Alexander Gorokhov detention Ksenia Mironova, journalist "Rain" In the center of Moscow on the Lubyanskaya Square near the FSB building on the afternoon of August 21, a series of single pickets was held against the recognition of independent media and journalists by “foreign agents” - after this status received “rain” and “important stories” .

Updated . The prosecutor's office reported that the 12-year-old boy died in the hospital. An F-1 hand grenade exploded in an apartment on Malaya Naberezhnaya Street in northwest Moscow. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. As a result of the incident, two people died - a man and a 14-year-old boy. Another child aged 12 was hospitalized. It is not clear where the grenade came from in the apartment.

A Russian citizen independently sailed from the South Kuril island of Kunashir to Japan to apply for political asylum. This was reported on August 20 by Kyodo. The Russian was detained on the island of Hokkaido. How he swam is not specified. On August 21, the Russian Consulate General in Sapporo announced that it was clarifying the circumstances of the incident with the Japanese competent authorities.

GLEB ZELDA by the FSB building on Lubyanka on the afternoon of August 21 is a series of pickets against the recognition of the media by “foreign agents”. The journalist Alexander Gorokhov, who was the first to stand in a picket, was immediately detained by the police, but after a few minutes he was released. Those who get into pickets after him do not interfere with - only suitable and rewrite their passport data.

A series of single pickets of journalists against the assignment of the media statuses of “foreign agents” began at the FSB building in Lubyanka. ALEC SANDER / SOTA Gleb Zelda The police immediately began the detention. The first of the picketers, the journalist Alexander Gorokhov, managed to stand with the poster of “Free Journalism, and not this is all” less than a minute before he was brought to the car carrier. A few minutes later Gorokhov was released.

In the Smolensk region on August 20, search teams found alive one and a half years old Lyudmila Kuzina, who had disappeared more than three days before. As they say in the message of the regional Investigative Committee, Lyudmila Kuzina, born in 2019, on the morning of August 17, left the house located on the territory of the Shelukov tract of the Temkinsky district - and did not return.

Russia has expanded the list of Ukrainian citizens against whom sanctions have been imposed. The corresponding decree was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. The updated sanctions list includes 73 people. Among them are Ukrainian Foreign Minister Dmitry Kuleba, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine (NSDC) Oleksiy Danilov, head of the Accounts Chamber Valeriy Patskan, Verkhovna Rada Commissioner for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova.

More than 32 billion rubles were allocated for the holiday. But they forgot to ask local residents, what to spend them on Vladimir Smirnov / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Center for Nizhny Novgorod. August 21, 2021 From August 19 to 21 in Nizhny Novgorod, the 800th anniversary of the city is celebrated on a grand scale. The holiday is going to visit Vladimir Putin.

Updated . According to Flightradar24 , the plane landed at Sheremetyevo at 14:28. An Interfax source said that the landing was normal. An SSJ100 aircraft flying from Volgograd to Moscow gave a distress signal. This was reported by Interfax with reference to an informed source. According to the source, the plane dropped sharply over the Tambov region. The interlocutor of the agency called depressurization a possible reason for this.

This time - about Oleg Gordievsky, one of the most successful Soviet agents who worked for British intelligence The Literary critic of Medusa Galina Yuzefovich tells about Ben Mcyntai’s novel “Spy and Traitor” (M.: AST, Corpus, 2021. Translation by T. Azarkovich). “Spying provides a good plot, but rarely - tolerable prose,” Joseph Brodsky wrote in his essay “Collectible copy”.

The Ministry of Justice of Russia entered the public organization Fourth Sector, which united freelance journalists, into the register of NGOs - "foreign agents". The Fourth Sector announced its liquidation back in July, after the start of an unscheduled inspection by the Ministry of Justice.

Ultra -short reviews (140 characters!) On the main films of the week Every weekend at Medusa, ultra -short reviews come out - approximately 140 signs each - from the film critic of Anton Valley, which help to navigate in the box office. This week in cinemas they will show a cult film Mathieu Cashcan with Vincent Kassel in the title role “Hatred”, Neonour Lisa Joy and Hugh Jackman and the cartoon “Boss-Folkosos 2”.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Before the elections to the State Duma is less than a month, and the campaign has not yet begun. What is the Kremlin plan? How will United Russia gain 45%? And why can they remove the Communist Party? Vladimir Putin on August 22 will meet with representatives of United Russia, and then take part in the second part of the party congress.

Updated . All the escapees were detained within a few hours after the escape. Seven people sentenced to compulsory treatment escaped from the republican psycho-neurological dispensary in Buryatia. This was announced by the head of the region Alexei Tsydenov. When escaping, the orderly was slightly injured - he received cuts from glass fragments. A total of 59 patients were in the department.

The Russian government plans to create a free tax zone on the Kuril Islands, "practically offshore." This was stated by the presidential envoy to the Far East, Deputy Prime Minister Yury Trutnev. It's practically offshore. That is, there will be almost no taxes left in the Kuriles. This is the first, second - not only will tax rates be removed, but those enterprises, people who will carry out investment, commercial activities on the islands, will not have the obligation to pay taxes.