The Russian Railways company admitted the guilt of its employees in an accident in Shcherbinka, where an electric train crashed into a car at a crossing. This is stated in a press release posted on August 28 on the company’s website. The message notes that all those responsible for the accident and providing false information about its circumstances will either be fired or prosecuted. The company apologized to the injured driver and his relatives.

US Army Major Nidal Hassan, who opened fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood in November 2009, was sentenced to death on Wednesday, August 28. This was reported by Reuters . Previously, Hassan was found guilty of 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted murder. At the trial, he admitted that it was he who shot at people because he did not agree with US policy in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Russia, few doubt this, has long since risen from its knees. Russia's enemies tremble. Many, or rather, are defeated, but those who are not defeated tremble. Both external and internal enemies tremble. The most external enemies can do is send American shekels to internal enemies through Georgian adventurers. Internal enemies, however, cannot even spend these funeral pennies wisely. They just sit and wait for their well-deserved punishment. Patriots rejoice.

The Russian TV channel NTV's story about the arrest of Uralkali CEO Vladislav Baumgertner was not broadcast on Belarusian airwaves. One of the readers reported this to the Charter-97 publication. He clarified that the story was cut from the evening episode of the “Today” program. Results" dated August 27. Instead of a report from Minsk, the Belarusian NTV broadcast showed “a very long advertisement.” There have been no official comments on this matter yet.

Pirate action game Raven's Cry has been postponed. Shacknews reports this with reference to the publishers of the TopWare project. The game was supposed to go on sale on October 24. The new release date remains unknown, but it is expected that the action game will go on sale at the end of the year. The reason for the transfer was the fact that the game was transferred to other developers.

The last Wednesday of August in the Spanish city of Buñol is the Tomatina festival, in which participants throw tomatoes at each other. The event starts around 11 a.m., but only after one of the participants climbs onto a pole that has been previously greased with soap. After this, the water cannons give the signal for battle and the tomato madness begins.

In August, the 66th Film Festival was held in Locarno, where the star of American and European cinema, Jacqueline Bisset, received an honorary award for her contribution to art.

Roman Abramovich's company Millhouse Capital is negotiating the purchase of the White Gardens business center on Lesnaya Street in Moscow. reports this ITAR-TASS with reference to unnamed sources. The transaction amount could be $750-800 million. As the Vedomosti newspaper writes in its issue dated August 28 , if the purchase takes place, it will become the second largest in the capital's office real estate market in its entire history.

The American newspaper The Wall Street Journal removed the paid access to its website during a hacker attack on the website of the rival publication The New York Times. An offer to read The Wall Street Journal for free appeared on one of the publication’s Twitter accounts, as well as on the account of the publisher, the Dow Jones Company, on the night of August 28.

Zimbabwean citizen Takura Mufumisi was formally charged on August 28 with violating election laws. According to Agence France-Presse , a 26-year-old Zimbabwean is accused of misusing a campaign poster depicting President Robert Mugabe: on July 24, he tore the poster into strips and tried to use them as toilet paper. According to a prosecution witness, Mufumisi, while in a bar in Masvingo, took an election poster and went to the toilet.

The price of WTI crude oil on US exchanges rose 3 percent to $112.24, the highest since May 2011. Bloomberg reports this. The reason for the rise in prices was the threat of an airstrike by the US, UK and France on Syria. In two days, WTI thereby increased in price by $6.5. Another major crude oil, Brent, could rise in price from its current $117 a barrel to a record $150 if the war in Syria disrupts supplies, Societe Generale said.

One of the largest brokerage firms in the United States, Merril Lynch, has agreed to pay $160 million in a racial discrimination lawsuit. The New York Times writes about this with reference to Chicago lawyer Linda Friedman, who represented the interests of 700 black brokers who filed the lawsuit. The publication notes that the compensation will be the largest payment ever made by an American employer in a claim of racial discrimination.

Roman Abramovich stops financing Russian football. The National Football Academy Foundation, which the entrepreneur sponsored, is winding down its activities, as its tasks are considered completed. During its work, the foundation managed to build almost one and a half hundred football fields in Russia, finance the development of the Yuri Konoplev Football Academy, and also pay for the contract of former head coach of the Russian national team Guus Hiddink.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne rejected the appeal of the Ukrainian Metalist against UEFA's decision to exclude the team from the Champions League. this on his Facebook announced The vice-president of the club, Konstantin Pivovarov, .

A number of Belarusian travel agencies are trying to collect fines from citizens who refuse tours to unrest-ridden Egypt. This was reported by the Ministry of Sports and Tourism of the Republic. The department emphasized that such companies “interpret the legislation insufficiently professionally and competently.” It is not specified which companies we are talking about.