Russian Director-Documentist Viktor Kosakovsky, who presented his film “Watercolor” at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, supported the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who has been starving in the Russian colony since mid-May. Kosakovsky, who attached the numbers 111 to the shirt (Sentsov on Sentsov was starving 111th day), called for his example and not forget about the director.

Antony Jones / Getty images Russian Director-Documentist Viktor Kosakovsky , who presented his film “Watercolor” at the Venice Film Festival on September 1, supported the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who has been starving in the Russian colony since mid-May. Kosakovsky, on the shirt of which the numbers 111 were attached (Sentsov on September 1 starved 111st day), called for his example and not forget about Oleg Sentsov. At the end of the speech, he almost cried.

The coordinator of the "Left Front" Sergei Udaltsov, who went on a hunger strike under arrest, was sent to the hospital for the third time. According to his wife Anastasia Udaltsova, the activist was hospitalized due to dehydration. According to Udaltsova, her husband is in critical condition. “He is on a drip, he has become very thin, all his health indicators are poor, he has arrhythmia,” Interfax quoted her as saying.

The Altai Regional Court has sent Barnaul resident Andrei Shasherin, accused of inciting hatred and insulting the feelings of a believer for a meme about Patriarch Kirill published on VK, to a hospital for a psychiatric examination. As Shasherin himself told Mediazona, he unsuccessfully tried to challenge the corresponding decision of the Leninsky District Court of Barnaul, made in June. The examination, which is to take place in the Altai Regional Psychiatric Hospital, will take up to 30 days.

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A structure collapsed during a performance at the Voronezh State Circus on the morning of September 1. Four injured artists were taken to the hospital's trauma department, Interfax reports. The incident occurred during an equestrian act in Tamerlan Nugzarov's show. It is not specified which structure fell.

The Russian Defense Ministry stated that militants detained near Palmyra spoke about training under the guidance of American instructors. According to the department, on Saturday morning, 36 kilometers from Palmyra, Syrian troops engaged in battle with a group of militants "attempting to break through from the area of ​​the settlement of At-Tanf in the direction of the city of Palmyra." Two militants who were captured testified; two people were killed.

In the United States, a court ordered American Kate McClure to give homeless Johnny Bobbit the money she raised for him through crowdfunding. According to the court order, on Friday, August 31, the money was to be transferred to Bobbit's account and frozen until a subsequent court decision on how it should be managed.

On August 31, the American rapper Eminem released his tenth album Kamikaze. Before the release, the record was not announced in any way - but in the end it turned out to be one of the most tough in the career of the musician: in almost all songs, he scolds a variety of people in detail and excitingly, from former associates to young competitors. Medusa figured out who and why Eminem attacks.

In Moscow, on August 31, the second suitcase in a month with the body of a woman was found, Interfax reports. As Yulia Ivanova, a representative of the UK Department for Moscow, said, the deceased woman looked 18-25 years old; no traces of violence were found on her body. The suitcase was found near the fence on the alley of the Kremlin cadets in the south-east of Moscow. On August 8, a suitcase with a woman's body was found in Vorontsovsky Park in the southwest of Moscow.

Venice International Film Festival The Venice Film Festival showed “The other side of the wind” - the last film of the director Orson Wells, who died in 1985 without finishing work on him. After 33 years, the picture was finally mounted and released; In November, it will be possible to look at Netflix.

Alice S. Hall / NBCU Photo Bank / Getty images Vanessa Marquez in the image of Wendy Goldman, 1995 American actress Vanessa Marquez, who played the nurse Wendy Goldman in the series ambulance, was shot at home by police on August 30. She was 49 years old. The police came to her home in the morning after the owner of the house, who asked to check if everything was in order with her.

Ultra -short reviews (140 characters!) On the main films of the week Every weekend at Medusa, ultra -short reviews come out - approximately 140 signs each - from the film critic of Anton Valley, which help to navigate in the box office. The main films of this week: the last part of the mystical trilogy about Gogol “Terrible Revenge”, the French criminal drama “We will not catch up with us” and the restored masterpiece of Stanley Kubrick “2001: Cosmic Odyssey” again on the big screen. Gogol.

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As the film "Our New President" talks about the essence of Russian propaganda by its own methods Artdocfest "Medusa" begins to talk about the competitive program of the Festival of Documentary Cinema "Artdokfest", which will be held from October 19 to 23 in Riga and from December 6 to 12 in Moscow.