Producer Rob Bliss posted a Tinder Trap video dedicated to a mass date in downtown New York: on August 20, a large group of men gathered in Union Square, who were invited by model Natasha Aponte. Aponte met and arranged a meeting with each of them on the Tinder app, but did not warn anyone of what would happen next.

24 August. You can replace Snickers, but you can't replace Michael Jackson About a good initiative. Charitable foundations "Podari Zhizn" and "Vera" proposed to completely decriminalize the work of doctors when prescribing painkillers containing narcotic substances.

In Vilnius, next to the Russian Embassy, ​​the opening ceremony of the Boris Nemtsov Square took place. The ceremony was attended, in particular, by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Linas Linkevicius, the mayor of Vilnius Remigius Simasius and the daughter of the murdered politician Zhanna Nemtsova. Boris Nemtsov was killed in Moscow on February 27, 2015. In February 2018, a section of Wisconsin Avenue near the Russian Embassy in Washington was named after the deceased politician.

How Soviet invasion changed the Czechs forever, Russia's new retro-futuristic electric car, and a push to ban Kadyrov from Moscow Friday, August 24, 2018 This day in history. On August 24, 1991, the Ukrainian parliament declared its independence from the Soviet Union.

Kremlin adviser Andrey Belousov met this week with representatives from the metallurgical and chemical companies he recently proposed taxing extra to raise 500 billion rubles ($7.4 billion) needed to implement Vladimir Putin’s new social spending program. Shockingly, the companies haven’t embraced the opportunity to hand over their profits, and they’ve proposed an alternative plan where they voluntarily invest some of their money in social projects selected by a special working group.

Responding to Chechen ruler Ramzan Kadyrov’s recent statement that human rights activists aren’t welcome in his republic, editors from the newspaper Novaya Gazeta have made a public appeal to Sergey Sobyanin, asking Moscow’s mayor to ban Kadyrov from the city.

Prosecutors in Yekaterinburg have opened a criminal case against publicist Platon Mamatov, in response to a police report filed by City Councilman Evgeny Borovik over an argument in late June that took place on Facebook.

Police in Kazan have charged a local environmentalist with the misdemeanor offense for staging an unpermitted protest disguised as an outdoor yoga session . On August 17, Vera Kerpel led a small crowd gathered in the public square outside the building that houses the Tatarstan Government. The participants wore matching shirts stamped with slogans against the planned construction of a new trash incineration plant.

The Russian Attorney General’s Office has banned the U.S.-based Pacific Environment and Resources Center as an “undesirable” organization, saying the group “represents a threat to the Russian Federation’s constitutional system and state security.” Next, the Justice Ministry is supposed to add the center to its formal registry of “unwanted NGOs” — a list that currently names 14 groups, including the National Endowment for Democracy, the Open Society Foundation, the Institute of Modern Russia, the

Senator John McCain has decided to forgo further treatment for the brain tumor he was diagnosed with in 2017. McCain has already lived longer than many expected, the family said in a statement. "But the progression of the disease and the inexorable effects of age have taken their toll. With his usual presence of mind, he has decided to discontinue treatment," the family said.

Slepakov and cords swear with each other and praise Moscow - a few weeks before the mayor's election The comedian Semyon Slepakov released the clip “Pobazamim for the culture” on August 24, which he also calls the disce on Sergey Shnurov. In fact, the song is the answer to the song “Leningrad” “I do not want to be a Muscovite”, published a week earlier.

Lisa Brennan-Jobs / Wikimedia Commons (CC by 3.0) On September 4, the Grive Press publishing house will be an autobiography of the writer and daughter of Steve Jobs, Lisa Brennan-Jobs. The book is called "Small Fry", that is, "small bipod". On August 1, Vanity Fair published an excerpt from the book that caused a stormy response in the media and social networks. In this fragment, Brennan-Jobs talks about a difficult relationship with his father, which they had since childhood.

Internet users in Samara have discovered a mobster tombstone at a local children’s playground. According to Alexander Khinshtein, a former State Duma deputy from the area and a current adviser to the director of Russia’s National Guard, the stone tablet will be removed by August 27. The tombstone reportedly appeared sometime at least three years ago, honoring crime lord Konstantin Berkut’s younger brother, Vladimir, who was shot not far from the playground in April 1994.

The Attorney General's Office recognized the "undesirable" American organization Pacific Environment and Resources Center (Pacific Center for the Protection of the Environment and Natural Resources).

The Akhmat Kadyrov Public Foundation has donated one million rubles to restore the wooden Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary that burned down in Kondopoga. This was reported by the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov. A wooden church in Kondopoga burned down on August 10. A 15-year-old teenager was suspected of setting it on fire, and according to media reports, two criminal cases were opened against him.