Paul Manafort, the ex-head of the Donald Trump election headquarters, kept a Russian intelligence officer as a trustee in Ukraine, the American publication Politico and the British The Financial Times claim His name is Konstantin Kilimnik, in the specialty he is a military translator. At the same time, however, he did not hide that he perfectly speaks foreign languages ​​- English and Swedish - “thanks to military intelligence,” writes Politico.

The Russian team will not take part in the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. On August 23, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAC) in Lausanne (Switzerland) rejected the appeal of the Russian Paralympic athletes, thereby confirming the decision of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to exclude them from the Games.

Rumors about new personnel positions for Vyacheslav Volodin and Sergei Naryshkin are just one of the possible scenarios for the development of events, political scientist Konstantin Truevtsev believes. In a conversation with NT, he also expressed the opinion that "the discussion of candidates for this position ( speaker.

BBC published the results of a survey of 177 film critics from 36 countries (it is not known whether Russians were among them), who were asked to name the best films of the XXI century. In other words, over the past 16 years. The hundred included two paintings by Andrei Zvyagintsev at once and no more paintings shot in Russia.

During the trial, Permyakov refused to testify, but at the same time he fully admitted his guilt and did not dispute the charge. The prosecutor demanded that Permyakov be sentenced to life imprisonment. By a court decision, Permyakov was found guilty on all counts: the murder of seven members of the Avetisyan family, robbery, and an attempt to illegally cross the border.

At some point, it seemed to them that this Olympiad would end with a deafening failure: street bandits were attacked on athletes, then the water in the competitions for competitions acquires a steady green color, then they catch enterprising dealers, which, from the supply of member of the IOC, sell tickets a price 10 times higher than the nominal ...