What did we learn about the co -founder of the Federation Fund Vladimir Kiselev from the air on Rain Photo: Victor Dmitriev / Photoxpress On August 31, the debate took place on the air of the Rain television channel between one of the founders of the Federation Fund Vladimir Kiselev and the former general director of the Russian Media Group (RMG) Sergei Kozhevnikov. They concerned the possible sale of the RMG “Goskoncert”, against which Kozhevnikov and some artists himself opposed.

The Moscow metro station “Voikovskaya” will be renamed. The transport hub it is part of will be called “Koptevo”. Deputy Mayor of the capital Leonid Pechatnikov, who heads the interdepartmental commission on the naming of territorial units, streets and metro stations, said that he sees no point in the name of the station being different from the name of the transfer hub.

Miners from Khakassia, who went on a hunger strike due to non-payment of wages, demanded a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, who is going to visit the republic on September 4. “We want open and transparent information about the situation, not muddy, as it is now,” said Stepan Vorontsov, one of the participants in the hunger strike. The head of Khakassia Viktor Zimin met with the miners, but the miners were dissatisfied with the results of this meeting.

Photo: Mikhail Klementiev / TASS / Vida Press On August 30, President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev met up for a joint workout session, followed by breakfast and tea, at Putin's official residence in Sochi. A camera crew was on hand to capture this latest episode in Russia's most prominent bromance, and the images from the gym and breakfast table have fast become fodder for jokes and memes online.

Photo: HowFarfromhome / Instagram Chanel Kartel and Steve Dirberg from Johannesburg in March 2015 threw good work in advertising agencies and went on a trip around the world. Chanel, in order to go on an annual journey, sold everything she had, and planned to "collect impressions, not things." If you look at their Instagram, it seems that everything is perfect - beautiful landscapes around. But Chanel Cartel calls not to be deceived: in fact, it is difficult to travel.

Businessman German Sterligov was detained at Domodedovo airport when he flew to Moscow from Yerevan. This was announced by his lawyer Artur Airapetov. “Most likely, Sterligov’s detention is connected with his being put on the interstate wanted list,” the lawyer said. A law enforcement source told the Interfax news agency that Sterligov would be released after answering some questions.

The scandal around the dismissal of the director of the Nucus Museum. Short Photo: Timur Karpov In August, the authorities of Uzbekistan terminated an employment contract with the director of the I. Savitsky State Museum in Nukus Marinika Babanazarova.

Employees of the Northwestern Department of Hydrometeorology and Environmental Monitoring were banned from making long-range weather forecasts. According to a Fontanka.ru source, this decision is due to the fact that weather forecasters promised a hot July in St. Petersburg, but it turned out to be cold. “Our state order does not include this work. Moreover, such forecasts have poor justification. Here in Japan they are not made at all, ”said the head of the state institution, Yuri Malashin.

Screen capture: Nevex.TV / YouTube On August 21, the same St. Petersburg Cossack society that once commissioned a bust of Vladimir Putin, depicting him as a Roman emperor , raided a local supermarket, in search of banned Western imports for sale. The colorful musician Stas Baretsky, a tall, bald, heavyset man in a large red sport coat, stole the show, when he presented himself as the Cossacks' "Minister of Culture" and started tearing into cans of beer with his bare teeth.

Russian First Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov said that now is the "optimal" moment to buy an apartment in Russia. According to him, with the depreciation of the ruble, the cost of housing in rubles remains the same. “If people consider housing not as an investment tool, but as an ability to satisfy their personal needs for improving their living conditions, then perhaps now is the best time,” Interfax quoted the official as saying.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) fined Alfa-Bank 100,000 rubles for distributing SMS advertisements for services without the subscriber's consent to receive such mailings.

More than 100 people are injured, one died. Photos and video Photo: Yuri Kirnichnaya / AFP / Scanpix Near the building of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine on August 31, riots occurred, as a result of which soldiers of the National Guard died, and more than a hundred law enforcement officials were injured. The clashes began after the deputies approved the reform of the Constitution in the first reading.

The Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) has deprived Channel One and VGTRK of the right to broadcast qualifying matches of the European Championship 2016, a source in the media industry told TASS.

The Prosecutor General's Office of Ukraine has launched an investigation into the case of an attempt to pressure and bribe deputies of the Verkhovna Rada from the Self-Help faction in order to influence the voting results on the law on the decentralization of power in the country.

The Russian Interior Ministry plans to sue William Browder, the head of the hedge fund Hermitage Capital. He is being accused of deliberate bankruptcy and illegally transferring assets from his company Dalnaya Step through HSBC Bank. Over 35.5 million Gazprom assets, one million of which are considered missing, were among the assets transferred by Browder’s company. The Russian Federal Tax service is considered to have suffered in the process.