August 19-23 Ekaterina Samutsevich hopes to receive 2 million rubles for insults from her former lawyer August 20, Tuesday The defendant “Pussy Riot case” Ekaterina Samutsevich filed an application with a request to recover two million rubles from her former lawyer Violetta Volkova as compensation for non -pecuniary damage in the case of protection of honor and dignity.

What threatens the candidate for Navalny's "Forgotten Business" in the Balkans In the Mosgorisburkom, they are in no hurry to shoot Alexei Navalny from the elections The scandal around the “Secret Business of Navalny” in Montenegro erupted on August 20 with the filing of the pro -government blogger Stanislav Apropyana (Politrash).

Edward Snowden and the theater of absurdity The epic of Edward Snowden is increasingly reminiscent of the theater of absurdity, in which the main roles are played by special services. Russian-provide the 30-year-old kidnapper of American secrets with a reliable “temporary asylum” (including from journalists), even at the cost of relations with the United States.

August 1968 Soviet tanks in the center of Prague. Young people met interventionists with stones and bottles with incendiary mixture In January 1968, Alexander Dubkek was elected first secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, the initiator of the reform of the economy and expand democratic freedoms, limiting censorship, introducing multi -party, decentralization of power.

Candidate for Mayors of Moscow about his headquarters, the roles of television series in the campaign and errors Whether Navalny will reach the day of the election on September 8 is a big question.

Photo report on floods in the Far East In the Far East, for more than a month has been struggling with the most powerful flood over the past 120 years. In the flooding zone in the Amur Valley there were already 134 settlements and more than 50 thousand people.

On August 21, American journalist James Kirchik staged a live demarche on Russia Today: instead of answering questions about Bradley Manning's sentencing, he suddenly pulled on rainbow-colored suspenders and made a fiery speech in defense of gays in Russia.

On August 20, it became known that the Kremlin had refused to approve a program to train Russians abroad, the Global Education project developed by the Agency for Strategic Initiatives, which was supposed to be launched in 2014. I remember well the moment when I decided: I want to study at Harvard.

45 years ago, on August 25, 1968, a handful of dissenters entered a demonstration in the center of Moscow, protesting against the introduction of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia. The New Times publishes the memories of one of the key participants in those events* Poster with the call "for your and our freedom" made by Natalia Gorbanevskaya *From the book of Cecil all, "Woman in the dissident movement - Larisa Bogoraz." Paris. PLON Publishing House.

The New Times all day pursued a candidate for mayors of Moscow from the Party of the RPR-Parnas and interfered for several days from working to his headquarters, finding out who the people he calls his team Alexey Navalny: "The best audience is really grandmothers" “Well, why do you need this Navalny, Evgenia Nikolaevna?

Click to increase the picture Click to increase the picture Replicas Knowledge as a threat Homophobia for the good The sentence is unable SMS from the prosecutor Current events Chronicle of current events Opinion The son of difficult mistakes Anton Nosik about the experience of normal human life World Syria: Death with a fruit smell Who poison the civilian population with Zarin? Elections A new type of campaign Who is behind Navalny “We revived politics.

I challenged my country When her troops went to Prague. Insomnia of Lefortovo nights I have earned the right to this truth. I challenged my country I threw the poster on the square like a glove, No, not the country, but those who lie articles He slipped the people like a bribe, And I thought, why take care of yourself, Let them be called in the newspapers a renegade, Crazy game is not worth the candle But it's worth a crazy heart. Vadim Delaunay, Tyumen, camp, 1969-1971

On August 22, in the hall of 635 of the appeal building of the Moscow City Court, an interrogation of the third victim in the “Swamp Delivee”, an employee of the OMON GUVD in Moscow, Denis Aleksandrovich Kuvatov, began. The previous victim was also Denis Alexandrovich. In total, 79 people on the list of victims.

On August 21, the Abinsk District Court of the Krasnodar Territory sentenced four officials accused of negligence during last year's floods in the Kuban.

Who poisoned the peaceful population with gas? The West accused Bashar al -Assad’s regime of the use of chemical weapons under Damascus on August 21, as a result of which from 1,000 to 1800 people died - there were no such severe one -time losses among the civilian population during the Syrian conflict. The UN experts in Syria have not yet answered the question of which of the parties used poisonous substances and which gas was sprayed.