Boris Nemtsov has something to remember 330 7 min. ... Nemtsov’s book “Confession of a Rebel, or Politics without Bliss” is published by the Partizan Publishing House. It will be in bookstores this week. The starting circulation is large - 40 thousand copies. Nemtsov finished the book back in April, but decided to release it in time for the book fair, which traditionally takes place in Moscow in early September. This is already the third book by the politician.

199 1 min. ... Natalya RADULOVA It's finished. For the first time, a man I knew decided that his wife’s career was more important than his career. And he became a householder. For a while, of course. For a year, no more. It's so easy to sit at home. Now every morning Mark (that’s his name, it could have been funnier) starts by sitting at the table opposite his youngest son, whining: “Eat... Eat... Eat...”, periodically being distracted by the older one: “Get ready... Get ready...

The beach on the Yalta embankment is always strewn with bodies, although it is inconvenient and the port 87 7 min. ... In Crimea, it’s hot and desperately cutting banknotes: in a month and a half, residents of the peninsula must earn enough for a year. The system is the opposite of “all inclusive”. Everything is out of the question. The tourist feels the depletion of every little thing from his wallet. There is a price not only for a sun lounger, but also for walking on the paths.

7 2 minutes. ... The International Biennale of Contemporary Art has begun in St. Petersburg "Greenhouse effect" The St. Petersburg Manege is celebrating its 30th anniversary. The event is celebrated with impact - the International Biennale of Contemporary Art “Dialogues”. Artists, museum workers, gallery owners and simply art lovers from many countries come here. The program expects live communication between creators and the public, for example dancing.

The Nur Otan party, led by Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev, won the parliamentary elections in the republic on August 18, gaining 88.1%. Such preliminary data were announced on August 19 at a briefing by the head of the Central Election Commission of Kazakhstan Kuandyk Turgankulov. “5 million 741 thousand people voted for the Nur Otan party, which is 88.1%,” RIA Novosti quotes him.

88 6 min. ... Carmen Arnau is the only Spanish anthropologist who has studied Siberian villages from the inside. Every year she travels to Siberia, to villages forgotten by everyone, where she eats potatoes and salted fish, rides horses and listens to the songs of old shamans. This summer she built Spain's first museum of Siberia - with a real bathhouse and yurt Elena RODINA Carmen is short, only 1.59, thickly built, tanned, black-haired and dark-eyed.

The OSCE considered that the parliamentary elections held in Kazakhstan do not meet international standards due to the lack of transparency in the vote count, as well as the high threshold for parties to enter parliament. This is stated in a statement released on August 19 by the coordinator of the OSCE mission, Consiglio Di Nino. At the same time, the OSCE considers the August 18 vote a “step forward,” Reuters reports.

Today, August 19, it became known that on Friday, during a session of the Odessa Regional Council, the deputy corps adopted an appeal to the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine with a request to take control of the situation and prevent the liquidation of the yacht club. 72 out of 120 deputies voted for this decision.

As a result of the collapse of the bridge over the Bakhvi River in the western Georgian region of Racha, about 50 people were injured, RIA Novosti reports, citing the regional administration. Near the bridge in the resort town of Bakhmaro, there is a small church, which many believers tried to get to on August 19, on the Feast of the Transfiguration. A large number of people gathered on the bridge, which could have caused it to collapse.

The city center, where native Muscovites live, is most attractive to builders 280 7 min. ... From a European city, the Russian capital is increasingly turning into an oriental bazaar Alexander SHATALOV, TV presenter I’m probably not the most native Muscovite among all the possible ones, although if you walk around the city, one or another of my relatives lived almost everywhere.

10 3 min. ... We began to eat less fish: on average in Russia, seafood consumption has decreased to almost 12 kg per person per year from 25 kg during Soviet times. In terms of fish catch volumes, the country has now fallen to the level of 1961 and imports 35 percent of seafood. Why doesn’t it “bite” for us? This week a meeting of the government commission on the country's agro-industrial and fishery complex will take place in Murmansk, which will try to answer this question.

264 16 min. ... On his 75th birthday , Vladimir Voinovich finished the famous novel about Ivan Chonkin. It will be published in September by EKSMO publishing house. The writer provided Ogonyok with an excerpt from the book and told what this novel means to him I did not conceive Chonkin as a book of my life. But it turned out that it really became so because it took too long to write and brought me a lot of joy and a lot of grief, even grief.

8 3 min. ... “Do you know how much money I have here? Two thousand euros!” - Jean proudly pats the string bag slung over his shoulder. Considering that Jean is a summer waiter and this money is only half of his earnings, there is something to be proud of Elena RODINA Here everyone calls him Juan or simply camarero (“waiter” in Spanish), and for four months - from May to October - Jean has nothing against such familiarity.

Today, August 19, Prime Minister of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych expressed condolences to the family of People's Deputy of Ukraine Viktor Prokopenko and the Shakhtar football club in connection with his sudden death at the age of 63. “It was with a feeling of deep sorrow that I received the news of the sudden death of your husband, father, grandfather, people’s deputy of Ukraine, my fellow party member and like-minded person Viktor Evgenievich Pokopenko.

Today, August 19, it became known that thief in law Antimos Kuhilava left the country on Friday. Vladimir Mishchenkov, deputy head of the Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime (GUBOP) of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, told Kommersant about this. Let us recall that, according to some sources, last year, during another gathering of thieves in Russia, Kukhilava was given the authority of “overseeing” all of Ukraine (see Kommersant dated September 1, 2006). According to Mr.