An American engineer and video blogger named Allen Pan constructed a pneumatic gun designed for shooting with medical masks. A video with a gun, whose safety is in doubt, was published on YouTube. The idea of ​​creating such a pistol came to a blogger in connection with the unwillingness of many US residents to observe a mask regime introduced due to coronavirus pandemia. Not everyone believes in the effectiveness of masks, and the refusal to put them in public places leads to conflicts.

The work groups of Belaruskalia, one of the world's largest producers of potassium mineral fertilizers, and Naftan oil refinery, announced that from Monday, August 17, they join the national strike in Belarus, TUT.BY reports. They demanded the release of all political prisoners and participants in peaceful actions, the resignation of Alexander Lukashenko, holding honest and transparent elections, as well as an investigation into the actions of the security forces.

The Belarusian opposition published on Monday the preliminary composition of the Coordinating Council for the transfer of power. He was introduced on the Facebook page of the ex-candidate of the president of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya Olga Kovalkova. “Hundreds of prominent people, professionals, real Belarusians have already addressed us. (...) The main composition of the Coordinating Council will be formed in such a way as to best represent the Belarusian people,” Kovalkova wrote.

“Washington Capitals” lost “New York Ilanders” the third match in a row in a series of the first round of the playoffs of the National Hockey League (NHL) to four victories. The third game on Sunday in Toronto ended with the defeat of the team of Alexander Ovechkin in overtime with a score of 1: 2. The winners were distinguished by Anders Lee and Matthew Barzal. The Russian goalkeeper "Islanders" Semen Varlamov reflected 22 shots from his goal out of 23.

Dmitry Gudkov “I’m looking at Lukashenko and I understand that the problem of all the dictators is that the permanent rule completely destroys the possibility of changing the profession. Someone was once a driver, a builder, a doctor, a collective farmer, a businessman, an excellent manager, but he became a Fuhrer anymore, no one else needs a reputation,” the politician writes on his page on Facebook . “Well, where did he put him after ejecting from power? Has he killed? Killing?

The World Court in Moscow fined the New Gazeta for 200 thousand rubles and the editor-in-chief of the newspaper Dmitry Muratov for 60 thousand rubles under the article on fake news (part 9 of Article 13.15 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) due to the material of Valery Shiryaev about quarantine on the nuclear submarines Voronezh and Smolensk.

In the Austrian spilberg, at the stage of the World Highways Championship in Motogp, a terrible accident occurred, which did not end with a tragedy only thanks to a successful coincidence. In front of one of the turns, the Italian Franco Morbidli and the Frenchman Joan Zarko collided at great speed. Both were in gravel, and their motorcycles continued to fly in a straight line at a speed of 300 km/h and crossed a loop -shaped turn.

The former goalkeeper of the Moscow Football Club Lokomotiv Nikita Medvedev entered into a two -year agreement with the Kazan Rubin. According to the Kazantsev press service , the 25-year-old gate guard went to a team from Tatarstan in the status of a free agent after a contract with railway workers. For Lokomotiv, Medvedev spent two official matches, becoming the champion and owner of the Russian Cup and Super Cup with the team.

Kirill Rogov “The Belarusian case is already worthy of entering the textbooks - typical conflicts of the confrontation between the mature dictatorship and the population in the script of an non -violent revolution are so clearly and vividly manifested in it. The start of the confrontation was brilliant. The degree of irritation that the population is experiencing in relation to him (hello to Professor Trasman and his theory of “democratization by mistake ”).

Ilya Yashin " Shots with Russian military trucks appeared on social networks, which are moving towards Belarus. There were rumors that the Kremlin decided to use the army to pacify citizens of the neighboring republic, as it was in the history of Ukraine. Lukashenko himself added oil to the fire, who stated that" he agreed with Putin and received help at the first request, "the head of the Krasnoselsky district writes on Facebook Moscow.

The head of the Rosselkhoznadzor Sergey Dankvert spoke about how his department intends to fight illegal supply of "sanctions products": the relevant proposals have already been transferred to the government and provide for the introduction of liability against transport companies and drivers themselves, who are proposed to prohibit entry into the country.

The Supreme Court of Russia granted the lawsuit of the General Prosecutor's Office and recognized the movement of AUE ("Prisoner Orthod" or "Prisoner Criminal Unity") with an extremist organization, and also banned its activities, according to the website of the supervisory authority.

The Russian Football Union (RFU) removed the chief judge of the match of the Russian Premier League (RPL) "Spartak" - "Sochi" Vasily Kazartsev from work for an indefinite time. This was announced by the General Secretary of the RFU Alexander Alaev. "The judicial committee completed the investigation against the judges of the Spartak -" Sochi "match Vasily Kazartsev and Alexei Yeskova. The arbitrators successfully passed the polygraph on the results of this game.

X5 Retail Group closed a deal to sell Mile shopping center with an area of ​​38 thousand square meters located in the Vykhino-Zhulebino area. The buyer of the facility was Retail Park 2 LLC, writes Kommersant . According to the publication at Cushman & Wakefield, which advised the deal, this agreement was the largest trading real estate market this year and the first noticeable agreement after the removal of restrictions related to the pandemic of the coronavirus.

Over the past day, 4892 cases of coronavirus in 83 regions have been identified in Russia, 55 people died, the TELEGRAM channel of the Federal Operational Staff reports. A fewer deaths per day were marked on April 27, then 50 dead were reported. In total, 927,745 sick and 15,740 dead were identified in the country. Of the hospitals per day, 3133 people were discharged, the total number of recovered patients increased to 736 101.