In Syria, Abu Muhammad al-Adnani is killed-the public face of the Islamic State and the right hand of the leader of this terrorist organization of Abu Bakra al-Baghdadi. His death was reported by Site Intelligence Group, which monitors the activity of Islamists on the network.

The new Minister of Education, Olga Vasilyeva, fired three of her deputies, who remained from the former Minister, Dmitry Livanov. Dismissed Alexander Klimov, Ekaterina Tolstikova and Alexander Povalko. It is reported by RBC with reference to two sources in the department. The dismissed deputy ministers were responsible for conducting competitive procedures, information policy, personnel policy, property, and financial issues. In addition, Olga Vasilyeva decided to fire four department heads.

The governor of St. Petersburg, Georgy Poltavchenko, is likely to leave his post after the Duma elections, RBC reports, citing three sources close to the Kremlin, a State Duma deputy and a senator. This information has not yet been officially confirmed. As noted by the publication, most likely, Poltavchenko will receive a new high post. According to the interlocutors of RBC, he can get a post in any power structure.

The Moscow Arbitration Court refused to consider the lawsuit filed by the public organization Roskomsvoboda against Google demanding that links removed under the “right to be forgotten” law be returned to search results. The reason was that the plaintiff did not first try to negotiate with the search engine directly. On August 23, Roskomsvoboda lawyers filed a lawsuit on behalf of the information and analytical center Sova, which fights xenophobia.

In Sochi, 108 migrants went on a hunger strike in a temporary detention center, Mediazona reports, citing Semyon Simonov, a representative of the Southern Human Rights Center. According to him, due to the inclusion of the Federal Migration Service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, there were delays in the deportation procedure. Many foreigners are ready to leave Russia at their own expense, but they cannot be taken to the airport. The Interior Ministry did not comment on the situation.

Photo: Snezhana Strepetova / UNIAN Giving inhabitants of the village of Loshchinovka in the Odessa region, August 28, 2016 On August 27, after the murder of an 8-year-old girl in the village of Loshchinovka in the south of Ukraine, local residents staged pogroms in gypsy houses. The fact is that, on suspicion of murder, a local resident was detained - half a gypsy. The governor of the Odessa region Mikhail Saakashvili also opposed the gypsies.

The auction for the right to place advertising in the Moscow metro was won by the company "Trade Company", which participated in the bidding in the interests of the owner of the automobile holding "Gema" Alexander Geller. The previous contractor - "Auto Sell", from which the metro sued for a billion rubles of debt - is also part of this holding. The auction on August 30 was for the right to place advertising in the Moscow metro for 10 years. Trade Company won with a bid of 22.6 billion rubles.

In the city of Noginsk near Moscow, a tram system has existed since 1924 - it was the first in the USSR. In the past few years, the system has experienced difficult times, and since the summer of 2013, the movement of trams in the city has completely stopped (the misadventures of the Noginsk tram network are described in detail here ).

In Lithuanian Moletai, a large -scale action of the memory of the victims of the Holocaust was held. Report "Medusa" Photo: Mindaugas kulbis / AP / Scanpix / Leta On August 29, thousands of people gathered in the Lithuanian town of Moleti to honor the memory of local Jews killed during the Holocaust - exactly 75 years ago the whole community was exterminated here, about two thousand adults and children.

Shopping pavilion owners talk about the demolition of a city's small businesses Photo: Sergei Karpukhin / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Demolished shopping pavilions outside the Kropotkinskaya metro station in Moscow. February 9, 2016. This year, the Moscow Mayor's Office has conducted a series of demolitions targeting shopping pavilions throughout the city.

How the American politician has lost his career and a career and a family Photo: Eric Thayer / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Anthony Wiener with his wife during the election of the mayor of the foundation, 2013 On Sunday, the New York Post published compromising pictures of the New York politician Anthony Wiener on Sunday-the publication printed several half-naked selfies, which the 51-year-old ex-Kongressman sent a virtual acquaintance.

Photo: EGLEKA / Photo Bank Lori Radiotelescope Razan-600. Conical reflector The Seti organization, which search for signs of the existence of alien civilizations, will study a suspicious signal from the HD164595 star in 95 light years from the Earth. Back in May 2015, the signal caught the Russian telescope Razan-600 in Karachay-Cherkessia, but international researchers paid attention to it only now.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine has prepared 800 volumes worth of material with criminal accusations against Russian officials and military personnel, says Prosecutor General Yury Lutsenko. The Russian authorities and the armed forces have been accused of "unleashing and conducting [...] a war of aggression" against Ukraine. The materials in the volumes concern events that took place in February 2014.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that it would be more profitable for pensioners to receive a lump sum payment of five thousand rubles than a pension, taking into account a small indexation. “Indexing is never huge, we understand that. But still, in my opinion, it’s better when, under these conditions, such a one-time payment, for which you can buy something for the holiday, do something else, than it is smeared with a thin layer and you don’t feel it at all, ”Medvedev said.

Since 2014, Facebook has had the Trending News service, a list of the most popular news. Until recently, this block was supervised by a team of people. They wrote eyeliners and made sure that there were links to serious publications. But when it became known that conservative publications did not get into the news, the entire department was fired. On August 26, the formation of the top was given to the computer. And something immediately went wrong.