment, but a terrible precedent. The joke may not like or offend. But for a joke you can not deprive of freedom.

Tolga Akmen / AFP / Scanpix / Leta PFIZER-BIONTECH Vaccination in London, July 2021 The spread of the Delta coronavirus variant has greatly changed the course of the pandemic, leading to a new increase in incidence - not only in Russia, but also in countries with a much higher level of vaccination: Great Britain, Israel, USA. Such a development of events was a surprise for the authorities who had already begun to remove restrictions on the wave of success of the vaccination campaign.

Teachers were not recommended to say “this will pass” and limit students in choosing toilets and locker rooms Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images The authorities of Scotland have developed a guide for schools in interaction with children and adolescents who declared their transgender. On August 12, the document was published on the website of the Scottish government.

Here are the extremely stingy new data about this explosion Vladimir Lavrov / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The cause of the explosion in Voronezh is not established. The National Anti -Terrorism Committee (NAC) joined the investigation. This department is coordinating the work of various services . On his website, NAC said that "the search is being conducted involved in what happened." The committee officially did not say anything about whether it was a terrorist attack.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. We talk about the excellent documentary "Katya and Vasya go to school." Two Muscovites “went to the people”: we went to the province by teachers - and crashed At the end of August, “Katya and Vasya go to school” in Russia.

In July, according to the Moscow Health Department, 17,237 people died in the city — 6,464 more than in July 2020. Covid was the main or concomitant cause of death in 6583 cases. The Moscow Department of Health connects the increase in mortality "with the spread of a new strain of coronavirus and abnormally hot weather." The heat, the report says, negatively affected the severity of the coronavirus disease and led to an exacerbation of diseases of the cardiovascular system.