In August 2020, the number of owners in Moscow and the Moscow Region, who want to rent their housing, increased by one and a half times compared to the same period last year. This conclusion was reached by analysts of the Miel real estate company. According to experts, the proposal in the real estate market of the metropolitan region is actively growing, but the demand is still behind. So, in the first half of the year in the market, they made 35% less housing rental deals than in early 2019.

At least seven leading Belarusian Goskanals "Belarus 1" and ONT announced their dismissal against the backdrop of mass protests in the country. The host of ONT Olga Bogatyrevich published on Instagram a photo of the letter of resignation “by agreement of the parties”, signed on August 12. "There are few of us, but we are !!!" she wrote.

“The dictator Lukashenko removes a film of civilization from the country. It turns out to be very thin, under it - blood. There is a lot of blood,” the politician writes on Facebook , commenting on the descriptions of the torture of the detainees in Belarus. "This blood is shed by those who were allowed to be nonhumans. Nothing new: everything that was repeated in human history many times. There was a Donetsk airport - but there was a battlefield.

Forward of the Moscow Lokomotiv Fedor Smolov was robbed during his stay in Barcelona. C was removed from the Russian watch, the cost of which is estimated at 300 thousand euros, says the Spanish edition of EL CASO . According to the source, the incident occurred on July 19 after the Selta’s guest match, for which Fedor advocated the lease, with the Catalan Espanyol (0: 0) in the final round of the Spanish championship.

The striker of the Italian Juventus Cristiano Ronaldo wants to accept a new call and continue his career in another club. As one of the options, the transition to the Spanish Barcelona is considered, where his main competitor is for the title of the best football player in the world of recent years - Lionel Messi.

The volume of energy production of solar and wind power plants around the world has doubled since 2015. This is stated in the fresh report of the Ember organization involved in the study of issues related to climate changes. Now, the share of these sources accounts for about 10% of the total volume of energy generated, which is comparable with the share of nuclear power plants.

The Ambassador of Azerbaijan to Serbia Eldar Hasanov, who also represented Azerbaijani interests in Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, was detained on suspicion of assigning budgetary funds on a large scale, said the State Security Service of Azerbaijan. The diplomat is also suspected of other violations of the law. Violations were revealed by the audit of the financial and economic activities of the Azerbaijan Foreign Ministry.

The weighted average mortgage rate in Russia will drop below 8%already in 2020 instead of the planned 2024. This was announced on August 13, Deputy Prime Minister Marat Khusnullin. "The weighted average rate of issued loans on the primary and secondary market will decrease to a historical minimum less than 8% per annum already this year.

The authorities of Moscow and St. Petersburg are discussing the possibility of combining parking systems in cities. This was reported on August 13 in the press service of the metropolitan department of transport and development of road transport infrastructure. “In addition to combining ticket systems with St. Petersburg, joint decisions are also discussed in terms of parking lots,” TASS quotes the message quoted.

A group of engineers from Seoul University (South Korea) developed a smartphone cover that allows the device to move along even surfaces. At the same time, the creators found practical application for the cover. An article about the development was published in IEEE Robotics and Automation letters .

In 2019, the minor daughter of the Governor of the Ryazan Region Nikolai Lyubimov in 2019 declared an income of 10 million rubles, which is more than twice the earnings of her father, which amounted to about 4.3 million rubles. This follows from the information about income published on the website of the Government of the Ryazan Region. According to published data, in 2019, Nikolai Lyubimov earned more than 4.3 million rubles, while in 2018 his income exceeded 15 million rubles.

The striker of the club "Miluoki Bax" Yannis Adetokumba completed the regular season with the highest performance rating (per) in the history of the National Basketball Association (NBA). According to the portal Hoop Central, its PER indicator was 31.91. Previously, the League record belonged to the legendary Wilt Chamberlain, whose per in the 1962-63 season for San Francisco Warriors reached 31.82.

The disconnection of the Internet in Belarusia in connection with the presidential elections and the mass protests followed by the country's economy cost $ 56.4 million a day. This assessment is given by the Cost service developed by the Netblocks group. Recall that interruptions with the Internet in the country began to be reported on Sunday, August 9 (the main voting day).

Last week, the President of the United States Donald Trump signed decrees on the fight against the threat of Tiktok and the threat of the multifunctional Chinese service of WeChat. The decrees entering into force on September 20 introduce a ban for the Americans for any transactions with the developers of Tiktok and WeChat, and if Tiktok can buy the Microsoft service or another company, the situation with WeChat raises more questions.

Leonid Gozman "The Kremlin will not give the Belarus of the opposition. Putin personally is very bad about Lukashenko, I would like to see someone else in its place, but Lukashenko cannot allow the will of the people by the will of Lukashenko. Russia and Belarus are too close and mentally - the defeat of the Belarusian dictator as a result of the elections will push the democratic movement in which the authoritarian regime is already retained by the last forces.