"Destroyed portraits of faces"

Everything you need to know early in the morning of August 15

Good morning!

In Moscow, in the year 81, Eduard Uspensky died , who came up with a good half of the good that was in Soviet childhood. Rip. “And crocodiles live for three hundred years, so I am still very young,” Gene objected. But in the news, it is as if someone “collects evil”:

• The Kremlin refused Oleg Sentsov’s mother to pardon her son. The Ukrainian film director holds a hunger strike on the 94th day.
• In Moscow, the “Mother Mars” will be held in Moscow - in support of the accused in the “New Greatness” case.
• In the USA, the bill "On the Protection of America's Security from the Aggression of the Kremlin" is published. It is tough and can be accepted in the coming months.
• At least 35 people became victims of the collapse of the bridge in Genoa.

Let him ask for himself

Oleg Sentsov’s mother received a response from the Putin administration to her petition to have mercy on her son. In the response, she was “explained” that “the pardon procedure begins with a personal request of the convict for pardon, who appeals to the President of the Russian Federation through the administration of a correctional institution, where he is serving his sentence.” Sentsov’s cousin considered this letter a refusal.

Ukrainian film director Oleg Sentsov, sentenced in Russia by 20 years in prison, holds a hunger strike 94th day. On Tuesday, his human rights activist Zoya Svetova visited his colony behind the polar circle. According to her, Sentsov regarding his condition as “pre -bribery”.

Extremism on the march

• Today, the “mothers march” will be held in Moscow with a demand to release 18-year-old Anna Pavlikova, Maria Dubovik and other accused in the “new greatness” case (they are charged with the creation of an extremist community, and the police informant wrote the charter of this “organization”). In Yekaterinburg, a flash mob will take place in support of the accused: people will walk around the city with toys.
• In Barnaul today, the trial of Maria Motuznaya will begin, which is accused of extremism for pictures in VKontakte . The day before, about two hundred people (which is a lot for Barnaul) gathered in her support. The local Investigative Committee was defending students, for whose denunciation two of the Barnaul criminal cases were instituted.
• VKontakte promises to reveal the statistics of the authorities about the provision of user data.
• A pensioner-nationalist was detained in Togliatti-also due to posts in VK.
• In Moscow, the coordinator of the “Left Front” Sergey Udaltsov was arrested for 30 days (repeated violation of the rules of the mass event). According to the police, before the agreed rally of the Communist Party against pension reform on July 28, Udaltsov organized a separate event at which “destroyed portraits of persons similar to members of the Government of the Russian Federation”.
• But in Novosibirsk, the regional court abolished the decision of the district on recognition of the painting by Vasya Lozhkin “Great Beautiful Russia” by extremist. Now they will re -collect expert opinions.

Safety protection of America

The US Congress published a bill "On the Protection of America's Security from the Kremlin aggression." He legislatively consolidates the non -recognition of the Russian annexation of Crimea, forbids the US administration to leave NATO and obliges the US president to impose sanctions against the environment of the Russian president related to it companies and financial institutions. The law can be adopted over the next months.

The Turkish President announced the boycott of American electronics - in response to the duties of Turkish steel and aluminum introduced by the United States, which collapsed the national currency course. One of the reasons for the introduction of duties was the arrest in Turkey of the American pastor Andrew Branson. It explains who he is and for what he is kept in prison.

Morandi bridge. Westminster

In Genoa, at least 35 people became victims of the collapse of the grandiose bridge erected in 1967, another 14 were wounded (data is not official and not final). Why he collapsed until they found out. Today and tomorrow, mourning is declared in Genoa, traffic in the city is paralyzed.

In London, the car drove into the fence near the parliament building, there are wounded, the driver was detained that it was - it is not yet clear.

Prague August

The Czech Republic celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the suppression of the Prague Spring of the troops of the Warsaw Treaty countries - in the sense, they recall this tragedy. But new “interpretations” appear: the leader of the Communist Party of the Czech Republic and Moravia, Voiteh Philip said in an interview with The Guardian that Russia was not to blame for the invasion of half a century ago: in the Soviet Politburo, according to his information (not in the wrong one), the majority were Ukrainians and the “main force of the invasion of the invasion” were also. The Communists, traditionally occupying a pro -Russian position, are not part of the Czech government, but it was formed precisely thanks to their support.

Three links

• “The revolutions of 1848–49 in several European countries went down in history under the poetic name of“ spring of peoples. ”What happened in Central and Eastern Europe 70 years later can be called“ autumn of peoples ”-since then the autumn months of 1918 were decisive.”The article by Yaroslav Shimov on the formation of new national states after the First World War.
• An excerpt from the book of the German-American historian and philosopher Hans Ulrich Gumbbrecht “After 1945. Latenism as a source of the present”: we are talking about Sartre and his concept of self-deception.
• And the answer to the question that, perhaps, it would not occur to you to ask yourself: why there are still no genetically modified wheat anywhere in the world.

Sincerely yours,
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