In Germany, the prosecutor's office charged the 32-year-old Marcus R., who is suspected of state treason, disclosure of secret data and receiving bribes for providing secret documents to third parties. According to investigators, the man collaborated simultaneously with the CIA and with Russian intelligence, Reuters reports.

The court in Udmurtia sentenced a woman convicted of the murder of a relative. Strazhovschina occurred on the basis of a household conflict, and a plate with food became an apple for the two housewives. By a court decision, the 44-year-old villager, guilty of murder, will spend eight years behind bars, the official website of the Republican Directorate of the IC of the Russian Federation reports.

From the review on an independent website about banking activities, Kuap.ru , which is engaged in financial analysis of banks, it follows that Gazprombank turned out to be the most unprofitable Russian bank, RBC writes.

After several tragic cases of shooting at the Regal Entertainment Group, which owns about 7,300 cinema halls throughout America, the company announced strengthening security measures. Kinomanov warned that now they would be able to encounter some inconvenience in the form of inspections of personal belongings. "Security issues have become part of everyday life in the USA. Regal Entertainment Group wants our customers and employees to feel comfortable and safe in our cinemas.

The American actress Shennen Dortort, who is known to Russian viewers from the TV series Beverly Hills, 90210 and Enchanted, said in court that she was diagnosed with breast cancer, reports The Huffington Post . She sued her company Tanner Mainstain Glynn & Johnson, which was engaged in her case, saying that she dragged on with the registration of insurance, which was due to which cancer was diagnosed later than possible.

The Moscow Lawyer Bureau Bubnov and Partners asked the Prosecutor General’s Office to oblige Microsoft to eliminate violations of the law (in particular, to protect personal data), allegedly admitted to the Windows 10 operating system, RIA Novosti reports. According to lawyers, Windows 10 collects the story of sites visited by the user, passwords, postal correspondence and other information that can be transmitted to third parties, including special services.

“This became possible thanks to the new Google Trends service, which allows anyone to view the statistics of search queries. Among other things, here you can see in which cities this or that word is googled most often. For example, it is easy to find out that “Tourism” is very often interested in the capital of Buryatia, Ulan-Ude and in Moscow, “Edible Mushrooms” - in Volgograd, and the work of “Mikhail Krug” - in his homeland, in Tver.

Renault began to raise prices for its models in Russia. The car producer connects this with a sharp fluctuation in the exchange rate. Earlier this year, the company several times reduced cars for cars. "Due to the sharp fluctuation in the exchange rate, from August 18, Renault Russia raised prices for the entire lineup by an average of 3%," the representative of the brand told the Internet publication at the wheel .

A group of chemists from the University of George Washington has developed a technology that allows you to obtain carbon nanovers from carbon dioxide in an atmosphere. According to the portal N+1 , the development of scientists is a bath for electrolysis, in which there is a melt of a mixture of carbonates. The entire system is heated to 750 degrees Celsius using sunlight concentrated by a special system.

President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev called the transition to a free tenge course for a forced measure. This was the best option of three possible, he said and listed other measures to overcome the crisis. Nazarbayev met with the leaders of the largest exporting companies on August 20, after on Thursday morning, the government and the National Bank announced the change of credit and money policy and the transition to the tenge market.

The night before, in the German city of Zul, riots flared up, the cause of which was the page torn from the Qur'an. As a result of clashes between refugees and the police, at least 13 people were injured. On the night of August 19, one of the inhabitants of the refugee shelter in Zul tore out the pages from the Holy Book of Muslims, Spiegel reports. The actions of the man caused the anger of his neighbors.

The idea of ​​the Ministry of Communications to tighten the rules for registering the media is contrary to the Constitution, human rights activists believe. The bill, we recall, provides, in particular, the ban on organizations recognized as "foreign agents" to establish their own media. The adoption of the bill will lead to the liquidation of several dozen media.

The authorities of Italy put up five tourist ports for sale, including Capri and Sardinia, the Corriere Della Sera newspaper said on Thursday.

Last night in France, the building of the Museum of Science and Industry (Cité des Sciences), one of the largest in Europe, caught fire. More than a hundred firefighters arrived at the scene. They managed to take the situation only after five hours - at about 7:30 in the morning local time (6:30 in Moscow). The museum arrived 120 firefighters with 30 cars, reports The Local France . Two fire fighters suffered during the extinguishing of the building and were hospitalized.

The Central Bank of Russia recorded the growth of viral attacks on its resources. This follows from the report "On Viral attacks on the organization", prepared by the Deputy Head of the Main Department of Security and Information of the Bank of Russia, Artem Sychev, the text of which was at the disposal of the newspaper Izvestia . As Sychev noted, at present, the Bank of Russia has become more frequent cases of receiving email messages sent via the Internet and containing malicious code.