Writers and critics recall Fazil Iskander Photo: Gennady Prokhorov/ TASS In Moscow on July 31, writer Fazil Iskander, a classic of Russian literature of the second half of the 20th century, died. The author of “Sandro from Chegem”, the creator of magical realism in Russian literature and the most fun representative of the generation of the sixties are recalled by writers and critics. Lyudmila Ulitskaya writer One of the most charming, smart, worthy people died.

Photo: Tiziana Fabi / AFP / Scanpix / Leta on July 31 in France and Italy, representatives of Muslim communities visited Sunday services in Catholic churches-after the Islamists killed the 85-year-old priest in Normandy. In the photo: Imams themselves Salem and Mohammed Ben Mohammed in the Roman Church of Santa Maria-In-Trastelee.

Members of the Sasna Tsrer group, who seized the police station in Yerevan on July 17, surrendered to the authorities. “The special forces of law enforcement agencies, by their consistent and coordinated actions, forced the members of the armed group to lay down their arms and surrender to the authorities. 20 terrorists were detained. The territory of the PPS regiment has been completely liberated, ”Interfax quotes the National Security Service of Armenia.

In Cologne on July 31, a rally was held in support of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, organized after an unsuccessful military coup. According to various estimates, from 20 to 40 thousand people came to the action. The organizers announced the participation of 30-50 thousand people. The rally was attended by Turkish Minister of Sports and Youth Akif Kilij.

The farewell ceremony for the writer Fazil Iskander will be held on Tuesday, August 2, at the Central House of Writers in Moscow. This was reported by Interfax. “The funeral will take place at the Novodevichy Cemetery in the event of a positive decision by the Moscow authorities,” the writer’s relatives said. Earlier, the agency reported that the writer wanted to be buried in a cemetery in Peredelkino near Moscow.

Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said Russian intelligence agencies were behind the hacking of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) computer systems. “We know that Russian intelligence hacked the DNC, we know that they arranged for the publication of a huge number of letters, and we know that Donald Trump expressed a very unpleasant willingness to support Putin,” Clinton was quoted by Reuters as saying.

Telegram bots that replaced applications. Medusa guide All self -respecting messengers are actively experimenting with bots - virtual interlocutors who can entertain the user or even help him. The pioneer of the introduction of bots was Telegram: thanks to the openness and convenience of the platform, the developers have already released hundreds of services. And some of them may well replace individual applications that devour the place in the phone’s memory.

The Turkish prosecutor's office authorized the detention of 44 high-ranking officials, including governors and their deputies. They are suspected of having links with supporters of the preacher Fethullah Gülen, whom the Turkish authorities call the ideologue of the rebellion. At the time of writing, 33 people are known to have been detained. How many governors among them is unknown. Previously, 30 governors were removed from office.

A student of a rural school from the Chelyabinsk region, Igor Nazarov, arranged an unusual photo shoot in a swamp to participate in the community competition "How I met tetanus." Other pictures from this photo shoot were published on his page by Nazarov's brother - he was a photographer. The brothers said that they took a table, a laptop and other things for a photo shoot with them.

What is worth the appointment of a Putin guard by the head of the Kalinigrad region Photo: Vitaly Nevar / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Evgeny Zinichev at the ceremony of representing the government of the Kaliningrad region. Kaliningrad, July 30 Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday, July 28, transferred the Governor of the Kaliningrad Region Nikolai Tsukanov to the post of presidential envoy in the North-Western Federal District.

The writer Fazil Iskander has died. He was 87 years old. Information about the death of Iskander was confirmed by the Writers' Union of Russia, Ekho Moskvy reports. Life writes that the writer died in Moscow on the night of July 31. Fazil Iskander was born in 1929 in Sukhumi. In 1954 he graduated from the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. In the 1950s, the first books of Iskander's poems were published, in 1966 the first story "The Constellation of Kozlotur" was published.

The 42-year-old Skydiver from the USA Luke Aikins jumped without a parachute from a height of about 7.6 kilometers (25 thousand feet). He landed in a net of 30 by 30 meters stretched above the ground. The flight lasted about two minutes and ten seconds. According to the representative of Aikins, Skydiver set a record for the height of a jump without a parachute or wingsyut .

Current game "Jellyfish" for attentiveness The editors of Meduza like to modernize the games that we enjoyed as children - for example, puzzles or logic puzzles . This time, Meduza was inspired by the classic Find and Show games and prepared new ones on current topics. The coincidences with real events are almost accidental. How to play: Above each picture are shown the items you have to find. Find an item - click on it.

The play about an adult Harry Potter, “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child,” went on sale July 31. On July 30, the official premiere of the play of the same name took place at the Palace Theater in London. The text of the book, according to the publishers, is identical to that used during the rehearsals of the play. Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth book in the Harry Potter series. The play takes place 19 years after the Battle of Hogwarts, described in the seventh book.

In Yerevan, where armed members of the Sasna Tsrer group are holding a police station, two ambulance officers who were taken hostage on July 27 have been released. “Doctor Norayr Tevanyan and nurse Malina Markaryan managed to get out of the captured (building) regiment of the police patrol service when they were taking out the wounded,” TASS quotes a representative of the Armenian Minister of Health.