The exit of the director Nikita Mikhalkov from the Board of Trustees of the Film Foundation was the reason for the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky for the application for the need for protectionism in the film industry. "The demonstrative exit of the chairman of the Union of Cinematographers of the Russian Federation N. S. Mikhalkov from the Cinema Council makes us think about a lot.

The Swiss lawyer of the eldest daughter of the late President of Uzbekistan Gulnara Karimova said that he was unknown to the location of his client, who was sentenced to five years in prison for theft and extortion of funds. “I'm trying to get this information. I hope to find out something by mid -September,” said Greguar Mange, holding the post of chairman of the Geneva Bar Association ( RIA Novosti Quote).

The media found out that the imam of the mosque in the city of Ripol Abdelbaki al-Satti , who died on August 16 during an explosion in a room where terrorists prepared bombs, which is considered the main ideologist of recent terrorist attacks in Spain, was also involved in the crimes associated with drugs, El Pais reports. It turned out that Imam spent four years in a Spanish prison on charges of drug trafficking.

The Netherlands police officers on the night of Thursday, August 24, detained another suspect due to the threat of a terrorist attack at a concert of the American rock band, canceled the day before in Rotterdam. It is reported by NU.NL. A 22-year-old man was detained during a police raid in the province of North Brabant in the south of the country, he was interrogated as part of the investigation. The performance of the ALLAH-LAS group was canceled due to a terrorist threat.

The Russian government has decided which of the towers in the Moscow City business center about six thousand officials from the Ministry of Economic Development, the Ministry of Communications and the Ministry of Industry and Trade will move to. As Kommersant writes, almost 75 thousand square meters will be purchased for these purposes. m in the IQ Quarter complex, the construction of which is carried out by the VTB-controlled company Hals-Development.

Elena Alshanskaya “So this morning I was thinking deliriously, if I were a big government boss, what conclusion would I draw from the story with Kirill Serebrennikov? I would conclude that the financing system for government procurement and government tasks is built, on the one hand, corruption-intensive, and on the other hand the other is inconvenient for the end user.

The American online taxi service Uber presented results for the second quarter, which pleasantly surprised analysts. Despite the scandals surrounding the company this year and the absence of a CEO for two months, Uber reported a 9% decline in losses compared to the first quarter, to $645 million, Bloomberg reports. And net income increased by 17%, to $1.75 billion. At the same time, total revenue amounted to $8.7 billion, which is 17% more than a year earlier.

The activities of Vladimir Putin as the President of the Russian Federation are currently approved by 83% of Russians, 15% of citizens adhere to the opposite point of view, the August survey of the Levada Center showed. At the same time, a rating of confidence in Putin as a politician grew to a maximum indicator this year. In the course of similar studies in May and June, Putin's work approved by 81% of citizens, and 18% expressed discontent.

The International United Investigative Group (JIT), investigating the death of the Malaysian Boeing 777 in the Donbass in July 2014, received data from the radar from Russia at the time of the aircraft crash, this time in the required Asterix format, according to the website of the Dutch prosecutor's office, which is participating in the investigation.

Over the year, the average microloan size in Russia grew by July of this year by 8% - from 8976 rubles to 9707 rubles. The size of the loan "to salaries" increased in the segment of borrowers from 25 to 29 years old, the National Bureau of credit stories (NBKI) reports , based on the analysis of data from 3 thousand creditors working in the field of microfinance (MFIs, MFC, KPKA others). "Over the past year, the average microloan size (" loan to salary ") grew in all age categories of borrowers.

Ukraine marks the 26th anniversary of independence. In the morning, a military parade was held in Kiev - for the first time without military equipment, but the largest in the history of the holiday, the Ukrainian Service Service reports 1492 . The solemn event was attended by about 4.5 thousand troops. For the first time, soldiers of NATO members marched in Khreshchatyk for the first time.

The famous Murmansk blogger Alexander Serebryanikov said that he received serious threats after the publication of his new journalistic investigation about the family of the head of the region Marina Kovtun. “They promise either to kill or throw drugs,” he told Novaya Gazeta . On August 23, Serebryanikov published on his website Bloger51 another revealing material about the activities of the current governor of the Murmansk region.

The former captain of the Russian national football team Andrei Arshavin can end his career in 2017. This was a 36-year-old player of the Kazakhstan "Kairat" informed reporters as part of the opening of the children's international festival of football, which will be held in Barnaul. “Maybe this will happen, my contract ends at the end of this year than I will do - I didn’t think. I think.

“In Russia, you can’t just be a “master of culture.” At the right moment, every Russian “master of culture” turns into a “master of agitation and propaganda,” writes the philosopher and publicist on Facebook , commenting on the arrest of Kirill Serebrennikov. “At one time, Dostoevsky, and Turgenev, and Leskov, and Rozanov, and Alexei Tolstoy, and Sergei Eisenstein, and Bondarchuk Sr., and both Mikhalkovs, “and all, all, all,” were agitators.

Nikolay Travkin “What is Russia? This is not just a territory from Moscow to the very outskirts and even across from the southern mountains to the northern seas. Russia is a collection of republics, regions and autonomies called subjects of the Federation, or SF for short,” the former politician writes on his Facebook page.