Six takeaways from Meduza's interview with political scientist Andrey Kortunov Sputnik / Scanpix / LETA Kirill Vyshinsky, the editor-in-chief for Ukraine’s branch of the Russian-operated news outlet RIA Novosti, speaks to journalists after his release from a Ukrainian jail. August 28, 2019 The Russian and Ukrainian governments are preparing for a prisoner exchange that is set to free more than 60 people.

Francois Duhamel / Twentietich Century Fox On August 29, the premiere of James Gray’s fantastic film “To the Stars” was held at the Venice Film Festival, the main role in which was played by Brad Pitt. His hero goes into space to save the Galaxy from the disaster. A father who flew to Neptune 30 years ago (Tommy Lee Jones) should help with the mission. The film critic "Medusa" Anton Dolin tells why the "film about real men" turned out to be archaic and disappointing.

French theater and film actor Michel Aumont died on the night of August 29 at the age of 82, according to Le Figaro, referring to the artist's daughter and agent. The cause of his death is not known. Michel Aumont starred in the films "Toy", "Dads", "Unlucky", "Understudy", in the television series "The Count of Monte Cristo". For more than 30 years he served in the theater "Comedy Francaise", where he played all the main roles of the classical repertoire.

Moscow football club "Spartak" lost to "Braga" with a score of 1:2 in the second leg of the playoff round of the Europa League. The first meeting between Spartak and Braga, which took place on August 22, ended with the score 1:0. Braga advanced to the group stage of the Europa League. Spartak finished playing in European competition this season. Spartak failed to qualify for the Europa League for the fourth time in the last seven years, Sports.ru notes .

A rocket appears to have exploded on the launch pad of Iran's space center in Semnan province, the Associated Press reported, citing a satellite image showing black smoke and charred parts of the rocket. Iran was planning to launch a rocket with the Nahid 1 satellite in the coming days. It is not entirely clear whether the explosion was related to this launch. The Associated Press notes that this is the third unsuccessful Iranian missile launch this year.

Rospotrebnadzor found violations in 65 out of 66 shawarma sellers in Moscow, which the department's specialists checked after complaints from buyers. Rospotrebnadzor said that sellers often prepared shawarma from meat and vegetables of unknown producers, violated expiration dates and storage conditions. In about half of the cases, the finished shawarma did not meet the requirements for microbiological indicators. In addition, bacteria of the E.

The Foundation for the fight against corruption of Alexei Navalny claims that the head of United Russia in Moscow, the deputy chairman of the Moscow City Duma Andrei Metelsky, through the dummy person, owns the Alpin company - the dealer of Yamaha motorcycles. According to the FBK, the leader of the Moscow United Russia bought a company in 2015. Officially, Alpin LLC is registered in the name of a friend and adviser to Metelsky Peter Ivanovsky.

Some Ukrainians convicted in Russia will not participate in the prisoner exchange between Russia and Ukraine, Kommersant reports. These are Andrey Zakhtey , Dmitry Shtyblikov, Alexey Bessarabov and Vladimir Dudka, who were tried on charges of preparing sabotage in Crimea. Kommersant also reported on the prisoner exchange options under consideration.

UEFA held the draw for the group stage of the Champions League, which will feature the Russian clubs Zenit and Lokomotiv. Lokomotiv got into group D, where they will meet with the clubs Juventus, Atlético and Bayer. Zenit will face Benfica, Lyon and RB Leipzig in Group G.

Apple sent out an invitation to reporters for its presentation, which will be held on September 10 at the company's headquarters in Cupertino, California, reports The Verge. The invitation does not say what will be shown at the presentation, while journalists believe that three new iPhone models will be presented at the event.

Netflix showed a trailer for a three -part documentary about the life of the founder of Microsoft Bill Gates. The show is called “inside Bill’s brain: deciphering Bill Gates.” The director was the Oscar -winning Davis Guggenheim ("Inconvenient truth"). Gates himself participated in the project. Netflix Guuggenheim tried not only to tell Gates’s biography, but also to show how exactly the brain of one of the most famous philanthropists of the planet works - and how his brilliant ideas come to it.

After SERB nationalist activists interrupted a play about being gay in Russia, police arrested the play's director. We asked her what happened. Alexandra Krasnova / TASS On the evening of August 28, 12 activists from the SERB movement forced their way into Moscow’s Teatr.doc documentary theater and interrupted a play called Coming Out of the Closet .

Cast - Adam Driver and Scarlett Johansson Wilson Webb / Netflix Netflix entered the “marriage story” - the drama of the American director Noah Baumbak. The main characters are the New York director Charlie (Adam Driver) and the actress from Los Angeles Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) are worried and try to determine in court with whom their eight-year-old son will remain.

Sergey Supinsky / AFP / Scanpix / Leta The new composition of the Verkhovna Rada at the first meeting approved Alexei Goncharuk as Prime Minister of Ukraine. 290 deputies out of 450 voted for him. Goncharuk 35 years old, before that he did not occupy high managerial posts. Nevertheless, it was his candidacy that the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, who called on the parliament for constructive work. Who is Alexey Goncharuk? The youngest prime minister in the history of Ukraine.

The Accounts Chamber was unable to find the Rosstat mobile application based on iOS and Android, which was to be created under a contract worth 64.6 million rubles. It is reported by "Prime" with reference to the audit documents. In 2017, Rosstat signed a contract to update the design of its website and create a mobile application. The Accounts Chamber noted that the new version of the website of the statistical service was supposed to be launched from April 30, 2019, but this did not happen.