In St. Petersburg, about 50 people gathered on Lenin Square at the Finland Station in order to demand from the city authorities to remove the memorial plaque to Marshal Finland Karl Mannerheim, installed in the summer on the facade of the Military Academy of Material and Technical Support. Your browser does not support HTML5 In St.

Alexander Triput - Belarusian Paralympic, winner of games -2004. Previously, he was a visually invalid, but four years ago he unsuccessfully fell and broke the spine: now Alexander moves only in a wheelchair. But, despite this, the athlete is again involved in the paralympics - in a spear throwing.

The International Paralympic Committee (MPC) deprived the accreditation of a member of the Belarusian delegation, which carried the flag of Russia at the opening of games in Rio de Janeiro. This was written on Twitter by the press secretary of the IPC Craig Spence.

Ruslan Sokolovsky The court in Yekaterinburg changed the measure of restraint for the blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky, accused of insulting the feelings of believers, from being in the investigative insulator for house arrest. Sokolovsky is forbidden to go beyond the apartment, except for medical help, use the phone and the Internet, as well as communicate with other participants in the process, journalists from the courtroom report.

Mahmoud Abbas and Vladimir Putin The head of the Palestinian Autonomy, Mahmoud Abbas, was listed in the 80s of the last century by the KGB officer, two scientists of Jewish University in Jerusalem said on Wednesday evening in an interview with the Israeli television channel.

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Nursultan Nazarbayev President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev removed Prime Minister Karim Masimov and appointed him chairman of the National Security Committee. The temporarily acting head of government was the First Deputy Prime Minister Bakytzhan Sagintayev. The Government of Kazakhstan will fulfill its duties before the approval of the new composition of the Cabinet of Ministers, the press service of the head of state said in a statement.

The seekers of the mammoth tusks allowed the journalist Radio Liberty Emos Chapplu to visit one of his camps, provided that he will not disclose their names and location

President Philippine Rodrigo Duterte The President of the United States Barack Obama on Wednesday evening met with the leader of the Philippine Rodrigo Duterte, who previously publicly offended the head of the United States. The meeting was held in an informal setting at the regional summit in Laos. The content of the negotiations is not reported, reports the Associated Press.

The passionate week in the 57th continued, and however, a week-from August 29, when journalist Ekaterina Kronhaus published a post about cases of sexual harassment at school, until September 5, when director Sergei Mendelevich recognized what "did not believe to the end", apologized to the victims and announced his departure.

David "Ptah" Nuriev The Investigative Committee of Russia conducted searches with rapper David Nuriev, known under the stage pseudonym "Ptah". According to lawyer Pavel Chikov, during the search they did not withdraw anything, and Nuriev himself was taken away for interrogation. Ptah is taken to the TFR for interrogation.

The President of the Media Corporation of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty Thomas Kent called the Armenia authorities to conduct a full -fledged independent investigation into the July attack on the journalists of Radio Azatutyun, the Armenian Radio Liberty Service. During the meeting with Armenian President Sergei Sargsyan, Kent thanked the authorities of the republic for the possibility of the trouble -free operation of the radio station in the country.

Prime Minister of Uzbekistan Shavkat Mirziyoyev The Parliament of Uzbekistan on Thursday was appointed Prime Minister Shavkat Mirziyoyev as a temporary acting president of the country, Interfax reports . The death of the President of Uzbekistan Islam Karimov was officially reported on September 2. According to the government, on August 27, the head of state suffered a stroke, from which he could not recover. Karimov held his post for almost 27 years.

Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika was awarded the medal "Hero of Labor of the Kuban" - the highest award of the Krasnodar Territory. According to Interfax, the decision on this was signed by the governor of the region, Veniamin Kondratyev.

Barack Obama and Rodrigo Duterte (combined photo) U.S. President Barack Obama, at a brief unofficial personal meeting with the Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte, said the need to wage a war on drug trafficking "correct methods." #Breaking Obama Tells Duterte to Do Crime War %27The Right Way %27 - AFP News Agency (@AFP) September 8, 2016 The meeting took place on the sidelines of the summit of the Association of Southeast Asia (ASEAN) in Laos.