The fate of eight miners in the flooded Mir mine in the city of Mirny in Yakutia remains unknown, the Diamond Territory reported in the reporting of the television company. The head of the Profalmaz trade union Motrana Scriabin said that four miners are employees of the contracting organization. The remaining four are employees of the Mir mine. According to Skryabina, some of the native miners are on vacation.

In the Belarusian city of Vitebsk, father Nikolai (Nikolai Kireev) from the Church of the Holy Apostles Peter and Paul in the Vsevozsky district of the Leningrad region was detained. The Russian priest was detained on August 4. According to the site 47news.ru , Father Nikolai left the temple on August 2. He told his relatives that he was going to commit a pilgrimage voyage in the Moscow region. The last time the priest called up with loved ones about an hour of the afternoon on August 3.

In Kostroma, a man who introduced himself as a police officer hit the activist Alexander Zykov, who is the volunteer of the headquarters of the opposition Alexei Navalny, who has already begun the presidential campaign, despite the fact that the CEC announced the impossibility of his participation in the elections due to criminal record. According to the magazine "7x7" , on Oktyabrskaya Square in Kostroma on August 5, volunteers stood at the campaign cube.

The English football club "Hull City" in the first official match under the leadership of the Russian head coach Leonid Slutsky tied with a score of 1: 1 with Aston Villa in the framework of the first round of the champion. The “Aston Villa” was distinguished by Gabriel Agbonlachor (7 '), the guests have a return ball Jerrod Bowen (61'). “The goal of Bowen did not have a surprise for me, because he was the best scorer in the preseason and continues to score in official matches.

French President Emmanuel Macron faced public indignation, as soon as it became known about his desire to officially make his wife Brigitte the first lady. The petition against this decision of Macron gained more than 170 thousand signatures in two weeks, reports Huffington Post .

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the head of the US State Department Rex Tillerson held a meeting at Manila at the Forum of the Association of Southeast Asia. At the meeting, they discussed several important topics at once, including sanctions. After the meeting, Lavrov said that Tillerson asked him about Russia's response to expand American sanctions.

US Secretary of State Rex Tilleryson does not justify the hopes that President Donald Trump had assigned to him, appointing to this position. The head of the State Department was supposed to quickly gather a reliable team and begin to solve important issues, and to delegate to officials a more modest rank. To date, Tillerson did not succeed in doing anything from this, the newspaper The New York Times reports with reference to his own sources.

Internet users noticed that at the largest Amazon trading platform, they put up toilet paper with records of US President Donald Trump for sale in the Twitter microblogs. The description of the goods says that 10 "most annoying" Tvites Trump were selected for printing on toilet paper. These tweets are considered "the most suitable for washing the wastewater", the description says.

High -ranking officials in the British government were going to pay the European Union of 40 billion euros to repay their financial obligations in connection with the exit from the bloc, Interfax reports with reference to The Telegraph newspaper. The publication is afraid that such a decision can sow serious disagreements in London. According to the source of the newspaper, the proposed amount is the only option that can allow resolving disputes with Brussels.

Arsenal players defeated Chelsea in the match for the Super Cup of England. The main time of the meeting of London clubs at the Wembley stadium ended in a draw, and the “gunners” were more precise in the penalty series. The Aristocrats came forward after the goal of Victor Moses (46 ') - 1: 0, and in the 80th minute, Arsenal received a numerical advantage: Pedro Rodriguez earned a direct red card for a dirty tackle.

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov after negotiations on August 6 with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at the Forum of the Association of Southeast Asia in Manila announced that the Ryabkov -Shannon diplomatic channel will renew work. Russia itself closed this channel on June 21 as a response to the expansion of anti -Russian sanctions. Within the framework of this channel, the Russian Federation tried to return the Russian diplomats blocked at Barack Obama Obama.

The soloist and guitarist of the Ukrainian group Ivan Blues & Friends, Ivan Denisenko, died on August 5 after the concert of the music team at the August Blues festival in the city of Haapsalu in Estonia. His sister Valentina Denisenko wrote about the death of the musician on Facebook. Denisenko became bad directly at the concert, reports Dialog.ua . He finished singing, then a musical loss began and the musician fell right on the stage.

The striker of the Moscow Lokomotiv Aryi really intends to purchase the Brazilian Football Championship Club of the UNICLICANT (FORTALEASI). "Yes, we really started negotiations on the purchase of a club, but at the moment everything is still in the initial stage. Now my agent is studying the documents and, perhaps, at the end of the month we will make a specific proposal. I would very much like to purchase this club," said Ari TASS .

Banks "Opening" and "Rocketbank" completely restored the work of the network of ATMs and operations on customer maps. The night before, customers complained that operations on cards of these banks were not underway. The press service of the “opening” of the RNS agency said that the bank "considering options for compensation to customers for the inconvenience." The press service assured that now their systems are in full.

US President Donald Trump expressed gratitude to Russia and China to support the UN Security Council resolution on expanding sanctions against the DPRK. This is stated in the message of the press secretary of the White House Sarah Sanders. “The president is grateful to China and Russia for cooperation when ensuring this resolution,” said Sanders (according to a quote for TASS).