Artist Dmitry Vrubel died on August 14 in Berlin at the age of 62. His death was reported by journalist Ksenia Larina and literary critic Gleb Morev . Sean Gallup / Getty images artist Dmitry Vrubel during the restoration of graffiti “Lord, help me survive in this mortal love” in Berlin. June 22, 2009 For the past two months, the artist was sick of Covid. At the end of June he was hospitalized.

Sergey Channel Wednesday in Telegram photography with supposedly fighters of Wagner's PMC from the remote post of Sergey Wednesday The Russian military correspondent Yuri Kotenok claims that the Armed Forces of Ukraine struck the “one of the locations” of the Wagner PMC in the city of Popasnaya Lugansk region of Ukraine. “Sources in the Donbass confirm. Probably Himars. Ukrainian resources disperse the death of [businessman Eugene] Prigozhin - we do not confirm, ”the kitten wrote in Telegram.

According to the latest data, at least 41 people died in a fire in the Coptic Church in Giza , reports Reuters. According to two sources of the agency, most of the dead are children. Tarek Wajeh / DPA / Scanpix / Leta During the morning service, about five thousand people gathered in the church. Due to a short circuit in the mains, a fire began in the building, which blocked the entrance to the church. According to eyewitnesses, a crush arose.

Police in Scotland have launched an investigation after writer JK Rowling received threats on Twitter, Reuters writes. On August 12, following the attack on Indian-British writer Salman Rushdie in the United States, Rowling tweeted : “I feel really bad right now. Let him be all right." In response, user MeerAsifAziz1, who calls himself a public figure, wrote: "Don't worry, you're next." “To everyone who sent messages of support: thank you,” Rowling wrote the next day.

Canadian lawyer Richard McLaren, who prepared a report on the widespread use of doping in Russia, called for the admission of Russian and Belarusian athletes to international competitions, from which they were suspended after the start of the war in Ukraine. In an interview with Sportschau, ARD's sports broadcaster, McLaren stated : The way they are being treated is unfair. Athletes did not incite this conflict and are not responsible for how it develops.

The Washington Police Department launched an investigation after an unidentified man fired several shots into the air near the US Congress building and then committed suicide. At about 4:00 local time (11:00 Moscow time), a man crashed his car into a guardrail at an intersection near the convention, Capitol police said. Coming out of the burning car, he fired several shots into the air. When police officers began to approach him, he committed suicide.

Yaroslav Varenik The border guards did not allow the journalist of the 29.ru publication from Arkhangelsk Yaroslav Varenik to Estonia after they could not confirm the reservation of his hostel. Varenik reported what happened in his social networks. “I’m driving a hitchhiking to St. Petersburg, since I was banned from entering Estonia and canceled the visa,” Varenik wrote.

Only 10 years later, Manti Theo found the strength to tell this first -person story in the new Netflix film Donald Miralle / Getty images Manti Theo is preparing to enter the field as part of San Diego Charders at the match against Indianapolis Colts. Qualcomm Stadium, San Diego Stadium, October 14, 2013 Netflix is ​​published by the documentary “Unspeed: a girl that did not exist” (Untold: The Girlfriend who Didn`t Exist).

An interview with the Latvian director Alvis Hermanis - about visas for Russians, Gorbachev (and, of course, the Rain TV channel) Alvis Hermanis. Alexander Kurov / TASS The leader of the New Riga Theater, Latvian director Alvis Hermanis in 2022, became one of the most uncompromising critics of Russia (and supporters of Ukraine) in the Western Cultural Community.

Galina Yuzefovich - about how the writer relates to women, the main characters of this book (and about the "museum inviolability" of his little prose) The literary critic Galina Yuzefovich read the new book of Vladimir Sorokin De Feminis - a collection of stories, whose main characters were women. And although some stories make you admire, long -standing connoisseurs of Sorokinsky prose are hardly possible to find something amazing in De Feminis for themselves. Vladimir Sorokin. De feminis.

On the night of August 14, the Armed Forces of Ukraine launched a missile attack on the Antonovsky Bridge in Kherson, said Natalya Gumenyuk, a representative of the operational command of the Armed Forces of Ukraine "South". “Antonovsky Bridge was struck again in order to secure its status as a final impassability,” Gumenyuk said on Ukrainian television (quoted by RBC-Ukraine).

In fact, he proposed to leave millions of opponents of the war “inside Russia” Alexander Demyanchuk / TASS The official representative of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Maria Zakharova distorted the quote from the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Gabrielus Landsbergis about the proposal to prohibit the release of Schengen visas to the Russians.

But why?! No, really, when will they stop? ESA / GAIA / DPAC The compilation of stellar sky, the opening and maintenance of lists of stars seems to be an activity that is only suitable for ancient Greeks, as a maximum for the thorough authors of German star catalogs of the 19th century.

On the night of August 14, an armed criminal fired at a bus in the Old City of Jerusalem near the Wailing Wall. Eight people were injured, the Israeli Foreign Ministry said. Among the victims are a pregnant 30-year-old woman and a 60-year-old man who are in critical condition. According to the Jerusalem Post, the woman gave birth by caesarean section, the child is in serious condition.

Subscribe to our YouTube on the afternoon of August 14 in the fograms of the Surmal, in Yerevan, in Yerevan, in Yerevan , in a warehouse with fireworks. Eyewitnesses shot on the video for the first seconds after the explosion. According to the Ministry of Emergencies on the morning of August 15, six people were killed, another 60 were injured.