The flag of the European Union The decision to expand sanctions against Russia will be made by the European Union over the next week. According to Vedomosti, this was based on the results of the EU summit, held on Saturday in Brussels, the Federal Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel and the head of the European Union Herman Van Rompei. Merkel emphasized that the tightening of the sanctions regime will occur if Russia continues to escalate tension in the southeast of Ukraine.

Nursultan Nazarbayev, Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin. Photo: kremlin.ru Kazakhstan may leave the Eurasian Economic Union. According to Tengri News, President Nursultan Nazarbayev said this in an interview with the Habar television channel. According to Nazarbayev, such a decision will be made if the rules established in the contract will not be implemented. “I already said this before, and I say this again,” he added.

265 years ago, on August 31, 1749, writer Alexander Nikolaevich Radishchev, author of "Travel from St. Petersburg to Moscow" was born. After this anti -consuming composition was anonymously printed in 1790, Empress Catherine II called Radishchev “a rebel worse than Pugachev” and ordered him to arrest him. He was sentenced to death, but pardoned and exiled for 10 years to Siberia, to the Imsky prison, where he picked up the consumption. Emperor Paul already returned from Siberia Radishchev.

Vladimir Putin. Frame "Channel One" To resolve the crisis in Ukraine, negotiations are needed on the political organization of the company and the statehood of the southeast of the country. According to Gazeta.ru, Vladimir Putin stated this in an interview with the first channel. "We need to strive to implement the plan that we agreed on.

Anti -war action in Moscow 08/31/2014. Photo by Yu. Timofeeva/Grani.ru More than ten people were detained in Moscow during a series of protests against the escalation of the conflict in the southeast of Ukraine. According to the correspondent of "faces", six people were detained in Europe Square. They lit candles in memory of those who died in the Donbass.

Interview with detained paratroopers. Frame "rain" Russian paratroopers detained in Ukraine were transferred to the Russian side, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the statement of the deputy commander of the Airborne Forces, Major General Alexei Ragozin. According to him, negotiations - according to him - were very difficult, "however, common sense triumphed." “We don’t throw our own,” the general emphasized.

Dmitry Peskov. Frame of the Rain TV channel Vladimir Putin did not talk about the need to give statehood to the southeast of Ukraine in an interview with the "First Channel". According to ITAR-TASS, this was stated by presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. According to him, the conversation was "about inclusive negotiations" within Ukraine itself. “There were interpretations that, they say, the president said that these are negotiations on the statehood of the East of Ukraine.

The executed Ukrainian column near Ilovaisk. Photo from the Facebook battalion "Crimea" The Russian military and militants of the Donetsk People's Republic do not provide the promised corridor to leave the Ukrainian military from the encirclement near Ilovaysky. This was reported on the page of the Ukrainian battalion "Crimea" on Facebook. "There was no corridor, the column began to be stupidly shooting. We struck the two rings of the environment and were able to go out," the battalion said.