30 years after the start of the coup, witnesses of events are still trying to understand what it was actually, what was the true role in the events of Mikhail Gorbachev, who acted, as expected, with accusations against the GKChP participants in the collapse of the Soviet Union, which turned out to be so degraded by allied power structures, "dragging" the coup literally in the first hours after its beginning. The real intentions of the participants in the putsch, and so on.

The judge of the Tver District Court of Moscow, Alexander Merkulov, sentenced to five years the general regime of the student of Moscow State University Sayd-Muhammad Dzhumaev (who later took the name Mikhail Markiyev), who was fighting with the security forces at the Moscow rally on January 23 in support of Alexei Navalny. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the court.

Promotion for Russian schools in Latvia. Photo: BaltNews.lv State Duma deputies from United Russia prepared a bill that will prohibit the entry into Russia of "Russophobes and Nazi followers." This was told by the chairman of the Duma Committee on Information Policy, Alexander Hinshtein, according to the party website. The law on the procedure for entering Russia and departure from the country proposes to expand the list of grounds for the ban on entry for foreigners and stateless persons.

I met August 1991, the first newspaper’s first newspaper, which was called the “Independent Gazeta” in the USSR. Despite the fact that then I was engaged in very different things, I always felt like a photographer. Therefore, the easiest way to perceive events and tell about them by visual images. Images often turn into symbols over time. There were such symbols for the events of the 91st year. A photographer that takes off tanks on one of the main avenues of Moscow is not me. But I also.