The President of Russia, citing FSB data, told reporters about the terrorist attacks prevented in Crimea and the escalation in Donbas “Apparently, those people who once seized power in Kiev and continue to hold it, instead of looking for ways of a peaceful settlement, switched to the practice of terror,” Interfax quoted Vladimir Putin as saying.

The main practical outcome of the meeting in St. Petersburg was the resuscitation of the Turkish Stream raw materials project. But both leaders seem ready to go much further. At a meeting in the Konstantinovsky Palace on August 9, Putin and Erdogan spoke in favor of lifting economic sanctions against each other. In the near future, the bans on the work of Turkish construction companies will be lifted, and a meeting of the commission on economic cooperation will be held in the autumn.

On the 92nd year in New York, one of the outstanding sculptors of the twentieth century, Ernst Neizvestny, passed away. His sculptures have always been a reflection of his own personality, character, destiny. The power and strength of the human spirit - that's what attracted the Unknown. His monument on the grave of Nikita Khrushchev became a monument to the sculptor himself.