Afghanistan Vice President Amrullah Saleh declared himself the head of state. He wrote about this in the Twitter microblog. Salekh recalled that under the Constitution of Afghanistan, in the absence of the president, the acting head of state is the vice president. He also called on the Afghans to join the struggle against the Taliban. “Unlike the USA and NATO, we did not lose the presence of the spirit and see great opportunities ahead. Useless warnings are over. Join the resistance, ”he said.

The Czech Republic will exclude Russia, Tunisia and India from the list of countries with a high risk of infection with coronavirus. This was announced by the Minister of Health of the country Adam Voyah, reports české noviny. Brazil, Colombia, Paraguay, Peru, Nepal, Mozambique and Tanzania will remain in the list. Citizens of these countries are prohibited from entering the Czech Republic.

The CNN television company was awarded the Edward Marrow Award for the joint with The Insider, Bellingcat and with the participation of Der Spiegel investigation on the poisoning of the Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. This was reported by the website of the Association of Radio Territory Digital News in the United States and the CNN microblog on Twitter. The investigation was issued in mid -December 2020.

In Colombia, a citizen of Russia suspected of organizing a criminal community of smugglers-merchants was detained. This was reported by the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Irina Volk. “In the city of Medelin of the Republic of Colombia, one of the alleged leaders of the criminal community was detained. The issue of his extradition from the Republic of Colombia in the Russian Federation is being resolved, ”the wolf said.

The Islamic Taliban movement, which seized power in Afghanistan, held the first press conference. The broadcast led , in particular, the site Al Jazeera. The Taliban promised that under their leadership peace, stability and economic growth would come to the country. The press secretary of the movement Zabikhullah Mujahid said that the Taliban did not want hostile relations with anyone in the world arena.

Opinions “The United States promoted a new Marshall plan. But Afghanistan is not Germany. ” Arkady Dubnov about why the Taliban won without a fight 17 August 2021 Arkady Dubnov journalist, political scientist, expert in Central Asia Taliban took control of the entire territory of Afghanistan in fact without hostilities, the president of the country fled. The Taliban announced the creation of their own government and Shariah courts.

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Novosibirsk Region filed a lawsuit against local opposition for work on the January action in support of the founder of the Foundation for the Combation of Corruption (FBK) Alexei Navalny. This was announced by one of the defendants, assistant deputy of the local City Council Daniil Markelov. The lawsuit is on the website of the Zheleznodorozhny District Court.

The Lithuanian State Border Security Service said that the border guard of Belarus pushed out a group of illegal migrants into the territory of Lithuania, and then crossed the border themselves. This is stated on the department of the department on Facebook. There is also a video on which migrants are trying to break through the cordon of the Lithuanian border guards, and behind illegal immigrants there is a dense line of Belarusian security forces with shields and in protective equipment.

In Tula, the Tula gingerbread was hired in the Ministry of Emergencies. He received the position of instructor of fire prevention. The decision to take the gingerbread unanimously supported by employees of the Ministry of Emergencies with the help of voting, the Tula press reports . On August 16, a solemn ceremony was held, at which the gingerbread was admitted to the ranks of rescuers of the Ministry of Emergencies in the region.

The founder of the Opposition Telegram channel Nexta, Roman Protasevich, announced Twitter in the Twitter microblog about the creation of a “new author’s project” called Sprava. He assures that there "there will be a lot of interesting things, especially insidies, exluzovs and copyright." The first post in SPRAVA is dedicated to the future pardon of participants in the "failed revolution." According to the author of the channel, a list of 100 surnames is compiled.

In Kansk, the court released from the arrest of adolescents accused of undergoing training for terrorist activities due to the fact that they blew up the FSB building in the game Minecraft. This was reported by Pavel Chikov. The Eastern District Military Court of Khabarovsk at the outbound meeting changed the measure of restraint by two teenagers Denis Mikhailenko and Bogdan Andreev from the detention and house arrest, respectively, for the ban on certain actions.

The Investigative Committee of Belarus opened a criminal case against the 21-year-old Bosen Zholudy-the girls of the head of the “Belarusian House in Ukraine” Vitaly Shishova, who was found hanged in a park in Kyiv on August 3. This was reported on the website of the department.

The evacuation flight of the American Air Force from Kabul approached the record number of people who have ever flyed on Boeing aircraft. According to the official data of the US Department of Defense and the photographs received by Defense One and widely spread on social networks, the C-17 Globemaster III plane safely evacuated about 640 Afghans from Kabul late in Sunday evening. More passengers in such an airplane were only in 2013, when about 670 people were evacuated from the Philippines.

The European Union admits that the Taliban terrorist movement won the war, therefore it considers it necessary to start a dialogue with the new authorities of Afghanistan to prevent humanitarian and migration crises. This was stated on Tuesday by the EU Supreme Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrel following an emergency video conference of the EU foreign ministers in Afghanistan.

Directors of the Novosibirsk Open College Sergey Chernyshov were called “for a conversation” to the investigator in particularly important cases of the regional department of the IC of the Russian Federation. In relation to the historian, a pre -investigation check is carried out, the reason for which was his post on Facebook with the mention of Alexander Nevsky and the assessment of his activities.