Russian athlete Natalya Vorobyova won the silver medal of the 2016 Olympics in Rio in the fight in the weight category up to 69 kilograms. This is the second silver overnight: earlier the medal won Valery Koblova . In both cases, the Russians lost to the Japanese women, and the loser of the jack allowed her rival to achieve a unique achievement for this discipline. Vorobyova in the final battle lost to a representative of Japan Sarah Hoseyo.

“Housing and Literally Prefectures and literally a couple of“ private ”companies have found a new source of enrichment - from this year they began a full -scale sale of advertising places on information boards in Moscow entrances,” writes a lawyer of the corruption fund on his Facebook page. “This is a advertising shield. There are more than 95,000 in Moscow. It hangs in almost every entrance of a residential building in Moscow (all in the city of 95,000 pieces).

An unusual hotel called the Null Stern Hotel has opened in the mountains of the Swiss canton of Grisons. It is one room with a wide double bed and two bedside tables, which has no windows, no doors, no roof, or even walls. But guests are offered to lie in the fresh air and admire the beautiful views of the mountains and stars. Guests also have access to a personal porter who brings breakfast in bed, and a bathroom within a 10-minute walk, Prian.ru reports.

Police of the state of Massachusetts (USA) came to the rescue of a raccoon, which ended up in a difficult situation. Officers of the police department of Northgempton arrived for a call to the building of the local medical center and saw a raccoon stuck in the opening of the sewer, reports The Independent . Probably, the animal climbed the sewage system and at some point tried to get out. He managed to put his head into the hole in the hole, but it was no longer possible to pull it back.

The journalist on his Facebook page talks about the liquidation of the 19/29 Foundation, supporting independent investigations, noting that the judge of the Presnensky district court of the city of Moscow, which made this decision, was without invitation to the organization’s hall. "Judge of the Presnensky District Court of Moscow Valentin Ershov appointed a consideration of the claim for the liquidation of the 19/29 Foundation on August 17, 2016 for 12.15 08/17/16. Presnensky district court.

Police officers detained the director of the Cheremkhovsky neuropsychiatric boarding school and his deputy after mass poisoning of the pupils of the institution and the death of children. The head of the territorial department of the Office of the Rospotrebnadzor of the Irkutsk region in the Cheremkhovsky and Alar districts was also detained, according to the website of the Investigative Committee.

Kaspersky laboratory has completed the development of a safe KasperskyOS operating system, designed for use in critically important infrastructures and devices. This was reported on the website of the Russian company. As noted in the message, Kasperskyos was developed from scratch.

The typhoon "Shanthu", which dominated the south of Sakhalin on the night of Thursday, brought the almost monthly rainfall to the south of the island. As a result, the houses in the Dolinsky district were flooded, thousands of consumers in five settlements were left without electricity, TASS reports with reference to these regional rescuers. "Due to severe precipitation, as well as the outburst of storm drains, five houses in the Dolinsky district were flooded.

The Minister of Internal Affairs, Justice and the Venezuela World, appointed at the beginning of the month, Nestor Revolol resumed efforts to disarm the Venezuelans. On the eve of August 17, in Karakas, police officers destroyed 1939 weapons seized by law enforcement on the city square, El Nacional . “We are going to bring disarmament and peace,” Revelol said, while his subordinates sawed guns and home -made pistols. Other types of weapons were destroyed by special presses installed on cars.

Alexander Baunov "Regarding female circumcision , which, it turns out, is in Russia, in the auls in the Caucasus, this is what. Seven years ago I was in Africa, in Ethiopia. There, there were posters where priests, mufti and authorities threatened with earthly and heavenly causes (considerable), so that their parents did not dare to disfigure their daughters, sisters, etc.," - writes. Journalist on his Facebook page.

The Spanish police are looking for a criminal who committed the impudent and cynical murder of a foreigner in one of the resorts of the Balearian islands. The killer shot a tourist in front of his wife and their four children. According to the preliminary version, the attacker mistakenly took the victim for the representative of the criminal world.

A new association of authors and musical publishers appeared in the Russian Federation - the Russian Author's Union (ROAS). The Union was established on the basis of a non -profit partnership "Russian Society of Authors and other copyright holders for the collective administration of their ROOP rights." "The relevant changes to the constituent documents were approved by the General Meeting of Partnership members at the end of July 2016," TASS quoted the organization’s message.

In the Bizbulaksky district of Bashkiria, police detained a motorist who is suspected of driving in alcohol intoxication. The offender tried to hide, and then attacked the guard of order pursuing him. The injured policeman is hospitalized, the official website of the Republican Ministry of Internal Affairs reports.

In 2017, the cost of driver's licenses of vehicle registration certificates (STS) and passports (Russian and foreign) can grow due to the introduction of microchips in the documents, Life reports. According to the publication with reference to its sources in the Russian government, the Cabinet of Ministers instructed the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Ministry of Finance to prepare the appropriate amendments to the Tax Code until mid -December.

The sudden decision of the Government of the Russian Federation to postpone the privatization of Bashneft for an indefinite period, which became known on Tuesday evening, is due to the fact that the authorities would like to avoid the exacerbation of the intra -elite struggle on the eve of the State Duma elections.