Director of Warner Bros. Toby Emmerich has announced the studio's plans to film the fourth installment in the Matrix franchise, Variety writes. According to Emmerich, Lana Wachowski will direct and co-write the new film. The main roles in the film, as in the previous parts, will be played by Keanu Reeves and Carrie-Anne Moss. According to sources Variety, work on the project could begin in 2020.

The investigation considered the facts of torture and sexual violence against the Khachaturyan sisters by their father Mikhail Khachaturyan to be established. This is reported by Kommersant. According to the publication, in May 2019, the Khachaturyan sisters wrote statements demanding that a criminal case be opened against their father, after which the Investigative Committee began an investigation into the facts of torture , violent sexual acts and coercion to them.

Amid heightened tensions and repressions in Kashmir, a Russian diplomat's social media post casts doubt on Indo-Russian relations Channi Anand / AP / Scanpix / LETA An Indian police cordon in the state of Jammu and Kashmir. August 5, 2019 In late July and early August, India began taking extraordinary steps to integrate the predominantly Muslim state of Jammu and Kashmir into the country’s central government.

Actress Alexandra Nazarova died at the age of 80. This is reported by the website of the Moscow Drama Theater named after M.N. Yermolova. Nazarova spent almost her entire career at the Yermolova Theater. Nazarova has played more than 80 film roles, mostly episodic. Among her most famous roles are Nadezhda Mikhailovna in the TV series My Fair Nanny and Olga's grandmother in The Brigade.

US President Donald Trump intends to nominate John Sullivan for the post of ambassador to Russia. The New York Times writes about this, citing a source in the presidential administration. Sullivan's candidacy, if nominated by Trump, will have to be confirmed by the US Senate. Trump himself, in response to a request for comment on the data , said that Sullivan "would be a very good" ambassador to Moscow. The current U.S.

Evgeny Feldman for Meduza Protesters in Moscow on July 27 at the intersection of Tsvetnoy Boulevard and the Garden Ring On August 16, the state-owned bus company Mosgortrans filed a 1.2-million-ruble ($18,050) lawsuit against several prominent opposition activists, in connection with service disruptions allegedly caused by protests on July 27.

The new, 25th James Bond film will be called No Time to Die A short promo video for the film was posted on the franchise's social media along with the title. Daniel Craig will reprise his role in the film. According to the plot, Bond has temporarily retired from service and is resting in Jamaica. Felix Leiter of the CIA finds him there and asks for help in rescuing a kidnapped scientist.

Updated . Italian President Sergio Mattarella accepted Conte's resignation. Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte has announced his resignation. He made such a statement, speaking before the Italian Senate. Conte cited the actions of the leader of the League (one of the parties in the ruling coalition), Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, who recently raised the question of confidence in the government, as the reason for his departure.

In Greece, on the coast of the island of Poros, a helicopter crashed with Russians on board. This is reported by the Athens Macedonian News Agency. According to the agency, there were three people in the helicopter: a local pilot and two passengers from Russia. During the crash, they all died, their bodies have already been removed from the water. The helicopter followed from Poros to the international airport of Athens.

In the southern Russian city of Pyatigorsk, young engineers participating in the Mashuk Youth Forum displayed a robot wearing traditional Northern Caucasian dress, including a miniature papakha hat, while performing a lezginka. The robot served as a mascot for the forum’s Fab Lab team, which reportedly purchased its parts in the United States but assembled and programmed their creation in Russia.

Splashnews.com / Vida Press Paul McCartney really spends time: he lays dozens of coins on the railway tracks, waits for the train to pass through them, and then collects. The paparazzi caught this occupation of the musician. Splashnews.com / Vida Press McCartney probably uses flattened coins as guitar mediators. This is a well -known (and very cheap) life hack, which many novice guitarists often run to, and now, as we know, McCartney.

Jens Kalaene / DPA / A LAMY / VIDA Press Studio Romania TV TV channel in Bucharest Romania citizens lose confidence in the professional media, and against this background, astrologers have become popular experts of leading socio-political television programs. For 2019, two important election campaigns were in the country - elections to the European Parliament in May and the President of the country in November.

The volume of Russian oil imports to the United States in the first five months of 2019 has grown to a six-year high, RBC reports, citing statistics from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). In January-May, imports of oil and oil products from Russia amounted to 61.75 million barrels (compared to 53.82 million for the same period a year earlier).

Two applications for the rally on August 31 have been submitted to the Moscow City Hall. Copies of the notification are posted on the telegram channel of politician Dmitry Gudkov, who is currently serving an administrative arrest. Both applications were submitted for a rally of 100,000 people. In the first of them, Mira Avenue is indicated as the venue for the action, in the second - Sakharov Avenue.

Russia’s Presidential Council on Human Rights has asked a number of law enforcement agencies to investigate whether police and National Guard officers illegally beat protesters during demonstrations for free elections in Moscow. The Council submitted complaints to the leaders of Russia’s Internal Affairs Ministry, which runs the country’s police force, as well as the Russian National Guard and the Investigative Committee.