SpaceX's Dragon cargo ship has successfully splashed down in the Pacific Ocean. "Successful splashdown of Dragon confirmed, thousands of pounds of NASA research payload returned from space station," the . company tweeted The capsule fell 520 km from the Mexican coast. The ship delivered equipment for scientific experiments, as well as mice, with the help of which experts studied the effects of weightlessness on the animal body. The spacecraft undocked from the ISS on the night of August 26.

The Crimean authorities transferred control over the Simferopol airport to the shareholder of Rossiya Bank Yuri Kovalchuk and his partner Oleg Zhestkov, RBC writes with reference to Zhestkov. According to him, the authorities of the republic have 49% of the airport. The publication, citing data from SPARK-Interfax, reports that Simferopol International Airport belongs to Accord Invest. The company was founded by Zhestokov in 2014.

The death toll from the earthquake in central Italy has risen to 278, reports Reuters. As the mayor of the city of Amatrice Sergio Pirozzi told the agency, about 15 people could be under the rubble. According to Reuters, the city of Amatrice suffered the most from the earthquake. On Saturday, August 27, the funeral will take place. The authorities have declared this day of mourning. There are 388 people in hospitals, 40 of whom are in critical condition.

The head of the Federal Antimonopoly Service, Igor Artemiev, said that in Russia the prices for some medicines are overstated by 160 times, reports . the Prime agency “If we take, for example, the well-known no-shpu. The very chemical formula of the substance, it is absolutely the same, but it’s called shpa, or it’s called drotaverine, another 30 names of that same no-shpa are different trade names. The difference in prices officially registered by state bodies is 12 times.

The Russian Paralympic Committee (RPC) has filed an appeal with the Swiss Federal Court against the decision of the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) to remove Paralympic athletes from the Games in Rio de Janeiro, reports . TASS The appeal will be considered on Monday. RPC President Vladimir Lukin told Interfax that members of the Paralympic team can appeal against the CAS decision on an individual basis.

The Central Election Commission has obliged candidates for the elections to coordinate campaign pickets if they use collapsible structures, reports . TASS “When organizing promotional public events ...

The members of the contact group on resolving the situation in eastern Ukraine agreed on an indefinite “silence regime” from midnight on August 31, TASS reports citing Martin Sajdik, special representative of the OSCE chairman in the group. “I must say that these are joint initiatives of all members of the Contact Group. I hope that the children will be able to start the school year calmly,” Sajdik said.

President Vladimir Putin dismissed the first deputy head of the Main Directorate for Supporting the Activities of the Investigative Committee, Vitaly Frolov, and the head of the Department of Procedural Control in the Field of Anti-Corruption, Dmitry Shershakov. The corresponding document was published on the Kremlin website. According to the decree, eight generals were fired.

In Moscow, at the Dmitrovskaya metro station, one person was injured during the dismantling of illegal tents, the Moscow agency reports. According to eyewitnesses, the beam collapsed . “Information was received that during the dismantling of illegal buildings in the area of ​​​​d. 97 on the street. Butyrskaya suffered a man. According to preliminary data, he was hospitalized at the nearest hospital," the source said.

Russian and Turkish Presidents Vladimir Putin and Recep Tayyip Erdogan had a telephone conversation, according to the official website of the Kremlin. “The leaders had a thorough exchange of views on the situation in Syria. The importance of joint efforts in the fight against terrorism was noted,” the Kremlin said in a statement.

France's State Council has ruled on the country's iconic "burkini case", lifting the ban on wearing a Muslim one-piece swimsuit. Several attempts to swim in these clothes, undertaken by women in different cities of France, ended in scandals - as a result, local authorities adopted orders prohibiting wearing burkinis in public places. One of these decisions, taken by the city hall of Villeneuve-Loubet (Côte d'Azur), was appealed to the State Council by the French League for Human Rights (LDH).

The Pushkinskaya Ploshchad printing house refused to print The News Times magazine. This was announced on the air of "Echo of Moscow" by the editor-in-chief of the magazine Evgenia Albats. “Unfortunately, I have to inform readers that on Monday the magazine will not reach newsstands, stores, or subscribers. Today, the Pushkinskaya Ploshchad printing house, which has been printing the magazine for 8 years, to which we have zero debts, reported that it cannot print the next issue, ”Albats said.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow has arrested businessman Aram Petrosyan for two months, who took hostages in the capital's branch of Citibank, TASS reports . “To satisfy the petition of the investigation, to choose a preventive measure in the form of detention for two months, that is, until October 24,” said Judge Tereza Zhrebets. As clarifies , during the meeting, Petrosyan stated that he would cooperate with the investigation.

Former Yukos shareholders filed an appeal against the decision of the Hague court, TASS reports citing Linda Boon van der Drift, a representative of the Hague Court of Appeal. “I can confirm that the case is in the Court of Appeal of The Hague. Its participants are Yukos Universal Limited, Hulley Enterprises Limited and Veteran Petroleum Limited, as well as the Russian Federation,” she said. The date of the hearing is not yet known.

A photo of a car taken by the owner A message appeared on the popular automobile website about the sale of the "Olympic" machine - BMW X6. Such cars were presented to the winners of the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. “The car was issued by the prize -winner of Russia BB Putin! For achievements at the Olympic Games in Rio 2016, or rather for Olympic gold !!! ” - wrote the seller of the car (spelling saved - ed. ). For the new BMW, the owner requested more than 4.5 million rubles.