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24 August. Putin has a new dacha, North Korea invites to visit

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At least ten acquaintances of Artur Gadzhiev , who attacked passers-by on August 19, found out were detained in Surgut, Radio Liberty ; officially there is no such data. officially recognized the attack According to the publication, two were charged with complicity in the commission of a terrorist attack, despite the fact that no one as a terrorist act .

Dozhd told about a villa on an island near Vyborg, where Putin is allegedly resting. As happens with other alleged estates of Putin and Medvedev, the territory is under the protection of the FSO and is equipped with a helipad. The owner of the company, the owner of the residence, was closely associated with Rossiya Bank, which is owned by friends of the Russian President Yuri Kovalchuk, Nikolai Shamalov and Sergei Roldugin.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of negligence against the fighters of the Russian Guard , who on August 20 did not intervene in a fight near a cafe in Khabarovsk - in front of their eyes, world powerlifting champion Andrei Drachev was killed. It was no coincidence that they were on the spot: they were called by a security guard of a nearby shopping center when a fight broke out.

North Korea has opened its first official travel agency in Russia. A four-day tour costs from 51 thousand rubles; the road to Vladivostok is not included in the price.

The mysterious case of the economist Sergei Aleksashenko

Last night, Moskovsky Komsomolets and Interfax reported that Sergei Aleksashenko, a well-known economist and former Russian Deputy Finance Minister, was detained at the airport while trying to take out Soviet orders; he was allegedly charged with smuggling of cultural property (punishment under this article is imprisonment for up to seven years with a fine of up to one million rubles). We tried to understand this case : in particular, it turned out that this story is not confirmed at any airport. Aleksashenko himself is abroad and says he learned about the case from the media.

The Russian Foreign Ministry and the portrait of a Nazi

On August 23, the European Day of Remembrance for the Victims of Stalinism and Nazism, timed to coincide with the conclusion of the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact, the Russian Foreign Ministry tweeted in English on August 23 a picture with portraits of German and Soviet soldiers and captions: “Nazi. Started the Holocaust” and “Communist. Finished the Holocaust. It turned out that the "Nazi" was Private Werner Goldberg, who was discharged from military service in 1940 because of his part Jewish origin; during the war he saved his father from Auschwitz.

Why Serebrennikov is being persecuted

Our editor-in-chief Ivan Kolpakov talked about the Seventh Studio case with theater producer Evgenia Shermeneva and screenwriter Mikhail Idov - they discussed the peculiarities of theatrical accounting in Russia and the fate of the film about Viktor Tsoi, which Serebrennikov shot three days ago.

Revealed the mystery of the first submarine that sank the ship

Duke University student Rachel Lance may have figured out what happened to the crew of the Confederate submarine Hunley, which sank an enemy sloop during the American Civil War but sank itself in the process. When the boat was raised from the bottom in 2000, it turned out that the crew did not try to get off it and did nothing at all to save themselves. Lance came to the conclusion that the sailors most likely died from the shock wave of the explosion, which they themselves staged.

The first interviews of Purulent and Oksimiron after the historical battle

Purulent and Oksimiron gave their first interviews after the loudest battle of 2017. Yuri Dud came to visit Purulent; Oksimiron, who "does not understand the meaning of the interview," answered questions on Twitter. We have recounted the most important of these conversations .

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