The Russian women's artistic gymnastics team won the team all-around at the European Championships, which takes place in Zagreb, Croatia. The team included three gymnasts - Angelina Melnikova, Anna Kalmykova and Lyudmila Roshchina. They competed in four events (beam, uneven bars, vault and floor exercise) and received a total score of 165.430. The Italian team took second place (161.796 points), the French team took third (159.263 points).

The VEB.RF state corporation fired chief economist Andrei Klepach after quotes from his speech were circulated in the media, in which he spoke about the impossibility of Russia’s victory in the economic “war of attrition.” Two economist acquaintances told The Bell about Klepach’s dismissal.

The Princely House of Liechtenstein has changed the rules of succession to the throne so that in future generations women will be able to occupy the throne on an equal basis with men. A press release from the Princely House of Liechtenstein on August 15 stated that female descendants are entitled to the same rights to participate in matters of dynastic legislation as male descendants.

Ukrainian armed forces have used British-made drones for the first time over the past six months to strike targets deep inside Russia, The Sunday Times writes. Ukraine received drones produced by two British companies. One of them, as the newspaper writes, is the Nyan jet drone manufactured by Callen-Lenz (a subsidiary of the largest defense company BAE Systems).

In the autobiography of Pope Francis, published by the Alpina publishing house, a fragment dedicated to the pontiff’s discussions about same-sex unions and transgender people was censored. Moscow bookstore Primus Versus showed photographs of book pages with black stripes in its announcement.

Burak Akay / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images Miniature mouse statues on the steps of the Temple of Apollo Smintheus in Canakkale, Türkiye During excavations at the sanctuary of Apollo at Gortyn on the island of Crete, archaeologists discovered the remains of more than 450 mice. They were in a votive pit inside a stone wall dating back to the 7th century BC. e., but the exact age of the remains has not yet been announced.

1635th day. In the Moscow region, one of the largest Wildberries warehouses was attacked for the second time. The book market came under attack in Kyiv EPA / Scanpix / LETA Burning Wildberries warehouse in Koledino, Moscow region, August 16, 2026 Since February 24, 2022, Meduza has been broadcasting live about the Russian-Ukrainian war. We publish your letters every day because we are sure that we need to continue talking about the war. Share with us your thoughts about the war.

Patrick Smith/Getty Images Prichard Colon (left) and Terrell Williams during their fight on October 17, 2015 Pritchard Colon was born in Florida but moved to Puerto Rico as a child. There he quickly became a promising boxer. Before the age of 20, he won the Puerto Rican Amateur Championship five times and won a gold medal at the Pan American Youth Games. In 2013, Colon turned professional. In 16 matches in the professional ring, he did not lose even once; 13 matches ended in knockout.

All five parliamentary parties received at least 1 billion 153 million rubles in donations from donors “with traces of foreign funding” in the period from 2021 to 2025, the Yabloko Anti-Corruption Policy Center found out.

Anton Dolin looked at tyrannosaurs, pterosaurs and allosaurs Warner Bros. The film “The Edge of Oak Street” was released worldwide, in which tyrannosaurs and pterosaurs burst into the sunny American suburbs. Film critic Anton Dolin explains why you shouldn't expect too much from the August blockbuster. An honest answer to the question “how good is this movie?” is unlikely to include enthusiastic epithets. But he can lift your spirits, and that’s already a lot.

We show stills from Kiana Hayeri’s photo project No Womanʼs Land Exactly five years ago, in August 2021, the Taliban seized power in Afghanistan. Islamic fundamentalists promised to respect women's rights and even give women an active role "within the framework of Islamic law." In fact, women in Afghanistan have been deprived of even basic rights, such as the right to education beyond primary school. In some regions, they cannot leave the house without a male guardian.

Prize-winners and winners of the Olympiads this year took more than half of the budget places in the first courses of leading universities in Russia, and in some areas - all the places, writes RBC (access to the material through a paid subscription).

Dissatisfaction with Washington is growing in the Gulf countries - US allies are concerned that Donald Trump is unable to reach an agreement with Iran, The Washington Post writes, citing Arab and Western officials. The governments of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Bahrain are now “united in their irritation” with the Trump administration’s actions, WP sources said. “Trump started this war, and we are paying the price,” said one Gulf official.

Instructions on how to become a Doctor of Science and whether you really need it At the end of 2025 - beginning of 2026, Russians again began to search on Google for how to leave the country. The number of requests is close to what was recorded at the beginning of 2023. However, simply leaving is only half the battle. Emigration confronts people with questions of broken social ties, frozen careers and, in general, integration into a new society.

Frank Rumpenhorst / picture alliance / Getty Images According to the WHO , mosquitoes are responsible for approximately 700 thousand human deaths every year. Most are caused by insect-borne malaria. Moreover, they live all over the world, with the exception of Antarctica. And recently, insects characteristic of tropical regions have been migrating further north . For example , the yellow fever mosquito (Aedes aegypti). It is a carrier of a number of serious diseases .