On the night of August 3-4, 1982, my mother Zoya Krakhmalnikova ** was arrested. Arrested for publishing collections of Christian readings "Hope", consisting exclusively of texts of religious content. She was also accused of “anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda”, kept for a year in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center and sentenced to five years in exile. Amnesty International recognized my mother as a prisoner of conscience.

The beginning of the month strongly disappointed the financiers: the euro fell by 0.6%, the ratings of the main European indices - up to 5% Mario Drago The ratings began to decline on August 2 from the very first seconds of the press conference of the President of the European Central Bank Mario Draga following an emergency meeting of the leadership of the department entrusted to him.

Mythology and reality of the noble estate In the summer, many citizens find that it is nice to travel in old Russian places where traces of pre -revolutionary civilization have been preserved. There are few of them left to the offensive, but in some places the spirit of former inhabitants still live and evidence of the centuries-old life structure has been preserved. The New Times studied the mythology and reality of the noble estate Boris Vilkov.