In Belarus, protests continue. On the fourth day, August 12 and on the night of August 13, the security forces detained 700 people. Employees of Belaz announced the strike, thousands of people left their jobs, gathered at the factory and chanted "Leave!" and "genocide". The press service of the plant said that this is not a strike, but a “meeting” at the initiative of the leadership at which “issues on the situation in the country are discussed”.

The International Computer Security Company Group-IB reported the previously unknown Russian-speaking hacker group Redcurl, which stole important corporate information among private companies around the world, according to the Group-IB website. According to Group-Ib, Redcurl has existed since 2018. During this time, hackers made 26 targeted attacks exclusively on commercial organizations.

According to the Forecast of the World Bank, in 2020, world GDP will decrease from 5 to 7.1 %. The IMF evaluates the fall of the global economy up to 4.9 %. During the previous financial crisis, the decline in world production amounted to only 1.7 %. A large role in the restoration of national economies will be played by digital technologies, HSE experts are sure.

Tatyana Felgenhauer and Alexander Plyushchev were canceled to journalists of the Echo of Moskvy radio station of 4 thousand rubles for a picket in support of the colleague of Ilya Azar, TASS reports . Their offense was considered insignificant. The penalty for violation of the increased readiness regime was appointed by the association of administrative and technical inspections. It also canceled it, lawyer Kala Achilgov told the news agency.

The court in the Khabarovsk Territory limited Viktor Gavrilov, who left the children at Sheremetyevo Airport, RIA Novosti , RIA Novosti. The regional prosecutor’s office reported that alimony was also collected from him for the maintenance of children whom the mother will be educated. On January 26, 41-year-old Viktor Gavrilov flew to Sheremetyevo from Khabarovsk with two children.

On August 12, at the 72nd year of life, the People’s Artist of the Russian Federation, sculptor Mikhail Pereyaslav, died, TASS reports . The death of the sculptor was reported in the Russian Academy of Arts. The People’s Artist of Russia Mikhail Pereyaslavets died https://t.co/stbgj3fu0u - Fedora (@fedoraf) August 13, 2020 Mikhail Pereyaslavets was born in 1949 in Moscow. In 1974, he graduated from the Moscow State Art Institute named after Surikov.

There will be no mass events and lines in the new academic year in Moscow schools, the official channel of the operational headquarters of the capital according to the situation with the coronavirus, citing mayor Sergei Sobyanin, reports . Sobyanin specified that children will not have to constantly wear masks. Movement in schools and classes will be limited to minimize the contacts of each student.

Polish archaeologists have found a sword for more than a thousand years and other medieval objects at the bottom of Lake Lake Lake. Studies of the lake are conducted by scientists from the University of Nikolai Copernicus in the city of Torun and the museum of the first pairs located under the open sky on the island in the southern part of Lake Lesnitsa. Lake Lake Lake was an important center for the formation of Polish statehood and the Christianization of Poland.

The CEC of Belarus has published preliminary results of the presidential election of the country, RIA Novosti reports . According to the CEC, in Minsk, Alexander Lukashenko scored 64.49% of the vote, Tikhanovskaya - 14.92%. On August 9, elections were held in Belarus. According to official ec weaps, President Alexander Lukashenko gained about 80% of the vote. He has been holding this post for 26 years.

The founder of SpaceX, Ilon Musk, asked Twitter than he could help protesters in Belarus. In response, they began to ask him to influence the Belarusian authorities or at least send President Alexander Lukashenko into space. The user @renarddemoscou tweeted the video from Minsk with shots of protests, detentions and wounded people. “Belarus is on fire. Murders, beatings and torture - this is how autocrats win their elections. Spread the world.

The plenipotentiary of the President of Russia in the Far Eastern Federal District, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Trutnev passed a positive test for Koronavirus, TASS reports . The spokeswoman for Deputy Prime Minister Timur Chernyshev said that Trutnev was observing self-isolation. He also noted that the Trutnev’s trip to the Far East, where events with the participation of the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Mikhail Mishustin will take place, while being postponed.

The persecution of Soviet power to the Russian Church was such that it was not to say about their faith, but even silently follow it as a feat. The new martyrs and confessors, glorified in the face of the saints did not come: believed, prayed and meekly went to their Calvarys. “Polit.ru” recalls those who gave their lives for faith and by whose prayers the Russian Church is alive - even if almost nothing came to us besides the name.

Andrey Korotaev Photo by Neonbrand on Unsplash The idea that a certain “singularity” awaits us in the near future has recently become quite popular, primarily thanks to the activities of the technical director of Google in the field of technical training Racond Kurzweil and his book The Singularity is Near (2005).

The American state of Illinois filed a collective lawsuit against Facebook, reports Business Insider. The company was accused of illegally collecting biometric data from photos of Instagram users. The lawsuit states that the Instagram algorithm automatically recognizes the faces and creates their “templates” that it stores in its base. The social network also stores information about the faces of those users who have fallen on the photograph, but are not registered on Instagram.

In St. Petersburg, the lawyer of the local headquarters of Navalny Alexander Shurschev was beaten, the activist himself said on Twitter. According to him, this is the fourth attack in a year. Two unknown people attacked Shurshev at the house when he was. “They attacked from behind, tumbled down, torn silently, but fled, as there were other passers -by nearby. The abrasions remained, including On the face. I'm going to injury.