Evening Medusa

August 31. Zakharchenko was killed. VKontakte against the police. Trolleybuses disappear in Moscow

Explosions and assassination attempts

in Donetsk Alexander Zakharchenko was killed . The head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic died from injuries he received as a result of an explosion at the Separ cafe. DPR Finance Minister Alexander Timofeev was also wounded. Local intelligence agencies have already announced that they have detained "Ukrainian saboteurs" who staged the explosion.

In Samara, an explosion occurred at an engine plant. Three people died . According to preliminary data, an air-gas mixture ignited while cleaning one of the tanks.

And in the Nizhny Novgorod region - at a plant for the production of explosives. Three people were killed , five more are missing. What exactly happened is not clear .

"Extremism" in social networks (daily column)

Good news (and not as usual!). VKontakte has introduced the ability to make the profile private : the corresponding setting allows you to close it from outsiders - only friends will see the user's friends and his posts (make sure that there are no police officers looking for "extremism" among them). The social network also said that it will soon add a feature that will allow you to quickly archive and delete old posts from the page.

Philosophical question. Myanmar Army Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlain's page was blocked on Facebook for "inciting ethnic and religious tensions" in connection with his posts about the Rohingya people. The general, without thinking twice, started a page on VKontakte , where, presumably, he will soon continue his activities. I wonder if the valiant operatives of Center E will see extremism in any positions of the commander in chief and will they try to bring him to justice?

Other news (in one paragraph)

Trolleybuses are disappearing in Moscow - and this is beneficial to one of the largest contractors of the mayor's office. A new phase of active hostilities is expected in Syria - and it's scary . The United States has declassified the transcripts of the Clinton-Yeltsin talks - and this is curious (Yeltsin calls Putin a "real democrat" and says that Russia will not take Crimea). Journalists found out what the new iPhones will look like - nothing is clear yet, but beautiful .

Bonus

Tomorrow is September 1, a day of mourning for all schoolchildren. And not only schoolchildren: their parents suffer no less than students, who now have to get up earlier, do “homework”, go to parent-teacher meetings. We at Meduza have made a simulator for parents who want to prepare for the first quarter, and its advantage is that even answering the same questions in the same way, sometimes you achieve a completely opposite result.

Thank God we don't have to go to school. Grisha Levchenko, Sasha Polivanov