This year, from January to July, the Prosecutor General's Office recorded 24.5 thousand cases of corruption - a record for the last eight years. This is stated in the collection of the department "On the state of crime in Russia for January-July 2021". According to the Prosecutor General's Office, compared to last year, the number of corruption crimes increased by 16.5%. About half of them are bribes, the amount of which in a third of cases does not exceed 10 thousand rubles.

The last aircraft of the US Air Force left the territory of Afghanistan, said General Kenneth Mackenzie, head of the central command of the US Armed Forces. “I am here to announce that the withdrawal of our troops from Afghanistan is completed. The last C-17 took to the air this evening, August 30, at 15:29 EST (22:29 Moscow time) and the last controlled aircraft leaves the airspace of Afghanistan, ”said General Mackenzie. The last American Boeing C-17A over the Oman Gulf.

Russia did not vote on the Afghan resolution of the UN Security Council, as the authors of the document ignored the negative attitude of the Russian Federation to the freezing of assets in Afghanistan captured by the Taliban * and the removal of specialists from the country. This is reported by TASS with reference to the Permanent Representative of the Russian Federation to the UN Vasily Nebenzya. “We were forced to abstain from voting on the draft Security Council resolution on Afghanistan.

Residents of the Azov Rostov Region tried to fall asleep with the land of archaeologists who worked on the site of the settlement of Azak-Tana with a necropolis. According to RIA Novosti, activists were afraid that scientists would install 5G tower in the hut. Scientists from the Don Heritage organization have already contacted the police. They conducted work on the permission of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation.

The American corporation McDonald's has filed an application for registration with Rospatent of the trademark "McDuck" as the everyday name of a fast food chain. drew attention to this RBC and journalist Kirill Sedov . The company filed bids on August 19. In addition to the McDak sign, they also want to register another spelling - McDAK. RBC, citing the press service of McDonald's, reports that this step has become part of a plan to protect the brand.

The governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov, promised on the eve of the single voting day to pay all teachers 10,000 rubles each. this He stated at a meeting of the City Pedagogical Council. The money will be transferred to 120 thousand people. Payments will be received by school psychologists, teachers, teachers of additional education, educators, as well as teachers of music and sports schools.

* The Ministry of Internal Affairs declared “undesirable for life the stay in Russia of the comedian Idrak Mirzalizade, a citizen of Belarus, ”. The agency considered that during a public speech, Mirzalizade “made expressions that incite hatred and enmity towards persons of Russian nationality, degrading their human dignity.” A friend of the comedian said that he is safe, but did not specify where exactly.

Natalya Sindeeva and Vladimir Spivakov. Photo: Victoria Odissonova / New Gazeta In the Moscow International House of Music, the award of the Kameron Award named after the journalist of Novaya Gazeta, Anna Politkovskaya. This year, the laureates of the Prize were the general director of the Rain television channel* Natalya Sindeeva and photographer Dmitry Markov, as well as academic musicians - Nikolai Solonovich and the Virtuoso Moscow orchestra under the leadership of Vladimir Spivakov.

China's National Press and Publishing Administration has restricted the hours at which minors can play computer games. This is reported by the state news agency Xinhua. Under the new rules, teenagers will be able to spend an hour playing games from 20:00 to 21:00 only on Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays. Game companies have been ordered to improve the verification of players by identity cards in order to avoid violations.

The story of the unrequited feelings of the boy of Seny to the girl Nate shortly before the execution in Babi Yar Poems from Naty Zhuk notebook Senya and Nat A yellowed common notebook, non -school, into a wide ruler*. In the middle and in the center of the first page - in large, uncertain letters - bred: *For memory Natasha Zhuk from Seny Zvonitsky* And further, one after another, a page behind the page, there are poems by this very canopy- seven- or, possibly, an eighth grader.

Leading "Russia 1" Yevgeny Popov, who is running for the State Duma from the 197th electoral district of Moscow, did not indicate more than 3.1 million rubles in the income statement. This follows from the data published by the Moscow City Election Commission. The United Russia candidate Popov received money from the All-Russian State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company, set by the Moscow City Electoral Committee.

The Information Culture project refused to participate in the hackathon, a journalist of Important Stories*, Alesya Marokhovskaya**, because she was included in the register of “foreign agents” media. this Marokhovskaya herself announced on Facebook. “The lawyers [of the project] believe that then there is a risk for them to become foreign agents,” Marokhovskaya wrote.

On August 30, Anna Politkovskaya would have turned 63 years old. We play her favorite "tango freedom" Today, August 30, 2021, the journalist of Novaya Gazeta Anna Politkovskaya would have turned 63 years old. She was killed for her professional activities on October 7, 2006. The statute of limitations for bringing the customer of the murder accountable this year. It is joyful for us to see how many of us, who remembers her and will never forget about her killer.

On September 1, the film "Parallel Mothers" Pedro Almodovara will open the Venetian Film Festival, where three Russian paintings will be shown: Guide Frame from the film "Wage Route" from the program of the Venice Film Festival This year is perhaps the most productive for festival Russian cinema in its entire post -Soviet history. Our films are in the programs of all the main filmings. Russia in Venice is presented in several programs.

Representatives of the Men's State (MG) movement reported to the police about the "mining" of Tanuki restaurants because of posts with black people and rainbow symbols in their social networks. about this RBC writes with reference to a representative of Tanuki. According to Stanislav Koloskov, marketing director of the network, police officers come to the "mined" restaurants, but after checking they leave.