In the Moscow region, a car belonging to Daria Dugina, the daughter of public figure Alexander Dugin, exploded. This was reported by telegram channels "112" and BAZA. Photoxpress According to BAZA, Dugina at the time of the explosion was in the car and died on the spot. The publication writes that the car exploded during movement. The incident occurred on the Mozhai highway. Officially, law enforcement agencies did not confirm the explosion of the car for Dugina.

In the USA, the Soviet architect Felix Novikov died, Kommersant reports. From the archive of Felix Novikov Novikov was 95 years old. He died in the city of Rochester in the state of New York, where in recent years he lived with his family. The causes of his death are not specified.

And in this, actor Chris Hemsworth, who played the Torah, will help them in this Historia / Shutterstock / Vida Press Saundice Wolf (Tilatsin) in the London Zoo, around 1930. Among the London Tilatsins the latter was a female, she died on August 9, 1931. The last Tilatsin on the planet died on September 7, 1936 at the Hobart Zoo in Tasmania The marsupial wolf failed a bad reputation.

The Russian Defense Ministry accused Ukraine of using chemical agents against Russian military personnel. As the Russian department stated, on July 31, soldiers stationed in the Zaporizhia region were hospitalized with signs of severe poisoning. An examination revealed that they had botulinum toxin type "B" in their bodies - an organic poison of artificial origin.

Hungarian low-cost airline Wizz Air has changed its mind about resuming flights between Moscow and Dubai after calls for a boycott of the company appeared on social media. Ticket sales for the flights were suspended on August 19. Wizz Air announced the resumption of flights interrupted due to the outbreak of war on August 8. After that, the hashtags #wizzairsupportsterrorists and #WizzAirMakesMoneyOnBlood began to actively spread on Twitter.

What Europeans find at the bottom of the river The strongest drought continues in Europe. The channels of the largest rivers - the Danube, the Elbe, the software and others - were so dry so that shipping on them is either very difficult or generally impossible.

Sergey Bobylev / TASS In the Patriot Park near Moscow, the International Anti -Fascist Congress, organized by the Russian Ministry of Defense, was opened in Kubinka. The event takes place as part of the Army-2022 forum, the Minister of Defense Sergei Shoigu announced its holding back in March.

READING OF THE WALL STREET JURNAL Gleb Garanich / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Neither Russia nor Ukraine disclose its combat losses, but it is already obvious that on both sides the score of the dead and the wounded is going on for tens of thousands. Ukraine, unlike Russia, announced mobilization - but there is no one to teach conscripts, because all the most experienced fighters and commanders at the front.

The Kuzminsky Court of Moscow placed under house arrest the former chief freelance narcologist of the Ministry of Health, Yevgeny Bryun. It is reported by Interfax. The investigation insisted on house arrest. Before that, Bruno was charged with fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). Brun denies his guilt.

On August 20, a post was published on the social networks of politician Alexei Navalny, dedicated to the second anniversary of his poisoning. "I'm celebrating my second birthday for the second time. The day when they were killing me, but for some reason I didn't kill myself," Navalny noted. Navalny recalled that no criminal case has been opened into the poisoning so far, although an investigation was published in December 2020 that identified almost all of the poisoners.

The DPRK leader Kim Jong -un met with doctors who fought with Covid in the DPRK. He made a laudatory speech to them - many of the audience at the same time cried with joy. The DPRK authorities announced the victory over Covid on August 11; Before that, for several days, not a single case was officially recorded in the country. The outbreak of the disease in the DPRK began in May - before that, the authorities have not reported any sick for two years.

The head of the Russian Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin on August 19, told him about the Meduza investigation into the multimillion-dollar vote-stuffing in the 2021 Duma elections. The transcript of the conversation was published by the Kremlin website.

Interview of the playwright Ivan Vyrypaev. About a dispute with Hermanis about visas and “rain” - and why he will never return to Russia Sergey Bobylev / TASS Ivan Vyrypaev during the press of his play “Nancy” at the Moscow Contemporary Theater. 2019 The playwright, director and actor Ivan Vyrypaev has been living and working in Warsaw for eight years, but until recently remained one of the most popular theater authors in Russia.

Destruction in the Nikolaev region. Tankers in the north of Donbass. Monation on the Dnieper On August 19, the American publication Politico reported that the United States approved by Ukraine strikes on the Crimea. On the same day, according to the authorities of the peninsula, the Air Defense System worked in Yevpatoria. The Russian BBC and Mediazona Service based on open data confirmed the death of 5701 of the Russian military in Ukraine.

In Israel, the artist Sergei Grigoriev, who voiced the dog Phil in the program "Good night, kids!", Died. Grigoriev was 64 years old. The cause of his death, according to his colleague in the program, actress Natalya Golubentseva, was a heart attack. Grigoriev was born in Moscow in 1958 and graduated from the Gnessin College in the puppet theater department. Grigoriev began working in "Good night, kids!" in 1987.