A resident of Omsk, who came to the Alfa Future People electronic music festival in the Nizhny Novgorod region, died, presumably, from a drug overdose, according to local publications Pro Gorod NN and Nizhny Novgorod online . On August 18, a photo from a music festival began to circulate on social networks, which depicts an allegedly dead person lying in the mud. The organizers of Alfa Future People said that the photo is a fake.

On August 17, a VGTRK (Russia 1) film crew headed by Yaroslav Krasienko came to the solitary pickets on the Boulevard Ring in Moscow. At the approved rally on August 10, Krasienko was booed for his biased reporting — at the time, Russia 1 and Channel One reported that the youth had gathered primarily for a concert, not for a rally for free elections.

KEITH SRAKOCIC / AP / Scanpix / Leta Donald Trump at a meeting with the workers of the plant in Pennsylvania On August 13, US President Donald Trump made a speech to the workers of the Shell petrochemical plant in Pennsylvania.

Since 2020, bailiffs may be able to notify debtors of a ban on traveling abroad via SMS. The corresponding amendments to the law "On enforcement proceedings" were submitted to the State Duma by the Russian government. According to the amendments, notifications from the Federal Bailiff Service can be received via mobile communications, as well as through a personal account on the public services portal. To do this, you must provide the FSSP with a receipt with your mobile phone number.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on the massacre of the family in the Ulyanovsk region. The crime occurred in one of the private houses in the village of Patrkeevo, where the bodies of three adults and two young children of four years old were discovered. According to the preliminary version, the murder was committed by a 16-year-old teenager, a relative of the dead. His body was discovered near the mobile tower located near the village.

Municipal deputy Ilya Yashin was again detained by the police at the exit of the 2nd special detention center in Moscow, where he was serving his third administrative arrest in a row. In a video posted on the politician's twitter, a police officer says that Yashin was detained "for calling for uncoordinated actions on July 18 and 19." After the arrest, Ilya Yashin was taken to the Troitsk police department.

Power unit No. 4 of the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant, located in the Sverdlovsk region, was shut down on the morning of August 18 by automatic protection. “The reason for shutting down the power unit was a false operation of one of the protective systems. The power unit was shut down according to the standard algorithm according to the normal scheme.

On August 17, 118,000 people visited Gorky Park in Moscow, where a festival was held in honor of the 91st anniversary of its opening. “The guests took part in sports tournaments and classes, watched the performances of street art masters, learned how to cook pilaf. The holidays were accompanied by musical accompaniment by popular DJs and Russian pop stars,” according to the website of the Moscow City Hall.

Exactly 50 years ago, on August 15-18, 1969, in the state of New York on a farm near the city of Betel, a music festival was held, which went down in history called Woodstock. These “three days of peace and music”, as advertising posters called it, marked the climax and the simultaneous sunset of the hippie era. They absorbed everything: freedom and rock and roll, sex and drugs, dirt and unsanitary conditions, anarchy and pacifism.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. How the Russian Palantir was created in the presidential administrations - and they learned to collect dossier on any user of social networks In 2014, the management of the President of Russia began to develop monitoring systems - and were able to create a unique algorithm for working with data that allows you to collect a dossier for any organization and any user of social networks.

15 Chinese citizens were injured in an accident in the east of Moscow, Interfax reports. According to the Moscow traffic police, on the morning of August 18, at the intersection of First Vladimirskaya Street and Entuziastov Highway, a bus carrying tourists from China crashed into a city lighting mast. There were 32 people on the bus in total. The ambulance team recorded abrasions and bruises on the victims, no one needed hospitalization.

What happened in the final series? Caution, spoilers! Jasper Savage / Hulu On the American Hulu and in the Russian Videomore, the final episode of the third season of the "Holder Story" was published. The last series quarreled the audience: some praise her for unexpected plot turns, others scold for excessive fairy tale. The film critic Yegor Moskvitin tells how the season ended and why, despite the disputes, the audience will still wait for new series.

The Investigative Committee has completed the preliminary investigation into the case of Kirill Zhukov, who was detained at a protest on July 27 in Moscow. As his lawyer Svetlana Baiturina told TASS, the charge under Article 212 of the Russian Criminal Code (“mass riots”) has disappeared from the final version; Zhukov is charged only under Part 1 of Article 318 of the Russian Criminal Code (“use of violence against a government official”).

At least 63 people were killed and another 182 injured in a terrorist attack in the Afghan capital, according to Reuters. The explosion occurred on the evening of August 17 during a wedding ceremony at a hotel in western Kabul. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country, the explosive device was set off by a suicide bomber. At least a thousand people attended the wedding. Among the dead and injured are women and children.