Theater critic Marina Davydova wrote on Facebook that a fake “letter from Kirill Serebrennikov” was posted on the Instagram of German actor Lars Eidinger after the actor received a phone call from a person who introduced himself as a director.

Two Russians died in Syria after shelling a convoy in the province of Deir ez-Zor, Interfax reports, citing the Russian Ministry of Defense. Both victims are contract workers. Their names are not called. According to the department, they accompanied the convoy and came under fire from the militants of the Islamic State. One of the employees died on the spot, the other died in the hospital. The Ministry of Defense notes that both contractors were posthumously nominated for state awards.

Germany's Bibiana Steinhaus has been appointed referee for the match between Hertha Berlin and Werder Bremen on Sunday 10 September. Steinhaus will become the first woman in the history of the Bundesliga to serve as the chief referee of a football match. Previously, she has officiated matches in the second Bundesliga and meetings at the international level.

The UN Commission of Inquiry into the Situation in Burundi found that the country's authorities had committed crimes against humanity. According to the commission's report , government troops killed and tortured members of the opposition. According to the investigation, the authorities of Burundi make no attempt to investigate these crimes. The UN calls on the International Criminal Court to open a case against the leadership of the African country.

The Security Service of Ukraine has banned Russian director Vladimir Menshov from entering the territory of the state. The decision was made back in 2016, but it became known about it only now. The entry ban is valid for five years. He became known from the SBU’s response to a request from the Ukrainian publication Apostrophe about whether there are accusations against Menshov due to the fact that he donated money to the self-proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic.

Roskomnadzor will add to the register of banned sites a video by the Nemagia studio, the authors of which mock the owner of Tinkoff Bank, Oleg Tinkov. The bank had previously filed a lawsuit against the authors of the video, Mikhail Pechersky and Alexey Pskovitin, to protect business reputation. Before considering the suit on the merits, the court ordered to block access to the video on YouTube and forbade Pechersky and Pskovitin "to take any action to distribute" the video.

September 4. Orthodox, Muslims, Buddhists Main Arson in Yekaterinburg. 39-year-old Denis Murashov spent the whole day in the temple, built at the site of the execution of the royal family, and then crashed at the UAZ into the building of the Cosmos cinema. On the steps of the building, he set fire to the car and fled, but he was soon detained.

Director Alexei Uchitel said that State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya provides support and provides cover for a "terrorist organization." The director's statement, according to a press release received by Meduza, is related to an incident in Yekaterinburg, where a man rammed a cinema building and set fire to it. According to him, a terrorist organization is being formed in Russia under the guise of a religious one, which aims to destabilize society.

Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs detention of suspects in illegal banking in Kostroma On September 1, at least 53 Russian publications were written about the detention in the Kostroma region of three people who cashed bitcoins in the amount of 500 million rubles. The Ministry of Internal Affairs opened a criminal case of illegal banking.

The Union of Journalists of Russia issued a statement in connection with the arson of the car of Yulia Latynina. The statement says that another attack on Latynina is “not just a hooligan prank or an act of intimidation,” but poses a threat to her life and health. The union promised to prepare appeals to the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General's Office in connection with the arson of Latynina's car.

Kirill Serebrennikov extended house arrest, but allowed to walk. Report "Medusa" from the Moscow City Court Evgeny Feldman for "Medusa" On September 4, the Moscow City Court left the director Kirill Serebrennikov, the artistic director of Gogol-Center, under house arrest. Another 41 cultural figure decided to vouch for the director, but the court only softened a little arrest, allowing the director to walk two hours a day - within the Khamovniki district.

Michael Dalder / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta waiter Oliver Strumpfel from Bavaria was able to raise 31 beer mug and pass with them 40 meters. The total weight of liter mugs amounted to 70 kilograms. The judges did not count the Trumpflya two circles - the waiter dropped one of them, and beer spilled out of the other. Nevertheless, Strumpfel broke the world record, which he himself set in 2014 - then the man held 25 mugs in his hands.

The head of the main investigative department of the Investigative Committee for Moscow, Alexander Drymanov, was interrogated in the case of corruption in the department. This was reported by the Interfax news agency , citing an unnamed source. The interrogation is related to a criminal case involving Drymanov's deputy Denis Nikandrov and two other high-ranking officials of the Investigative Committee - Mikhail Maksimenko and Alexander Lamonov.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs, in the capital of Chechnya more than a million people entered the street On September 4, a rally of solidarity from Rohingya was held in Grozny, at which the audience also protested against the oppression of Muslims by the Myanmar government. The Chechnya Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that 1.1 million people came to the rally - this is three times the Grozny population. There are no other assessments of the audience.

The Bremen authorities deported an 18-year-old Russian citizen for links to Islamists. On Monday, September 4, he flew to Moscow. It is known that he was born in Russia, but grew up in Germany. According to the Associated Press, his name is Izmullah, the name of the young man is not called. He protested against the deportation and claimed that he could be detained and tortured in Russia.