Photo: Christine Papyan / Mosland On Saturday, September 3, about 300 people gathered near the building of the 57th school in Maly Znamensky Lane; Among them were mainly students and their parents. They collected signatures under the demand that the school principal Sergei Mendelevich retain his position - the night before, he resigned.

In Yekaterinburg, six people were injured during the shooting. This was reported by the Interfax agency with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Sverdlovsk Region. The wounded are hospitalized. The police said that the message about the shooting came at about 17:00 local time (15:00 Moscow time) from the scene at 65 Deputatskaya Street. This area is known in Yekaterinburg as a “gypsy village”. The circumstances of the incident are unknown.

Bishop of the Anglican Church Nicholas Chamberlain has publicly admitted that he is gay and is in a long-term relationship with another man. He became the first Anglican bishop to make such a claim. At the same time, Chamberlain noted that he was observing a vow of celibacy. “People know I'm gay, but that's not the first thing I say to anyone. Sexuality is a part of me, but what I want to focus on is my ministry,” the bishop said in an interview with The Guardian.

Yulia Galyamina, a candidate for the State Duma from the Yabloko party, staged a solo picket in Moscow with a poster “Putin is the executioner of Beslan.” The action took place in Birch Grove Park during the mourning events in memory of those killed in the hostage-taking at the Beslan school. Galyamina was detained, she was taken to the police department, where they were going to draw up a protocol under the administrative article on disobedience to a police officer.

A mass rally in support of its director, Sergei Mendelevich, took place near school No. 57 in Moscow. According to a Meduza correspondent, about 300 people took part in it — students, their parents, and alumni. The participants collected signatures in defense of the school principal. Ekaterina Vishnevetskaya, Deputy Director of the School, addressed the participants of the action. She said that Mendelevich would not leave his post.

Photo: Muhammadsharif Mamatkulov / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta residents of Tashkent with a mourning procession with the body of the deceased President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov. On September 3, Karimov’s body was delivered from Tashkent to Samarkand, where the funeral of the head of state took place.

More than one hundred thousand people came to the farewell ceremony Photo: Stringer / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On Saturday, September 3, in Samarkand, Islam Karimov was buried - the President of Uzbekistan, who headed the country since it gained independence. Karimov’s death was officially announced on the evening of September 2, although journalists reported this on August 29, the day after the hospitalization of the head of Uzbekistan with a stroke.

Novaya Gazeta journalist Yelena Kostyuchenko and Takie Dela correspondent Diana Khachatryan were attacked in Beslan for the second time in a day. Khachatryan told Meduza that the attack took place at the entrance to the cemetery. A man approached them - as it turned out later, the caretaker of the cemetery. “He took the two of us by the scruff of the neck and dragged about ten meters. We fell, he began to beat us. Lena was punched in the face.

Photo: Yaromir Romanov / Znak.com In Yekaterinburg, the video blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky was arrested for two months, who is accused of extremism and insulting the feelings of believers. The reason for initiating the case was a video on which he walks around the temple and plays Pokemon Go . Ruslan Sokolovsky faces up to five years in prison. Medusa talks about a criminal case for visiting a church with a telephone - and other sentences related to an insult to the feelings of believers.

Ruslan Sokovsky, a Russian blogger from Yekaterinburg, was arrested on September 3, by a local court. The reason: in August, Sokolovsky posted a video on his YouTube channel showing him playing Pokémon Go—and catching actual pokémons—in the Temple on Blood, a local Orthodox church built to commemorate the murder of Tsar Nicholas II and his family. The police considers this to be a violation of the Russian law against mockery of religious beliefs.

The funeral of President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov took place in Samarkand. According to Gazeta.uz, the farewell ceremony was held on the square in the city center, after which Karimov was buried according to Muslim customs. Thousands of people took part in the funeral procession. From Russia, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev took part in the ceremony.

From the website of the Moscow School No. 57, the message that its director Sergei Mendelevich decided to quit has disappeared. The post was posted on September 2nd. “I really hope that my departure will help the 57th school get out of a difficult crisis. With this decision, I want to show that I unconditionally put the interests of children and teachers above my own,” the director said in a statement.

In Beslan, Ella Kesaeva and Svetlana Margieva, the mothers of the hostages at school, were attacked. Novaya Gazeta correspondent Yelena Kostyuchenko, who was reporting on this action, was also attacked. A colleague of the journalist Elena Milashina said that a group of "unidentified people in civilian clothes, who were herded in large numbers to the territory of the first school in Beslan", participated in the attack. According to Milashina, Kostyuchenko's camera and phone were taken away.

In the schools of Uzbekistan, the new academic year will open with a lesson in memory of the deceased President Islam Karimov. This was reported by Gazeta.uz with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Education of Uzbekistan. “At the Memory Lesson, students will be told about the life and work of Islam Karimov, whose name is rightfully associated with the successes and achievements of Uzbekistan over 25 years of independent development,” Gazeta.uz said in a statement.

As a result of flooding in the Primorsky Territory, 2.5 thousand houses were flooded, nine bridges were destroyed, and the power supply to some settlements was disrupted. According to the vice-governor of the region Alexander Los, the amount of damage is estimated at 1.2 billion rubles. According to the Interfax news agency, about 12,000 people remain without power, transport links with 17 settlements have been interrupted. A state of emergency has been declared in the region.