25 years ago, on August 24, 1991, the Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR adopted the Act of Declaration of Independence of Ukraine.

On August 24, at 12:00, the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow will announce the verdict in a fabricated political case against the nationalist Alexander Belov (Potkin), the former leader of the ethno-political association "Russians". The state prosecution asked for 9 years in a general regime colony for him. Potkin is charged with four articles of the Criminal Code .

Picket by the building of the MOVS. Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru The Moscow District Military Court was unable to form a jury in the criminal case of the five accused of the murder of the co-chairman of the RPR-Parnas Boris Nemtsov for the first time. This is reported by Interfax. “The selection is going on, but today it will not work: out of 59 people, 45 took self -setting up for personal reasons,” said Vadim Prokhorov’s lawyer.

Construction of the Zenit stadium. Photo from the site http://zenituwka.ru In the St. Petersburg office of Metrostroy, a new contractor for the construction of the Zenit Arena stadium, searches with the participation of special forces FSB "Grad" are being held. According to Fontanka.ru, one of the employees of the company announced this. According to him, in the morning in the main building of Metrostroy on 52 Zagorodnoy Prospekt, the fighters of the special forces came.

The temple of the Archangel Rafail IPC. Photo: wikimapia.org In Moscow, employees of law enforcement agencies arrived at the temple of the Archangel of the True Orthodox Church to conduct operational events, RIA Novosti reports . They talk with the Primate of the IPC Metropolitan All -Russian Rafail (Motovilov). “Yes, they arrived at the temple, introduced themselves to police officers, now they are talking with Vladyka Rafail,” said the employee of the IPC.

Earthquake in Italy. Photo: @jrodzmia As a result of the earthquake in the central part of Italy, 120 people died. As ASKANEWS reports , the country's Prime Minister Matteo Renzi reported. The number of victims in the publication is not specified. Earlier, 73 dead and more than 100 wounded were reported . It was noted that the settlements of Akkumoli, Akhotrothache, Lent and Arcuat-del Trono were most affected.

Huawei production. Photo: gsmdom.com The Russian company "Bulat", belonging to Rostelecom and Rostoch, is negotiating with Huawei and Lenovo on the licensing of equipment for the implementation of the "Spring Package". According to Kommersant, referring to its own sources, we are talking about the technology for the production of servers, data storage systems and other equipment.

Earthquake in Italy. Photo: @jrodzmia In the central part of Italy, an earthquake of magnitude 6.3 occurred on Wednesday night. According to TASS, the underground impetus was registered in the area of ​​the city of Terni, on the border of the regions of Lazio and Umbria. At least six people died.

Turkish special forces. Photo: almasdarnews.com Türkiye began a large -scale operation in the north of Syria. According to the Daily Sabah, about four in the morning local time, Turkish special forces moved to the area of ​​the Syrian border city of Jaratlus to cleanse it from the militants of the Islamic State. They are supported by F-16 fighters from the air, armored vehicles and artillery are also involved in the operation.

Stepan Poltorak. Photo: vv.gov.ua The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case against the Supreme Military leadership of Ukraine, including the Minister of Defense Stepan Poltorat.

Money. Photo: Grani.ru Consumer prices in Russia for a week from August 16 to 22 rose 0.1 percent, Interfax reports with reference to Rosstat's data. Prices are observed for the first time in the last four weeks. In the previous week, inflation was zero, the previous two weeks from July 26 to August 8, prices even decreased at 0.1 percent per week. Prior to that, for three consecutive weeks, prices grew by the same value.

Fights in the Dzharablus area. Frame CNN Turk The Russian Foreign Ministry expressed deep concern in connection with the beginning of the operation of the Turkish armed forces in the territory border with Syria. This is stated in the commentary of the Department and the Seal of the Foreign Ministry. "In Moscow, they are deeply concerned about what is happening in the area of ​​the Syrian -Turkish border.

25 years ago, on August 24, 1991, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev announced that he was resigning as General Secretary of the CPSU Central Committee and called on the Central Committee to dissolve itself. He stated: “The secretariat, the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU did not oppose the coup. The Central Committee failed to take a decisive position of condemnation and opposition, did not raise the communists to fight against the violation of constitutional legality.

Fasting miners in Gukovo. Photo: Solidarnost.org The starving miners of the four mines of Kingcool in the Rostov region refused to travel to the governor in Rostov-on-Don. According to Gazeta.ru, miners demand that the head of the region himself come to them in the city of Gukovo. The decision was made during the picket of miners in front of the Kingcool head office, where about 200 people gathered.

Alexander Belov (Potkin). Photo by Dmitry Borko/Grani.ru The judge of the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow Albert Trishkin sentenced the ex-leader of the ethnopolitical association "Russian" Alexander Belov (Potkin) to seven and a half years in prison in a colony of general regime and a fine of 600 thousand rubles. This was reported by the correspondent of "faces".