Director Alexander Rastorguev, who died in Central Africa along with journalists Orkhan Dzhemal and Kirill Radchenko, will be buried on August 7 at the Troekurovsky cemetery in Moscow. This was announced by a friend and colleague of the late Pavel Kostomarov. The funeral will begin at 13:00 in the church of Cosmas and Damian (address: Moscow, Stoleshnikov per. 2). Farewell will take place at 16:30 in the large ritual hall of the Troekurovsky cemetery (address: Moscow, Ryabinovaya street, 24).

The car of Russian journalists Orkhan Dzhemal, Alexander Rastorguev and Kirill Radchenko, who died in the Central African Republic, moved in a convoy of two cars before the attack on them. This was reported to MBKh Media in a group to investigate the circumstances of the death of Russians, created by Mikhail Khodorkovsky.

The Community "Our House - Oleninsky District" in VKontakte opening the flashlight in the village of Kholmets. Oleg Dubov - in the center The head of the Oleninsky district of the Tver region, Oleg Dubov, staged a solemn ceremony on the occasion of the opening of a lantern in the village of Holmetets. When the locals began to criticize the construction, he swept them and accused them of trying to arrange the Maidan.

On August 3, a child died in Sochi - he fell into a storm ditch. The episode was shot by eyewitnesses. The boy walked with his grandmother along the flooded street Oktyabrskaya in the village of Lazarevskoye, at some point broke away from her a few steps and walked along the edge of the street. A storm ditch passes under this part of the street. In some places this ditch is open, but its main part closes the road surface.

The relatives of the journalist Orkhan Dzhemal, who died in Central Africa, were informed that the conclusion on his death, signed by the Russian consul in the Central African Republic, has been lost. A friend and colleague of the late Maxim Shevchenko wrote about this on his Facebook. “The vindictiveness of the stupid authorities, who did not know what to do with Orhan during his lifetime, knows no bounds,” the journalist writes. According to him, Jemal cannot be buried without this document.

A small JU-52 HB-HOT aircraft operated by JU-Air has crashed in the Swiss Alps, Reuters reports. There were 17 passengers and three crew members on board. According to local media, they all died. The plane crash occurred on August 4 in the canton of Graubünden. The plane was heading from Locarno to Dübendorf. Until the cause of the JU-52 crash was clarified, the airline canceled all flights of aircraft of this type.

What we learned from Elizabeth Shimpfesl from the Book of Rich Russians: from the oligarchs to the bourgeois ” For almost ten years, from 2008 to 2017, the British researcher Elizabeth Shimpfesl interviewed representatives of the richest layer of Russian society. Most of them agreed to speak only under the pseudonym, but some called their names. The book, in which Shimpfesl explores the ideas of the new Russian bourgeoisie about itself and about the world, has reached Oxford University Press .

The cargo ship BBC Lagos has run aground off the coast of Sweden. The ship was driven by a captain with a Russian passport - he was intoxicated. The violator, whose name is not called, was detained. “The captain’s blood alcohol content is 2.5 ppm. This is a very high figure, which means that the violator may face a prison sentence,” told TASS. Fredrik Bratt, spokesman for the Southern Police Region, Court hearings in the case of the Russian will take place no later than August 7.

At 22:30 (in Moscow) on TV-3 they will show the film director-documentary Alexander Rastorguev “Wild, Wild Beach. The heat is delicate. " Director Vitaly Mansky told about this film Medusa : ““ Wild, Wild Beach ” - a real epic of Russian being, the absolute peak of documentary cinema. If Rastorguev shot only this picture, this would be more than enough to talk about him as a genius.

Vladimir Brodsky , a lecturer at the Higher School of Economics, complained about police abuse. He wrote on Facebook that he was illegally detained, searched, and abused by Moscow police. According to Brodsky, on the evening of August 3, he was stopped at the Yaroslavsky Station square by three men in civilian clothes who introduced themselves as criminal investigation officers.

At the music festival "Invasion" in the Tver region, one of the spectators died from an electric shock, Interfax reports, citing an informed source. “A visitor with a flag caught an electrical wire and died from an electric shock,” the source said. The circumstances of the incident are being investigated. According to Tverigrad.ru , the incident took place on August 4 in the fan zone of the festival. Update .

Warner Brothers is working on the return of another hero of the 1980s - Alpha. Most likely he will return to Earth and live with a new family. Good old capricious glutton Alf. He was terrible, but he was still a good alien at heart. Many of his jokes don't sound very appropriate by the standards of 2018, so it's hard to say how he will take root in the new culture.

"Medusa" chose 10 best songs and clips of the week Every week, Medusa employees listen to new songs, watch new clips - and take the best. In this issue: Monetka and Noize MC ridiculed the story with the “invasion”, Travis Scott turns into a superstar, Interpol returned to the form, Nike Borzov reels Yegor Letov - and Robin returns. Subscribe to updated playlists in Apple Music and Yandex.Musik !

On the evening of August 4, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that the American actor Steven Seagal, who received Russian citizenship in 2016, was appointed special representative of the diplomatic department for humanitarian relations between Russia and the United States. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs noted that this socio-political position does not imply monetary remuneration. "The very case when people's diplomacy meets traditional diplomacy," the ministry added.

An Air France plane with the bodies of three Russian journalists killed in Central Africa landed on the night of August 5 at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport, reports . Interfax According to the Investigative Committee, the bodies are currently being sent for a forensic medical examination in order to establish the causes of the death of the Russians. As part of the initiated criminal case, investigators interrogated the relatives of the victims.