Dear readers! We have decided to suspend the release of "Fringes". “The oldest opposition online media”, “pioneers of the fight against blocking”, “exemplary democracy”, “frenzied Russophobes” - we do not refuse any of these honorary titles. But they cannot be melted down into shells. Don’t cling to the old brand, but rethink your own 23-year history and ask yourself a simple question: how is your project useful for winning?

This text is not just my last column for "faces". In fact, this article I summarize many years of cooperation with Russian democratic media, which began in the late 80s of the last century.

Appeal to citizens of the Russian Federation The Putin regime has plunged Russia into dirt and shame. Having trampled the Constitution, laws and rights of citizens, he unleashed an aggressive, aggressive, vile, criminal war. Neither Ukraine nor NATO attacked or intended to attack Russia. The only reason for the war is the manic obsession of the rulers of Russia with a thirst for the unlimited expansion of their power.

Online Ladder of Francis with Russian youth August 25 Speaking about the full-scale Russian-Ukrainian war, Pope Francis from the very beginning equalized the aggressor and the victim. He talked about the “clash of empires” and “warlike infantilism” of the West, he refused to clearly demand the return of the captured Ukrainian territories, calling this a “political issue” and advocating for negotiations between the parties. Among the innocent victims of the war, Pontiff mentioned Daria Dugin.

At the crash site. Photo: Investigative Committee After the catastrophe of Prigozhinsky business jet, versions of a grandiose staging immediately appeared: they say, in fact, Prigozhin is alive and well, only changed his passport and, possibly, appearance. But not such a person was Evgeny Viktorovich to lead an underground life under a strange name as a modest restaurateur somewhere in the Russian province or, say, in Turkey.

"Yesenin Center" in Ryazan From the editorial office The action-packed Wagner show, which ended this week, can be considered the only major Russian success in the information war. For many months, the world media covered in detail the national competition for places in Hell (as the comrade -in -arms of Prigozhin and Utkin in laconic necrogers formulated this plot). Sadism, arrogance and adventurism of Prigozhin fascinated the Western audience.

The destruction of the aircraft with Evgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin near the residence of the President of Russia Vladimir Putin was the first, but I think not the last indicative execution of the times of Putin's totalitarianism. More recently, the dictator preferred to act more carefully. He sent to those whom he considered traitors, messengers with a "novice". His former associates and patrons were dying of a mysterious death - like Berezovsky in the UK or Lesin in the United States.

From the editorial office Published on behalf of Alexei Navalny's call to participate in the September regional "elections" is worse than a political error than the most bad joke. It is proposed to act according to the old scheme "for anyone other than unicorn." To "maintain the habit" to vote and "inflict the maximum damage of the Party of power." The "election" of ghouls from the SR, LDPR, and the Communist Party of the Navalny will declare their victory.

An exhibition of bumped Russian equipment in Kyiv. Photo: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine In the American press, direct hints of the "freezing" of the Russian-Ukrainian war on the actual front line according to the "Korean" model appear again. In exchange for consent with the loss of territories, albeit not legally issued, Ukraine is proposed membership in NATO or the EU. It is clear why such articles are published right now.

Kirovsky district court of St. Petersburg, August 14. All photos - from the telegram channel " Freedom Olga Smirnova! " *** We publish the last word of the St. Petersburg political prisoner Olga Smirnova, who will be sentenced on August 30 in the case of the spread of fakes about the army on the motive of political hatred (paragraph "D" of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Styan Yenssen (left) and Jens Stoltenberg From the editorial office The head of the apparatus of the Secretary General of NATO Styan Jensen disavowed his own words about the possible exchange of Ukrainian territories for membership in the alliance. The scandalous statement was made in the context of discussing the scenarios of the end of the war - in an unofficial setting, with proper reservations about the fact that the decision belongs to Ukraine.

SI and Putin in the Moscow Zoo. June 2019. Against the backdrop of Joseph Biden and Donald Trump, to talk about the age of Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping is somehow inappropriate. Compared to the former and current American presidents who can meet in the new cycle of the election campaign, the Russian president and Chinese chairman look, of course, not boys, but by middle -aged politicians - and why be shy of Russian or Chinese gerontocracy against the background of American?

Photo: Ministry of Defense of Ukraine In connection with the pace of Ukrainian counterattacks in the press of the United States and Germany, the statements of various kinds of experts that the Ukrainian military, in insufficient degree, learned the NATO military doctrine and the basic principles of conducting military operations that they were taught in Western countries were the general place. Hence, they say, their inability to break through the pre -prepared Russian defense.

Installation in Paris: SHISO Navalny. Photo: Green-fr.livejournal.com From the editorial office After a monstrous verdict, the main Russian political gym, after a monstrous sentence, published a program text about the national disaster. There is not a word about Ukraine. The war was taken out of brackets.

We publish the appeal “Stop Rashism” (“Venetian Manifesto”), released in several languages ​​on the initiative of the artist and publicist Ekaterina Margolis and a group of like -minded people - supporters of the defeat and demilitarization of the Russian Federation, the eradication of her imperial ideology and terrorist practices, the decolonization of humanitarian knowledge about Russia. The manifesto is open for signing .