On August 23, around noon Moscow time, users reported a malfunction in the work of the public services portal . Some time after the first complaints appeared on the site, a message appeared about temporary problems, which stated that soon the work of the portal would be restored. "At the moment, there is a restriction of users' access to a number of resources through the ESIA account.

The head of the logistics service of the State Unitary Enterprise "Petersburg Metro" Denis Rudenko and the general director of JSC "MK Diesel-Energo" Alexey Lazarev were detained in the case of supplying counterfeit goods, the website of the Investigative Committee (IC) reports. According to the department, in December 2015, Lazarev, Rudenko and “other persons” misled the management of the St. Petersburg metro and entered into an agreement to modernize equipment.

Russian businessman Alisher Usmanov invested about $20 million in the Uzbek football club Pakhtakor, the Uzbekistan 24 TV channel claims in a documentary about the entrepreneur’s investments. “I am proud that I am an Uzbek, I am proud that this is my native land, and I am ready to do everything that I can be useful for Uzbekistan. Always and at any moment,” Usmanov said. In the coming years, the club's stadium will also be modernized, the project is estimated at 100 million.

Deutsche Bank London division threatens to break off relations with the Russian Federation, while Russian officials do not understand what is required of them. However, later the TASS source said that Deutsche Bank has no concern about the Russian authorities.

On August 23, the Chinese company officially introduced the new Mavic 2 folding drone, which received a number of improvements compared to the previous generation of the line. According to The Verge, the drone will be produced in versions of Mavic 2 Pro and Mavic 2 Zoom, the main difference between which is the chamber used. Mavic 2 Pro is equipped with a camera developed by Hasselblad with a 1-inch matrix with a resolution of 20 megapixels.

On August 23, representatives of several Russian online publications reported problems with publishing materials in their Facebook groups - the social network began immediately deleting publications with hyperlinks. As representatives of the educational project Arzamas told Meduza , the social network allows you to publish posts with pictures and text, but automatically deletes posts with links. The problem was also complained to by The Insider, Mediazona, Roskomsvoboda and other media outlets.

The popular American television series Theory of the Big Bang will end after the 12th season in 2019 and will not go out anymore. “We will always be grateful to our fans for their support for the series for all 12 seasons. We are all actors, scriptwriters film crew - we very much appreciate the success of the show and want to make its last season and final series in such a way as to bring the“ Big Bang Theory ”to the epic creative conclusion,” Variety quoted Warner Bros as saying.

The Japanese authorities are preparing for a new disaster, this time due to the approach of the powerful tropical typhoon Cimaron. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe ordered to take all possible measures to minimize possible consequences. Residents of several areas of the island of Shikoku have already received warnings to prepare for possible evacuation in the event of the threat of landslides and floods that the typhoon could cause.

US President Donald Trump may announce the pardon of the former leader of his campaign headquarters Paul Manafort, who faces a long prison conclusion for financial violations and fraud. This was announced by the journalist of the Fox News television channel, who interviewed the American leader. The passage of the interview was shown on Wednesday, it should completely be aired on Thursday morning in local time (on Thursday day in Moscow).

Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov discussed on Thursday with US Secretary of State Michael Pompeo the situation of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who has been holding a hunger strike in Russia, who has been holding a hunger strike in Russia. In response to Washington’s anxiety, the fate of Sentsov Moscow put forward oncoming claims regarding the imprisonment of Russian citizens: Konstantin Yaroshenko, Viktor Butina, Maria Butina.

In Minsk, the founder and director of the independent news agency Belapan Alexander Lipai died, TASS reports. This was reported on Thursday in the agency. “Today, the founder and head of the Belapan agency died suddenly. He was 52 years old,” Lipai’s colleagues reported in the message posted on the website of the Agency. Recently, Lipai was sick, he was in the hospital. The funeral will be held on August 26 in Rudensk in the Minsk region.

The press service of Channel One called mentors of the new, seventh season of the show "Voice". In September of this year, the chairs of mentors will be occupied by the stars, "which are today the brightest and most in demand each in their role," the channel notes. This is Konstantin Meladze, Ani Lorak, Basta (Vasily Vakulenko) and "Superpopular Sergey Shnurov". "Each of this four represents a separate direction in music, each has its own musical point of view.

In the Voronezh region, a sentence was sentenced in a criminal case of a fire in a Novokhopersky neuropsychiatric boarding school in 2015, as a result of which 23 people were killed . The Novokhopersky District Court found the director and head of the boarding school guilty under Part 3 of Art.

“A good friend flew in from Europe. She hadn’t been to Moscow for a couple of years, and asked her to take her for a walk around the center. We met on the Boulevard Ring, hugged and went wandering. From hipster coffee shops to Georgian taverns, through bookstores to Turkish baklava establishments,” writes the philosopher and publicist on Facebook .

Lawyers of the Public Verdict human rights fund transferred new videos to the press testifying to the systematic torture of convicted in correctional colony N1 (IK-1) in Yaroslavl. This penitentiary institution has become a kind of symbol of violence against Russian prisoners after the publication a month ago a shocking video , in which two dozen warders methodically torture convicted Evgeny Makarov. The next videos with violence in the same IK-1 were published by the New Gazeta .