In the Primorsky Krai gubernatorial elections, the Communist Party candidate Andrei Ishchenko won in the second round against the incumbent head of the region, United Russia member Andrei Tarasenko — after the Central Election Commission processed 62% of the votes. Primorye is one of four regions where it was not possible to determine a winner in the first round. In the other regions, incumbent governors from United Russia won almost everywhere.

The New Yorker magazine published a large article by Evan Osnos about Mark Zuckerberg. The journalist has been collecting information for a long time - he conducted several interviews with the CEO of Facebook himself, spoke with dozens of former and current employees of the company and with Zuckerberg's friends.

After the poisoning of the Skripals, the UK expelled 23 Russian diplomats and promised to expedite the adoption of new sanctions against Russia. But the country cannot introduce them until the end of the exit procedure from the European Union, said the country's security minister, Ben Wallace, speaking in parliament. Details The measures envisaged by the British analogue of the "Magnitsky Act" cannot be taken before Brexit, Wallace said.

On Friday, August 14, the former head of the campaign headquarters Donald Trump Paul Manafort agreed to a deal with the US special prosecutor Robert Muller. Under the terms of the transaction, Manafort is obliged to fully cooperate with the investigation, which implies not only frank testimonies at interrogations, but also the transfer of all the documents of interest to prosecutors and even participation in the operations under the cover.