WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that new data on the election campaign of US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will be published on the site in the near future, writes . Kommersant In interviews with several TV channels, Assange spoke out in support of Republican candidate Donald Trump.

Denis Nikandrov, deputy head of the Moscow Department of the Investigative Committee, sent a letter to the head of the department, Alexander Bastrykin, with a request to withdraw the investigation of his case from the FSB, writes RBC. In the letter, Major General Nikandrov claims that his criminal case was the result of a conflict between the special services.

2012 Paralympic champion Marika Werwoot is thinking about the possibility of euthanasia after the end of her sports career, according to Le Parisien. The 37-year-old Belgian wheelchair racer said she struggled with the disease as her physical condition worsened. Wervoort is paralyzed in her legs due to a rare disease. “Sport is the only meaning of my life. It is very difficult for me to fight the disease and train, the 2016 Games are my last dream.

The names of the victims of the crash of the Russian Mi-8 helicopter in Syria have become known, reports . Gazeta.ru The crew members were Roman Pavlov, Oleg Shelamov and Alexei Shorokhov. According to a source in the Ministry of Defense, 33-year-old captain Roman Pavlov was the crew commander, 29-year-old Oleg Shelamov worked as a navigator pilot. 41-year-old captain Alexei Shorokhov was an on-board technician. Other names of the officers who were also on board were not reported.

In St. Petersburg, after a strong wind, sheathing was torn off the roof of the Zenit Arena stadium under construction, reports . Fontanka.ru A source in the building block of the city administration said that there are indeed problems with the quality of attaching the binder.

The Party of Growth called Irina Khakamada's position on Crimea a private opinion, TASS reports with reference to the party's press service. “The position of the party is unchanged: Crimea is ours, we said it, we say it and we will say it. Boris Titov (party chairman - ed. ) has repeatedly voiced this both on his own behalf and on behalf of the party, ”the party said.

The Russian Planet online publication is suspending its work, RNS reports , citing an informed source. “In August, all the employees of the Russian Planet will go on vacation due to the reorganization of the publication,” the source said. According to the source, at the moment it is not known whether the Russian Planet will continue to work after the break in September. The secretariat of the "Russian Planet" did not comment on the information about the break in the work of the publication.

A Russian Mi-8 helicopter was shot down in Syria over the territory controlled by the Jabhat al-Nusra terrorist organization, TASS reports with reference to the General Staff of the Russian Armed Forces. “Today, a terrorist act was committed, as a result of which a Russian Mi-8 military transport helicopter was shot down, returning from a humanitarian mission to deliver food and medicine to the residents of the city of Aleppo.

The former chairman of the board of RusHydro, Evgeny Dod, who was arrested in a fraud case, returned 73 million rubles to the company, RBC reports , citing informed sources. “The damage has been repaid, the notification has been sent to the Investigative Committee of Russia and RusHydro,” said one of the interlocutors of the publication. The businessman's lawyers and a representative of RusHydro declined to comment.

The administration of the portal RuTracker argued with Roskomnadzor about the traffic statistics of the resource. So, according to RuTracker, the attendance of the torrent tracker fell by 40-50% due to the eternal blocking, reports RNS. “Blocks had the greatest impact on mobile devices, with conventional computers, locks are easily bypassed,” the company said. At the same time, the blocking had little effect on the activity of file sharing, noted in RuTracker.

In 2016, the federal budget may receive less than 1.8 trillion rubles, which may lead to the depletion of the Reserve Fund by the end of this year. This is stated in the report of the experts of the Development Center of the National Research University Higher School of Economics, TASS reports .

The Russian team will take fourth place at the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, predicts the research division of Goldman Sachs. The forecast is published by Business Insider. Russia, according to the forecast, will take fourth place both in terms of the number of medals and in the team standings. Analysts believe Russian athletes will win 14 top honors, ten fewer than at the 2012 London Olympics. In total, the Russians will win 58 medals, analysts are sure.

Activists discovered fake signatures collectors Nikolai Starikov (in the center). Photo: TASS Announcements appeared on the network with a proposal of work: to fake voters' signatures. The headquarters of Maria Baronova suspected a provocation against her, but it turned out that the signatures of the “Great Fatherland Parties” were falsified for the elections to the Moscow Region, as well as the elections to the State Duma, they will be held on September 18.

An explosion occurred in the Laili banquet hall in Makhachkala, reports with reference to the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Republic of Dagestan. TASS According to preliminary data, the explosion in the building on Peter the First Avenue thundered around 15:00. The epicenter of the explosion was in the basement. Presumably, there was a pop of the gas-air mixture on the basement. The explosion injured 16 people, eight are in serious condition.

The Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs called "an outrage" accusations of US presidential candidate Hillary Clinton in hacking into the servers of the Democratic Party, reports Interfax.