The media found out that the imam of the mosque in the city of Ripol Abdelbaki al-Satti , who died on August 16 during an explosion in a room where terrorists prepared bombs, which is considered the main ideologist of recent terrorist attacks in Spain, was also involved in the crimes associated with drugs, El Pais reports. It turned out that Imam spent four years in a Spanish prison on charges of drug trafficking.

The Netherlands police officers on the night of Thursday, August 24, detained another suspect due to the threat of a terrorist attack at a concert of the American rock band, canceled the day before in Rotterdam. It is reported by NU.NL. A 22-year-old man was detained during a police raid in the province of North Brabant in the south of the country, he was interrogated as part of the investigation. The performance of the ALLAH-LAS group was canceled due to a terrorist threat.

The American online taxi service Uber presented results for the second quarter, which pleasantly surprised analysts. Despite the scandals surrounding the company this year and the absence of a CEO for two months, Uber reported a 9% decline in losses compared to the first quarter, to $645 million, Bloomberg reports. And net income increased by 17%, to $1.75 billion. At the same time, total revenue amounted to $8.7 billion, which is 17% more than a year earlier.

In addition to the flagship smartphone Galaxy Note 8 , Samsung on August 23 also introduced an updated version of the Gear VR virtual reality glasses, designed to work in tandem with the new smartphone. According to The Verge , support for the Note 8 with a 6.3-inch display is the only noticeable difference between the new Gear VR glasses and the previous version of the device, for which the Note 8 was too large.

Elena Alshanskaya “So this morning I was thinking deliriously, if I were a big government boss, what conclusion would I draw from the story with Kirill Serebrennikov? I would conclude that the financing system for government procurement and government tasks is built, on the one hand, corruption-intensive, and on the other hand the other is inconvenient for the end user.

In Russia, there has been a significant increase in cybercrime since the beginning of the year, and over the past three years it has grown sixfold. This was announced by the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika during a meeting of the heads of prosecutorial services of the BRICS states held in Brazil, dedicated to issues of combating cybercrime.

The owner of an independent oil and gas company (NNK), the former head of Rosneft, Eduard Khudainatov, who is considered a long -standing ally of the main executive director of the concern Igor Sechin, has an asset together with the company related to Ilya Traber. This is written by the Rain TV channel. As the media wrote, the traber is a criminal authority nicknamed Antikvar (at the antique store in St.

The nine-year-old boy Daniel Morozov, whose father killed the mother of the child and was shot by police in Los Angeles (California), was placed in a social center in the city of Santa Barbara. Earlier, the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in San Francisco confirmed that the minor and his parents are Russian citizens. Diplomats have already contacted Daniel's relatives. “We already maintain contact with the relatives of the boy.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko at the military parade in Kiev on the occasion of Independence Day of Ukraine announced the final break with the "Empire of Evil" - this is what he called the Russian Federation with reference to the 40th US President Ronald Reagan. The sign of this gap, according to the Ukrainian leader, was the establishment of a visa -free regime with the European Union.

The activities of Vladimir Putin as the President of the Russian Federation are currently approved by 83% of Russians, 15% of citizens adhere to the opposite point of view, the August survey of the Levada Center showed. At the same time, a rating of confidence in Putin as a politician grew to a maximum indicator this year. In the course of similar studies in May and June, Putin's work approved by 81% of citizens, and 18% expressed discontent.

The Russian government has decided which of the towers in the Moscow City business center about six thousand officials from the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Industry and Trade will move to. As Kommersant writes, almost 75 thousand square meters will be purchased for these purposes. m in the IQ Quarter complex, the construction of which is carried out by the VTB-controlled company Hals-Development.

Over the year, the average microloan size in Russia grew by July of this year by 8% - from 8976 rubles to 9707 rubles. The size of the loan "to salaries" increased in the segment of borrowers from 25 to 29 years old, the National Bureau of credit stories (NBKI) reports , based on the analysis of data from 3 thousand creditors working in the field of microfinance (MFIs, MFC, KPKA others). "Over the past year, the average microloan size (" loan to salary ") grew in all age categories of borrowers.

Ukraine marks the 26th anniversary of independence. In the morning, a military parade was held in Kiev - for the first time without military equipment, but the largest in the history of the holiday, the Ukrainian Service Service reports 1492 . The solemn event was attended by about 4.5 thousand troops. For the first time, soldiers of NATO members marched in Khreshchatyk for the first time.

The International United Investigative Group (JIT), investigating the death of the Malaysian Boeing 777 in the Donbass in July 2014, received data from the radar from Russia at the time of the aircraft crash, this time in the required Asterix format, according to the website of the Dutch prosecutor's office, which is participating in the investigation.

Law enforcement agencies detained 10 people in connection with an attack on passers -by in Surgut, as a result of which seven people were injured. Two was charged with terrorism. At the same time, it was previously reported that the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation did not have a criminal case under a terrorist article, but under an article on attempted murder.