About 30 pupils escaped from a school for juvenile delinquents in the Sverdlovsk region, Interfax reports, citing the regional police department. According to Nina Pelevina, a representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, “at the dinner, under a far-fetched pretext, several people made a fuss, a conflict and incited a number of their comrades to leave.” According to Pelevina, the teenagers jumped out of the windows and fled.

The international research group Bellingcat claims that from November 7, 2014 to February 18, 2016, the Russian Ministry of Defense awarded 4300 medals "For Combat Distinction". This is significantly more than in previous years. Bellingcat attributes the increased frequency of awards to the involvement of Russian troops in the conflict in Ukraine and partly to the operation in Syria.

China Central Television reported that a Chinese company bought from the Ukrainian company "Antonov" the largest aircraft in the world An-225, which exists in a single copy. In addition, according to Chinese television, China has received the right to use the drawings and specifications of the aircraft.

The Brazilian Senate has voted to remove President Dilma Rousseff from office. Earlier, Brazilian deputies voted for Rousseff's impeachment. Dilma Rousseff was accused of manipulating the federal budget in order to hide the extent of the financial problems in the country. Critics say she hid the deficit to guarantee herself a re-election in 2014. She herself maintained her innocence.

Photo: Dmitry Krivopalov / Photobank Lori Ergaki. Lake light with a view of mountain peaks bird and starry On the morning of August 31, the Ministry of Emergencies said that in the Krasnoyarsk Territory in the mountains, Moscow tourists threw a comrade with an injury - and did not even sit about this to the rescuers. “Rescuers are in shock and even the most experienced specialists do not undertake to comment on the case,” the press service of the department said.

Updated: in the end, agitation for United Russia disappeared from the banner. At the end of August, a banner of United Russia with a quote by Vladimir Putin was installed in Petrozavodsk. Moreover, the banner was in a place intended for parking people with disabilities. Photo: provincial Daily A few days later the problem was solved . True, not as it was worth expecting: the banner remained in place, but the parking lot moved. Photo: Positive Petrozavodsk

The team of Nikolai Merkushkina fummed even fake data Photo: Konstantin Chalabov / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta Nikolai Merkushkin The Governor of the Samara Region Nikolai Merkushkin on August 29 announced the activities of the opposition politician Alexei Navalny part of the “Dalles Plan”. This plan is the fictional strategy of the United States to combat the Soviet Union.

The Pentagon refuted the statement of the Russian Ministry of Defense that one of the leaders of the "Islamic State" (an organization recognized as terrorist in Russia and banned) Abu Muhammad al-Adnani was killed as a result of a strike by Russian aircraft. "The Russian statement is a joke," an unnamed US official told Reuters.

The head of the Children's Protection Fund is answered by Alexander Spivak Photo: Igor Rusak / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta The journalist "Medusa" Ekaterina Krongauz published a post on her Facebook on a teacher’s sexual relationship with students in a prestigious metropolitan school. The recording was one of the most discussed in the last day; The discussion also affected the most admissibility of such a relationship between the student and the teacher.

In July 2016, the people of the Faroe Islands launched the SheepView 360 campaign - tired of waiting for Google to capture panoramas of the area for the Street View project, they took 360-degree shots using sheep. True, using sheep is not very convenient: animals go where they please, and not along the roads. Therefore, a Google representative flew to the Faroe Islands and brought with him equipment for capturing full-fledged panoramas.

An interview with the man who tried to end torture in Chechnya Photo: Sergei Melikhov Igor Kalyapin, the head of the human rights organization Committee Against Torture Earlier today, Human Rights Watch released a new report, titled “ Like Walking in a Minefield: Vicious Crackdown on Critics in Russia's Chechen Republic ,” cataloging how Ramzan Kadyrov's regime has worked to silence “even the mildest critics” ahead of next month's voting, when Kadyrov stands for reelection.

The Swiss Federal Court has rejected the Russian Paralympic Committee's appeal against a ban on participating in the Rio Games. Thus, the Russians are finally suspended from the competition in Brazil. The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) on August 7 suspended Russian athletes from competitions in Rio because of the doping system in Russia. The sports arbitration in Lausanne subsequently agreed with the position of the IPC.

A very strange story occurs in the American town Photo: Neal1973 / Flickr (CC by-NC-ND 2.0) The police of the city of Greenville in the state of South Carolina strengthened the patrol of the streets due to messages about the clowns that lure children into the forest. The mysterious clowns allegedly saw dozens of children and several adults, there are no other evidence of their existence. Medusa talks about strange events in Greenville.

Two defendants in the case of the pursuit of Gelendvagen - Abduvakhob Majidov and Viktor Uskov - left the preliminary court hearing, Gazeta.ru reports. According to the correspondent of the publication, while the judge retired to the deliberation room, they left the court building and left somewhere. The third defendant in the case, the son of Lukoil vice-president Ruslan Shamsuarov, remained at the meeting.

Reddit user from Hungary SC4S2CG told how one day a cat living in the mountains helped him find the way to hostel. This happened in 2013. The tourist walked in the Alps in the area of ​​the village of Gimmelwald (Switzerland) when he found that the only path leading to the hostel was closed. On the way, he turned the ankle and sat down to rest. Then SC4S2CG saw a cat who waited until the tourist got up, and led him along. As a result, she brought him to the road to the hostel.