The flag of the European Union The Council of the European Union adopted a package of new sanctions against Russia. This is stated in a statement by the President of the European Council Herman Van Rompey, published on the website of the EU Council. Sanctions will take effect after the publication of the decision on their adoption in the official journal of the European Union, which is expected in the next few days.

At the walls of the Lithuanian parliament in 1991. Photo by D. Borko In Russia, criminal cases against Lithuania citizens, who, after March 11, 1990, when the national parliament announced the exit of the country from the USSR, obeyed the authorities and refused to serve in the Soviet army or left it. It is reported by DELFI.LT with reference to the Prosecutor General of the country. It is claimed that the persecution threatens three citizens of Lithuania.

Elizaveta Bogutskaya. Photo from her blog The Crimean activist and blogger Elizabeth Bogutskaya was a search, Crimea. Real . After the search, the security forces took her with them. Her lawyer came to the police to Bogutskaya. The basis for the search was that Bogutskaya in May took part in the meeting of the National leader of the Crimean Tatars of Mustafa Dzhemilev in Armenian. The police came accompanied by machine gunners.

Yaroslav Belousov at the trial. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru On September 8, in the morning, the swamp prisoner Yaroslav Belousov should be released. It is expected that he will be released from a pre -trial detention center in Pyatigorsk. The defense of Belousov tried to achieve parole, but the consideration of the case was delayed - the petition was transferred from the Preobrazhensky Court of Moscow to the Stavropol Territory, where the political prisoner was transferred.

At the Murmansk fish factory. Photo: murmrk.ru The Supreme Court registered the lawsuit of the Murmansk fish factory against the Russian government, in which the company seeks to exclude live fish from the list of goods prohibited to import into the country in accordance with the August food embargo. It is reported by ITAR-TASS.

Didier Burkhalter. Photo: osce.org The organization on security and cooperation in Europe has redirected 59 specialists to Ukraine with experience in monitoring the ceasefire and now hiring new observers to Ukraine. According to RIA Novosti, this was stated by the current chairman of the OSCE, Foreign Minister and Switzerland President Didier Burkhalter.

Dalai Lama. Photo SaveTibet.ru The Dalai Lama made a harsh criticism of Vladimir Putin, reports Deutsche Welle. According to the spiritual leader of the Buddhist Tibet, the President of Russia has been in power in his country for too long. "Mr. Putin was first president, then the Prime Minister, then again the president. This is a lot," Dalai Lama said in an interview with Die Welt.

Sergey Krivov in court. January 2014 Photo by Yuri Timofeeva/Grani.ru On September 8, it turns 53 years old by the swamp prison Sergey Vladimirovich Krivov. It has been behind bars since October 18, 2012. Krivov was sentenced to 3 years 9 months of a general regime colony under articles on participation in riots and the application of violence to a representative of the authorities. Krivov’s houses are waiting for a disabled mother, a wife and two children.

Elizaveta Bogutskaya after interrogation by the invaders, 09/08/2014. Photo: krymr.com The Crimean civil activist and blogger Elizabeth Bogutskaya was released from the police department in the Simferopol district after interrogation. This was reported by "Crimea. Realities" with reference to the activist itself.

Igor Girkin and Igor Druz. Photo: ruskline.ru The former "Minister of Defense of the DPR" Igor Girkin intends to deal with the "color coup" in Russia. About this on the website of the terrorists "Russian People's Line" was written by a certain Igor Druz, who calls himself the "adviser" Girkin.

Edward Snowden on a direct line with Putin, April 2014. Frame "Russia-1" The Federal Prosecutor's Office of Switzerland said that she was ready to provide asylum with the exposure of the American special services to Edward Snowden, Sonntags Zeitung reports . The condition will be testing them against its former employer, the US National Security Agency, and reveal the details of the espionage activities of American intelligence.

PIA Renkilda Hansen. Photo: ec.europa.eu The authorities of the European Union will introduce a new package of sanctions against Russia, despite the previously concluded truce in Ukraine. This was stated by the representative of the European Commission PIA Renkylde Hansen, the BBC reports . Formally, they will be introduced in the afternoon on Monday. The details of the new package of restrictive measures have not yet been disclosed.

Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party Vadim Soloviev. Frame NTV Under federal Russian television channels, it is necessary to create artistic councils that will monitor compliance with moral and ethical norms on TV. The State Duma deputy from the Communist Party Vadim Solovyov asked for this in his appeal in the name of the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, Izvestia reports .

Salil Shhetti. Photo: amnesty.org.ru Amnesty International Secretary Salil Shhetti, during a meeting with Ukraine Prime Minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk, called for Kyiv to suppress war crimes committed by Aidar and other volunteer battalions. This was reported on the organization’s website.

Nadezhda Savchenko and Oleg Sentsov The Prime Minister of Ukraine Arseniy Yatsenyuk asked the Secretary General of the International Human Rights Enterprise of Amnesty International Salila Schetti to assist in the release of director Oleg Sentsov and the pilot Nadezhda Savchenko. This was reported by the press service of the Ukrainian government. Yatsenyuk expressed this request in connection with the planned Shetty trip to Moscow.