Mi-8 accident, archive photo The UTair -Helicopter Services company said that Mi -8 helicopters, as a result of which 18 people died in the Krasnoyarsk Territory, were in a technically working state before departure. The message posted on the company's website notes that both machines are a modernized version of the most common Mi-8 average helicopter in the world. The helicopter crashed 180 kilometers from the city of Igar on the morning of August 4.

Meeting of Jehovah's Witnesses, Archive photo The court imprisoned a resident of Khabarovsk, 51-year-old Valery Moskalenko, who is suspected of belonging to the religious association of Jehovah's Witnesses. On the eve of searches in the houses of four local residents. Moskalenko’s detention was announced by the website of the religious association. According to preliminary data, the court put him into custody.

An illustrative photo In Yakutia, the President of the Amaka motorcycle club Evgeny Markov apologized for the incident that occurred at the bikers festival in Mirny. Participants in the event threw tires into a ritual pillar - sirge. The photo caused outraged comments of social networks users. SR in mobile SR on Instagram Wed Facebook The incident occurred at the biker festival in the landscape and ethnographic complex "Ozonkho Earth", the portal of Yasia said.

Sobr came into the apartment of a resident of Barnaul Andrei Shasherin at 6 in the morning. At the same time, the search was held in the house of his 62-year-old father. Then the whole family was taken to the “E” center to testify, where Andrei admitted that he had retained about 36 “criminal” VKontakte pictures.

Andrey Pozdnyakov 2018 is the year of anniversaries. This year, the famous festival of the author’s song in the Akademgorodok was 50 years old - to the very one, on which Alexander Galich sang “Pasternak’s memory” and all the scientists clogged to capacity, instead of applause, simply got up to respect for the dough for the dough ... I was lucky to work this spring in the organizing committee of the Forum "Place of Power and Freedom.

Rally against tariffs in Yakutsk In Yakutsk, on August 5, a rally was held against raising tariffs for housing and communal services and fuel. About two dozen people were not afraid of cold and rain. In the resolution of the event, they demanded to establish in the region the average level of tariffs in Russia. "Since July 1, tariffs for housing and communal services and fuel and lubricants have been increased by an average of six to seven percent.

Queue in kindergarten, archive photo On August 5, Ulan-Ude took place a rally dedicated to the shortage of kindergartens. Its participants talked about the lack of places in preschool institutions, confusion in the lists of the waiting list, inaction and irresponsibility of officials. On the eve of the event, activists published a video in which they said that in the line for a ticket you can stand until draft age.

An illustrative photo Ukrainian political prisoner, director Oleg Sentsov in the colony of the city of Labytnangi was visited by the local priest Bogdan Vasilyuk. This was reported on Saturday by the press service of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia in the Yamal-Nenets Autonomous Okrug. Bogdan Vasilyuk went into the medical part of the colony, where Oleg Sentsov is located, and asked his condition.