Parents of schoolchildren from Moscow, Irkutsk and Chelyabinsk regions, as well as Krasnodar Krai reported a mass refusal by comprehensive schools to transfer students who have completed 9th grade to 10th grade. This is reported by the Kommersant newspaper. According to the publication, comprehensive schools are conducting an additional selection among ninth-graders, following which many are offered to continue their education in colleges.

In Uzbekistan, men are forced to shave their beards and are fined for refusing to do so, according to local publication Podrobno.uz. Since October 2023, Uzbekistan has had a law on “being in public places in a form that does not allow identification of a person” in the Code of Administrative Responsibility. According to Article 184-4, men are prohibited from wearing beards, and women are prohibited from wearing clothes that cover their faces.

The IKEA chain of stores wants to launch an online platform for selling second-hand goods. Customers will be able to sell their items directly and receive bonuses from IKEA. This was reported to the Financial Times (FT) by the Swedish retailer's CEO Jesper Brodin. The new platform for online trading of used items is called IKEA Preowned. For now, the service will operate as an experiment in two European cities - Madrid and Oslo.

Former Deputy Minister of Energy, Director of the Coal Industry Department of the Ministry Pyotr Bobylev was detained in Moscow. The official threw a bottle of champagne at a courier, TASS reported , citing sources among the security forces. A 33-year-old man who worked as a courier contacted the police on Sunday evening, August 25, the Moscow agency reported .

Sweet cookies, crackers, biscuits and pretzels in Russia may become 15% more expensive by the end of the year. Russian confectioners have warned about this, as reported by the Parliamentary Newspaper. They explained that the rise in prices for their products is due to the rise in the cost of components needed for production. Thus, according to them, since mid-2023, confectionery fats have risen in price by up to 50%, flour by 30%, and dry dairy products by 20%.

Russian military personnel were planning to carry out sabotage using drones at NATO's Geilenkirchen airbase, the Berliner Morgenpost reported , citing sources in German intelligence. The same version was voiced by the Deutsche Presse-Agentur news agency.

Fear of repression is only one of the reasons, the other is a religious faith in the darkest The third week there are battles in the Kursk region. And if you carefully read everything that the wire channels about the latest events, then an unprepared reader may have a completely reasonable question: what about Putin?

The propaganda TV channel Rossiya 1 reported that Pavel Durov handed over the encryption keys for Telegram to the FSB in 2018. The Agency drew attention to this. “The West is irritated that Durov handed over the keys to encrypted messages to Russian special services in 2018 to fight terrorism,” said the author of the story, Anastasia Popova, on Sunday’s broadcast of the Vesti v 20:00 program.

A 30-year-old prisoner has set up a casino in the Novocherkassk penal colony in Rostov Oblast, where he is serving his sentence. This was reported by TASS, citing the press service of the Federal Security Service for Rostov Oblast. It is noted that playing cards, chips, a telephone and SIM cards were confiscated from the prisoner. According to the FSB, the casino organizer kept lists of players, recorded the results of the games and transferred money to bank accounts twice a month.

Yekaterinburg resident Veronika Naumova, who is accused of killing her five-year-old adopted son, admitted that she had been beating and tying him up for a long time for his misdeeds. This was reported by the Investigative Committee for the Sverdlovsk Region.

The White House is "extremely dissatisfied" with the developments in Georgia ahead of the parliamentary elections on October 26, in connection with which the Americans are preparing a "color revolution" there. This was reported by the press bureau of the Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) of Russia, as reported by RIA Novosti. They added that Georgian pro-Western NGOs intend to organize close monitoring of the elections, for which they are currently recruiting a large number of recruits.

St. Petersburg deputies and employees of the tourism committee have announced their intention to appeal to the state tourism council and raise the issue of introducing a discounted fare for travel on the Sapsan. This was reported by Fontanka, citing acting head of the committee Nana Gvichia. As the publication writes, the question of the cost of tickets for the high-speed train between Moscow and St.

Russian banks have received the right to block a money transfer that a client makes to himself. The right was confirmed by the Bank of Russia in response to a request from the National Council of the Financial Market, the RBC publication, which has read the text of the response, reported .

A standoff between social media users from Nigeria and South Africa has created serious problems for taxi aggregator Bolt. Nigerian users are ordering taxis in South Africa and canceling orders, while South African users are doing the same in Nigeria, the BBC reports . As a result, Bolt was forced to disable the feature that allows customers to book a taxi in another country. The company also assured that it identified and blocked users who placed fake orders.

A cave in the Breiðamerkurjökull glacier has collapsed in southeastern Iceland, killing one tourist and leaving two others missing. A group of 25 people were on a tour of the cave when the collapse occurred, The Guardian reports . The tourists had a guide with them, who led most of the group out of the cave before one of the walls collapsed. The emergency call came in at around 3:00 p.m. Sunday, August 25, local police said .