Karinna Moskalenko and other lawyers of Maria Dubovik, the defendants in the case of “New Greatness”, sent a statement to General to the prosecutor Yuri Chaika, the chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin and other officials with a request to close the case against the 19-year-old oak and let her release her immediately from the guard.

Russia, in response to new US sanctions, will continue to reduce investments in US securities and increase settlements in the national currency. The words of First Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov on the air of the program "Sunday Evening with Vladimir Solovyov" reports .

In Samara's Hyde Park, Rodina Square on the industrial outskirts of the city, a rally agreed with the authorities was held against raising the retirement age, reports . Interfax An application for holding a rally was filed by the local movement "Civil Initiative", representatives of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, Just Russia, Yabloko and the Left Front took part in the action. The previous rally in Samara against raising the retirement age was held on July 28.

Five Caspian states, Russia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan and Iran, signed a convention on the legal status of the Caspian Sea in the city of Aktau in Kazakhstan, reports Interfax . Kommersant published the full text of the document. As the agency notes, it took 22 years to coordinate the positions of all states because of their cardinal disagreements - the ideas of the convention have been discussed since 1996.

The US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) launched a Delta IV launch vehicle with the Parker Solar Probe probe to study the Sun. It announced this on its Twitter. Initially, the launch was scheduled for August 11: the launch vehicle with the probe was supposed to take off at 3:53 local time (10:53 Moscow time), but then they decided to move the takeoff for half an hour (until 4:28 local time) due to check the status of data transmission, and then postponed for a day.

UPDATE 16:11 The VKontakte press service clarified that the company, according to the law , is obliged to provide information to law enforcement agencies upon request. “However, the request does not disclose the specific circumstances of the case - we never know if we are being asked for data on a serial killer or in a case “for a meme,” a representative of the social network said.

The headquarters of the joint forces of the Ukrainian army reported on Facebook about the detention of a Russian citizen in the Donbass on suspicion of intelligence activities - he filmed the positions of the Ukrainian military on a mobile phone. The man told the military that he had come to the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic from Surgut (the administrative center of Ugra) for tourism.

The Ministry of Defense on the Day of the Air Force published a selection of documents from the Fund of the Central Archive of the Ministry. Among them is the manuscript order of Joseph Stalin Augustus 1941 on the bombing of Berlin.

Ten people were hospitalized with injuries of varying severity after a shooting in the English city of Manchester. This is reported by the BBC with reference to the police. Manchester police also noted that the Caribbean Carnival was taking place in the city on Saturday, but it had already ended by 2:30 local time (04:30 GMT), when the shooting allegedly began.

On the night of August 12, Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov did not leave the penal colony in Labytnangi. This was reported to Interfax in the main department of the federal penitentiary service (FSIN) for the Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug (YaNAO). At the moment, as reported by the press service of the department, Sentsov is in a colony and continues his hunger strike.