Mintimer Shaimiev. Photo from the site www.rt-online.ru Information about the death of the President of Tatarstan Mintimer Shaimiev appeared on the Internet. This was written in his blog by the ex-chairman of the Tatarstan State Heads, an expert of the International Institute for Humanitarian Research Irek Murtazin. According to Murtazin himself, his acquaintance, vacationing in Kemer, reported about the death of the head of Tatarstan.

Handcuffs. Photo from Newsru.com In the Kaliningrad region, a 53-year-old citizen suspected of attempting to rape a 9-year-old girl was detained, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the regional investigative department. “In the city of Mamonovo, a 9-year-old girl returned home from school along the railway tracks in the area of ​​Customs Street.

Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia. Frame Al Jazeera The resource for the restoration of indicators of the Russian stock market is very large. As RIA Novosti reports, President Dmitry Medvedev stated this at a meeting with the participants in the Valdai discussion club. "The resource for restoring the indicators of the Russian stock market is very large.

Fire engine. Photo SFN In the center of Moscow on Friday morning, a fire occurred at school #1243 at Maly Kislovsky Lane, 12/8 house. 325 children were evacuated from the school, according to preliminary data, none of the children were injured, RIA Novosti reports with reference to a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies. They specified that the fire occurred in one of the classes of the school and then the fire spread to other rooms. Ten fire brigades went to the scene.

NATO headquarters. Photo by ar The US Ambassador to NATO Kurt Walker urged Russia to reconsider the decision to recognize the independence of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, RIA Novosti reports. "We urge Russia to revise the decision to recognize the territories of Abkhazia and South Ossetia as independent states," the Volker’s video said. He expressed the hope that Russia will fulfill its obligations to withdraw troops from the territory of Georgia to the positions that they occupied on August 6.

The story of the inhabitants of the burned Georgian village of Avnevi. Production: " Caucasian Knot" ", Vyacheslav Feraposhkin. Video faces-TV: Alexander Cherkasov about the situation in Georgia Anna Neistat: on both sides of the front South Ossetia: Was Genocide? South Ossetia: crimes and myths

Andrey Isaev. Photo by Lenta.ru Andrei Isaev, Deputy Secretary of the Presidium of the General Council of United Russia, said that there would be no “political thaw in Russia”, literally repeating the words of Vladislav Surkov. “If someone means sling by thaw - that the state will begin to fall apart, to retreat everywhere and be afraid of its own shadow, then there will be no such political slush,” said Isaev, whose words are quoted by Echo of Moscow.

Mountains of Ingushetia. Photo from the site Ingushetia.ru In Nazran, a former employee of a private security company Timur Khutiev was killed at the entrance of his house. According to Ingushetia.ru, at about 9 in the morning his car was fired by unknown. Now the scene of the incident is cordoned off, the operational-investigation group is working there, the issue of initiating a criminal case is being resolved.

Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, photo http://www.observator.org The Ukrainian singer and musician, the leader of the Elsa Ocean group Svyatoslav Vakarchuk, surrendered the mandate of the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, reports ITAR-TASS.

Eduard Limonov and Harry Kasparov. Photo by A. Karpyuk/Grani.ru The National Assembly could not come to a single assessment of events in Georgia, the Grani.ru correspondent from the Sakharov Center reports, where the debate of the delegates of this opposition forum took place on Thursday evening.

Yuri Luzhkov. Photos of faces The mayor of Moscow Yuri Luzhkov intends to solve the problem of taxi drivers, earned by private breeding. “The issue with taxi drivers should be resolved,” Luzhkov said.

Vladimir Putin. Photo Getty Images Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, at a meeting with foreign journalists in Sochi, confused the leader of the DPRK Kim Jong Ira with his late father Kim Il In. Answering the question, in which, in his opinion, Kim Jong Ir is, Putin said in surprise: "He is in the Mausoleum." According to the British Times, the premiere’s response caused an explosion of laughter in the hall.

Human rights activist Alexander Cherkasov at a press conference on the results of the Memorial and Human Rights Watch mission in South Ossetia. Human rights activists: Military in Ossetia get drunk and indulge in looting Full video of the press conference Video Graney-TV: Anna Neistat: on both sides of the front South Ossetia: was there a genocide?

Inna Levinson installation. Photo from the artist blog The Interregional Public Movement "People's Cathedral" appealed to the Moscow Prosecutor's Office with a request to conduct a prosecutor’s check in connection with the exhibition "Apples fall simultaneously in different gardens", which was held in July in the Center for Modern Art "Vincuvod". As Kommersant writes on Friday, the organizers of the exhibition are trying to incriminate pornography.

The animated series '' South Park ''. Illustration from the site of the cartoon The 2x2 TV channel does not plan to change the broadcasting grid and remove cartoons from the air, claims to which representatives of religious organizations and the General Prosecutor's Office expresses, City.fm reports, citing the press secretary of the television channel, Maria Telshev. She noted that "2x2" is not intended for children, and all the programs that can cause doubt go after twenty -three hours.