The State Duma supports the need to clarify the procedure for identifying employees of the Russian National Guard and the police. This was reported to Vedomosti by the head of the Security Committee Vasily Piskarev. According to him, the committee has also prepared a corresponding bill. Piskarev said that the committee proposes to oblige Rosgvardia officers to introduce themselves when addressing citizens.

In Russia, over the past day, the area of ​​forest fires has increased by 7.7 thousand hectares and reached 50.1 thousand. This was reported by the press service of "Avialesohrany". According to the service, by midnight on August 25, 109 forest fires were active in the country. The largest number of fires was recorded in the Krasnoyarsk Territory - 84 fires on an area of ​​22.1 hectares.

In Ulyanovsk, one of the employees of the Russian Guard was fired, who did not respond to the woman’s request for help, explaining this with a lunch break. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the regional department of the department. The Russian Guard conducted an audit. According to its results, the other Rosgvardisian and their leaders were brought to disciplinary responsibility. The check began after the publication of the video, which shows how a man threatens a taxi driver.

In Moscow, on Slavyanskaya Square, three participants in the picket "For the change of power" were detained. to OVD-Info This was reported by human rights activist Eduard Rudyk. According to him, Nikolai Ovsyannikov, Kirill Myamlin and Vladimir Filin were detained at the monument to Cyril and Methodius. They are being taken to the Kitai-Gorod police station.

The Investigative Committee for the Tyumen Region began a pre -investigation of the information that appeared in the media that in one of the medical centers of Tyumen refused to accept the patient with pulmonary edema. This was reported by the press service of the department.

UPDATE 17:32 The second detained picket participant, Artur Burikov, was released without drawing up a protocol after a preventive conversation in a paddy wagon, reports . MBKh Media In St. Petersburg, at the exit of the Gostiny Dvor metro station, police detained activist Vadim Kazak. It is reported by Mediazona. Kazak was going to take part in a series of single pickets against the non-admission of independent candidates to the elections.

The Russian Guard has placed a tender for the purchase of 430 Storm stun guns worth more than 3.7 million rubles. attention to the data of the public procurement website RBC drew . One such device will cost 8.7 thousand rubles. It is equipped with a flashlight and a laser pointer. As noted in the description, the shocker can operate at temperatures from -20 to 50 degrees.

Russian carrier Aeroflot was one of the last airlines with the fewest female pilots. This is reported by Bloomberg, citing a study by travel platform FromAtoB.com. According to the study, Aeroflot employs 4,200 pilots, of whom only 58 are women. As the representative of the Russian carrier specified to the agency, 62 female aviators work in the company, 48 of which are pilots, nine more are crew commanders, and the rest are engaged in employee training.

The governor of the Irkutsk region, Sergei Levchenko, said that experts found signs of editing in an audio recording, where allegedly the head of his press service, Irina Alashkevich, insults flood-affected residents of the region. It is reported by TASS. “We have received preliminary data that this is a montage. I immediately said, for greater objectivity, to request at least one more examination or two, ”Levchenko said. According to him, the work will take at least a week.

A Russian citizen was detained in Berlin on suspicion of the murder of a 40-year-old citizen of Georgia. This is stated in the Twitter of the Berlin prosecutor's office. According to the prosecutor's office, the 49-year-old suspect was detained near the crime scene in the Moabit area. He had a murder weapon and a bicycle on which the Russian tried to escape. According to the Berliner Kurier, was Zelimkhan K. killed, and a native of Chechnya was detained.

On August 25, voting began in Abkhazia in the presidential elections. This is reported by the State News Agency of the Republic. 152 polling stations opened in 35 constituencies of the country. According to the Central Election Commission of Abkhazia, about 119,000 people can take part in the voting, TASS reports . A record number of candidates are participating in the elections - nine.

UPDATE 13:35 & G7 leaders believe that it is "too early" to return Russia to the group, & AFP reports , citing diplomatic sources. US leader Donald Trump said he would "quite possibly" invite Russian President Vladimir Putin to the next G-7 summit in 2020 in the US. It is reported by Bloomberg. As the agency notes, Trump, as the head of the state hosting the summit, at his discretion, can invite the leaders of other countries as guests.

Concerts, flash mobs, quests and performances that were held the day before in the capital in honor of the celebration of the 350th anniversary of the Russian flag were visited by about 500 thousand people. This was reported on the website of the Moscow City Hall. According to the metropolitan authorities, 110 thousand people took part in the festivities on Academician Sakharov, while the declared number of participants were 50 thousand people.

On the day of the Russian flag, one hundred thousand people went to Sakharov voluntarily, although not on their own Photo: Victoria Odissonova / "New Gazeta" Two weeks ago, on Sakharov Avenue, more than 50 thousand people demanded honest elections and the liberation of the arrested in the case of “riots”. On Saturday, in the same place-more than 100 thousand celebrated the 350th anniversary of the Russian flag.

OMON is retired, the government is resigned, fish, to get drunk until you get tired! Peter Sarukhanov / "New Gazeta" A four -day working week, which the prime minister thought of entering is a big breakthrough, a national idea, one of the truly necessary measures! Here is a relief, here is the mercy of the Lord-not a change of milestones, not to introduce the extraordinary, but without violence: to do everything like today, but finally four days in return five.