(Calm down: maybe soon the IT people will return to work and fix everything) Since August 6, Novokuznetsk has officially become the city with the most luxurious public transport in the world. At least, this is evidenced by the price of a bus ticket, which a local resident had to pay , who decided to get from Vera Solomina Street to Sholokhov Street.

Vogue Scandinavia magazine put 18-year-old Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg on the cover of its first issue. The cover also features the activist's Icelandic horse, Strangur. The photo was taken by Iris and Mattias Alexandrov Klum, a Swedish-Spanish photography duo. The magazine's writer Tom Pattinson called Thunberg "the voice of a generation," advising political leaders around the world and the most recognizable activist of the past three years.

Excerpt from the book "Medicine for Smart" Yok_onepiece / Shutterstock.com In early September, the book “Medicine for Smarts” is published at the publishing house Eksmo. Modern aspects of evidence -based medicine for thinking patients. ” It was written by 18 doctors, including gastroenterologist Alexei Paramonov, Pediatricians Sergey Butriy and Natalya Vasilieva, hepatologist Taei Rozina, orthopedic traumatologist Vera Kachurina, pulmonologist Vasily Stumnitsky and others.

Here is the story of the creation of this frame Mikhail Bochkarev The Ukrainian photographer Mikhail Bochkarev made one of the most memorable pictures of the crisis in Turkey caused by forest fires during a vacation in Antalya.

American Paul Whelan , sentenced in Russia to 16 years in prison for espionage, contacted his family on August 7, his lawyer Olga Karlova told Interfax. "David (Whelan's brother) wrote that Paul was released from solitary confinement on Friday. He had already called his parents on Saturday," the lawyer said. On August 3, Olga Karlova reported that Paul Whelan had not contacted his lawyers or family for over a month. Representatives of Colony No.

The Yakutia government has called the press service's report that the head of the region, Aisen Nikolaev, has ordered the felling of forests near populated areas threatened by fires erroneous. Vasily Ambrosyev, head of the Yakutia government's department of information policy and mass communications, told RBC this.

Lyubov Sobol, an associate of Alexei Navalny, left Russia, Interfax reported, citing an unnamed source. “According to some reports, Sobol left for Istanbul,” the source said. Earlier, Sobol’s departure to Istanbul was reported by a source of the REN television channel, according to which, she “flew to Istanbul on a flight from Vnukovo on the evening of August 7.” The RT channel, also citing a source, reported the exact time when Sobol flew away from Vnukovo - 20:20.

Roman Polyakov, the manager of the content factory at the VkusVill retail chain, and several other employees from his team quit after the company removed an advertising article featuring a queer family. The head of the family, psychologist Yuma, told the BBC Russian Service about this. I asked Roman for permission to talk about him. He allowed me. Roma resigned of his own free will, he worked (maybe he has already worked, or maybe he is still working) for some time so as not to abandon his team.

The Ministry of Education of Belarus excluded the works of Alexander Solzhenitsyn, Vladimir Nabokov and Svetlana Aleksievich from the school curriculum on Russian literature for 11 grades. This follows from the curriculum ( .pdf ) approved on 21 June. attention to this . drew The teacher Sergei Dubelevich from Minsk In the past, the works of Nabokov and Solzhenitsyn were included in the Literature of the mid-1950s-early 1990s program.

The best photos of games. Choosing "Medusa" In Tokyo on August 8, the Olympic Games ended. Due to the pandemic of coronavirus, the athletes and fans had to wait for the Olympics for an extra year, and the viewers of the games-2020 (that’s what they were officially called) and Tokyo residents to put up with numerous restrictions.

The Russian Ministry of Digital Development has proposed identifying taxi drivers and car sharing users who rent cars for short periods of up to 24 hours using biometric data . This is stated in a draft government resolution developed by the department. The Ministry defined in the document cases of processing biometric personal data.

Albert GEA / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta on August 8 Argentine Lionel Messi held a press conference on his departure from the Spanish football club Barcelona, ​​for which he spoke throughout his career. Barcelona explained that she could not extend the contract with the football player “because of economic and structural obstacles” by La League-the Spanish Championship in football. Speaking to the journalists, Lionel Messi could not restrain his tears. “I came here very young, at the age of 13.

Results of the last day of the Olympics It's the last day of the Olympic Games in Tokyo. Russian athletes are competing for medals in rhythmic gymnastics, cycling and handball. And then there's tragedy - rhythmic gymnasts were left without gold in the group all-around for the first time since 1996. Russia only has silver, the highest award goes to Bulgaria. Just like the day before, after second place in the individual all-around , everyone is indignant.

"Medusa" tells the story of a politician that seemed unsinkable Seth Wenig-Pool / Getty images The three-time Governor of New York, Andrew Kuomo, seemed eternal. The cunning and prudent hereditary policy managed to sit up for many years to sit their formal democrats and play along with the Republicans, dealing with competitors on the intra-party struggle, including with the help of an administrative resource.

Soviet and Ukrainian artist, director of the Odessa Art Museum, Alexander Roitburd, died at the age of 59. Museum representatives reported this on Facebook. Andriy Makukha / Wikimedia Commons Alexander Roitburd Roitburd was sick for a long time and, as Ukrainian Pravda writes , had complications after a coronavirus infection on the spring. Alexander Roitburd was born and worked in Odessa. Was one of the founders of the Association "New Art" in Odessa.