The governor of the Samara region, Nikolai Merkushkin, said at a meeting with voters that if he does not receive 97% of support in the elections, then the people will themselves be to blame for the fact that nothing is being done for them. This was reported by The Insider . Nikolai Merkushkin.

Residents of Chelyabinsk considered the public service announcements about the dangers of drugs posted on city billboards to be controversial. reports this Znak.com . Photo by Maxim Edryshov The poster was placed on the streets of the city in mid-August. It depicts a dark silhouette of a girl with a cut out fragment in the shape of a heart against the background of a natural landscape. The caption reads: “A future without love?

The head of the Russian state bank VTB, Andrei Kostin, gave an interview to the British newspaper Financial Times on August 25 , in which he spoke about Russian President Vladimir Putin, the bank he leads and “Panamanian offshore companies.” Kostin began his interview by showing a photograph in which he stands next to US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.

tvrain.ru The “encrypted” names of the sons of Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika have disappeared from Rosreestr. In extracts about real estate that belongs to the sons of the Prosecutor General of Russia Yuri Chaika, information about their owners has disappeared, Dozhd found out.

On August 24, in St. Petersburg, an unknown person broke the front door of a bus so as not to be late for the Sapsan high-speed train. This was reported in the group “Road accidents and emergencies, St. Petersburg” on VKontakte Photo by Artyom Udachin According to eyewitnesses, the incident occurred at a bus stop near house No. 77 on Nevsky Prospekt. In order not to miss the train to Moscow, the girl broke the front door of the Liaz bus.

Krasnodar farmers, who organized a tractor march to Moscow to draw the attention of the authorities to the problems of raiding, returned home with nothing. The head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Rostov region even refueled the vehicles of the race participants at his own expense, just so that they would return home. The organizers of the action claim that the protest was harshly broken up by the police, but the farmers still made themselves known loudly, reports RBC .

Met with idols. Stepashka was made new, and Khryusha is the same one, the real one from my childhood (@shnurovs) A week before the premiere, the Komsomolskaya Pravda publication published online a song from the intro to the new children's program “Good Morning, Kids!”, performed by the leader of the Leningrad group, Sergei Shnurov. From September 1, the program will be broadcast in addition to the evening “Good night, kids!”, which turns 53 in 2016.

A resident of one of the villages in northern India captured the unsuccessful attempt of a three-meter python to swallow the body of a killed antelope. about this . writes Mirror “I left the house and heard a noise. Rushing toward the sound, I saw a huge python trying to chew its prey. It was very spectacular. One of the eyewitnesses later told me that it was an antelope,” said local resident Sushil Kumar. Scientists associate such phenomena with deforestation in this area.

In honor of the upcoming Paralympic Games, Vogue Brazil launched a campaign featuring two local Paralympic athletes, Renato Leite and Bruna Alexandre, but used photoshopped professional models instead. drew attention to the incident The Telegraph . Cleo Pires and Paulo Villena. Photo @voguebrasil Instead of Leighty and Alexandre, professional models Cleo Pires and Paulo Vilhena appeared in the photographs. The amputated arm and leg were made using Photoshop.

Photo E1.ru On August 25, it became known that the Yekaterinburg mayor’s office canceled the competition for the purchase of new parking meters, which were going to be installed on central streets in September, spending about 11 million rubles. The city administration told the E1.ru portal that it was decided not to install parking meters until the issue with the region regarding the collection of fines was resolved.

AP Photo On August 25, the Italian government declared a state of emergency in areas affected by the earthquake and allocated 50 million euros for emergency assistance. Rescue work continues in cities that were at the epicenter of destruction. The main earthquake with a magnitude of 6.0 occurred on the night of August 23-24, followed by a second magnitude of 5.4. At least 250 people were killed and over 360 more were injured.

The city company Tambov Utility Systems stopped water drainage in several military camps in Tambov due to a debt of 10 million rubles. reports this Interfax-AVN . According to the company's press service, a debt of 10 million has accumulated since November 2015, when the management of the Ministry of Defense facilities in Tambov stopped paying for water supply and sanitation services.

In Russia, the property of WADA informant Rodchenkov was seized, the number of victims of a strong earthquake in Italy approached 250 - and other topics discussed during these hours. Traditional 1500 meter swim in Zurich. Photo by Reuters Consequences of the earthquake in Italy The number of earthquake victims in Italy has already risen to 247 people. Active rescue operations continue in the area of ​​the affected settlements of Amatrice, Pescara del Tronto, Accumoli, Arquata.

beta.dallasnews.com UT sex-toy protest against campus carry could be largest anti-gun rally in Texas history | Dallas Morning News AUSTIN – Jessica Jin had just a few hours to hide a couple hundred sex toys.They couldn't stay put, piled high in a friend's place near... Hundreds of students at the University of Texas at Austin rallied against a law that allows light firearms to be carried onto university campus.

During the awards ceremony for the Rio Olympics, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia would hold special competitions for Paralympic athletes with prize payouts similar to those for winning the Paralympic Games. reports this TASS . Putin noted that the decision to completely disqualify Paralympic athletes humiliates the International Paralympic Committee, and in a number of countries, sporting principles are “brazenly violated” by politics.