On the coast of the city of Port Elizabeth in the Republic of South Africa, the Lada vessel under the Russian flag was detained on suspicion of transporting weapons and explosives. This was reported by the publication HeraldLIVE. According to the publication, on Sunday, August 19, 14 containers were shipped from the ship in the port of Ngkura, and another 20 containers remained on board.

The leader of the Yabloko party, Grigory Yavlinsky, wrote a statement addressed to the Prosecutor General of Russia, Yuri Chaika, in which he demanded that the New Greatness case be closed.

At the disposal of "New" were new posts of beatings in the Yaroslavl colony IK-1 Video screenshot / "New Gazeta" There is a sequel & Nbsp SK opened a new case after the publication in Novaya Gazeta video with the beating of convicts in the Yaroslavl colony No. 1 Lawyers of the Public Verdict Foundation, who had previously received an entry with torture measures against the concluded IK-1 Evgeny Makarov, transferred us new video evidence of crimes of colony officers.

The appeal of Novaya Gazeta to the mayor of Moscow Sobyanin S.S. In connection with the statement of the head of the Chechen Republic, Kadyrov R.A. Photo: RIA Novosti There is a sequel & Nbsp The Kremlin commented on Kadyrov’s words about the ban on human rights activists to visit Chechnya Dear Sergey Semenovich! On August 22, your colleague, head of the region of the Russian Federation, Ramzan Akhmatovich Kadyrov, spoke to the employees of the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs.

Jan Palach had followers and predecessor Jan Pajah. Photo from the archive Among the young part of Russian society, people who say that they know what was happening in Czechoslovakia in 1968 - five per hundred. The rest do not know or do not want to know.

Kyiv (for now - on Facebook) threatens to completely block transport communication with Russia. What's happening? Square "Gromadskoye" The Minister of Infrastructure of Ukraine Volodymyr Omelyan announced restrictions in a transport message with Russia. “Only bears will go to Moscow,” he “joked” on Facebook, abandoning further comments. This is not the first threat from the lips of official Kyiv to seriously reduce, or even block civil trips from Russia to Ukraine and vice versa.

An unidentified person opened fire on police officers of diplomatic missions in the center of Moscow. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case. According to an Interfax source, the man opened fire from a traumatic weapon. “An unknown person opened fire from a traumatic weapon on the street near the Cambodian embassy and wounded a policeman,” the source said.

Petersburg "Zenith" defeated the Norwegian "Molde" in the first match of the playoff round of the Europa League. The meeting was held at the St. Petersburg stadium and ended in a strong-willed victory for the hosts with a score of 3:1. Eirik Hestad opened the scoring in the 42nd minute. In the middle of the second half, Artem Dzyuba equalized the score, and ten minutes before the end of normal time, an accurate strike by striker Anton Zabolotny brought the Russian team forward.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev is not holding public events due to a sports injury. This was reported in the press service of the government, reports Interfax. The press service clarified that Medvedev's appearance at public events is not planned in the near future. Earlier, the Proekt publication, citing sources, reported that Medvedev, for an unknown reason, did not appear in public for nine days.

Colonel of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Dmitry Zakharchenko accused the investigation of putting pressure on the prosecutor's office. He stated this at a meeting of the Presnensky District Court. “They distort reality. They knowingly provide false information to the prosecutor’s office,” Zakharchenko noted, stressing that the investigation representatives are in constant contact with the prosecutors, including through the WhatsApp messenger.

The Corruption Fund (FBK) of the opposition Alexei Navalny published an investigation that states that thefts occur during food for soldiers of the Russian Guard. The investigation states that in December 2017, the government by order of the government was the only supplier of food products for the Russian Guard was LLC “Friendship of Peoples” LLC. With this company, contracts were concluded in the amount of more than two billion rubles.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested in absentia for two months the leader of the Jamaat at-Tawhid Wal-Jihad group banned in Russia, Sirojiddin Mukhtarov, whom the investigation considers the organizer of the terrorist attack in the St. Petersburg metro. The press secretary of the court told Novaya Gazeta about this.

The journalists of the English magazine Time included Zaryadye Park in the list of 100 best places in the world for 2018. The rating is published on the publication's page. According to the editors, Zaryadye is the first large park that has appeared in Moscow in the last 50 years and which does not look like the formal and majestic parks of the "Soviet" cities.

The Butyrsky District Court of Moscow ruled to recover 585 thousand rubles from the activist of the “God's Will” movement Lyudmila Esipenko for damaging the engravings of the artist Vadim Sidur at an exhibition in the Manege in 2015. This was reported to RAPSI by the press secretary of the court. Esipenko's supporters wrote on social networks about her intention to appeal the verdict.

The opinion of Yulia Latinina Photo: EPA Photo: EPA There are two views on the project of the North Stream-2 pipeline. One of them was announced a few months ago by the analyst of Sberbank-Sib Alexander Fek and was worth his work. FEK wrote that not a single Gazprom pipeline project is paying off - they are not built in the interests of shareholders, but in the interests of the contractors. Read - not for the sake of profits, but for the forking.