In Museon, the festival of the portal COLTA.RU dedicated to the events of the August coup was held, - Island 1991 From the main entrance to Museon, a queue is built to the Aivazovsky exhibition, and having reached the entrance to the Tretyakov Gallery on the Crimean Val, you can see the main scene of the Island 1991. They show the commercials of the 1990s. And while you listen to these old slogans, it seems that in line they are just for goods, and not for real art.

The ex-head of the anti-doping laboratory of the Russian anti-doping agency (Rusada) Grigory Rodchenkov fell into the USA under the program for protecting witnesses. Such an assumption was expressed by NT at once several sources from among people who have contacted Rodchenkov until recently. They argue their assumption by the fact that Rodchenkov has not gotten in touch for a couple of months, simply put - disappeared.

Kuban farmers, who staged a tractor march on Moscow in protest against the "illegal actions" of the authorities in their region, were blocked by police in Rostov-on-Don on August 22. This was reported to NT by one of the participants in the action, farmer Alexei Volchenko. According to him, from the very beginning of the action, farmers started having problems with law enforcement officers.

Russia's use of the Shahid Nozhe Iranian military base in Hamadan has "suspended for the time being," TASS news agency reported from Tehran, citing Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Bahram Ghasemi. There was no special agreement between the two countries on the use of the Russian military base, the diplomat stressed.

Kim Jong Ir came to Petersburg in 2001 at the invitation of Vladimir Putin and during this visit accidentally ended up at the Kirov factory. “He simply told Yakovlev ( Vladimir Yakovlev, in 2001-the governor of St. Petersburg. -NT)-I will go to look at the tractor to Germany, to Canada,” says NT, the director of the museum Igor Savrasov. - And Yakovlev to him - why so far? We also have tractors! Here you have the Kirov Plant, do you want to see? He - I want.

In the central apparatus of the FSB, large-scale laids continue: the 1st Deputy Head of the Office of Own Security (USB) of the FSB, General Oleg Feoktistov, lost his office, known as “Oleg-Bolshoy” or “General Fix” They did not have time to resign the super-superfluous head of the Economic Security Service (SEB) of the FSB Yuri Yakovlev and the head of the Department of the FSB SEB (counterintelligence in the credit and financial sphere), Viktor Voronin, as the first deputy head of the Oleg FSB