In the urban-type village of Yuzhno-Kurilsk on the island of Kunashir (in the south of the Kuril Islands), Russian customs officers detained a Japanese translator who tried to take out four million undeclared Japanese yen.

The company of the Rotenberg Brothers partner will create a single pharmaceutical register, writes the Russian edition of Forbes magazine. We are talking about the chairman of the board of directors of the SMP Bank, owned by Arkady and Boris Rotenberg, Artem Obolensky.

In the National Forest Park of Zhangjiazze, the highest and longest bridge in the world with a glass floor opened in the Chinese province of Hunan on the weekend. A 430-meter structure called Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon Skywalk, designed by the Israeli architect Haim Donan, is stretched between two cliffs over a picturesque large canyon at an altitude of 300 meters, reports The Guardian with reference to AFP. The width of the bridge is six meters.

The head of the Paralympic Committee of Russia (PCR) Vladimir Lukin and paralympic athletes arrived in Brazil in order to defend the right of the Russian team to participate in the Games in Rio, NTV reports. The meeting of the arbitration court, where the appeal for removal from the games of the Paralympic team in full force will be considered , will be held in Rio de Janeiro on August 22. The decision should be announced no later than midnight in local time.

The Federation of the Jewish communities of Russia (Feor) called on the new Minister of Education Olga Vasiliev to give explanations about her attitude to the era of Joseph Stalin and state terror. “I hope to clarify the situation on this issue.

In the II quarter of 2016, new apartments in Montenegro cost an average of 1050 euros per 1 square. meter, which is 10.2% cheaper than a year earlier. And compared with the first quarter of this year, the prices of new buildings in the country decreased by 0.7%, Balkanpro.ru reports with reference to the Monstat statistical agency. At the same time, the cost of new apartments in the city of Budva increased to 1505 euros per 1 square.

Conflicting data comes from the Syrian city of Hasek (El Hasak), where last week there were clashes between government troops and Kurdish militias who repelled this city from the Islamic State terrorists (IG, Daesh , is prohibited in the Russian Federation). The Syrian military said that after the deterioration, they managed to reach the ceasefire agreement with the Kurds, reports MiddleeAseteye.net with reference to AFP.

The governor of the Odessa region Mikhail Saakashvili called on the Minister of Sports of Ukraine Igor Zhdanov to resign after the national team showed the "catastrophically bad" results at the XXXI Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. “Catastrophically bad results of Ukraine at the Olympics,” he wrote on his Facebook page. “Usually, after such a failure, at least the Minister of Sports should resign.

The Prosecutor General’s Office of Ukraine published on her channel on YouTube a record of telephone conversations, which supposedly sound the voice of adviser to Russian President Sergei Glazyev with various officials about the preparation of a referendum on joining Russia in Crimea and riots in Donetsk, Odessa and Kharkov.

The President of the Russian Olympic Committee (OKR), Alexander Zhukov, called the performance of Russian athletes at the Olympics in the Rio de Janeiro Successful and noted that this is "a speech contrary to circumstances." The Russian team took fourth place in the medal standings, winning 19 gold medals. "From the total number of Russian participating Russians - 280 people - 107 received a medal.

The main Russian automobile exhibition Moscow International Automobile Salon (MAMS) starts on August 24 at the Crocus-Expo exhibition complex. Against the backdrop of a crisis of automotive sales in Russia, only two players from dozens of largest brands in the Russian market will take part in it, TASS notes.

The Islamic militant Ahmad al-Faki al-Mamedi from the Ansar-ad-Din group pleaded guilty to the international criminal court in the destruction of the Islamists of nine Mausoleums and mosques in the ancient African city of Timbukta, the Air Force reports. He faces up to 30 years in prison. It is noted that al -Maladi is the first Islamist who appeared before the Mus, as well as the first person to be brought by personal accusations of the destruction of cultural objects.

The Turkish authorities appointed a new ambassador to Russia, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a diplomatic source in Ankara. The current ambassador Umit Yardym has been heading a diplomatic mission in Russia since 2014. "Yes, he is appointed, the candidacy of the new ambassador to the Russian Federation is agreed," said the agency’s source.

A group of researchers from the University of Hamline and the University of Notre Dame (USA) has developed a simple and cheap test system designed to identify falsified or spoiled drugs. Such a technology can find wide application in developing countries. According to N+1 , a system developed by scientists, the cost of which is about the US dollar, is a paper base with 12 stripes shared by wax partitions.

On the eve of the 75th anniversary of the writer Sergei Dovlatov, the newspaper Metro found out that the room in the house on Rubinstein Street, where the author of the “reserve”, “Suitcase” and “compromise” found new tenants lived. We are talking about a room in a communal apartment, explains the publication. Six rooms have owners, and the seventh, in which Dovlatov lived, is generally used as a pantry until recently.