Within the framework of the Army-2018 Forum, which was held in the Kubinka of Kubinka, the State Corporation Rostec presented the current example of a passive exoskeleton developed by TsNIITOCHMASH together with the company GB Engineering.

In the Italian region of Calabria, a rescue operation is performed after a mountain river spilled due to heavy rains. The rampant elements took at least eight human lives. The dead were tourists. The tragedy occurred in the province of Kozenz. There, rescuers found the bodies of four men and four women. Five people were injured, and another 11 were discovered by unharmed, writes il Sussidiario.net . The dead were tourists who traveled along the 13-kilometer canyon in the Pollino National Park.

Russia is preparing to recover from the bottom of the Barents Sea a rocket with a nuclear power plant, which fell there during tests in 2017, the American television channel CNBC reported on Tuesday, citing an American intelligence report. It is not specified which American intelligence service prepared this report. "A Russian nuclear-powered missile remains at sea after a failed test last year, and Moscow is preparing to try to recover it," the report said.

Swiss authorities have suspended the registration of new Mercedes-Benz and Porsche cars with diesel engines, as their engines do not meet environmental requirements. The ban included Mercedes-Benz Vito minivans with 1.6-liter engines, as well as Porsche Macan and Cayenne crossovers equipped with engines with a displacement of 3.0 and 4.2 liters, respectively. The registration ban applies to vehicles imported into the country after August 17, 2018.

Several major TV broadcasters have removed their channels from the Yandex main page, where they were broadcast through the TV Online service. Channel owners took this step to force the search engine to remove pirated content. According to the Kommersant newspaper, at the end of July streaming was removed by the Gazprom Media holding (managed by NTV, TNT, TV-3, etc.), and in August the National Media Group (REN TV, Channel Five) and "Channel One".

Russia and the Central African Republic (CAR) signed an intergovernmental agreement on military cooperation on August 21. The ceremony took place as part of the military-technical forum "Army-2018" in Kubinka near Moscow, the document was signed by the head of the Russian military department Sergei Shoigu and the Minister of National Defense and Army Reconstruction of the Central African Republic Marie Noel Coillard, Interfax reports.

The US Department of Finance has published an unexpected version of the report on the confrontation with illegal financial flows related to Russia, RBC reports. In accordance with the Last August by the Caatsa law (Article 243), the Trump administration was supposed to send this report to Congress by the beginning of August 2018. "Since 2017, this administration has imposed sanctions on 215 citizens and organizations related to Russia ...

A third of Russians (32%) are known from the events of 50 years ago in Czechoslovakia, which went down in history as the "Prague Spring", but considering the correct introduction of the Soviet troops into this country more than those who believe that this should not have been done, the sociologists of the Levada Center found out.

Yakov Kogan “At school, in history lessons, we were taught that at the beginning of the twentieth century in Rus' there were certain pale, exhausted, but very desperate and strong-willed revolutionaries.

National Basketball Association (NBA) owners expect to have access to information about the mental health of the players in whom they invest hundreds of millions of dollars. According to experts, almost half of the league’s players suffer from disabilities, Match TV reports with reference to ESPN . The players' union said such requests violated the players' right to confidentiality.

The cover version of the song “Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)” by the British band Eurythmics became truly “fatal” for the American rock musician and actor Marilyn Manson. Last fall, during a concert in Manhattan, while performing a cover of “Sweet Dreams,” the musician climbed onto a structure of two giant pistols that adorned the stage. Under the weight of the rocker, the decoration collapsed and fell on his leg .

The Investigative Committee charged teenagers who scored a 20-year-old disabled person in the city of Berezovsky Sverdlovsk region. Part 4 of Article 111 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (intentional infliction of grievous bodily harm) can face up to 10 years in prison. The prosecution was charged to four adolescents aged 14-16, according to the website of the regional department of the IC of the Russian Federation.

Belarusian citizen Anastasia Vyukevich (Nastya Rybka), who is now being prepared to judge in Thailand on charges of organizing the provision of sexual services as part of a criminal group, told a journalist AP in Patay that she gave to Russian billionaire Oleg Deripaska in exchange for a certain service of the audio recording of conversations with his participation in the presidential election in the US 2016.

In the city of Kotelniki, Moscow Region, 26 people were poisoned, one of them died before the ambulance arrived. The reasons for what happened are still unknown. “As a result of the incident in Kotelniki, 26 people were injured, 23 of them were hospitalized with complaints of poor health in the Lyubertsy regional hospital N1, in the Ramenskoye infectious diseases department, as well as in the Lyubertsy regional hospital N2.

Svetlana Stroganova A large adoptive mother, who previously criticized the proposal to limit the number of children in foster families, publishes on Facebook an open letter to the Minister of Education Olga Vasilyeva, in which he suggests Vasilyeva to apologize for sharp words and establish a dialogue with the community of adoptive parents. "An open letter to the Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Ms. Vasilyeva O.Yu. Dear Ms. Minister!