The election campaign of candidates for the post of head of the Russian Football Union began. So far, four have been registered as candidates, including the Minister of Sports of Russia and the current head of the RFU Vitaly Mutko. The candidates were the former head coach of CSKA and the Russian national team Valery Gazaev, as well as the President of the Russian Football Premier League Sergey Prazhkin and the head of the football National League Igor Efremov.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia organized an auction for the acquisition of the Robotics Complex "Sphere". The corresponding application is posted on the public procurement website. This device is intended for the “prompt collection of audio-video information in hard-to-reach and dangerous zones for humans, followed by transferring the remote control on the radio channel,” says the website of the Set-1 manufacturer.

The Islamic State Terrorist organization, which was banned in Russia, took responsibility for attacking the DPS post in the Moscow Region on August 17, Site Intelligence Group reports . It is clarified that AMAQ, controlled by the militants, spread such a message.

The Turkish Feces under the EU Selim Enel said that he was hoping for his country to join the European Union no later than 2023. He reported this in an interview with the German newspaper Die Welt. He emphasized that membership in the European Union would become the highest achievement for Turkey, adding that in 2023 the centenary of the Turkish Republic will be celebrated.

The police Rio de Janeiro charged Ryan Locht and James Feigen, two swimmers from the US Olympic team. This was reported by TASS with reference to the air of the local Globo television channel. Swimmers are suspected of false reports of a crime. They face a prison for a period of one to six months, as well as a fine. Under local laws, the court will make a decision on the charges. Lochte and Feigen told the police about the robbery.

Maria Mstislavskaya Ilya Novikov (second on the right) with the players of the club "What? Where? When?" Photo: Alexander Levkevich Lawyer Ilya Novikov, player of the club "What? Where? When? ”, The two -time owner of the“ Crystal Owl ”and the owner of the“ Diamond Owl ”must leave the club. This was stated in an interview with the newspaper " Moscow Komsomolets " the host, director and producer of the game "What? Where? When?" Boris Hook. Boris Hook.

The Russian government excluded "services for organizing recreation and recovery of children" from the procurement list that state-owned companies should produce through online auctions. The corresponding order of August 10 was published on the official Internet portal of legal information. In June, that institutions since the fall will not be able to purchase tickets to children's wellness camps through electronic auctions, Vice Prime Minister Olga Golodets said .

The ex-first lady of Georgia, the wife of Mikhail Saakashvili Sandra Rolofs on October 8 will run for the upcoming elections from the region of the Sugdid district from the party "Unified National Movement". It is reported by RIA Novosti . She noted that in four years that have passed since her husband’s resignation, nothing has changed in Georgia. “I do not see something new to be done.

The German budget air carrier EUROWINGS - the daughter of the largest Lufthansa airline in Germany - decided to leave the Russian market. This was written by Kommersant with reference to a representative of the airline. According to him, the low -cost airline will stop flying to Russia from November for "economic reasons". For the year, Eurowings tried to replace another carrier from Germany Air Berlin in this direction, who stopped flying in the Russian Federation in 2015.

The Antimonopoly Committee of Ukraine prepared a lawsuit to recover 85.86 billion hryvnias ($ 3 billion) with Gazprom, the head of the department Yuri Terentyev said, RIA Novosti reports. In 2015, Ukrainian antitrust workers imposed a fine on Gazprom in 2015, ruled that the Russian company abuses the monopoly position in the gas transit market. 3 billion dollars - the amount of debt of Ukraine taken from Russia at the end of 2013. In 2015, Kyiv adopted a law on freezing these payments to Moscow.

Simon Zhavoronkov Burned trolleybus. Moscow, August 22, 1991. Photo: TOVE KNUTSEN On August 19, the 25th years of attempt by a coup in the Soviet Union are 25 years old. By this time, a quarter of a century ago, Boris Yeltsin urgently arrived at the White House to organize resistance, and Mikhail Gorbachev was under house arrest in the Crimea, already approaching Moscow.

The Governor of the Pskov Region Andrei Turchak claims that the increase in customs duties on electronic equipment to 60% will not be a violation of the WTO rules and will help the development of domestic industry. It is reported by TASS . “First of all, we mean those types of electronic equipment for which Russian companies have all the necessary competencies. For many of them, customs duties account for 0%, which makes their production economically inappropriate in our country.

The Ministry of Defense published a video of the launches of the Caliber missiles from the Mediterranean Sea on the objects of the Islamic State (IG) group banned in the Russian Federation.

A athlete, the world champion in sixth jumping Elena Isinbaeva announced that she was completing her athlete's career. According to TASS , the Russian woman announced her decision at a special press conference in Rio de Janeiro. “I invited you here in order to report that I am completing my career,” the athlete said. In the afternoon, the wound of Isinbaev was elected to the commission of athletes of the International Olympic Committee.

The Indian Council for the Regulation of Nuclear Energy issued permission to connect to the power system of the second power unit of Kudankulam NPP, built with the assistance of the Russian Rosatom. The second power unit is planned to be connected to the network in the near future, said the director of the Ramahi NPP, Shanmuga Sundar.