Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev has been approved as interim president of the republic, Interfax reported on September 8. The decision was made on Thursday, September 8, at a joint meeting of the Legislative Chamber and the Senate of the Oliy Majlis (upper and lower houses of parliament).

Memorial will not agree with the decision to grant him the status of a "foreign agent" and will defend its position in court. Boris Belenkin, member of the Board of Memorial, stated this in a conversation with NT.

The International Paralympic Committee (IPC) has identified a member of the Belarusian organization who took out the Russian flag during the opening ceremony of the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Associated Press reports. It turned out to be the director of the Olympic training center for athletics in Belarus Andrei Fomochkin. Fomochkin managed to walk through the stadium several tens of meters with the Russian flag before he was taken away.

The increase in the subsistence minimum occurred as a result of a rise in the cost of living in Russia, says Igor Nikolaev, director of the Institute for Strategic Analysis of FBK. So he responded to a request from NT to comment on the government's decision to increase the cost of living in Russia in the II quarter to 9956 rubles, which is 180 rubles more than the previous minimum. The decision of the government became known on September 8.

Officials and businessmen who live next to the heads of regional administrations receive special privileges and important government orders. This is stated in a joint investigation of the organization "Transparency International - Russia" and the online publication "Meduza". At the same time, the investigation concerned a specific situation in a single Central Federal District of the Russian Federation. The authors cite the Belgorod region as the most illustrative example.

The head of the Palestinian Authority, Mahmoud Abbas, was a KGB agent in the 1980s, The New York Times writes on September 8, citing a story shown on the Israeli Channel 1 TV channel.