For the first time since 2005, Russian tennis players did not enter the top ten ratings of the highest paid athletes in the world according to the authoritative financial magazine Forbes, the next version of which was published on the official website of the publication . In the period from June 1, 2016 to June 1, 2017, Maria earned less than six million dollars and took 11th place in the list.

In the Irbit of the Sverdlovsk region, the police are repeated in connection with the emergence of information about the inadequate behavior of the offspring of a woman policy. According to preliminary data, the son of the deputy came to work in a recreation center in a state of drug intoxication and publicly engaged in handwriting. In the center of the scandal was the deputy of the local city Duma Olga Gladkova and her 29-year-old son Alexei, writes Ura.ru.

American economists Seth Benzel (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Lawrence Kotlikoff and Guillermo Rodriguez (both Boston University) used the model of the world economy of the Russian Institute of Gaidar to calculate the long -term consequences of the tax reform proposed by US President Donald Trump and the Republican Party.

A critical error in updating the firmware of the LockState RemoteLock 6i/6000i smart combination lock led to the failure of 500 of these locks, making them impossible to use without a physical key. According to CNews , RemoteLock locks costing $469 are available to owners of private and commercial real estate, and their main buyers are owners of houses and apartments rented through the Airbnb online service, with which LockState has signed a partnership agreement.

“Today, the first units of Russian troops are beginning to arrive in Belarus, which are to participate in the Zapad-2017 strategic maneuvers scheduled for mid-September. Meanwhile, more and more concerned voices are being heard in neighboring states. In Kiev, fears are being expressed that the maneuvers could be used by Russia, in order to concentrate troops for a new aggression.

The share of Russians complaining of a noticeable deterioration in the economic situation has almost doubled over the year. According to the Institute of Social Analysis and Forecasting of the RANEPA (INSAP), last June it amounted to 14.8%, dropping from 28.8% in May 2015, and 31.2% in June 2016, the newspaper Vedomosti writes.

In the province of Fristyit of the South African Republic, a trial began in a criminal case instituted against a businessman from Denmark, who owns an arms store. During a search in the house of a foreigner, cut fragments of the female genital organs frozen in the refrigerator were discovered. In the court of Bloomfonttein against the 65-year-old "collector of clitor" Peter Frederiksen, a nine-year-old girl, a native of Lesoto, performed.

A group of chemists from China and South Korea has developed a new refractory material that has extremely low density, but can withstand heavy loads and effectively stop fire. A paper on the development was published in the journal Applied Materials & Interfaces . As N+1 writes, the material was created on the basis of a foamed polyimide polymer, which plays the role of a base, with the addition of a composite of graphene and red phosphorus.

Indian and Chinese military announced preparations for a possible armed conflict because of the plateau for reports - the disputed territory in the Himalayas. The peaceful solution to this problem has not yet been found, it states on Tuesday, August 15, The Independent . Because of this, a strategically important plateau, where the boundaries of China, Tibet, India and the Kingdom of Butan are found, the parties fought in 1962.

In the Lotoshinsky district of the Moscow Region, a rare predatory bird was discovered - a small patron, the press service of the Ministry of Ecology and Nature Management of the Moscow Region was told by Newsru.com. Biologists have discovered a small fingering when monitoring of rare species of flora and fauna. Now this rare bird is listed in the Red Book of Russia and in the Red Book of the Moscow Region.

Rector of the Novosibirsk Cathedral of Alexander Nevsky Archpriest Alexander Novopashin spoke about the attack on the monument to Nikolai II and Tsarevich Alexei, which occurred on August 1. Its volumetric text, entitled "who and how sways our society (on the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution)," is published on the website of the cathedral.

In Primorye, the border guards detained a Chinese who tried to transport more than six kilograms of frog fat across the border. To obtain so many products used in Chinese medicine and cosmetology, it is necessary to exterminate thousands of frogs. Since the fat party was not declared, an administrative case was opened against the Chinese. A foreigner was detained at the Border checkpoint, the Vostok-Media agency reports.

The billiard room, equipped in the court of meetings of the Court of Labytnangi of the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug), will be converted into an advisory room for jurors, TASS reports. "The premises in question were previously used as a rest room. Currently, the administration of the Judicial Department in the Yamalo -Nenets Autonomous Okrug is undergoing as part of the implementation of the Federal Law" On Jurisdictions "..." said the city court.

Early in the morning on Tuesday, August 15, the inhabitants of Irkutsk found four black coffins on the site near the regional government building. From reports on social networks, it became known that in this way the authorities recalled the death of four pupils of the Cheremkhovsky neuropsychiatric boarding school last summer for children with disabilities due to optimization of the institution.

Lake Sweet, partially located in the Novosibirsk region of Russia, now fully belongs to Kazakhstan. Part of the reservoir passed to the neighboring republic after demarcation at the border. This is stated on the website of the administration of the Kupinsky district of the Novosibirsk region in a message dated August 10. As explained in the press service, before the demarcation work, part of Lake Sweet was located in Russia. Now it is completely in Kazakhstan.