Earlier this week, Google officially released Google Duo, a mobile app designed for making video calls. In just a few days, the program gained significant popularity among users. According to Phone Arena , in just a few days, the new video messenger topped the ranking of free programs in the American version of the Google Play store, ahead of Facebook Messenger and the super-popular game Pokemon Go. The resource notes that the new Google application also received very high ratings from users.

In Russia, the number of unscrupulous borrowers, which indicate in questionnaires for obtaining a loan, decreased. According to the experts of the collection agency "Sequoia Consolidation Credit", over three years, the share of "ghosts" decreased from 25% to 17%, the newspaper Izvestia writes. It is becoming increasingly difficult for deceivers to hide. The sequoia believes that the tendency to reduce the “ghosts” borrowers will remain in the crisis.

In Crimea, the exercises of the units of material and technical support (MTO) began. According to the Ministry of Defense , the military began to fulfill the tasks to ensure a grouping of troops at sea and land landfills.

Russian Vitaliy Dunaytsev won the bronze medal of the Olympic boxing tournament in Rio de Janeiro in the weight category up to 64 kg. This medal has become for Russia the 47th at the 2016 Games. In the semifinals, Vitaly lost to the representative of Uzbekistan Fazliddin Gaibnazarov with a separate decision of the judges - 1: 2 (28:29, 29:28, 28:29).

German Chancellor Angela Merkel does not see the grounds for lifting the economic sanctions of the European Union against Russia. She stated this in an interview with Redaktions Netzwerks Deutschland (RND) , published on Friday, August 19.

The Ukrainian police detained a man suspected of sexual abuse of the elderly visitor to the clinic in the city of Lviv. The perverted the doctor and invited an elderly person to a physical examination. Criminal punishment faces a 29-year-old resident of the city of Ukrainian Obukhovsky district of the Kyiv region. At the moment, he is in the Sikhov branch of the city police, reports UNN with reference to the press service of the regional GU NP.

Fedor Krasheninnikov "I will not write how I spent on August 19, 1991 - I was 15 years old, I was a schoolboy, I lived in Alma -Ata, and nothing happened there.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said at a meeting with members of the Security Council of the Russian Federation on the security of Crimea that Moscow is not going to curtail relations with Kiev. “We are not going to turn off all our relations. Despite the reluctance of today's authorities in Kiev, to have full diplomatic relations at the ambassador level, we will nevertheless leave the possibilities for the development of contacts, to maintain them.

The National Government Commission of Mexico on Human Rights (CNDH) came to the conclusion that last spring, during a special operation , law enforcement officers deliberately killed more than two dozen people on the Ranch in the state of Michoacan. The conclusions of the commission were made public on Thursday, reports Reuters. "We have revealed facts that indicate gross violations of human rights committed by federal police," said CNDH President Raul Gonzalez at a press conference.

The criminal case was instituted in the Jewish Autonomous Region (EAO) on the fact of the death of a man in whose body doctors forgot a gauze cloth during the operation, the website of the Investigative Department of the RF IC for the region reports.

British Nick Skeleton, a horse named Big Star, became the owner of a gold medal in a personal championship in competition at equestrian sports competitions at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. - Diary of Olympiad-2016: Schedule and results of competitions In jumping, a 58-year-old Englishman for 0.53 seconds with a clean passage of the highway was ahead of the Swede by Peder Fredrickson on Oll Ain, who got a silver award.

"The State Duma of the current convocation remains only a few weeks, but her speaker Sergei Naryshkin vigorously explains under what conditions her deputies will be ready to cooperate with the Ukrainian colleagues: when the composition of the Verkhovna Rada is updated. This is like a telegram from a deceased relative: he was already buried, but he managed to send you wishes for a speedy recovery.

Frenchwoman Estel Mosseli won the 2016 Olympic Gold Medal in boxing competitions in the weight category up to 60 kg. In a decisive duel, she defeated the Chinese woman Yin Junhua with a score of 2: 1 (37:39, 38:38, 39:37). - Diary of Olympiad-2016: Schedule and results of competitions Bronze medals in this type of program went to the Russian woman Anastasia Belyakova and the representative of Finland Potconen.

The Yamaisky Sprinter Usain Bolt won the gold of the 2016 Rio-200 meters, becoming an eight-time Olympic champion. In the final race, he showed the time of 19.78 seconds, ahead of Canadian Andre de Grasse (20.02) and Frenchman Christoph Lemetra (20.12). Recall that at the Olympic Games in Beijing 2008 and in London 2012, the bolt won a total of six gold medals in three disciplines. At the current Olympics, he had already managed to win at a 100-meter .

The Italian Bishop Antonio Stagliano, an employee in the diocese of the city of NOO, located in Sicily, categorically criticized the PokeMon GO application for mobile devices in the whole world. He called the game "devilish" and compared it with the "totalitarian regime as Nazism", RNS reports.