Aberrahman Mechki answers questions from the court of video from the hospital, August 22, 2017 The main suspect in the terrorist attack in Turku (Finland) - Aberrahman Mechki - pleaded guilty. It is reported by Reuters with reference to a lawyer. The defender confirmed that he confessed the swords in the attack, but rejected the accusations of terrorist motifs. The court session was closed. On August 18, Machi attacked people in the center of Turku with a knife. Two people died, eight - injured.

Why plant Serebrennikov? Who gave the go -ahead? On the air, writer Viktor Shenderovich and directors Joseph Reichelgaus and Vladimir Mirzoev. Presenter Elena Rykovtseva.

On the Day of the Flag of Russia, the defenders of the White House held a rally in Moscow in memory of the events of August 1991. About three dozen people gathered at the commemorative sign "defenders of democracy in Russia" at the intersection of the new Arbat and Garden Ring.

The Vatico Secretary of the Vatican Pietro Passolin said on Tuesday that he sees a “positive dynamics” in the development of the idea of the visit of the Pope Francis to Russia, but suggested that there was still a greater job before this happened. Passolin, speaking at a joint press conference in Moscow, together with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Russia Sergei Lavrov, did not express the specific date of a possible visit.

One of the suspects, accompanied by the police, a trust-kantos, near Madrid, August 21, 2017 In Madrid, four detainees after terrorist attacks in Catalonia appeared in court. They admitted that they were preparing a larger attack. According to the defendants, the imam of the local mosque pushed them to the attack of terrorist attacks. The victims of the most bloody in the last years of the terrorist attack in Spain on August 17 became 15 people, more than 100 were injured.

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In early August, Vladimir Putin came to Kirov and handed the acting Governor of the Kirov region Igor Vasiliev folder with complaints of local residents. They complained mainly about difficulties in obtaining medical care, providing housing for the waiting list and kindergartens, poor ecology and lack of gas.

Director Kirill Serebrennikov, before the election of a preventive measure, will be in the temporary detention center on Petrovka Street, 38. The human rights activist Zoya Svetova reports . Earlier, lawyer Dmitry Kharitonov said that the director was taken to the Sailor Silence detention center. Serebrennikov was officially charged with fraud on an especially large scale. Consideration of the request for the arrest of the director was scheduled for August 23.

The US Navy, Malaysia and Singapore conduct an operation to search for 10 US sailors who disappeared after the destroyer USS John S McCain ("John McCain") collided with a tanker in the Strait of Malacca. Helicopters from the US Airborne Ships take part in the search. The causes of the accident that occurred on August 21, in which five sailors were also injured are not reported. This is the second large collision of the ship of the 7th fleet of the US Navy in two months.

The Presnensky court of Moscow allowed the former governor of the Kirov region Nikita Belykh to marry the investigative insulator at his bride Ekaterina Reifer. According to the lawyer Belykh Marina Yarosh, the defendant will be given a marriage after interrogation by the Reifer on September 5 as a witness. The press service of the court reported that the Reifer did not apply to the court with a request to resolve the wedding from the whites in the pre-trial detention center.

Moscow is preparing for the fall a new series of political exacerbation around the self -proclaimed republics of Donbass, according to Kyiv. According to many Ukrainian observers, Russia will try to take a number of steps on partial recognition of the DPR and LPR.

Director Kirill Serebrennikov, before the election of a preventive measure, will be in a temporary detention center on Petrovka Street, 38. Earlier, Serebrennikov was officially charged under the article on "Fraud on an especially large scale." Consideration of the request for the arrest of the director was scheduled for August 23.

What was predicted a few weeks ago. After a forced reduction in the diplomatic state, the Americans reported that they suspend the issuance of visas to the Russians - in Moscow until September 1, in other consulates of the country for an indefinite period. He canceled the issuance of visas in the United States to all Russians. The children of the State Duma deputies will go home the next flight. - Donald Trump (@donaldtrumprf) August 21, 2017 Finally, a visa-free visa came to Russia!

Restrictions for receiving visas are affected by sailors, students, tourists From August 23, US consulates in Russia stop issuing non -immigrant visas. On September 1, interviews with applicants to receive an American visa will be held only at the US Embassy in Moscow. Vladivostok is one of the four Russian cities where American diplomatic missions are opened. For visas, people rode from all over Primorye, Amur Region, and even often from the European part of Russia.

Political scientist Mikhail Vinogradov read the premiere of Putin's successors