A private helicopter crashed into the Moskva River near Rublevsky Beach. The incident occurred at 19:07 on Saturday, August 22. Four people were saved. An operational-investigative group of the Western District of Moscow left for the scene, reports . the Moskva agency According to preliminary data, no one was injured in the helicopter crash. No oil spill was recorded.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko has decided to pardon former presidential candidate Nikolai Statkevich, who was sentenced to six years in prison for participating in a protest in 2010. In addition to Statkevich, Mikalai Dzyadok, Igor Olinevich, Yevhen Vaskovich, Artem Prokopenko and Yury Rubtsov were also pardoned. Rubtsov and Statkevich are recognized by Amnesty International as prisoners of conscience.

As a result of the crash of the Hawker Hunter fighter-bomber, seven people died in the southeast of England during the air show in the county of the Western Sussex. Two more people, including one in critical condition, were taken to hospitals. About a dozen victims received medical care at the scene. According to eyewitnesses, the plane performed the figure of a higher aerobatics, but did not finish it and at the exit from the loop collided with the ground near the road.

The head of the Moscow Department of Culture, Alexander Kibovsky, said that he did not give instructions to ban the purchase of a number of books by Russian and foreign writers for libraries. In response to a question from a Dozhd correspondent about reports of a ban on the purchase of Viktor Pelevin's books for Russian libraries, Kibovsky noted that he could not comment on what he had not done.

An explosion occurred at a chemical plant in east China's Shandong province. There have been no reports of casualties yet. The explosion was followed by a fire. The incident took place on the evening of Saturday, August 22. On August 12, an explosion occurred at a chemical warehouse in Tianjin, China. At least 121 people died in the incident.

Japanese Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida summoned Russian Ambassador to Tokyo Yevgeny Afanasyev for a talk and handed him a protest in connection with the Russian Prime Minister's visit to Iturup Island. Earlier, the Japanese authorities warned Afanasyev by telephone that Medvedev's visit to the Kuril Islands offended the feelings of the Japanese people. The Japanese Foreign Ministry is also considering postponing Kishida's visit to Russia.

The participants of the Russian Wikipedia, after discussing the situation with the inclusion of one of the encyclopedia articles in the list of prohibited materials, decided to change the name of the material and its url-address. Initially, the article, which was banned from distribution by the court of the Chernoyarsk district of the Astrakhan region, was called "Charas". It is currently titled "Charas (Narcotic Substance)". The previous link leads to a list of meanings for the word "Charas".

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, at a meeting with military personnel in the Kharkiv region, spoke about the plans of the “enemy” to annex at least eight Ukrainian regions in addition to Crimea and Sevastopol. Poroshenko thanked the military for stopping the offensive deep into Ukraine. Poroshenko did not specify which regions in question.

After being the only area in Russia to allow candidates from Parnas (the People’s Freedom Party), members of the opposition's "Democratic Coalition," to run in local elections later this year, Kostroma officials have also added to the ballot candidates from a political party called Parzas (the Party for Justice), a spoiler group apparently created to confuse voters and dilute support for Parnas.

The American military prevented the attack on the train from Amsterdam to Paris: Sky News Photo: APTN / AP / Scanpix On August 21, a 26-year-old man, presumably a Moroccan, armed with an automatic gun and a Kalashnikov machine gun, went to the Thalys train, which was on the Amsterdam route-Paris. The man did not manage to open fire-two US troops who were resting in Europe disarmed him, another American and 62-year-old Briton helped to bind the criminal.

Forty-two percent of Russians say they support the destruction of products imported into the country in circumvention of Moscow's current sanctions against the West, according to a recent national survey by the Public Opinion Foundation (FOM). Only 38 percent of the country openly oppose this policy, while another 20 percent of people say they are undecided.

Photo: http://eda.lmrk.ru/ Commissioned by the news aggregator Rus2Web , the Web studio Lamarck has released an online game where players must try to save banned Western food imports from being destroyed. " Feed Russia! " is a clone of another computer game called "Just You Wait!" where a wolf tries to catch falling eggs. In "Feed Russia!" however, the wolf is replaced by a sad-looking hipster, who must catch cheeses, meat, and fruits, instead of eggs.

The Vakhitovsky court of Kazan decided to arrest Eduard Salakhutdinov, an activist of the Young Guard of United Russia, on suspicion of extortion. According to investigators, Salakhutdinov was extorting money from the owners of underground gaming parlors for non-interference in their work. The MGER activist, who oversees the Agents project in Kazan to combat underground casinos, was detained on August 21. He did not admit his guilt.

North and South Korea will hold talks on Saturday, August 22, in a border settlement over the settlement of aggravated relations between the countries. The fact of negotiations was confirmed by representatives of both countries. The announcement [about the talks] came a few hours before the end of the deadline by which Pyongyang demanded that South Korea stop broadcasting propaganda messages through loudspeakers in the border area.

Fadhil Ahmad al-Khayali, also known as Haji Mutaz, one of the leaders of the Islamic State terrorist group, was killed as a result of an air raid by the US Air Force near Mosul in Iraq. The air strike was launched on Tuesday, August 18, but it became known about the death of al-Khayali only now.