Top news August 30

Dmitry Medvedev speaks on the phone

The Polit.ru digest is a selection of the ten most notable news of the day. Today it became known that Russian athletes may miss the 2018 Paralympics, the situation with the hospitalization of the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov continues to grow in rumors, and Japan can help Russia, despite the disagreements over the Kuril Islands.

Russian athletes will not be allowed to attend the 2018 Paralympics in South Korea

Symbolic figures of the 2018 Paralympics / wikipedia.org

The decision to disqualify the Russian Paralympic Committee and, accordingly, not allow Russian athletes to participate in the Paralympic Games applies not only to the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, but also to the 2018 Paralympic Games in PyeongChang (South Korea).

The media named possible successors to the head of Uzbekistan

After reports appeared on the Internet about the health problems of the current President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, experts - and after them the media - began to speculate about the candidacy of a possible successor to the head of the republic . The most likely contenders for the post of President of Uzbekistan are Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyaev and Deputy Prime Minister Rustam Azimov.

Members of the government are preparing to unanimously support and greet the new president with thunderous applause! https://t.co/taNH4cnZdZ

— Snide News (@_A_N_T_S_) August 29 , 2016

The Kremlin commented on the situation with the illness of the President of Uzbekistan

Dmitry Peskov, press secretary /tvc.ru

Press Secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin is aware of the illness of the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov, but does not have any details. He also stated that due to the illness of the Uzbek president, contacts with the country's leadership were not interrupted.

Somehow Gaddafi, Hussein and Chavez are sitting playing cards. Karimov enters. Silent scene. A curtain.

— Knitted Twitter (@twitted_knitter) August 30 , 2016

Uzbek television reported that Karimov’s condition is stable, and he will soon hold meetings with Genghis Khan and Tamerlane.

— Snide News (@_A_N_T_S_) August 29 , 2016

The media reported Japan's readiness to help Russia despite the dispute over the Kuril Islands

The Japanese government considers it a priority to provide economic assistance to Russia even in the absence of progress in the territorial dispute over the Kuril Islands.

Russian hackers accused of attacking US research centers

Hacker

A group of Russian hackers, Cozy Bear, attacked Washington research centers. The head of the American information technology company Crowdstrike, Dmitry Alperovich, said that they were also guilty of a cyber attack on the Democratic National Committee (DNC).

Hacker recognized Medvedev's phone number because of the new design of VKontakte

After the social network VKontakte switched to a new design, a significant vulnerability was discovered in its security system. Thanks to her, a hacker calling himself Alex Reble managed to obtain the email addresses and phone numbers of famous people tied to the accounts. In particular, we are talking about the founder of VKontakte Pavel Durov and the head of the Russian government Dmitry Medvedev .

The hacker found out the phones of #Durov_a and #Medvedev_a through a vulnerability in the redesign of “ #VKontakte ” https://t.co/edEUzWjiat pic.twitter.com/g5VvkeKIAr

— Lili Den (@PantheRRaBlak) Apr 30 , 2016 |

The former head of the NHL spoke about the use of meldonium by hockey players

Hockey game / kremlin.ru

Former President of the National Hockey League (NHL) Alexander Medvedev said that hockey players are allowed to take meldonium, which is included in the list of prohibited drugs by the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) .

Apple sent out invitations to the iPhone 7 presentation

Night view of the Apple store

Rumors that the American corporation Apple will present a new model of its iPhone smartphone in early September were confirmed - company representatives sent out invitations to the presentation indicating the date of September 7.

Muscovite fined for glare from headlights

The Moscow traffic police department promised to consider the complaint of a Muscovite fined for glare of headlights on a wet road. Driver Dmitry Vorona said that in July he received a fine for driving on the side of the road. But the camera image showed that only the glare of his car’s headlights slid along the side of the road. The man sent a complaint to the traffic police, but they have not yet responded to him. The driver noted that the period required by law to respond has not yet expired.

Traffic cameras cast a shadow on the fairness of punishments https://t.co/5EgDQ10H1k #fine #traffic police #auto #traffic police with the help of @onlinekpru

— AvtoTwitter (@dorogi_kozerogi) August 30 , 2016

readers decided to go to the polls on September 18 Polit.ru

In less than three weeks, on September 18, elections to the State Duma of the 7th convocation will be held in Russia. In addition to the elections to the State Duma, on the same day there will be elections for the leaders of a number of federal subjects and elections of deputies to legislative bodies of state power in 38 regions.

In a traditional poll , Polit.ru asked readers whether they were going to go to the polls on September 18. The majority of respondents not only intend to vote, but have already made their choice.

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