The Supreme Council of the Unrecognized Luhansk People's Republic called on US President Barack Obama to promote the cessation of fire in eastern Ukraine. This is stated in the appeal of the leadership of the self -proclaimed republic, published on August 26 on the official website of the LPR. “The emerging humanitarian disaster forces us to appeal to you with a request to influence the Ukrainian authorities,” the appeal of the LPR Armed Forces begins to the American president.

In Minsk, a bilateral meeting of Russian President Vladimir Putin and President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko began, Interfax reports with reference to the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov. Putin and Poroshenko for the first time hold a meeting in bilateral format. To discuss the situation in Ukraine, the presidents of Russia, Belarus, Kazakhstan and Ukraine, as well as representatives of the European Union, arrived in Minsk.

Rosstat proposed to legislate the need to participate in the population census. reports this Interfax . According to the deputy head of the department, Maxim Dianov, participation in the census is mandatory in the USA, France, Great Britain, China, Japan and many other countries. At the same time, during the census in Russia in 2010, 1 million people refused to participate in it, and another 2.6 million were absent. Also, a significant number of Russians did not answer the survey questions.

Fresh entry in Makarevich FB The leader of the “Time Machine” group Andrei Makarevich turned to Russian President Vladimir Putin with an open letter , asking to stop the “Sabbath”, discrediting his name. The letter was published on the website of the Moscow Komsomolets. “For the third week, a stream of dirt and slander is not exhausted from the pages of newspapers and the TV screen ...

The Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation will introduce the “Young Tourist” icon into the so -called portfolio of the student, the contents of which are taken into account upon admission of an applicant to a higher educational institution, Izvestia reports with reference to the Deputy Minister of Education and Science of Veniamin Kaganov.

Maxim Russo Baggage check at the Rostov-on-Don Airport Wikimedia Commons The urgent problem of our time is the rapid and safe detection of explosives. To solve it, it is necessary to create a highly effective method that would differ in both accuracy and high speed. This method, based on photo -core reactions, was developed by specialists of Minitron LLC, a resident of the Skolkovo Foundation. The sad reality of our days remain terrorist acts performed using explosive devices.

On Monday evening, two criminal investigators arrived at one of the houses in the Altai village of Balyktyul. According to the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Republic of Altai, the police wanted to check the previously convicted local resident for involvement in store thefts. When the employees began to approach the fence of the suspect’s house, his younger brother opened fire from the window.

In the suburbs of Donetsk, the Yasinovsky Koksochemical Plant is on fire, RIA Novosti reports with reference to his own correspondent. The reason for the fire that began in the rectification workshop could be the hit of the projectile at the artillery shelling of Yasinovka and other suburbs of Donetsk. Rescuers are currently fighting fire.

Crimean journalists Evgenia Korolev and Maxim Vasilenko, detained on August 24 under Donetsk supporters of the radical nationalist organization “Right Sector”, are returning to the Crimea. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the words of the editor of the newspaper "Crimean telegraph" Maria Volkonskay.

RWE German Energy Correne announced that it would require compensation for losses related to the decision of the Federal Republic of Germany to stop the work of nuclear power plants after the accident at the Fukushima nuclear power plant in 2011.

World heavyweight boxing champion according to WBA, WBO, IBF and IBO versions Vladimir Klitschko explained the reason for the cancellation of the fight with Bulgarian Kubrat Pulev. As the Ukrainian athlete wrote on his Facebook page, the fight, which was supposed to take place on September 6 in Hamburg, is canceled due to an injury sustained during training. “Yesterday was a long day. This morning during training I felt pain in my left bicep.

On August 25, reports appeared in the media in a number of media outlets about the death of Pskov paratroopers in Ukraine. Eyewitnesses argue that in the area of ​​Pogost, the Baby in the Pskov region passed the funeral of military personnel of the Airborne Forces, who died under unknown circumstances. On the funeral, the date and circumstances of the death of military personnel were not called - only names were announced.

Law enforcement agencies in absentia presented to the former Director General of Bashneft Urals Rakhimov an accusation of legalizing illegally received funds and embezzlement. It is reported by Interfax . Rakhimov is charged with the sale of shares of Bashneft oil facilities in favor of AFK Sistema in 2009 at a low price - for $ 2.5 billion, as a result of which he received another $ 5 billion informally.

The victims of the landslide in the Japanese city of Hiroshima were at least 60 people, Kyodo reports with reference to the country's fire department. 70 people were injured and injured. The location of another 26 people remains unknown. As a result of a landslide gathering on the night of August 20, 46 houses were completely or partially destroyed, almost 140 houses turned out to be flooded. About 1.7 thousand people were evacuated to specially created centers in safe areas of the city.

As a result of the collapse of the UN Mission in South Sudan (Monous), three Russians were killed, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Monoyus press release. According to the report, the helicopter crashed on the evening of August 26 in the Bentuu area in the state of Unity. Three crew members died, one managed to survive. As the official representative of the UN Secretary General Stefan Duzharrik specified, the helicopter was captured by the Russian company, the pilots were Russians.