The Fergana news agency reported the death of Uzbek President Islam Karimov, citing its sources. According to the agency, Karimov died on the afternoon of August 29. Nadezhda Atayeva, president of the Human Rights in Central Asia association, told Dozhd that she learned about the death of Islam Karimov from two sources: law enforcement and medical circles. There is no official confirmation of information about the death of the President of Uzbekistan.

For some reason, the VKontakte user sent an address with the AMediateki service with the service, where, presumably, there was a bookmark with drugs. This was told by the company employee Roman Bordunov. In a conversation with TJournal, he said that VKontakte users receive keys for free access to the service from the bot, but the company’s employees can read correspondence with it.

The Russian Paralympic Committee announced that athletes were suspended not only from the Summer Olympics in Rio, but also from the 2018 Winter Games. This is stated in an open letter from the Committee to the Center for Sports Training of Russian National Teams.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia proposed to increase fees for the issuance of passports and driver's licenses. Amendments to the Tax Code are published on the website for the publication of draft regulations. The agency proposes to increase the fee for a passport with a chip from 3,500 to 5,000 rubles for adults and from one and a half to two and a half thousand for children. The cost of a plastic driver's license is planned to be raised from 2 to 3 thousand rubles.

On Sunday, August 28, Madison-Square-Garden held a award ceremony of the MTV Video Music Awards. The video of the Formation was the “Video of the Year”, and in the evening its clips received six awards, making the singer the owner of the greatest number of victories in the history of VMA - she now has more than Madonna. The awards were also received by Coldplay clips, David Bowie, Drake and Fifth Harmony. "Medusa" shows the best performances of the evening.

In St. Petersburg, the head of the non-canonical Ukrainian Reformed Orthodox Church, Sergei Zhuravlev, was accused of illegal missionary activity. The punishment is provided for by the amendments that were added to the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation after the adoption of the Yarovaya package. Sergei Zhuravlev was detained on August 27 in the Jewish Messianic community, where he was giving a sermon.

In Transbaikalia, Russian Post fired an employee after they found scattered letters in the forest. This was reported in the press service of the company. According to the press secretary of the organization, now all the letters have been collected and given to postmen for delivery. On August 27, the head of the Mogochinsky district in the Trans-Baikal Territory, Dmitry Plyukhin , said that local mushroom pickers found scattered letters in the forest.

Apple will hold a conference on September 7, which is expected to introduce the new iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus. According to rumors, they look almost the same as previous models: the main difference is that the new smartphones will not have a 3.5mm headphone jack. Due to this, the moisture resistance of iPhones will increase. Headphones can be connected via Bluetooth or through the charging port.

Tourists from the Kharkiv region - a mother with children - came to rest in Yeysk on the Sea of ​​Azov. They took a dachshund named Julia with them. When tourists went swimming, they left jewelry for the dog so as not to lose it in the water. They were placed in a special bag, which was hung around the dachshund's neck. And she always waited for her owners. But on the last day of rest, when the tourists came out of the sea, they found that there was no tax.

Photo: Facebook Brothers Gasanguseynovs On the evening of August 23, Interfax announced the liquidation of two militants in the Shamilsky district of Dagestan. The killed allegedly were Wahhabis and members of the gangston underground. Residents of the village of Hindy say that the “militants” are two brothers of 17 and 19 years old, who were engaged in the grazing of sheep and were not related to gangs.

An oddly shaped cloud concerned several people living in the Kemerovskaya region this past weekend. The cloud bore an eerie resemblance to the mushroom cloud that follows a nuclear explosion. Photographs and video footage of the sky found their way to Internet social media on August 27, with some residents worrying that they were looking at the aftereffects of an atomic blast. Others speculated that the cloud could be the result of an explosion at a nearby mine. Serega A mushroom in the sky.

HBO has released a trailer for Westworld, which tells the story of a theme park inhabited by androids (they are used to grant the wishes of park visitors). The main character Dolores (Evan Rachel Wood) is the oldest of these androids. She "resurrected" many times after the deaths that are erased from her memory. Anthony Hopkins starred in Westworld. He plays the creative director of the park, who designed the entire world of androids.

A model from Russia, “entrepreneur in the field of medicine” Anastasia Ignatova, will appear in the calendar of the tire company Pirelli for 2017. As Vedomosti found out, Anastasia is the daughter of Ekaterina Ignatova, the wife of Rostec CEO Sergei Chemezov. The rest of the calendar participants are famous actresses , including Oscar winners: Penelope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Kate Winslet, Julianne Moore, Charlotte Rampling, Uma Thurman and others.

Galina Nikitina, director of St. Petersburg gymnasium number 415, was fired for forging grades in class magazines. This was reported by the agency Interfax with reference to the city education committee. “Information about fake grades, corrections in journals has been confirmed. This is the direct responsibility of the director of the educational institution,” the press service of the committee said.

The New York Times described the mechanism of Russian disinformation Photo: Evgeny Biyatov / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta studio of the Russian television channel RT For several years now, Russia has been coordinating information attacks in other countries - as the New York Times writes, so the Kremlin has been trying to turn internal contradictions in the EU and the USA in their favor and to influence the development of decisions in power.