American film director Toub Hooper has died at the age of 75. This is reported by Variety, citing the Los Angeles police. The circumstances of death are not specified. Hooper's popularity came with his 1974 work The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, which became one of the highest-grossing independent films of the 1970s in the United States. Later, the director filmed a sequel to the film called The Texas Chainsaw Massacre 2. Tobe Hooper's Poltergeist was released in 1982.

The terrorist group "Islamic State" (banned in Russia) claimed responsibility for the attack on the military in Brussels. It is reported by Reuters. The militants claim that the attacker was an ISIS soldier. On Friday, a man of Somali origin armed with a machete attacked soldiers patrolling the Belgian capital. The incident took place on Boulevard Emile Jacquement. As a result of the attack, the soldiers were injured and shot at the attacker. The 30-year-old Somali later died in hospital.

About the selectivity of the security forces: the theater figure Kekhman is accused of embezzlement of 20 billion, but he is not arrested, flies to London and celebrates a wedding on the stage of the Mikhailovsky Theater Photo: RIA Novosti The Investigative Committee achieved the conclusion of Kirill Serebrennikov under house arrest, insisting that the director accused of fraud with state money can hide from the investigation and, marking any hints that criminal prosecution can be somehow

Siberia has become another front of the war for young Muslims, which goes in the Middle East and in the Caucasus Photo: Irina Esman / TASS One of the main issues of the investigation of the tragedy in Surgut: where is the criminal infected with a radical Islamic idea? An unpleasant answer may be that this idea has matured in place. Siberia increasingly declares itself in the context of the Syrian war - but no one knows how to confront this here or the rest of Russia.

Why did the convicted hacker suddenly stated that he had falsified the correspondence of officials and media managers Anikeev and his lawyers.