The eight -time Olympic champion in short distances, Jamaician Usain Bolt, signed an agreement with the English football club Manchester United to participate in a charity match against the Catalan Barcelona. According to The Sun , the meeting will be held on September 2 in the home arena of the Old Trafford Mankunians. In addition to the bolt, the team of the Stars of the Manchester club will include legends of the Ryan Giggs team and Paul Skowels.

On the territory of Ukraine, which is controlled by the authorities of this country, there are no more monuments to Lenin - in any case, in cities in public spaces. This was said on Thursday in an interview with liga.net Vladimir Vyatrovich - director of the Institute of National Memory - an organization that oversees compliance with the so -called decommunization law.

On August 17, 2012, the Judge of the Khamovnichesky Court of Moscow Marina Syrova announced the verdict to the three participants of the Pussy Riot group-2 years in the colony for the "punk-summer" "Theotokos, Putin of the run!" In the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Archive photo The prosecutor's office of Ukraine announced the international wanted list, taken into the annexed Crimea. Cultural values are wanted along the interpol. In Kiev, they stated that they hoped to speed up their return to the Museum Fund of Ukraine. In March 2014, the exposition moved from Mariupol to Simferopol Art Museum. This happened after the annexation of Crimea, in connection with which the Ukrainian prosecutor began the investigation.

A resident of Ukraine says that his house is like a thermos. Cools in the summer and warms in winter

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow

The Minister of the Chechen Republic for National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press and Information Dzhambulat Umarov called the media reports about the disappearance of Zelimkhan Bakaev in the formidable “stupid things”. According to him, the singer will appear "after a while", RBC reports . Where Bakaev is now, Umarov did not specify. Bakaev was detained by people in military uniform in the center of Grozny on August 8.

Roskomnadzor blocked in Russia access to the American neo -Nazi site The Daily Stormer, which previously received the Russian domain name. This Radio Liberty/Radio Free Europe was informed by the representative of the Provider RU-Center. The company emphasized that they received an official letter from Roskomnadzor, in which the supervisory authority demanded to consider the possibility of blocking the site Dailystormer.ru.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that gives the Ministry of Defense the right to remove land for state needs. The decree was published on Thursday on the legal information website. The Ministry also received the right to issue permits for the construction and operation of defense and security facilities, which relate to the armed forces of Russia and the troops of the National Guard.

Victor Yanukovych The lawyer of the former president of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych Vitaly Meshek refused to defend him in the case of the Stateizer. Meshek stated this in court. The court accepted the self -defender's self -configure. The lawyer emphasized that Yanukovych's case was too complicated for him. According to the law, several state lawyers cannot be appointed simultaneously. Therefore, Meshek said that he alone could not provide high -quality defense of Yanukovych.

The hacker from Ukraine has given a confession in the case of cyber attacks for the US Democratic Party last year. This was reported by The New York Times. The Ukrainian programmer became the first witness in the case of hacking of democrat servers. It is not yet known what kind of information he provided to the American authorities. The hacker worked under the nickname Profexer.

Hackers from the Ourmine group hacked Twitter and Facebook by the American television channel HBO. This was announced by Variety magazine. Attackers on the HBO on Twitter published a message in which they wrote that they were testing the security system of the channel, and asked to contact them to update the system. Later, HBO managed to return access to their accounts on social networks and messages were deleted.

The news of the death of the legends of Soviet and Russian cinema Vera Glagoleva shocked many: just recently the famous actress and director celebrated her daughter’s wedding and began to shoot a new film , which was supposed to be released in the spring of 2018. Andrey Plakhov Vera Glagoleva (1956 - 2017) Bright, bright memory ... Victor Shenderovich The most accurate words are the most banal. It is impossible to believe that Vera Glagoleva died.

Tamara Mearakishvili (Archive photo) The prosecutor's office of the self -proclaimed Republic of South Ossetia charged civil activist Tamara Mearakishvili. She is charged with slander against a member of the party "Unified Ossetia" by Spartak Dryaev. On August 18, Mearakishvili should appear in the prosecutor's office, reports Echo of the Caucasus. Mearakishvili was detained on August 16 in the village of Akhalgori.