No need to rock the newspaper, it reflects life anyway This news cannot be fake, because this cannot be invented. And here you have an unshakable truth of life: a certain resident of Kursk named Stanislav made a funny boat - from newspapers. Two pictures. On the first, an empty vessel with newspaper headlines on board buried his nose to the shore. It is not yet clear what its displacement is and whether it is possible to transport at least a wolf, a goat and cabbage on it.

Three dozen employees of the Chop "Vershina" and about a hundred athletes attacked the camp of eco -defenders at the foot of Shihan Kushtau in Bashkortostan. Photo: Ivan Zhilin / "New Gazeta" They appeared near the camp at 20:30 (Moscow time), but about ten minutes stood 40 meters, without doing anything. Then they sharply moved towards the camp. Employees of the ChOP, lining up in a chain, pushed the eco -defenders from the road, saying that industrial equipment will pass through it now.

Experts explained interruptions with the Internet in Belarus Photo: RIA Novosti Residents of Minsk have difficulty access to YouTube, Telegram, some VPN and TOR services. The information that the Internet works unstable to appear already in the morning of August 9, on the main day of voting in the election of the President of Belarus. The Belarusian publication Onliner states that announcements have appeared in a number of stores about possible technical failures in terminals.

The incumbent President Alexander Lukashenko is gaining 79.7% of the vote in the elections, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya - 6.8%. This is evidenced by the data of the official exit poll of the Belarusian Republican Youth Union. The votes among other candidates were distributed as follows: Anna Kanopatskaya - 2.3% Andrey Dmitriev - 1.1% Sergey Cherechen — 0.9% Against all - 9.2%.

Lebanese took to the streets to call the government and Hezbollah to answer for the explosion in the port A multi-month Lebanese street protest, which subsided due to the outbreak of coronavirus, is again gaining momentum after the deadly explosion on August 4. This explosion took away the lives of 160 people, 6000 were injured, 21 went missing.

Nikolai Kozlov, a confidant of the presidential candidate of Belarus Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, was detained in Minsk. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta at the headquarters of the United Civil Party. He went to vote at his polling station at 3 Azizova Street. A minibus was waiting for Kozlov there, the politician was brought into it and taken away. UPDATED Detention details There were no grounds for detention, they said at the headquarters of the UCP Novaya.

Open letter of Alexander Asmolov to RAO members about the risks of the device of the former Minister of Education Photo: RIA Novosti Deep-liable academicians and corresponding members of RAO! The least I would like to allow the idea that our academic community will ever be perceived as a community of faceless conformists, deprived of human dignity, the rights of voting and a sense of respect at least to oneself.

For some, a chance to relax, for someone-to earn. How Sochi lives during the pandemic Photo: Mikhail Mordasov, especially for "New" In Sochi, everyone knows that there will be a second wave and on September 21, Kondratyev will again introduce quarantine. Therefore, we must have time. Caught earn money. And since until the last moment the border was closed, the plan seemed quite feasible. Even those who shunned him before. Prices crawled up.

UPDATED As Ilya Kosygin, the coordinator of the United Democrats project in the Vladimir region, told Novaya Gazeta, the lecture was finally carried out in full, “by sending the police out the door.” After its completion, law enforcement officials wanted to draw up a report on violation of the “mask & regime” against him, but could not because the witnesses refused to testify against Kosygin.

In relation to the activists of the "Indefinite Protest" Olga Misik, Igor Basharimov and Ivan Vorobyevsky, a criminal case was opened on vandalism committed by a group of persons (part 2 of article 214 of the Criminal Code). This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by the lawyer of the OVD-Info project, Dmitry Zakhvatov. The case was opened because of the action near the building of the Prosecutor General's Office.

In Minsk, civilians detained Dozhd correspondents Vasily Polonsky and Vladimir Romensky, as well as cameraman Nikolai Antipov, the channel reports . They were taken away in an unknown direction. Mariya Kolesnikova, a spokeswoman for the headquarters of unregistered candidate Viktor Babariko and a member of the joint headquarters of Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, said the journalists were detained after they spoke to her on the street.

The Pervorechensky District Court of Vladivostok arrested Georgy Kakabadze, a participant in solidarity actions with residents of the Khabarovsk Territory, for nine days. This was reported to OVD-Info at the regional headquarters of Navalny. The activist was found guilty of failure to comply with the lawful request of a police officer (part 1 of article 19.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The court considered that he refused to voluntarily go to the police to draw up a protocol.

About three thousand people arrived on Sunday, August 9, to the foot of Shihan Kushtau, located in the vicinity of Sterlitamak, to express a protest against the destruction of the mountain for the production of limestone. Photo: Ivan Zhilin / "New Gazeta" People from all over the republic came to defend Shihan: many spent 5-6 hours on the way. The audience stretched out the flags of Bashkkorstan around Shihan, chanted “Kustau, live”, “Hands off Kustau” and “Our Kushtau”.

In Belarus, on the day of the presidential election, problems began with mobile and home Internet. It is reported by Euroradio. Residents of the country in social networks talk about the decrease in Internet speed and problems with access to Telegram, YouTube, VPN services and independent media. "Mediazona" writes that the Internet completely disappears for several minutes, and then returns briefly.

Over the past 24 hours, another 5,189 people have been infected with the coronavirus in Russia. This is reported by the federal headquarters for the fight against infection. Over the past day, 689 new cases have been detected in Moscow, 184 in the Sverdlovsk region, and 160 in St. In Petersburg. The day before, 129 deaths from COVID-19 were recorded in the country.