On August 20, the artist Vitaly Volovich died. This was reported on the website of the City Duma of Yekaterinburg. Volovich was 90 years old. He had the title of People's Artist of Russia, was an academician of the Russian Academy of Arts, the laureate of the Award of the estate G.S. Mosina. The most fame to the artist was brought by his illustrations to medieval literature: “The Word of Igor’s Regiment”, “Richard III”, “Roman about Tristan and Isolde” and other works.

News Roskomnadzor asked Sports.ru to change the name of the football player Paul Dick in the article 20 August 2018 Roskomnadzor asked the editors of Sports.ru to change the name of the football player Paul Huia in one of the materials. This was told on Twitter by the general director of the publication Dmitry Navosha. They just called from the department of Roskomnadzor in the North-Western District-they asked to change the name of the football player Paul Huy.

Russia will not build a helicopter carrier for its Navy, as planned earlier. The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov said this in an interview with Interfax agency. “The issues related to the construction of an aircraft carrier for the Russian Navy are currently under discussion, and I can say for sure that helicopter bearers in the purely understanding of the word will not be built on the construction of a helicopter carrier,” the minister said.

The prosecutor's office has information that Mikhail Khachaturian raped the eldest and middle daughter. This was reported by the TASS correspondent from the hall of the Moscow City Court, who was considering the arrest of the sisters. “The prosecutor’s office has information about the application of the sisters of Christina and Angelina Khachaturian by their father of sexual violence, in this regard, I ask you to hold a meeting closed,” the prosecutor said.

News A prayer service was held in the church near Moscow in honor of homeless animals 20 August 2018 In the Ilyinsky temple of the village of Lemeshevo, a service was held in honor of World Day of Protection of Homeless Animals. Photos were published by the Moscow Agency. Such a prayer was carried out for the first time.

The law enforcement agencies of Chechnya established the identities of five participants in the attack on police officers, all of them, according to preliminary data, are residents of the Shali district of the republic under the age of not older than 18 years. This was reported by RIA "Novosti" with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the region. All the attackers are residents of the Shali district: one-2000, two-2001, as well as 2002 and 2006, ”the agency’s interlocutor said.

In St. Petersburg, the investigation asks the court to send Eduard Nikitin, who is accused of extremism for the VKontakte messages for compulsory treatment. This was announced by his lawyer Maxim Kamakin. The case against Nikitin was opened in December 2017 under an article on the initiation of hatred or enmity and to humiliate human dignity. The occasion was the caricature of “cold quilted jackets” and an anecdote about unbelief in changes after the elections that he published in 2015.

Unknown people fired at the US Embassy in Turkey from the car, there were no injured. This was reported by CNN Turk. The incident occurred at five in the morning local time (coincides with Moscow). The shots knocked out windows in a guard booth located at the entrance to the embassy. The police are looking for attackers.

The composer, the author of the pop songs of Mikhail Orlov, opened a criminal case for a false message about the terrorist attack. He reported this to Novaya Gazeta. Orlov called the police several times to complain to the noisy construction near his house, because of which he could not work in his home studio. Construction work shortly stopped, but then resumed.

The actress and director Asia Argento, one of those who accused Hollywood producer Harvey Vainstein of harassment, paid a few months ago to 17-year-old actor Jimmy Bennett $ 380 thousand after she molested him in a hotel room in California. It is reported by The New York Times with reference to the documents of the agreement between the lawyers of Argento and Bennett and three sources confirming the authenticity of the documents.

The Moscow City Court recognized the arrest of the Khachaturian sisters accused of the murder of his father. “After listening to the opinions of the parties, guided by the norms of the Code of Criminal Procedure, the court of appeal ruled: the defense complaint to be dismissed,” the judge announced his decision. Protection asked the girls to change the measure of restraint for house arrest.

Russia will not build a helicopter carrier for its Navy, as planned earlier. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov. After France broke the contract with Russia for the supply of Mistrals, the Ministry of Defense announced that already in 2022 the Russian army would be able to adopt the first domestic helicopter carrier. Konstantin Strelbitsky, chairman of the Moscow Fleet History Club, told about what the abandonment of this project will turn out to be.

Law enforcement agencies of the Ulyanovsk region opened the case of insulting a representative of the authorities (Article 319 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) because of the photograph of the head of the region Sergey Morozov, where he was drawn in Photoshop "Hitler mustache". It is reported by Interfax. The poster with a photograph appeared in May at one of the Rallies of the Communist Party, after which the picture was distributed in the socialist.

US law enforcement agencies believe that the former US President Donald Trump President Michael Cohen reinforced more than $ 20 million loans received by taxi companies, which he and his family own. It is reported by The New York Times with reference to sources familiar with the investigation. Investigators find out whether Cohen made banking and tax fraud.

Angela Merkel received Vladimir Putin in the official house of receptions in Mezberg. The next formal meeting took place as usual: Putin was late, the conversation was long, the common soil was not felt, Putin won in the future. The meetings of Vladimir Putin with Angel Merkel are usually so boring that the German press writes about them according to the standard template.