Military exercises. Photo: mil.ru In the Pskov and Leningrad regions, command and staff exercises of the organization of the collective security agreement began, Interfax reports citing the headquarters of the Western Military District. About six thousand military personnel and thousands of units of military equipment will take part in them.

Evgeny Kurakin. Photo: Pasmi.ru A journalist, candidate for deputies of the Moscow Regional Duma Yevgeny Kurakin was detained in Reutovo, Moscow Region. This was reported by journalist Anastasia Zotova. According to Zutova, the candidate for deputies detained at a meeting with the governor of the region Andrei Vorobyov. During the detention, Kurakin torn clothes. "He is in the Reutovsky Department of Internal Affairs. He is not released, despite the certificate of the candidate," writes Zotova.

Collection of Jehovah's Witnesses. Photo: JW-russia.org The Prosecutor General’s Office requested information and materials from law enforcement agencies confirming the presence of threats from the Jehovah's Witnesses religious organization for the basics of the constitutional system, defense capabilities and security of the state. This was reported by the press service of the Arkhangelsk and Kholmogorsk diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Andrey Zakhtei. Photo: PSB4UKR.ORG The Kiev District Court of Simferopol, controlled by Russia, at a closed meeting, arrested a resident of Crimea Andrei Zachtey, reports Interfax. He is suspected of a factory of the FSB on the preparation of Ukraine sabotage on the peninsula. "Zakhti was arrested for a month and 26 days. The court satisfied the application of the investigation," a source in the law enforcement agencies of Crimea said.

Victor Nazarenko. Photo: dpsu.gov.ua In Crimea, the next stage of the hybrid war of Russia against Ukraine and its people is taking place. This was stated by the head of the State Border Service of Ukraine Viktor Nazarenko in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine. “I want to assure you and the citizens of Ukraine that we are ready to develop any events, and the development of events for us may be the most non -standard,” Nazarenko said.

Photo: nsarchive.chadwyck.com 55 years ago, on August 13, 1961, the German Democratic Republic closed the border between the Western and Eastern Berlin. On the same day, a wall was erected around West Berlin - a system of engineering barriers with a length of 155 km, including 43 km within Berlin. The construction of the wall was carried out on the recommendation of the meeting of the secretaries of the communist and working parties of the Warsaw Treaty, held in early August.

Federica Mogherini. Photo: eeas.europa.eu Russia and Ukraine must avoid any actions that can lead to further escalation of the conflict around the annexed Crimea. This is stated in a statement by the head of European diplomacy Federica Mogherini following a telephone conversation with the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Pavel Klimkin. “The European Union condemns and does not recognize the illegal annexation of Crimea and Sevastopol by the Russian Federation.

Daria Klina. Photo: runners.ru Daria Klishina’s jump in length was removed from a speech at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, the R-Sport agency reports with reference to a source familiar with the situation. The Russian woman’s appeal is a sports arbitration court (CAS) in the next 24 hours. "This is an individual case of Klisina against IAAF (the International Association of athletics federations.

Anastasia Mokrenok for promotions on Red Square. Photo: Katrin Nenasheva Anastasia Mokrenok, a participant in the action on the oppression of LGBT teenage, is held for the second day to the police. She was taken to an examination in a psychiatric hospital No. 17, according to the artist-activist Katrin Nenasheva. The action took place on Thursday.

The commander of the Navy for the Armed Forces of Ukraine Igor Voronchenko at the time of the capture of Crimea served as deputy commander of the Beregovoy and Territorial Defense Navy. He refused to go to the side of the Russian Federation and was captured by Russian special forces. With the beginning of hostilities in the Donbass, Voronchenko headed the anti -terrorist operation in the Luhansk region.

The victim of the Pakistani Mi-17. Photo: Dawn.com The Afghan Taliban freed the six members of the victim of the Pakistani Mi-17 Pakistani helicopter, including the Russian citizen, the navigator Sergei Sevastyanov. This was reported by the BBC with reference to local media. The elders of the tribes who live on both sides of the borders between Afghanistan and Pakistan agreed on the liberation of the Pakistanis and the Russian captured by the Taliban.

Mars of equality in Odessa. Photo: dumskaya.net On the Primorsky Boulevard of Odessa, a parade of participants in the Odessarid-2016 Quir-Culture festival was held, the local publication "Dumskaya" reports . About 50 people took part in it. Participants in the equality march passed from the monument to Duke de Richelieu to the building of the Odessa City Council. After the procession, they left by bus, accompanied by the police. The action was guarded by about 200 police officers.

In Moscow, at the Red Gate metro station on the Picket of Movement "Solidarity" "For peace and against the war with Ukraine" was attacked by the provocateurs of the Prochrevsky movement of SERB, the activist Alla Naumcheva reports . As the promotion of Svetlana Kravets told the "faces", the provocateurs approached 15 minutes after the start of the action. They immediately began to tear out the poster from Maria Ryabikova, and then from other picketers.

90 years ago, on August 13, 1926, the leader of the Cuban Revolution Fidel Castro, who came to power as a result of the overthrow of the dictatorship of Fulhensio Batista in 1959, was born. Castro installed a communist dictatorship on the island. After the victory of the revolution, about 17 thousand people were shot, and in the 60s - from 7 to 10 thousand. Castro proclaimed: "Revolutionary justice is not based on legal premises, but on moral condemnation." Fidel Castro in Havana. 2003.