About the reasons for such an unexpected resignation of Sergei Ivanov, you can now guess as much as you like. One while it is clear one thing: “Ecologist” Ivanov is dropping out of the conventional receivers of Putin, and as Andrei Kolesnikov from the Carnegie Foundation subtly noticed: “From nature, they do not return to the top”, as it turned out, to choose, in general, there is no one: either a native of the FSB-FSO, or the grown-up children of the KPSS nomenclature.

On the evening of August 22, 1991, when Moscow had already celebrated the victory over the puffers with might and main, thousands of people came to Dzerzhinsky Square to the Dzerzhinsky monument near the KGB of the USSR. The 11-ton founder of the Cheka looked at the audience without sympathy. The power of the Chekists ended. The Chekists, by the way, also looked at the rooms of the most terrible house in the Union gathered through the dark windows of the cabinets.

Do you remember that day well - August 19, 1991? Almost a minute. Anatoly Alexandrovich has a birthday on August 10, and we always went on vacation the day before - he did not like congratulations, gifts, and offers. That year he said: now it is not the time to leave, it is necessary to discuss a new union agreement with Gorbachev, great difficulties with the Baltic states, I need to talk to Lithuania - to talk with Landsbergis ... I myself left with Ksenia to Pitsunda.

Is there a chance to avoid war with Ukraine and why the presidential administration is a new chapter Augustus met expectations. As it happened more than once before, the last month of summer makes even those who hoped to hide from news pressure in a distant vacation corner. In the air, the war between Russia and Ukraine smelled, the relations between which are nowhere worse.

Children's hospice "House with a lighthouse" together with The New Times collects money to help sick children Timothy is sick of the muscle dystrophy of Duchenne. This is a genetic congenital disease that does not immediately manifest itself. Timothy grew up a healthy child, he just began to walk a little later than his peers. By the age of 5, he cleverly jumped on his favorite car wheels on the playground and was pleased with everything.

08/18/1991 At 17.50, President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev was isolated by the conspirators in his residence in the area of ​​the Crimean village of Foros. A little earlier, by order of the head of the government communications department, Anatoly Bedia, all the presidential phones, including strategic and space communications were disconnected. The cottage is already surrounded by land, and from the sea it is blocked by patrols of combat boats.

Photos from the Archive of the Multimedia Art Museum of Moscow became available thanks to the project “History of Russia in photographs” (https://russiainphoto.ru)-an Internet site connecting state meetings and family albums in a general chronicle. - 1991, August? -the 15-year-old Katya asks. - It seems then the Soviet Union fell apart and Russia became. White house, tanks ... or is it ninety -third? Probably, some villain came to power. Although in the ninety -third Yeltsin was already. GKChP?

On August 17, the newspaper Kommersant published an article describing the capture on the border of the Crimea of ​​Ukrainian saboteurs and the heroic death of two Russians-Colonel-Chairist and Corner-Frequency. However, this story, as well as the previously made official message of the FSB on the prevention of prepared terrorist attacks, causes some doubts.

Members of the GKChP Oleg Baklanov (1932) Who was: deputy chairman of the USSR defense council, ex-minister of general engineering of the USSR, member of the CPSU Central Committee. After the failure of the putty: arrested, spent a year and a half in the SIZO Sailor Silence, amnested in 1994.

Yuri Borko, in August 1991-head. Department of European Integration of the Institute of Europe of the USSR Academy of Sciences: I met the news of the coup in the train Moscow - Petrozavodsk - Murmansk. On August 19, at the entrance to Petrozavodsk on train radio, the State Emergency Committee was handed over to Petrozavodsk.

At the time of the election of the Supreme Council of 1990, Russia as such, in fact, was not - it seemed to dissolve in the Soviet Union. All other union republics were to one degree or another autonomous, but Russia was considered autonomous only formally and existed inside the USSR, as if a small nesting doll inside is large. It was not clear: either Russia is the Soviet Union, or there is no Russia at all. When the Russian parliament was elected, there was a feeling that Russia is.