Yakov Kogan “I read in the news about the initiative of bankers to block customer cards for suspicious transfers. They say, they transferred you money, and if the transfer is“ not like ”, then everything, write a circuit block for a couple of days. And then, if it is especially lucky, and for a whole month!” - writes the artist and blogger on Facebook . "And what kind of translation will be considered suspicious - they do not specify.

The plans of the White House to buy Greenland , the disclosure of which threatens an international scandal and has already led to the cooling of relations between Washington and Copenhagen, turned out to be real and thoughtful in detail.

Russians are increasingly denied entry to Israel: only three thousand people could not get to the country for the first half of the year, RIA Novosti reports with reference to an unnamed high -ranking source in diplomatic circles. "The numbers are bad: 2017 - 1.4 thousand [failures], 2018 - 4.3 thousand. This year is already three thousand in the first half of the year. So, about six thousand refusals in the entrance will be this year," he suggested.

The position sent to a psychiatric examination of the teacher of the St. Petersburg Military Space Academy named after the Mozhaisk Rifat Zakirov, who arranged an explosion in it, and then admitted to the FSB to perfect employees. About this writes "Kommersant" . The explosion in one of the office premises of the Academy, which caused a large public outcry, thundered on April 2: during it, the teacher himself, who tried to cleanse the bomb, suffered.

The Japanese company Nikken Sekkei became the winner of the international competition for the architectural concept of the Sberbank business complex and the Sberbank Business Complex and the Kulnev Street in Moscow. "After a five-hour discussion, we chose the finalist of the competition, the project of which is responsible for our needs.

The Center for Social Design "Platform" conducted the first one of a kind among the hundred-polls among voice assistants and chat bots with artificial intelligence to learn about their attitude to themselves, people and flights into space. Details are reported by RIA Novosti . In a study, which was dedicated to the launch of a ship with a humanoid robot Fedor (Skybot F-850) planned on August 22, voice assistants Siri, Alice and Oleg, developed by Apple, Yandex and Tinkoff Bank, respectively.

The talented and promising Russian footballer Alexei Sutormin made a dizzying career take-off in June-July: transit through Kazan Rubin from Orenburg to the current champion of St. Petersburg Zenit, which is the richest club of domestic Premier League. In both cases, the official cost of the transfer of a 25-year-old midfielder amounted to 50 thousand rubles. The corresponding documents on its website were published by the Kazan edition of "Business Online" .

Activists of the Prochrevsky movement of SERB came to the Sakharov Center in Moscow and tried to disrupt the human rights training "Vintage in Russian". This was reported in the Telegram channel "Flowers for Volodya." Channel administrator Vera Oleinikova told OVD-Info that about 15 activists came to the center and called the police. "Provocateurs, 15-20 people, with phones and cameras, began to shoot people present at the event," she said.

Kirill Martynov "I am glad that by the time when Stalinism can be studied again without archives, I came up in adulthood. So rhetorical techniques like" well, you understand what the situation is in the country ", and other tricks of the camp reason are not impressive. After the first wave of solidarity around Yegor Zhukov, several publications appeared, from which it was not so unambiguous." The main line of argument is connected here.

Strong explosions thundered on August 20 near the base of the Iraqi Air Force "Al-Bakr", located in the province of Salah-Ed-Din, about 70 km north of Baghdad. According to updated data, the explosions thundered in the Cataib Imam Ali Cataib Imam Rocket Warehouse (Imam Ali Battalions), which is part of the Al-Hashd Ashhababi folk mobilization coalition. The site Kurdistan24 notes that a few kilometers from the Al-Bakr base is located the training base of the American army and coalition forces.

The Walmart supermarket chain on August 20 filed a lawsuit against the Tesla Supreme Court of New York, accusing the latter of negligence, which led to several cases of fire panels installed on Walmart stores. According to Reuters, in 2010, Walmart became a client of Solarcity, which Tesla bought in 2016.

Investigators of the Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) handed the defenders of the sisters of the Khachaturian, accused of the murder of his father, an official decision to refuse to institute criminal proceedings against him for the torture of girls and sexual harassment in connection with his death. At the same time, the facts of bullying the investigation confirmed.

Russia and Ukraine reached the final stage of coordination of the exchange of persons held on the territory of both countries, the source close to negotiations told Kommersant . According to the interlocutor of the newspaper, among these persons there may be not only detainees, but also convicts, and the exchange itself will take place until the end of August. The source of the newspaper claims that the sailors arrested after the incident in the Kerch Strait will “definitely return” to Ukraine.

Moskomarchitecture finally agreed on the project of a residential complex with an aquarium on Poklonnaya Gora. It will be erected on the Brothers Fonchenko Street, where the construction of the aquarium and the business center was previously frozen. According to RBC with reference to the Moskomarchitecture, the total area of ​​the future complex will be about 100 thousand square meters. The project provides for the construction of eight 11-story buildings, including five residential buildings.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court refused to "Fair Russia" to satisfy an administrative claim to cancel the registration of the former biathlonist Anton Shipulin, the candidate from the Serovsky single-mandate constituency, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the court. The reason for the lawsuit was the securities of the German bank Commerzbank, which were owned by the candidate from United Russia.