The Russian Authors' Society (RAO) said that unknown persons are trying to carry out a "raider takeover" of the organization, disband its management bodies and gain control over its money and property. According to RAO, on August 1, Rossiyskaya Gazeta published as an advertisement the text of an “initiative group of authors” calling for an “extraordinary Conference” (the Conference, according to the charter, is the highest governing body of RAO.

Aides working for Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov refused to allow a reporter from the news website Znak.com attend a press briefing in Yekaterinberg earlier today, after the journalist said he wanted to ask Shuvalov about his private plane and luxurious apartment in downtown Moscow.

The Rosneft company said that the head of the company, Igor Sechin, is suing Novaya Gazeta, the Dozhd TV channel and "other media involved in the dissemination of materials that contain false information." What kind of information the company considers unreliable is not reported in the Rosneft press release.

The parents of actor Anton Yelchin, who died in an accident in June 2016, filed a lawsuit against Fiat Chrysler. The plaintiffs intend to sue the company for causing violent death and for harm caused by product deficiencies, reports the Associated Press. The lawsuit alleges that Yelchin's car did not properly park, causing the car to move and run over the actor. The intention of Yelchin's parents to file a lawsuit against the automaker on August 1 was reported by the tabloid TMZ.

Russian sociologists at the Levada Center have conducted a new national study finding that a fictional political party created by the center's own researchers enjoys greater popularity than several of the country's real smaller political parties.

Today's Paratroopers' Day celebrations in Moscow turned tragic, when a young man drowned in a water fountain at Gorky Park, where veterans traditionally splash around on August 2 while heavily intoxicated. There are conflicting reports about whether the victim was himself a veteran, but it does seem to be established that the man was Evgeny Orlovich, a 28-year-old Belarusian citizen. He was apparently swimming with four companions, all of whom were extremely drunk.

The head of the internal security department of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Lamonov, who was arrested in the case of a bribe, filed a lawsuit for the protection of honor and dignity against the Moscow 24 TV channel. This was reported to RIA Novosti by his lawyer Olga Lukmanova. Lamonov demands that the information transmitted by the TV channel about his connections with the criminal authority Zakhary Kalashov (Shakro Molody) be recognized as untrue.

Do not want to read the play Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, published in the late July, but want to know what happened there? "Medusa" shot a small multi -pound in which she describes the main events from the book. Turn on the video and imagine what you are in the theater. Carefully! There are very, very many spoilers! Meduza "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child." Performance (or something like)

Pope Francis established a commission to study the issue of ordination of women to the diaconate. This was reported on the official news website of the Vatican. The commission included six men and six women representing various academic religious institutions. The commission was headed by Archbishop Luis Francisco Ladaria Ferrer, secretary of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith.

An 18-year-old Muscovite stole 3.5 million rubles from her stepfather, replacing them with “jokes bank” tickets, and this is what she spent the money on. Two hundred thousand rubles were spent on a taxi, and ordering food cost 170 thousand rubles. She also rented four apartments for parties with friends. In addition, the Muscovite rented non-residential premises to open a zoo there. The girl managed to buy bats, snakes and iguanas for him. The Interior Ministry opened a case of theft.

Photo: Shankar S. / Flickr (CC by 2.0); In the announcement: Oleg Kharseev / Kommersant

The Israeli married couple Yoni and Nina Tokaer arranged Karaoke in the car, sparing the song “One Day” Matisiyu. Unlike the heading in the show, James Corden, Yoni and Nina sang without musical accompaniment. But they do not need it - they sing perfectly a chapel. יו woods tool yonina yonina- In the channel of the Tokaer family, you can listen to other songs, but in them the performers accompany themselves on musical instruments.

Hackers identified the phone numbers of 15 million users of the Telegram messenger in Iran. This was reported by Reuters with reference to independent expert Colin Anderson and Claudio Garnieri, an employee of the human rights organization Amnesty International. According to them, there are 20 million Telegram users in Iran. Anderson and Garnieri suggest that the hackers were facilitated by the cellular operator. It can intercept authorization codes that the messenger sends via SMS.

The players of the club "Shinnik", playing in the second most important Russian league, said that they were delayed in salary, and on the basis of the team they were fed intermittently. Shinnik goalkeeper Alexander Malyshev said that on August 1, the athletes living at the base were not fed. A day later, another football player anonymously confirmed this information to Soviet Sport. “About half of the team lives at the base, including me.

A former paratrooper who decided to swim on the Day of the Airborne Forces, which is celebrated on August 2, drowned in a pond in Gorky Park. It is reported by TASS with reference to an unnamed source in "medical circles". “The call to the “03” service was received today at 15:30 Moscow time. It was reported that a man drowned in a pond on Spring Alley in Gorky Park. The ambulance doctors who arrived at the scene pronounced him dead,” the source said.