Ilya Milstein. Courtesy Photo To suspend the activities of political parties, public organizations and mass movements that impede the normalization of the situation ... Conducting rallies, street marches, demonstrations, as well as strikes is not allowed ... to establish control over the media. And now what seemed important: the pride and honor of the Soviet man should be restored in full. On the calendar again on August 19, and one cannot but admit: the promises are fulfilled.

TNT. Photo from the site www.kaliningradka.ru Employees of the FSB and the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained a citizen of one of the Central Asian republics in Samara, "engaged in the preparation of the terrorist attack." As TASS reports , a law enforcement source announced this.

Dmitry Livanov. Photo from the site m-vremya.ru Minister of Education Dmitry Livanov will resign a month before the election. According to RBC, a source in the government apparatus reported this and confirmed a source in the Ministry of Education. According to sources, the official statement should follow today. Press Secretary Livanova Anna Usacheva refused to comment. The press secretary of the Prime Minister Dmitry Medhedv Natalya Timakova also did not comment on the information.

The child injured at the shelling of Aleppo. Helper video The aircraft of the Russian VKS did not apply an air strike on August 17 in the Al-Caterje district in Syrian Aleppo. According to TASS, this was stated by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense Igor Konashenkov. "We have repeatedly emphasized that the aircraft of the Air -space forces operating in the Syrian Arab Republic never work on targets located within the settlements," he added.

STO logo The World Trade Organization supported the European Union in the second trade dispute with Russia in a week. The arbitrators panel, which analyzed the legality of the Russian ban on the import of European pork, ruled that this ban is contrary to the agreement on the use of sanitary and phytosanitary measures of the WTO, according to the WTO website.

Magomednabi Magomedov (Sildinsky). Photo: Chernovik.net In Rostov-on-Don in the North Caucasus District Military Court, the process of Imam of the East Mosque in Khasavyurt Magomednabi Magomedov (Sildinsky) began, Kommersant reports . The defendant refused to admit guilt.

Promotion in St. Petersburg 08/19/2015. Photo: vk.com/dempiter In St. Petersburg, five people were detained on stocks on the 25th anniversary of the August coup, Rosbalt reports . The action, in which 150-200 people took part, took place on Isaacievskaya Square in the form of a folk gathering and single pickets. One of the detainees was with a Russian tricolor in their hands and an obscene inscription on a T -shirt.

Prepared for landing BMD-2. Photo: mil.ru Units of the Ministry of Defense began large-scale exercises on the material and technical support of the grouping of troops in the Crimea. According to TASS, this was announced by the Deputy Minister of Defense, Army General Dmitry Bulgakov.

Vitaly Portnikov The State Duma of the current convocation remains only a few weeks, but her speaker Sergey Naryshkin cheerfully explains how conditions her deputies will be ready to cooperate with Ukrainian colleagues: when the composition of the Verkhovna Rada will be updated. It’s like a telegram from a deceased relative: he was already buried, but he managed to send you wishes for a speedy recovery. And what to do with this wish is incomprehensible.

Olga Vasilieva. Photo: Bogoslov.ru Vladimir Putin agreed with the proposal of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to appoint an employee of the presidential administration Olga Vasiliev by the new head of the Ministry of Education and Science, TASS reports . Dmitry Livanov, who held this post, will become the special representative of the head of state for trade and economic relations with Ukraine.

Maria Maksakova. Photo: nvdaily.ru The State Duma has introduced a bill providing for the introduction of criminal punishment for female circumcision committed for religious motives. According to Interfax, the author of the initiative was the deputy from United Russia, opera singer Maria Maksakova-Igenbergs.

Yuri Ilchenko. Frame Grani-TV The narrow circle of Ukrainian human rights activists about the salvation of the Crimean Yuri Ilchenko became known immediately after he appeared two months ago in the Lviv office of the Crimea SOS public organization. But the elderly parents of Yuri remained in Sevastopol, so all this time Ilchenko was listed in the lists of political prisoners, the release of which the Ukrainian side requires from Russia.

25 years ago, on August 19, 1991, a group of Soviet leaders led by Vice President Gennady Yanaev announced that President Mikhail Gorbachev was ill and temporarily unable to perform his duties. Therefore, a State Committee for the State of Emergency is being created, and "in certain areas of the USSR" a state of emergency is introduced for a period of six months. In fact, the state of emergency was introduced only in Moscow.

Alexander Sokolov. DZARASOVR video frame on YouTube Investigators re -charged the journalist of RBC Alexander Sokolov in the “Army of the Army of the People of the People”, the publication reports with reference to the lawyer Dmitry Dinze. An incriminated article on the organization of activities of an extremist organization banned in Russia has not changed, investigators eliminated some gaps in the evidence base.

Paul Manafort. Shot CNN Paul Manafort resigned from the post of head of the campaign headquarters of the candidate for the president of the United States from the Republicans Donald Trump. It is reported by CNN. “This morning, Paul Manafort made an offer to free him from participating in the election campaign, and I accepted his request,” says Donald Trump. “I am very grateful to him for the great work done, especially with the delegates of the party congress.