The former head of the US President Donald Trump Paul Manafort, the former US President, found guilty of tax evasion and financial fraud that were discovered during the investigation of Russian intervention in the 2016 election, AFP reports. The jury found Manafort guilty of eight points out of 18. The verdict will be passed later, Manafort threatens a long prison term. President Trump said that he was very saddened by this decision, because Manafort is a “good person”.

The Kremlin allowed the use of the United Russia Slogan - President’s Party in the regions where the party’s rating fell on the eve of a single election day, RBC reports with reference to sources close to the Kremlin and the presidential administration. Permission to use the slogan in the Irkutsk and Vladimir regions is given, where they will choose a new composition of the legislative assemblies, and in Yekaterinburg, where elections to the City Duma will be held, the source reports.

Simon Zhavoronkov Paul Manafort Disney/ABC Television/Flickr.com Tuesday August 21 was an extremely unsuccessful day for US President Donald Trump. Two trials at once over people, one way or another associated with Trump, are coming to an end - and their result is unlikely to please the American president.

The “Design Bureau of Mechanical Engineering” is actively conducting work on the modernization of the Iskander tactical missile systems, RIA Novosti reports. “The work is in full swing, I can’t say anything else yet,” said Valery Kashin, general designer of the design bureau of machine -building.

The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade, Denis Manturov, said that the seizure of 14 metallurgical, mining and chemical companies “Super -Aprides” at the suggestion of the assistant to the President of Russia Andrei Belousov “Inappropriate”, RBC reports. The minister noted: “We gathered enterprises, analyzed their reporting, the financial situation of each enterprise. My colleagues from other departments came to the general opinion that today it is inappropriate.

In Berlin, on suspicion of preparing the attack, a 31-year-old citizen of Russia was detained, with RIA Novosti , with reference to the Prosecutor General of Germany. The detained Magomed-Ali S. is suspected of preparing a serious crime against the state and preparing a crime using explosives. Searches were held in his house. Other details are not given.

The Russian Ministry of Defense signed a contract for the development of a high -range hypersonic aircraft that will begin this year, RBC reports. Development and design work that received the cipher “Anchar-RV” will be carried out by the Moscow Institute of Heat Engineering. The Ministry of Defense concluded 32 contracts during the Army-2018 forum, the total cost of which is estimated at more than 130 billion rubles.

The associations of driving schools opposed the initiated traffic police of large -scale reform of driver's exams. The agency, recall, proposed to unite two exams - the “site” and “city” - for an objective assessment of “owning all driving skills in real conditions”. According to representatives of the driving schools, as Kommersant writes , this is fraught with an increase in accident rate and an increase in corruption.

The Government of Afghanistan refused to participate in a meeting on a peaceful settlement in Moscow format organized by Russia, Tolonews TV channel reports. “The peace process should be led by the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan. We will not participate in Moscow negotiations, ”said Sibgat Ahmadi, deputy official representative of the Afghan Foreign Ministry, adding that they did not receive an official invitation to the meeting.

In the first place in terms of advertising in the Russian market in the first half of 2018, the Internet first published, according to the associations of communication agencies of Russia (AKAR). In general, the Russian advertising market from January to June 2018 compared to the same period in 2017 increased by 13%, to 219 billion rubles . The volume of Internet advertising increased by 21%to 90.5-91.5 billion rubles, while the volume of TV advertising increased by 13%, to 90-91 billion rubles.

The cause of rickets is the lack of vitamin D in early childhood, leading to a violation of the development of the bone system. There is a common opinion that rickets in Europe spread widely after the industrial revolution, when factory smoke began to prevent the penetration of sunlight, under the influence of which this vitamin is synthesized in people's skin.

Ilya Karpyuk Palmyra. The gates of the sun Pixabay The US National Security Advisor John Bolton believes that Russia “got bogged down in Syria”, which allows Washington to put pressure on Moscow. In the Kremlin, of course, they do not agree with this point of view.

Under the control of Syrian government troops, 96.5% of the country's territory is located, Russian aviation destroyed more than 121 thousand objects of terrorists, including more than 600 tanks, the Russian Ministry of Defense reported on the YouTube channel report . During the military operation in Syria, 231 sample weapons were tested, more than 39 thousand aviation sorties were made, and 189 military campaigns were made by the Navy.

Employees of the Institute of Cytology of the Russian Academy of Sciences (INC RAS) investigated mechanisms associated with the emergence of a group of serious neuromuscular diseases-myopathy. The study was supported by a grant of the Russian Scientific Fund (RNF). The article of scientists is published in the journal Biochemical and Biophysical Research Communications. Myopathy is a group of diseases caused by impaired muscle functioning up to the loss of the ability to contract.

Ilya Karpyuk Work of Driving School Lyubimov Andrey/AGN "Moscow" The associations of driving schools opposed the initiated traffic police of large -scale reform of driver's exams. The agency, recall, proposed to unite two exams - the “site” and “city” - for an objective assessment of “owning all driving skills in real conditions”. According to representatives of the driving schools, as Kommersant writes , this is fraught with an increase in accident rate and an increase in corruption.