Iran has blocked the game Pokemon Go, according to the BBC. The country's authorities explained their decision with "security considerations." According to the BBC, Iran's Supreme Council for Virtual Space (an agency for monitoring Internet activity - ed.) tried to negotiate cooperation with the creators of the game before the ban was introduced. Iran was the first country to ban the game. Earlier, the Russian authorities also criticized Pokemon Go.

Kurban Berdyev may become the new head coach of Spartak, reports . Match TV As the interlocutor of the TV channel said, the Moscow club agreed with Berdyev a two-year contract. “Berdyev is now in Moscow, he has already met with the leadership of Spartak. It is too early to talk about the final agreement between the parties, but with a high degree of probability it will be he who will become the new head coach of the team. Berdyev is the main candidate,” quotes .

French President François Hollande has called Paris the best candidate to host the 2024 Summer Olympics, according to L'Equipe. Due to the recent terrorist attacks, France is now at its best position to provide security at major events, Hollande said. We survived first one series of attacks, then another, but we were able to defend against it, to save major events such as Euro 2016.

In Rio de Janeiro, a few days before the official opening ceremony of the Olympic Games, thousands of people took to the streets to protest against the competition. Residents are unhappy that the government is spending huge amounts of money to host the 2016 Olympics while the country is in a state of distress. This is reported by several foreign media at once.

The legendary Brazilian football player Pele will not be able to take part in the opening ceremony of the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, according to the BBC. Pele explained his refusal to the state of health. Last December, he underwent surgery on his hip. “For me, only God is more important than health. In my life there were fractures, operations, pain, hospitals, victories, defeats. And I have always treated my fans with respect,” Pele said.

On August 5, the Spartak football club announced the dismissal of head coach Dmitry Alenichev. Italian Massimo Carrera will perform his duties. On the eve of the Moscow "Spartak" lost to the Cypriot AEK (0:1) in the second leg of the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League and flew out of European competition. Novaya Gazeta turned to the players and coaches of Spartak for comments.

Work on the installation of a monument to Prince Vladimir on Borovitsky Hill, in the buffer zone of the UNESCO world heritage site "The Kremlin and Red Square", is being carried out in full accordance with UN documents, TASS reports citing Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky.

The Russian side will send a request to Ukraine to appoint a new ambassador after it receives a signal from Kiev that it is ready to accept the proposed candidacy, TASS reports citing Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov. “We believe - this is our principled position - that diplomatic missions in Kyiv and Moscow should be headed at the level of ambassadors. If the Ukrainian side prefers a lower level of diplomatic missions, then, probably, it will be so, ”the agency quotes Ushakov.

The head coach of the football club "Spartak" Dmitry Alenichev resigned, according to the official website of the club. Massimo Carrera will act as head coach. On the eve of "Spartak" lost to the Cypriot AEK (0:1) in the second leg of the third qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League and flew out of European competition. “I would like to apologize, I take full responsibility for myself. I was afraid of this game, I thought that there would be euphoria after the victory over Arsenal.

In the Proletarsky District Court of Tver, during the debate of the parties, the prosecutor asked for two years in a colony-settlement for 32-year-old Shamil Kazakov for inciting hatred against the social group “employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Tver region,” lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina told Novaya Gazeta.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan will discuss compensation for the downing of a Russian Su-24 bomber in November last year, Interfax reports . “We will discuss this issue,” said Russian presidential aide Yury Ushakov, adding that the Turkish side had not yet paid compensation. At the end of July, former Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said that the Russian plane was shot down on his orders.

The security systems of the Il-76 aircraft of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, which crashed on July 1 this year in the Irkutsk region while extinguishing forest fires, have been warning about a possible collision with the ground for the last seven minutes, according to the published interim report of the Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC ) .

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Novosibirsk Region accused Yegor Savin, head of the regional branch of Parnassus, of violating Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses - "propaganda or public demonstration of Nazi paraphernalia or symbols." As the politician himself told Novaya Gazeta, operatives caught him the other day near the house where Savin's parents live.

A petition appeared on the Change.org website demanding that news of petitions be banned. It was published by the editor of the publication "Such things" Vladimir Shvedov. “News about petitions is an informational dummy, they do not mean anything and only create the appearance of an event. Even if we do not take into account that the signatures collected on the Change.org portal have no legal force, they cannot even be verified even elementarily.

In the transcript of Prime Minister Medvedev's speech, one word leaves the most cloudy residue Fashionable, wearing a colorful shirt and an expensive watch, able to gracefully slide his finger over the latest Apple tablet, the Prime Minister advised a teacher who gets up at seven in the morning to come to school for the first lesson and gives six or eight lessons in a row, and then goes home, where he has to prepare six or eight lessons for the next day.