The Russian clothing company Gloria Jeans has released an advertisement that momentarily features a model wearing a hijab, making it the first retailer in Russia to do so. RBC first drew media attention to the advertisement. Gloria Jeans Your way. Your style. Your choice. The company also posted a photograph of the model on Instagram.

Cossack troops and Donbas veterans might start helping police disperse Moscow's election protests Maxim Zmeyev / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Cossacks attempt to disperse protesters during the “He’s No Tsar to Us” demonstration on May 5, 2018. The election protests that have rocked Moscow since July are set to continue, and government officials are looking for new ways to contain them.

On August 30, the Belarusian police extradited 22-year-old programmer Nikita Chirtsov to Russia, who had been put on the wanted list by the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, Mediazona reports. Chirtsov was not detained upon arrival at Domodedovo Airport.

It turned out scary, but at the same time boring Supermassive Games On August 30, PC, PS4 and Xbox One entered the interactive thriller The Dark Pictures Anthology: Man of Medan. It was developed by the British studio of Supermassive Games, known for the horror to live until dawn. This is the first part of large -scale anthology, which should include eight terrible stories, the authors plan to release new games about once every six months.

Marat Abulkhatin / Press Service of the State Duma of the Russian Federation / TASS Director Vladimir Borto refused to participate in the elections of the governor of St. Petersburg , to which he moved from the Communist Party. He announced this on the air of the St. Petersburg television channel, where the election debate took place. On August 31, he will appeal to Gorizbirk with a statement of withdrawal from the elections. “I don't want to play these games.

The Champions League final of the 2020-2021 season will be held in St. Petersburg at the Gazprom Arena stadium, the Associated Press reports, citing a source in the UEFA executive committee. The official decision will be announced on September 24. According to the source, the 2022 and 2023 finals will be held respectively in Munich and London. Russia hosted the Champions League final once - in 2008, a match took place at Luzhniki.

The Facebook social network refused to use the slogan “It is free and will always be free” (“Itʼs Free and Always Will Be”), which was present on the registration page. According to Business Insider, this happened between August 6 and 7 and affected users from Europe and the USA. This is how it looked: The old slogan was replaced with a new one - “fast and easy” (“Itʼs Quick and Easy”). Now the page looks like this: Facebook did not talk about the reasons for changing the slogan.

Director and candidate for governor of St. Petersburg from the Communist Party Vladimir Bortko announced that he would not participate in the election of the head of the region. He announced this during a live debate on the St. Petersburg TV channel. “I am withdrawing my name from the election,” Bortko said. The director noted that on August 31 he would submit a corresponding application to the city election commission. “I don't want to play these games.

Fabrizio Bensch / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The Murder of Zelimkhan Khangoshvili in Berlin Park, August 23, 2019 On August 23, Zelimkhan Khangoshvili, a Chechen, who has Georgian citizenship, was killed in Berlin. The criminal on a bicycle twice shot him at the Glock pistol, after which he threw the weapon into the river and tried to hide, but was detained by the police.

The Investigative Committee has ordered an examination of nine videos from the YouTube channel of the defendant in the " Moscow case ", student of the Higher School of Economics Yegor Zhukov. This was reported by Mediazona, citing his lawyer Ilya Novikov. Almost 140 thousand people are subscribed to Yegor Zhukov's blog on YouTube. The channel has published about 130 videos.

On September 3, Russia celebrates the day of solidarity in the fight against terrorism - on the anniversary of the terrorist attack at school No. 1 in Beslan in 2004. President Vladimir Putin came to Beslan only once , the day after the storming of the school. Dmitry Medvedev was twice in Beslan at the president’s post and laid flowers to the "Tree of Sorrow".

Deputies of the Supreme People's Assembly (Parliament) of the DPRK introduced amendments to the country's constitution, according to which Kim Jong -un legally became the head of state. Kim Jong -un has been led by North Korea since 2011, but before the amendments, the chairman of the parliament was formally considered the head of state. Photo in the announcement: KCNA / KNS / AFP / Scanpix / Leta

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky will be sent an invitation to celebrate the 75th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War, Russian Presidential Aide Yury Ushakov said. Participation in the festivities, Ushakov said, has already been officially confirmed by the leaders of 17 countries. Among them are the leaders of India, Cuba, France, the Czech Republic, Venezuela, Belarus, Armenia, Bulgaria and Serbia, Ushakov said.

The Chelyabinsk police have closed a criminal case under the article on hooliganism, initiated against the head of Ivan Zhdanov's headquarters, Boris Zolotarevsky. The case was closed because the police were unable to prove his involvement in the crime, said Pavel Chikov, head of the international human rights group Agora. A criminal case was opened against Zolotarevsky after the " He is not our tsar " protest took place in Chelyabinsk on May 5, 2018.

From August 29, the Canadian thriller “Gannibal Game” (original name is Nomis) has been in Russian cinemas. Hannibal Lecter appears in the Russian localization in the plot - although there is not a word about him in the original. The director Roman Volobuev drew attention to this. The plot of the film tells about the judge who was disappointed in the justice system and began to deal with maniacs himself with the help of a familiar girl who acts as a bait.