Photo from The Guardian The Guardian newspaper intends to transfer to its partner The New York Times received from Edward Snowden documents regarding the work of the British intelligence services, the British edition reports . In particular, we are talking about the documents of the British Center for Government Communications.

Rally logo in defense A rally of young scientists against the reform of the Russian Academy of Sciences was held on Suvorovskaya Square in Moscow, the Echo of Moscow reports . About a thousand representatives of academic institutes and trade unions took part in it. Consistent campaign under the slogan "Painting science together!" passed without incident.

Photo: Gefter.ru 95 years ago, on August 24, 1918, a historian, philosopher and publicist Mikhail Yakovlevich Hefter was born. Since 1970, he actively participated in the dissident movement, was one of the founders and authors of the samizdat magazine “Search”, and in 1982 he voluntarily left the CPSU. He was able to publish in the Soviet press only with the beginning of perestroika, in 1991 he became president of the Holocaust Scientific and Educational Center.

Promotion "Open Coast". Photo: Openberg.ru By Lake Sukhodolskoye near St. Petersburg, the police detained 14 activists of the Open Coast environmental movement, according to the page of the group "Assistance to detained in St. Petersburg." They opposed the illegal overlap of the coast with a fence. Activists Ilya Pinigin and Valery Lesov, who tried to dismantle the fence, will be left in the police until the morning.

The icebreaker Arctic Sunrise. Photo: Greenpeace.org The ARCTIC Sunrise, owned by Greenpeace, was released on Saturday morning in the Kara Sea, reported on the movement website. Activists intend to hold peaceful actions against oil production in the Russian Arctic National Park, which is being prepared by the Rosneft and its American partner Exxonmobil.

On August 24, at 12:00 in Moscow, a rally of young scientists in the defense of academic science will be held on Suvorovskaya Square (metro Dostoevskaya). Young employees of the Russian Academy of Sciences, RAMS and ROSHN, university and school teachers will oppose the bill on the reorganization of the Academy of Sciences. The rally will pass without political symbols.

Tatyana Zaslavskaya. Photo: wciom.ru In Moscow, at the 86th year of life, a Russian sociologist, political scientist and economist, academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Tatyana Zaslavskaya, died, according to the website of the Institute of Sociology of the Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1943, Zaslavskaya entered the Moscow State University first at the Physical, and then at the Faculty of Economics, which she graduated from 1950.

March for the liberation of animals. Photo by Dmitry Zykova/Grani.ru In Moscow, a march was held for the liberation of animals "We are all earthlings", the correspondent of "faces" reports. The action collected about 300 participants. "Squirrel, hare, chipmunk is not clothes for us, but friend!" - they chanted. The agreed march passed along the route from Samotnykaya Square along Samotsky Street to Suvorovskaya Square.

Surgeon and Putin in Volgograd. Photo of the Kremlin press service In Volgograd, a series of events takes place on the 71st anniversary of the first massive German aircraft blow to the city. The central event of the weekend was the patriotic bike show "Stalingrad", organized by the Moscow club "Night Wolves". On the eve of the leader of the club surgeon (Alexander Zaldostanov), together with Vladimir Putin, opened the recreated fountain "Children's Hoorary", the Kremlin press service reports.

In the Golyanov concentration camp. Photo by Nicky Maksimyuk/Grani.ru The Council of Deputies of the Yegoryevsky district satisfied the prosecutor’s protest for a referendum on the placement of migrants in the district of a special receiver. This was reported by "Kommersant" with reference to the head of the Mosoblisbirkom Irek Vildanov. According to him, the basis was that the solution of such issues belongs to the competence of state authorities.

Pavodok in the Far East. Photo: mchs.gov.ru There was a tendency to decline in the growth rate of water level in the Amur in the Khabarovsk area, at the press conference of the acting governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Vyacheslav Shport. The river level on Saturday morning amounted to 720 centimeters, RIA Novosti reports. “The situation remains tense, but there was a tendency to decline on this day. If earlier it rose 1 centimeter per hour, which is now 4 centimeters per day.

Boris Stomakhin in court. May 2013. Photo by Elena Sannikova August 24 is the birthday of political prisoners Boris Stomakhin . On this day, the International Public Protection Committee of Stomakhin calls on to hold shares of solidarity with the Politzek under the slogan "Freedom to Boris Stomakhin! There is no persecution for thoughts and words!". Stomakhin is in custody on November 20, 2012.

The destroyer "Mahen". Photo: mahan.navy.mil The Pentagon builds up its military presence off the coast of Syria, said US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel. According to the BBC that the US naval forces send the destroyer Mahen to this area, already the fourth-armed forces of the Tomagavk cruise missiles.