The national team of Belarus at the opening of the Paralympics. Helper video The International Paralympic Committee will conduct an investigation against the delegation of Belarus, one of the members of which appeared at the opening ceremony of the Paralympics with the Russian flag. According to the BBC, the Ministry of State Pedagogical Code said that they would try to establish the identity of the offender, after which a decision would be made on disciplinary measures.

Memorial board Mannerheim. Photo: vestnikburi.com In St. Petersburg, a commemorative board to the Finnish marshal Karl Mannerheim was doused for the third time, Interfax reports . An unknown man threw two small containers with red paint into it. He was detained by the police who were on duty at the board in the morning. On Thursday, on the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the blockade of Leningrad, stocks were held in the city against the installation of the board.

Valentina Matvienko. Photo: Er.ru Unemployed Russians must themselves make contributions for compulsory medical insurance. According to RIA Novosti, this said the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko. Now, according to her, contributions for the non -working population to the compulsory medical insurance system are introduced by the budgets of the Russian regions.

Vladimir Markin. Photo from the SCR website The official representative of the Investigative Committee, Vladimir Markin, apologized to the journalist of Novaya Gazeta Nadezhda Prussenkova. He published an apology on his Twitter. “Yesterday it was a very emotional day, I consider it my duty to apologize to the journalist of Novaya Gazeta,” Markin wrote.

Karim Masimov and Vladimir Putin. Photo by the press service of the Prime Minister of Russia President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev removed Karim Masimov from the post of Prime Minister of the country. The corresponding decree is published on the website of the head of state. By the same decree, Masimov was appointed chairman of the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan. The government will continue to work until the new office is approved. I.O.

Igor Konashenkov. Photo: Arms-expo.ru Materials of the report of the Expert -Journalist Group of Bellingcat about the participation of the Russian military in the hostilities in Ukraine are fiction and “anti -Russian propaganda”. This was stated by the official representative of the Russian Ministry of Defense, Major General Igor Konashenkov, Interfax reports .

Shavkat Mirziyoyev. Photo of the Kremlin press service Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev was appointed temporarily acting President of Uzbekistan, Interfax reports. Such a decision was made at a joint meeting of the Legislative Chamber and Senate Oliy Mazhlis (the upper and lower chambers of the country's parliament). Mirziyoyev was born in 1957, a graduate of the Tashkent Institute of Irrigation and Mechanization of Agriculture.

Hilary Clinton and Barack Obama. Photo: Whitehouse.gov Donald Trump has a habit of expressing conflicting and "absurd ideas." So US President Barack Obama answered the statements of the Republican candidate for the advantage of Vladimir Putin over him, reports NBC. “I need to defend myself? Well, I will answer. As for Mr. Trump, I believe that I have already expressed his opinion.

David Nuriev (Ptah). Photo with personal VK page To Raper David Nuriev (Phtha), the TFR appeared with a search in the case of extremism. The artist reported this on his VK page at about 9 am on Thursday. Investigators came to Raper when he returned home from a trip. An hour later, the chairman of the Agora Pavel Chikov wrote on his Twitter that the association lawyer Ilnur Sharapov had gone to Phtha. He will work with another lawyer "Agora", Dmitry Dinze.

Novousmansky District Court. Photo: Miguel Rublevsky The judge of the Novousmansky District Court of the Voronezh region Viktor Sergeyov fined 10 thousand rubles under part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violation of the established procedure for holding rallies) activists of the Russian carriers of Russia Nadezhda Kurazhkovskaya and Sergey Rudametkin. This was reported by human rights activist Miguel Rublevsky.

Evgeny Prigozhin. Photo: Restoranoff.ru The Vasileostrovsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced to two years in prison the restaurateur guard Evgeny Prigozhin. According to TASS, the former fighter of the special forces of the Russian Internal Troops Sergey Plashchenko was accused under Article 318 of the Criminal Code (the use of violence for health is not used in relation to a representative of the authorities).

Andrey Fomochkin at the opening of the Paralympics in Rio. Photo: Pressball.by The act of the Belarusian sports functionary, who came out with the Russian flag at the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, is worthy of admiration. This, as Interfax reports , said Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov. “Of course, this is an act, what the Belarusian Paralympicians did. He is worthy of admiration,” Peskov said.

Elena Kostyuchenko after the attack, 09/03/2016. Photo by Ali Feruz The journalist of Novaya Gazeta Elena Kostyuchenko, who has undergone several attacks in Beslan, was diagnosed with a brain bruise. The journalist reported this on her FB page on Wednesday evening. “It sounds funny, but it is directly visible on an MRI,” the victim remarked. “You can use the computer yet for 20 minutes a day,” the journalist added. “Who wants to contact is better mobile ...

65 years ago, on September 8, 1951, a peace treaty was signed in San Francisco between the countries of the anti-Hitler coalition and Japan. Under the control of Japan, according to the terms of the treaty, only the Japanese islands remained. The USSR refused to sign the treaty, citing the fact that the PRC delegation was not allowed to sign it.

Vyacheslav Volodin. Photo from the site www.edinros.er.ru The decision of the Ministry of Justice on the recognition of the Levada Center by the “foreign agent” is not connected with politics. According to RBC, the first deputy head of the Kremlin administration Vyacheslav Volodin stated this. During a meeting with political scientists, he noted that previously some NPOs managed to achieve the withdrawal of the status of a "foreign agent".