In St. Petersburg, Zenit defeated Dynamo Minsk 8-1 in the return game of the 3rd qualifying round of the UEFA Europa League and reached the playoffs of the tournament qualification. In the first game, Dynamo beat Zenit 4-0. In order to advance to the next round, the St. Petersburg team had to score at least five goals. On aggregate, the confrontation ended with a score of 8:5 in favor of the Russian club. Leandro Paredes (Zenit) scored the first goal in the 22nd minute of the second leg.

The Moscow City Court dismissed the claim of the mayoral candidate from the Liberal Democratic Party, State Duma deputy Mikhail Degtyarev on the removal of Moscow City Duma deputy Mikhail Balakin (nominated by the Union of Citizens) from the election of Moscow Mayor, RIA Novosti . reports According to Degtyarev, he sought to cancel the registration of Balakin on behalf of the chairman of the Liberal Democratic Party, Vladimir Zhirinovsky. The lawsuit became known yesterday.

Alexei Sverdlov, a law student from Krasnoyarsk, who was prosecuted for extremism because of pictures on VKontakte, was written by an NTV employee with an offer to give an interview in exchange for freedom. He posted screenshots of the correspondence on his Twitter. Journalist Kristina Karpova invited Sverdlov to give an interview for the program "Emergency" on the NTV channel. The student declined to be interviewed. “Believe me, we saved a lot of people,” she wrote.

Anna Pavlikova and Maria Dubovik were released under house arrest after a public support campaign. Photos and video Anya Pavlikova was taken to the hall of the Dorogomilovsky court. Photo: Anna Artemyeva / "New Gazeta" Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow today released under house arrest until mid-September the defendants of the “New Greatness” case, 18-year-old Anna Pavlikova and 19-year-old Maria Dubovik. The court was attended by correspondents of the "Novy".

The security forces created a fictitious extremist group, but received a real protest rally UPDATE Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow released Anna Pavlikova and Maria Dubovik under house arrest. See photos from the court. Photo: Anna Artemyeva / "New Gazeta" “Mother march” in Moscow has become a unique and very disturbing phenomenon for the authorities.

President Petro Poroshenko had a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel ahead of the meeting between German Chancellor and Russian President Vladimir Putin. This was reported by the press service of the head of state.

To stop pension protests, citizens came up with new benefits - and this only confused the pension system Photo: Photoxpress This week it became known that the government is thinking about an amendment to the legislation under which the benefits provided for pensioners by law will apply to those who have not yet retired due to raising the retirement age.

Photo: Anna Artemyeva / "New Gazeta" Dorogomilovsky Court of Moscow released the 19-year-old defendant of the “New Greatness” of Maria Dubovik from the pre-trial detention center under house arrest. This was reported by the correspondent of "New" from the courtroom. The court granted the application of the investigation to transfer an oak -up from a pre -trial detention center under house arrest, which the investigator Anton Malyugin addressed the day before.

The Investigative Committee of Russia (TFR) opened a criminal case on concealing US citizenship against Artem Lyubimov, one of the organizers of the rally against the landfill in Volokolamsk. Lyubimov told Novaya Gazeta about this. He is suspected of not reporting this to the Russian authorities in 2014, allegedly being a US citizen since 2000.

In St. Petersburg, at the age of 49, the two-time Olympic champion in gymnastics Elena Shushunova died. This was reported by TASS was reported by the press attaches of the Russian sports gymnastics Federation Elena Mikhailova. Photo: Vladimir Vyatkin/RIA Novosti “The Russian sports gymnastics Federation expresses condolences to the family, friends and friends of Elena Lvovna and all Russian fans of sports gymnastics,” the report said.

The metropolitan "Spartak" could not break into the group stage of the Champions League Photo: RIA Novosti On Wednesday, an hour and a half before midnight, after the match on the “Opening of the Arena” scores, two zero shone, who completely arranged guests from Greece and their President Ivan Savvidi, who jumped in his lodge and without a familiar pistol, celebrating the triumph of his club.

As the key enterprises of Sevastopol were on the verge of closing, and “their own” a business with a margin of more than 100,000% Photo: RIA Novosti Earlier we told how in Sevastopol, a deeply subsidized city city, billions are “losing” from Goskazza: 2.055 billion rubles, which were supposed to go to the construction of the South Directorate, disappeared into the bursting bank of the OFK, another 1 billion 59 million went to state inspection of the company with frozen accounts.

The Russian national football team in the ranking of the International Football Federation (FIFA) is in 49th place, the team has 1410 points. Prior to that, the Russian team was on the 70th line. Russia was able to overcome the record number of places in its history (21) thanks to the best performance at the World Cup - the team reached the quarterfinals of the tournament.

The crew of the Russian ship "Mechanic Pogodin", which has been in the port of Kherson since August 10, spoke about the upcoming inspection and said that they were afraid of the tanker being captured. This was reported on the website of the vessel operator V.F. Tanker". Information about the alleged inspection, "associated with the allegedly unsatisfactory condition of the ship," was received on 15 August.

The coordinator of the "Left Front" Sergei Udaltsov, who was arrested for 30 days in the case of repeated violation of the rules for holding a public event (part 8 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses), appealed against his arrest. This is reported by TASS with reference to his wife Anastasia Udaltsova.