The head of the Russian Orthodox Church supported the installation of a monument to Ivan the Terrible in Orel, the city that the autocrat founded. This was reported by the state portal of the Oryol region with reference to Governor Vadim Potomsky. Ivan groznyj. Painting by Viktor Vasnetsov As the governor stated, the patriarch does not support the canonization of Ivan the Terrible, as well as the founder of St.

Director Egor Baranov shot a viral advertisement called “The Club of Deep and Soulful Film Critics” in support of the updated version of the UC Browser browser. In the video you can see a meeting of porn film lovers. One of its participants does not have time to watch the films under discussion due to slow Internet, which irritates the others. As a result, he is offered to download UC Browser so that it does not slow down.

ISIS published a video message with threats against Russia, a resident of the Moscow region found a note in building materials asking for help - and other topics discussed during these hours. Celebrating Navy Day in Kronstadt. Photo by Kommersant IS threats Unidentified people, presumably militants of the Islamic State organization banned in Russia, posted a nine-minute video on YouTube with threats against the President of the Russian Federation and a call to start jihad in Russia.

The Russian Ministry of Defense confirmed information about the Mi-8 military helicopter shot down in Syria. This was previously reported by local media. According to the ministry, the helicopter was shot down in Idlib province. There were three crew members and two officers on board. On August 1, in Idlib province, as a result of ground fire, a Russian Mi-8 military transport helicopter returning to the Khmeimim airbase after delivering humanitarian aid to the city of Aleppo was shot down.

At the end of July, the editor-in-chief of the magazine “Gaming” Zakhar Bocharov was a guest of the “Healthy Conversation” program on the Komsomolskaya Pravda radio, during which he discussed the phenomenon of the game Pokémon Go with the psychologist, psychoanalyst and director of the psychological center “Personality” Lyudmila Polyanova.

In Omsk, three-dimensional graffiti appeared on the building of the music school named after the Soviet composer Vissarion Shebalin, showing workers lifting a piano through a hole in the floor. this reports NGS Omsk . This is not the only street drawing that appeared in the city yesterday. Photo by NGS "Omsk" As the publication writes, the graffiti appearing to be visible through the wall appeared as part of the Stenography 2016 street artists festival.

employee Double Data Dmitry Zubanov wrote to online banking support services on Facebook asking him to tell him a joke. Of 44 banking organizations and services like Rocketbank, only 15 responded to him, and some only after lengthy persuasion. Only nine banks told real anecdotes or jokes, mainly related to the topic of banking, including Moscow Credit Bank, Otkritie Bank, Promsvyazbank, Rocketbank and Tinkoff Bank. Others limited themselves to demotivators or jokes from the Internet.

The head of the Odessa region of Ukraine, Mikheil Saakashvili, acted as a registrar of three marriages in the country's first express registry office, which opened on the night of August 31-1. this Gordonua.com reports . “Today at 02:00 I attended the first night wedding in Ukraine. International category judge from Odessa Vitaly Godulyan married his betrothed Olga Nechaeva.

The new governor of Sevastopol, Dmitry Ovsyannikov, was not allowed to watch the parade in honor of Navy Day from a boat for VIPs, since the captain of the ship did not recognize him. This was reported by Fresh News with reference to local blogger Alexander Kiryakov. Photo by Alexander Kiryakov As an eyewitness wrote , the captain of the boat blocked the way for the new governor, saying that there were no more places on the ship.

The Dove brand presented an advertisement dedicated to the problem of discrimination against female athletes in the media. . reports Women's Health The video presents several quotes from articles in major publications, which draw attention not to the athlete’s achievements, but to her chest, hair and other parts of the body.

Photo by Buda Mendes, Getty Images In Rio de Janeiro, collapsed the main pier for sailing competition participants due to bad weather and high tide. No one was hurt, the pier is promised to be repaired within four days. The incident should not affect training as an alternate berth is available for athletes. IOC representative Mark Adams, commenting on what happened to the press, noted that “such things happen on the eve of the Games.” Repairing a broken pier.

August 1st arrived in Russia - the day when the calendar suddenly passed an important psychological mark for many people, after which it is necessary to forget about the unbridled joy of July and begin to be sad about the imminent arrival of cold weather, school and other adversities. TJ captures one of the most far-fetched topics of the day.

Niantic Labs founder John Hanke became a victim of hackers: his microblog was hacked to post a call for the release of Pokémon Go in Brazil. John Hanke On July 31, several tweets appeared on Hanke’s account signed by the Our Mine group. In them, the hackers stated that this hack was carried out “in the name of Brazil,” where Pokémon Go has not yet launched. According to the attackers, Hanke's password was too simple - “nopass” (“no password”). As of 8 a.m.

Investigations based on information from open sources on social networks and geotagging photographs have become a trend in the last year. Novaya Gazeta, using this technique, connected one of the largest yachts in the world with a woman who, according to the publication, is the wife of Igor Sechin, the president of Rosneft and one of Vladimir Putin’s closest associates.

The public “Samara Drivers” published a video recorded on one of the city streets using a recorder. The numbers on the Chevrolet Niva car in front automatically change. Users compare the driver with James Bond, and also recall the films “Taxi” and “Transporter”.