The Italian company Eni announced the discovery of a "supergiant" gas field in the Mediterranean off the coast of Egypt. According to the press release, there may be about 30 trillion cubic feet of gas (that is, 0.85 trillion cubic meters). This is the largest explored deposit in the Mediterranean. The company intends to continue work at the site of discovered reserves. In accordance with the agreement with Egypt, Eni is the 100% owner of the exploration and production rights in this region.

Russia took ninth place at the World Championships in Athletics, which ended in Beijing. The Russians won two gold medals, one silver and one bronze. Sergei Shubenkov won the gold medal in the 110m hurdles and Maria Kuchina in the high jump. Denis Kudryavtsev won silver in the 400m hurdles and Anna Chicherova won bronze in the high jump. According to the head coach of the Russian national team Yuri Borzakovsky, the championship for the Russians was not very successful.

Medusa visited Brainstorm, the most cosmopolitan and popular group of the Baltic states Photo: Prata Vetra press service On August 29, the Latvian group of Brainstorm performed in Riga, or, as they call themselves in Latvia, prāta vētra. Brainstorm is an amazing team that destroys the stereotypes about any oppression of the Russian language in Latvia, and a kind of friendship ambassador between peoples.

Representative of the Russian Orthodox Church Vsevolod Chaplin called on believers to replace the "cynical" and "corrupt" elites in Russia.

was beaten in Sweden Serial rapist Niklas Lindgren, who was released early at the end of July 2015, . Lindgren was attacked near the hostel in Everturneo, where he lived. He was beaten with a golf club. The attack took place on August 23, but only the Swedish media wrote about it. Police have arrested three suspects in the attack. None of them pleaded guilty. All detainees are between 20 and 30 years old.

Live from the Mayakovsky library in St. Petersburg On August 30, August Dialogues are held in the Mayakovsky library in St. Petersburg-a cycle of conversations on socially significant topics. “Medusa” is an information partner of “Dialogues”: all the conversations can be viewed live, and after a few days to read their decryptions. Schedule: 15.00 - 16.30. Julia Latynina and Alexander Nevzorov - “death of empires”; 17.00 - 18.30.

What was shown at the Max 2015 air show. Reporting Andrei Kozenko Photo: Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Scanpix On Sunday, August 30, in Zhukovsky the next Moscow Airlines Salon ends. Max is still one of the main Russian events in the field of aviation. As before, the airier is collecting a record number of visitors: according to news agencies, only about 120 thousand people arrived on Friday to Zhukovsky, on Saturday there were more than 150 thousand.

Neuropsychologist Oliver Sacks has died in the United States. He was 82 years old. Sachs is a well-known popularizer of science. He has written several bestsellers. One of the most famous works is called "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat". In this book, Sachs tells the stories of his patients. Oliver Sacks' books have been translated into 25 languages. More than a million copies of his work have been sold in the US alone.

In St. Petersburg, a people's gathering was held against the destruction of the bas-relief with Mephistopheles. The action takes place near Lishnevsky's apartment building, from which the bas-relief was knocked down. Novaya Gazeta conducts online events. According to Mikhail Khodorkovsky's press secretary Külle Pispanen, "criminally few" people came to the gathering. Novaya Gazeta correspondent Alexandra Garmazhapova estimated the number of those gathered at 500 people.

In Karelia, tourists drove the bear “Songs about hares” from the “Diamond hand”. The video recording of the incident was published by a resident of Petrozavodsk Ilya Timin . When the bear appeared from the forest, the tourists sang: "But we don’t care, but we don’t care, let us be afraid of a wolf and an owl." One of them sang a “bear” instead of the “wolf”. The source says that the incident occurred on the Umba River.

In Naberezhnye Chelny, on August 29, the largest Charlotte in the history of Russia was baked - apples pie. Its diameter exceeded 10 meters, and the weight was about two tons. For the manufacture of the pie, it took about seven thousand eggs, half a ton of flour and above a ton of sugar. Residents of the city were treated for free. According to the Tatar-Inform agency, they got four thousand pieces (that is, approximately in the half -e of Charlotte).

In Poland, they almost found a train with Nazis gold Photo: Janyk Skarzynski / AFP / Scanpix In Poland, a train that disappeared in 1945, in which there are several tons of gold, was discovered in the area of ​​the Suviny Mountains. According to Deputy Minister of Culture, he is 99 percent confident in the existence of the composition. The train was allegedly found thanks to a certain person who, before his death, said that he loaded the train 70 years ago. First legend.

In the Leningrad region, actor Mikhail Svetin died. According to the press service of the regional administration, he died in the Gatchina Central District Hospital at 06:45. Svetin was 84 years old. Photo: Ruslan Shamukov / TASS / Corbis / Vida Press Mikhail Svetin played dozens of roles. He starred in the "sorcerers", "Inspector Losev", "Extraordinary Adventures of Karik and Vali", "Man from the Boulevard of the Kaputzins", "Twelve Chairs", "Athos" and other films.

Hungary has built a three-turn high barbed-wire fence on its border with Serbia, the country's defense ministry said; The Hungarian authorities expect that this will help reduce the flow of refugees who intend to enter the European Union through Serbia. An AFP correspondent who visited the border noted that the fence does not deter migrants. Building a barbed wire fence is just the first step. Soon Hungary will erect a four-meter fence on the border.

Three divers have gone missing in the port of Novorossiysk. On Saturday, August 29, at 11:30 a.m., they dived to inspect the sunken battleship Free Russia, but did not rise to the surface at the scheduled time. During the search, divers found three spare cylinders that may belong to the missing divers. The search continued until evening and continued on Sunday morning.