The Russian national football team played a draw with Croatia in the qualifying tournament for the 2022 World Cup. The meeting, held in Luzhniki, ended with a score of 0:0. After four games, Croatia and Russia are tied for first and second place in the qualifying group with seven points each. Russia's next match will be away against Cyprus on 4 September.

A school in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA, was shot at. This is reported by the local TV channel ABC 11. One of the students was injured, the rest are safe, police said. Entry and exit from the campus was blocked. The shooter has not yet been detained, now the police are searching all the buildings on the school grounds. On August 31, a similar incident occurred at another school in North Carolina in the city of Wilmington.

A meeting between US and Ukrainian Presidents Joe Biden and Volodymyr Zelensky has begun in Washington. As Zelensky himself tweeted, the agenda of the meeting will include security, including energy, as well as issues of strategic partnership.

Evan Vucci / AP / Scanpix / Leta on September 1, a meeting of US and Ukraine Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Zelensky was held in the White House on September 1, which was a joint statement of strategic partnership. The United States emphasized the commitment of the territorial integrity of Ukraine and promised to help Kyiv in the fight against Russian aggression. The parties also agreed to oppose the Northern Stream 2 and strengthen cooperation in defense and cybersecurity.

Student corrects Putin after he mixes up the Seven Years’ War and the Great Northern War Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Vladimir Putin at a meeting with schoolchildren in Vladivostok on September 1, 2021 President Vladimir Putin spent Knowledge Day, September 1, in Russia’s far-eastern city of Vladivostok. There, he met with some of the country’s star schoolchildren, the winners of various academic competitions and educational olympiads.

A previously unknown substance that suspended three batches of Moderna vaccine in Japan has been found to be stainless steel. This is stated in a joint statement by Moderna and the Japanese company Takeda, which distributes the vaccine in the country. The companies noted that stainless steel is used in heart valves, artificial joints, in metal suture, and also in braces — so injecting particles of it probably won't pose an increased risk.

FBK* officially ceased to exist. Biden promised not to redo other countries by force. We talk about the new album of Kanye West Good evening, This message (material) was created and (or) widespread by a foreign media that performs the functions of a foreign agent, and (or) a Russian legal entity that performs the functions of a foreign agent This is the daily Medusa newsletter about the most important thing that happened during the day. And the day is special today - September 1.

We asked lawyers if it’s legal for Russian employers to reject ‘foreign agents’ On August 30, iStories journalist Alesya Marokhovskaya wrote on Facebook that the Moscow-based nonprofit Information Culture had uninvited her to work as a mentor at a hackathon.

Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Meeting Vladimir Putin with schoolchildren in the All -Russian Children's Center "Ocean" in Vladivostok Russian President Vladimir Putin on the day of knowledge on September 1 in Vladivostok talked with schoolchildren who are winners of various competitions and olympiads. At this meeting, Putin mistakenly stated that Peter the Great fought with Sweden during the Seven Years War . Che Peter the first seven -year war?

Alexei Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation has ceased to exist as a legal entity. According to the Unified State Register of Legal Entities on the website of the Federal Tax Service, FBK was liquidated the day before, on August 31. Former FBK director Ivan Zhdanov stated that in connection with the liquidation of the organization, he filed a petition with the Minister of Justice Konstantin Chuichenko to exclude it from the list of “foreign agents” (this is provided for by law).

The new episode of the "Book Bazaar" - now with video version The podcast “Book Bazaar” , which is now issues the studio “Technique of Speech” , continues the new season. In it, the literary observer Galina Yuzefovich and film critic Anton Dolin speak of iconic film adaptations. Moreover, they do this not only in the usual audio format, but also (for the first time in the history of podcast) in a video version on Yetube.

At the Russian-Finnish border, a 16-year-old student of the 10th grade of one of the schools in St. Petersburg was detained, who, together with her friend, tried to leave for a neighboring country by taxi. This is reported by Interfax and Fontanka. An Interfax source said that the schoolgirl’s mother turned to the police on the evening of August 31, who said that her daughter had gone for a walk with a friend, and later refused to return home to spend the night and did not say where she was.

The Supreme Court of Russia has canceled the registration of the candidate from the Russian Party of Freedom and Justice (RPSS), businessman Dmitry Potapenko, in the elections to the State Duma, Interfax reports. The lawsuit was filed by the Central Election Commission in connection with information about the presence of some candidates, including Potapenko, foreign financial instruments. As Potapenko himself said , it was about his shares in Yandex and Sberbank, bought through brokers.

How the Russian state strives for global academic recognition while undercutting its universities at every step Dmitry Azarov / Kommersant Vladimir Putin in Novosibirsk at a session of the Presidential Council on Science and Education dedicated to the “global competitiveness of Russian science” on February 2, 2018. Academic rights and freedoms were among the few achievements won by Russia’s democratizing turn in the 1990s, even as government funding plummeted.

In mid-August, police officers in cities across Russia began showing up at the homes of Navalny supporters identified in data leaks. And according to a new report from the BBC Russian Service, these checks are being carried out at the request of Putin’s administration.