The poultry waters of the Dzhurong Park in Singapore provided one of their pets with shoes. For a flamingos chick named Squish, they made special boots so that during walks it was not a hot paw of heated concrete away from his natural habitat - the cool and wet coast of South Africa. Squish belongs to the type of ordinary, or pink flamingos. In his 2.5 months, he weighs 1.6 kilograms, reports Reuters. The chick turned out to be abandoned, not yet hatched.

The Government of Catalonia announced a three -day mourning in connection with the terrorist attack in Barcelona , ​​as a result of which 13 people died, more than a hundred were injured. Earlier, the mayor of Barcelona Ada Kolau announced a minute of silence, which on Friday will be held in the city as a sign of sorrow about the victims of the attack.

GAZ Group intends by 2022 to occupy 5% of the Turkish light commercial vehicle (LCV) market and increase the number of dealership centers to 50. The company’s press service reports this with reference to a statement by Leonid Dolgov, director of exports for the GAZ group.

“I watch with amazement how our new Russian sports victory continues to roll like an ungreased cart along the old route, despite any scandals and excommunications,” writes a social psychologist in LiveJournal . “It seems like this sport has been screwed up to its core, it has already reached the point that at international competitions, with open mockery, they are prohibiting not only the anthem, coat of arms and flag, but in general any mention of Russia...

In Chechnya in the center of Grozny, the action of the mass and public repentance of the people who signed the letter to the prosecutor general Yuri Chaika with a request to understand the law with the accused of terrorism by defendants. It is reported by "New Gazeta" . The letter in question was a request to ensure a legal consideration of a criminal case against two young people - Magomed Taramov and Dzamalaya Tazbiev - who are accused of a desire to leave for Syria.

TV channel TV-3 prepares the premiere of the second season of the show "To be or not to be", the winners of which will be able to shoot a full-fledged series. The project is being prepared in conjunction with the social network "VKontakte". To participate in the selection, those who wish are proposed to post on their page on the social network an author’s video with a hashtag #resigned. 25 authors of the best projects will be selected from them, the “composition” clarifies.

The fantastic drama of Fedor Bondarchuk "Attraction", which became the event of the Russian film distribution, started at a wide box office at the United Arab Emirates. "The premiere of the film took place on August 17, now the film will be presented in 17 cinemas in all seven Emirates of the UAE, and in five of them the audience will be able to see both the English dubbing and the Russian version of the picture.

The Housing Mortgage Lending Agency and VTB Group have chosen 14 regions of the Russian Federation as priorities for the development of rental housing. In particular, in addition to Moscow, it is planned to launch projects in St. Petersburg, Novosibirsk, Yekaterinburg, Nizhny Novgorod, Kazan, Chelyabinsk, and Omsk. “Developed and promising areas of the city with a population of more than 1 million people are being considered for implementation,” explained AHML.

Igor Yakovenko “On the KP TV channel on 08/14/17 there was a long interview with State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, which was taken by an employee of this media outlet, Roman Golovanov.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation examined the letter of the writer Viktor Erofeev and other cultural and art figures in support of the ex-director of the Gogol-Center, arrested in the case of the Seventh Studio, Alexei Malobrodsky and refused to change his preventive measure. This was reported in the Presidential Council for the Development of Civil Society and Human Rights.

The Spanish authorities connect the attack in Barcelona, ​​an attempt to attack in Cambrils and explosions in Alcanar. A collection of police officers in the municipality of the San Juster-Dernn municipality can also be related to this chain of events. The Minister of Internal Affairs of Catalonia Joaimi Forn reported early on Friday the local RAC1 radio station that an attempt to run into people in Cambrils is associated with a terrorist attack in Barcelona, ​​where 13 people were crushed.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko appointed Boris Babin by the constant representative of the head of state in Crimea. This was reported on the website of the Ukrainian leader. Poroshenko emphasized that Babin has extensive experience and professional legal specialty, in particular in international law.

“The director of the Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, Vladimir Vyatrovich, announced the final demolition of monuments to Lenin throughout the country,” recalls a columnist in a column on the Grani.ru website. “You shouldn’t reassure yourself that Lenin is just the past. No, this is exactly the present.

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange refused to publish a large array of documents related to the Russian government and the participation of the Russian Federation in military operations in the east of Ukraine, in the summer of 2016, when the documents of the US Democratic Party were published, obtained, as the injured party suspects, the American magazine Foreign Policy In the material referred to by Inopressa .

The banks themselves will connect to the cleaning of the banking sector, which has been conducted by the Central Bank since 2013. The members of the new banking association, which is created on the basis of the Association of Regional Banks "Russia", will be able to become only "reliable banks", which are part of the first classification groups, the newspaper "Vedomosti" writes.