CSKA Moscow advanced to the group stage of the UEFA Champions League by defeating the Young Boys from Bern in the playoff round. In the second match on August 23, CSKA beat Young Boys 2-0, goals were scored by Georgy Shchennikov and Alan Dzagoev. The first match also ended with the victory of CSKA. Following the results of the play-off round, Liverpool, Sporting, Sevilla, Napoli, Qarabag, Celtic, Olympiacos, Maribor and APOEL also qualified for the main stage of the Champions League.

In Rotterdam on the evening of August 23, the concert of the American group Allah-Las was canceled due to information about the threat of a terrorist attack. The police said that after discussions with the organizers, they decided to cancel the concert. The visitors were evacuated. The mayor of Rotterdam, Ahmed Abutaleb, said the concert was canceled after receiving information from the Spanish police.

Mirgayas Shirinsky, Russia's ambassador to Sudan, has died, the Russian Foreign Ministry confirmed on Wednesday. According to Al Arabiya , the diplomat's body was found at his home in Khartoum. There is currently no information about the cause of Shirinsky's death.

Russian police are investigating economist Sergey Aleksashenko for attempting to smuggle cultural valuables — Soviet medals — to the United States, according to the news agency Interfax and the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets . “Aleksashenko was detained at a Moscow airport, and officers confiscated several Soviet medals on his person that are banned for export from Russia,” a source told Interfax . According to Moskovsky Komsomolets , Aleksashenko was detained at the Domodedovo airport.

Medusa Podcast Meduza Editor-in-Chief Ivan Kolpakov discusses with theater producer Evgenia Shermeneva and screenwriter Mikhail Idov the arrest of director Kirill Serebrennikov, the case of Seventh Studio and the Platform project, the peculiarities of theatrical accounting and the fate of the film about Viktor Tsoi "Summer", from the filming of which the director was taken to the Investigative Committee for interrogation. Expensive!

Russian Ambassador to Sudan Mirgayas Shirinsky has died. This information was confirmed by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation. Cause of death data is not yet available. The Arabic edition of RT stated that the ambassador had a heart attack. Earlier, the message about the death of the ambassador was spread by the AFP agency. It reported that Shirinsky was found dead in the residence. Mirgayas Shirinsky became the Russian ambassador to Sudan in 2013.

On the evening of August 23, a rally in support of director Kirill Serebrennikov was held in Berlin, Dozhd reports. Around 50 people gathered at the embassy, ​​according to the organizers. Several people, judging by the video, chanted “Freedom for Russia!” and then, as the TV channel reports, read excerpts from Shakespeare’s “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” in different languages. They wore animal masks on their heads.

About a hundred EU citizens living in the UK have received letters from the Home Office warning them to leave the country. The department said the letters were sent out in error. “We are urgently contacting these people to inform them that the letter does not need to be paid attention to,” the department said. What caused the erroneous mailing is not specified.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Why are Serebrennikov pursuing? Special issue The editor -in -chief of Medusa Ivan Kolpakov discusses with theater producer Evgenia Shermeneva and screenwriter Mikhail Idov the arrest of director Kirill Serebrennikov, the case of the “Seventh Studio” and the Platform project, features of the theater accounting and the fate of the film about Viktor Summer, from the filming of which the director was taken away to the Investigative Committee. Dear!

Against the economist Sergei Aleksashenko, a criminal case was initiated on the smuggling of cultural property (Article 226.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) for trying to export Soviet orders to the United States. It is reported with reference to the source of the Interfax agency. on the case against the economist .

The mother of the singer Zelimkhan Bakaev, who disappeared in Chechnya on August 8, asked for help from the Human Rights Council under the head of the republic. This was reported on August 22 by the Kavkaz.Realii website, citing member of the council Kheda Saratova.

Pertovy Mamed-Zade / TASS / Vida Press Kirill Serebrennikov in Rwanda. April 10, 2017 On August 23, the Basmanny Court sent Cyril Serebrennikov under house arrest, who is accused of fraud on an especially large scale. This means that in the fall the director will not be able to go to Germany, where he should staged a performance.

Taylor Swift has announced the release of her sixth studio album, Reputation. The album will be released on November 10th. to release the first single from the new album Swift promises on August 25th. Taylor Swift's latest studio album, 1989, was released in October 2014. Since then, she has released one new song "I Donʼt Wanna Live Forever" with Zayn Malik. In August 2017, Swift removed all posts and profile pictures from her social media.

Facebook users share stories about the helpfulness, or lack thereof, of local police Pavel Golovkin / AP / Scanpix / LETA Daniel Trabun, a Russian journalist who’s worked at Yandex , Esquire Russia , Afisha , Look at Me , and The Village , invited his Facebook readers on Wednesday to share stories about their personal encounters with police officers, describing а recent — and apparently deeply unpleasant — brush with the law.

Experts from the Federal State Unitary Enterprise “RFC Central Federal District” , which is under the jurisdiction of Roskomnadzor, discovered obscenities on the pages of the Republic publication – it was hidden in a recording of a rap battle between Oxxxymiron and Gnoyny, which was inserted into one of the materials. Republic editor-in-chief Maxim Kashulinsky published a fragment of the protocol on Facebook, which was compiled by Roskomnadzor based on the FSUE report.