In the Leningrad Region, a criminal case has been instituted on the fact of damage to memorial structures in the military cemetery of the Great Patriotic War in the village of Baryshevo, Vyborg district. This was reported by the press service of the regional investigative committee. Traces of bullets are visible on the tombstones. "When examining the scene, it was found that three tombstones have damage in the form of through holes and cracks emanating from them.

In New York, the Ural motorcycle with a stroller is not the most typical picture parked on the street of the Soviet motorcycle. With my eyes, I devour the silhouette of the frame, a familiar gap -shaped form of the gas tank, and in my head is the memory of my first trip in the stroller "Ural" - in distant childhood in a distant Sochi. But immediately it becomes clear that the "Sovietness" of this "Urals" is only external.

The new Kabula administration introduced in the city the commandant hour starting at 21:00. According to some reports, the Coordinating Council was established to overcome chaos related to the cessation of public transport, state institutions, an influx of refugees from the Afghan provinces, where the Taliban established their regime a few months or weeks before the capture of Kabul.

But the residence of Ashraf Gani was empty (video agency AP)

As a result of a strong earthquake in the Republic of Haiti, according to the latest data, 1300 people were killed, the account of the victims is going on for thousands. Hundreds of people were under the rubble. An earthquake of magnitude 7.2 occurred on Saturday in the western part of the country. Many buildings, including churches and hotels, are destroyed and damaged. The authorities announced significant damage and introduced a state of emergency for a month for a month.

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The Afghan radical grouping of the Taliban (recognized in Russia by a terrorist organization and is prohibited) is close to taking control of the capital of Afghanistan Kabul. Now Kabul remains the only major city in the country that government forces hold. On Sunday morning, militants took Jalalabad without a fight, a key center in the east of Afghanistan. Thus, transport paths connecting the country with Pakistan have opened for them.

The mayor of the city of Krivoy Rog of the Dnipropetrovsk region of Ukraine Konstantin Pavlov was found dead in his own house. The cause of death was a gunshot wound. Law enforcement agencies consider two versions of what happened - murder and suicide. At the same time, in the party "The Opposition Platform - for Life", which Pavlov was a member, insist on the first version. Pavlov is a native of Krivoy Rog, who worked at the city’s enterprises for more than ten years.

In Russia, more than 800 deaths from coronavirus infection Covid-19 are officially fixed in a row in Russia. On Sunday, the operational headquarters to combat the spread of the disease said that another 816 people died per day. A day earlier, according to the headquarters, deaths were 819. This became a new anti -record since the beginning of the pandemic.

Taliban fighter in the suburbs of Kabul. August 14, 2021 On August 15, the militants of the Taliban movement captured the capital of Afghanistan Kabul, having previously surrounded the city from all sides. Before that, stopping on the outskirts, they suddenly promised not to arrange massacres and repressions in the city and expressed a desire to return to negotiations on the "peaceful surrender of the city" and the surrender of the government and President Ashraf Gani.

Tens of thousands of people were saved from the Taliban in the capital of Afghanistan. What will happen to them now?

The crushing defeat of the Armed Forces of Afghanistan and the fall of the government of this country became a shock for US President Joe Biden and his administration, which a month ago believed that the government in Kabul could hold out several months after the departure of American troops. The White House recognized the fallacy of the previous calculations. Afghan security forces showed the inability to protect their country, the US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken recognized.

In Afghanistan, members of the radical group of Taliban (recognized in Russia by a terrorist organization and is prohibited) on Sunday began to enter the capital of the country of Kabul. They stated that they were not going to take the city by force, but are waiting for its "peaceful transmission." The country's Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that the militants are approaching the city from all sides.

In Russia this summer - record forest fires, forests burn from Karelia to Yakutia. What is behind this disaster - an unprecedented heat or a human factor: outstanding bonfires, grasses of herbs, burning of warful residues? Why is Russia not ready for this disaster again?

Grigory Kuksin, head of the fire department of Greenpeace Russia, about why Russian forests are blazing Sergey Medvedev: We saw a terrible image of the future future in Russia this summer. Once again, millions of square kilometers of forest from Karelia to Yakutia burn. What is the reason - the unprecedented heat of this summer or the human factor, the Palais of grass, the burning of the vapor residues? Why is Russia again in a bad disaster?