The Ministry of Transport of Russia did not rule out the possibility of increasing the tariff in the Platon system during the period of river navigation. This is reported by Interfax.

At least 25 people have been killed in an airstrike by the Saudi-led coalition on a hospital in northern Yemen. This was reported by the local TV channel "al-Masira". Another 20 people were injured. Among the dead are doctors, nurses and children. The hospital that was hit by the airstrike is run by the international organization Doctors Without Borders.

The businessman and communications coordinator of Open Russia donated 876,000 rubles to the Primorye partisans for legal expenses. about this . Chichvarkin told the Dozhd TV channel In return, the artist Pyotr Pavlensky presented Chichvarkin with his statuette of the Vaclav Havel Prize. Earlier, the Human Rights Foundation canceled the Vaclav Havel Prize for Pavlensky, for which the artist was nominated in May. Then his colleague Oksana Shalygina came to Oslo to receive the statuette.

Russian gymnast Denis Ablyazin won the Olympic silver medal in the vault. This medal was the second he won on Monday, August 15th. Ri Se Gwan (DPRK) took the gold, Kenzo Shirai of Japan took the bronze. Earlier on Monday, Denis Ablyazin won bronze in the gymnastics individual rings routine. As part of the national team, Ablyazin showed the second result in the team all-around. Recall that at the London Games, the athlete won silver in the vault, and bronze in floor exercises.

In Moscow, due to a strong rain that began on Sunday evening, on August 14, the Yauza rivers, the infantry and a beggar came out of the banks, TASS reports . According to the Russian Hydrometeorological Center, a series of records for precipitation was installed in the capital: 92 mm of precipitation fell per day - this is almost 120% of the monthly norm.

Russian Denis Ablyazin won the bronze medal in the individual gymnastics ring exercises at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Eleferios Petrunias from Greece became the Olympic champion, Brazilian Artur Sanetti showed the second result. Denis Ablyazin has already won silver at the Brazilian Olympics in the team all-around, in London he was second in vault and third in floor exercise.

Regional authorities insist on erecting a monument to Ivan the Terrible in Orel. First Vice-Governor Alexander Budarin at a meeting on August 15, referring to the data of a sociological survey, said that local residents support this idea. According to him, the monument will appear near the Free Space Youth Theater. This is reported by the publication "Orlovskiye Novosti".

Opposition activist Vladimir Ionov, who left Russia, received a refugee passport in Ukraine. this on her Twitter . announced Anastasia Zotova, the wife of political prisoner Ildar Dadin, Earlier, Ionov appealed to the European Court of Human Rights with a complaint about criminal prosecution for repeated violations of the rules for holding rallies. In Russia, he is charged under the relevant article 212 of the Criminal Code.

The maintenance of 1 km of road in Russia costs 4.5 million rubles, the Vedomosti newspaper reports , citing Transport Minister Maxim Sokolov. “By the way, the maintenance of one kilometer of waterway today costs 130,000 rubles, the maintenance of one kilometer of road costs 4.5 million,” the minister said in Volgograd during Russian President Vladimir Putin’s inspection of an exhibition of projects for modern river vessels for various purposes.

In preparation for a trial against an unscrupulous employer, an employee of the so-called “troll factory” collected materials confirming the company’s involvement in the beatings of St. Petersburg oppositionists and bloggers. Novaya Gazeta writes about this in St. Petersburg.

American swimmer Michael Phelps announced his retirement at a press conference. by Reported L'Équipe. “I am ending my career the way I wanted. You won't see me in the pool again," Phelps said. Recall that in Rio de Janeiro, the American won five gold medals and one silver, thereby becoming the most titled athlete in the Olympic Games, including the ancient Olympics. Michael Phelps is a 23-time Olympic champion and 26-time world champion.

A resident of Magnitogorsk, Igor Gubanov, stopped cutting off his fingers because of the public outcry that he managed to cause with a self-torture action, reports . the Public Verdict Foundation The essence of the "Action of Despair" was that every Monday Gubanov promised to cut off one finger on his hand, protesting against the initiation of a criminal case against his wife Salima Mukhamedyanova. On August 7, he cut off his little finger, today, August 15, the ring finger of his left hand.

Russia's actions made it possible to prevent a NATO strike on Syria with 624 cruise missiles, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on the Rossiya-24 TV channel. “Our presence there, if you remember, a year ago, and even better a year and a half ago, how the situation as a whole gradually changed step by step.

A resident of Magnitogorsk, Igor Gubanov, who accuses patrol officers of raping his wife, cut off his second finger in protest against the investigator's refusal to investigate police arbitrariness. It is reported by Znak.com. “I read the papers that the investigator gave me (the decision to terminate the criminal case on the fact of exceeding official powers by police officers - ed .), And I realized that they were simply mocking my wife.

The Ukrainian police have not confirmed the information about the persecution of suspects in the murder of journalist Pavel Sheremet on Monday morning, Interfax-Ukraine reports , citing Nikolai Gulevich, deputy director of the communications department of the National Police. Gulevich stressed that the police are constantly working hard to solve this crime. Earlier on Monday, the media reported on the persecution of suspects in the murder of a journalist.