The authoritative financial magazine Forbes has published a rating of the highest paid athletes in the world in 2020. The leader was the 22-year-old American tennis player Naomi Osaka, who broke the record of Maria Sharapova and overtook Serena Williams. Nine out of ten representatives of the first dozens of 2020 ratings are tennis players. The only exception is the vice -captain of the US Football Women's Football team Alex Morgan.

Victoria Faybyshenko "It so happened that I have been constantly reading Hannah Arendt for two months and I see everything that happens through her texts. Arendt writes that in matters of the problem of morality under normal conditions are not alpha and omega. If they still became such, this one says that something rotted in the Danish kingdom.

The US Senate Committee on Intelligence came to the conclusion that the expected hacking of computers of the Democratic Party occurred at the direction of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin, RBC reports. Russia has repeatedly denied its involvement in this incident. President Vladimir Putin "gave an order" to hack computers and accounts of members of the Democratic Party of the United States as part of the alleged Russian presidential election intervention in 2016.

Andrey Nikulin "In fact, the Belarusian situation can be easily decomposed to the simplest elements. The Belarusian leader is evil. Why go around yes, if you can call a spade a spade.

The Minister of Health of Belarus Vladimir Karanik addressed the protesters with the open letter "We are ready for dialogue." The message was sent to the editorial office of TUT.BY , which published it. The minister turned to activists and doctors after he talked with them in person at the building of the Ministry of Health. Vladimir Karanik complained that the conversation on the street did not work. “Unfortunately, as you probably saw, there was no dialogue.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and German Chancellor Angela Merkel discussed the situation in Belarus by phone. According to the Kremlin’s website , the conversation took place on the initiative of the German side. "The situation in Belarus, which developed after the presidential election, was thoroughly considered. The unacceptability of any attempts from outside to the internal affairs of the republic leading to further escalation of the crisis was focused on the Russian side.

As part of the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the World Cups in the Formula-1 car class, using cloud computing, a consolidated rating of the fastest pilots in the history of the Royal Racing was compiled. The rating of "pure speed" takes into account the results since 1983 and will be conducted in the future.

The assistance of the Russian federal budget to the regions during the "coronaccrisis" is distributed unevenly, and the compensation for the consequences of the coronavirus epidemic often exceeds the real figures for losses. Thus, the amount of compensation to the Chechen Republic exceeded the loss of the region by 1272%, said the professor of Moscow State University Natalya Zubarevich in his study published by the Project publication.

In Russia, they want to make a documentary in the genre of sports drama about the figure skating coach Eteri Tutberidze. The film was presented on full -time defense of documentary special projects in the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation. As reported on the website of the Guild of Non -Great Cinema and Television, it will shoot it "Studio to create cinema and audiovisual works" Island ".

In the Belarusian Zhodino, the broadcasting of the local television channel "Sphere" was stopped and removed from the post of his head Elshad Akberov for broadcasting foreign reports, a video with violent overclocking of pickets and the opinions of foreign political scientists about the situation in Belarus, the publication explorations.by reports.

In Belarus, the Coordination Council of the opposition begins work, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the United Staff of the Opposition. Meanwhile, President Alexander Lukashenko called the creation of this body an attempt to seize power. “Now the composition of the council members is being formed,” the headquarters said. “In the coming days, the Presidium and the Chairman of the Council will be elected.

After two to three years, about 99% of housing in Russia will be built using escrow accounts and attracting project financing. The head of the analytical center of the state -owned company "Dom.rf" Mikhail Goldberg made this opinion on August 18. Such a forecast is based on the average period of construction of houses and the dynamics of the transition of builders to escrow accounts.

On August 18, the American space company launched the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which brought 58 satellites of the SPACEX system of global access to the STARLINK Internet orbit, as well as three more remote sensing devices. The broadcast of the mission was carried out on the company YouTube channel. This launch was the 11th in a row as part of the Starlink project.

President Mali Ibrahim Bubakar Keit and the head of the government Bubu Sissa were arrested by the rebellious military personnel, the Jeune Afrique magazine website said on Tuesday evening. The publication clarified that this information was confirmed by "several government and diplomatic sources." "Ibrahim Bubakar Keita was in his residence in Sebenicoro, in Bamako, when he was arrested by the rebellious military at about 16:30 local time (19:30 in Moscow. - Approx." Interfax " ).

The President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko awarded medals of employees of law enforcement agencies. In the list published on the legal portal of the country's government, 25 pages with the names of employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. Among them, police officers, car drivers, representatives of internal troops, riot police and isolators.