13 people were released from a secret Ukrainian prison after human rights activists from Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch intervened, the organization said in a report. Human rights activists say the release of prisoners from a secret Ukrainian Security Service (SBU) facility in Kharkiv was accelerated after the report was published in July this year. The report spoke about illegal detention, disappearances and torture in eastern Ukraine.

How is the new head of the presidential administration Anton Wino related to the "device for studying the collective consciousness of mankind" The Research Institute of Economic Strategies (INES) is located in the center of the capital, on Sretensky Boulevard. The office resembles the usual edition of a small magazine: a narrow corridor, forced by book shelves, several offices, in some - desks and chairs for continuing education and MBA, which are conducted by the INES.

The campaign for election to the Duma officially started. On state channels - commercials of parties and debate of candidates. Politics is back! - the optimist will exclaim and be mistaken. Most parties, including large ones - the Communist Party and the LDPR, are made with maximum simpleness both in the technical and substantial terms. As if their task is not to call voters to sites, but to show that even the elections themselves are not very interested in the elections themselves.

How the pedagogical community perceived the appointment of the new Minister of Education The last decade before the new school year was a serious test for education workers at all levels - from kindergartens to universities. An unexpected personnel rearrangement in the profile ministry became the most discussed event in the humanitarian environment, and the minister herself in the early days of his took office - a real star.

The influential curator of Russian politics, First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, Vyacheslav Volodin, may go to work in the Duma. To believe whether the rumors about the large -scale reformatting of the presidential office - the New Times sorted out On August 19, on the day of the twenty -fifth anniversary of the coup, a new minister of education appeared in Russia - Olga Vasilieva.

Illegal construction near the object from the UNESCO list and dubious restoration threaten the Solovetsky Monastery “Immediately stop the construction, remove the already constructed details and consider the plan of the more suitable design and the location of the museum,” these formidable words sounded addressed to Russia last summer in Istanbul of the 40th session of the UNESCO World Heritage Committee.

On August 29, deputies of the Estonian parliament choose the new president of the country. This time almost the central topic of the polemic between the favorites of the elections - Sima Callas from the reform party and Milis Reps from the Center Party - has become relations with Russia. The reason for this is not only the Ukrainian crisis and fears of the Baltic countries in front of an unpredictable neighbor.

The latest at the moment, the defendants in the “bolotnaya case”, Dmitry Buchenkov and Maxim Panfilov, extended the arrest until December 2 and January 7, respectively, Open Russia reports. The deadlines for the investigation into the case of the dispersal of the rally on Bolotnaya Square on May 6, 2012 were extended many times. Now the term of the investigation has been extended once again - until March next year.

“Chronicle of current events” - a typewritten human rights information ballot, distributed in Samizdat in 1968-1983 “The case against Sasha is not just fabricated, but simply invented from beginning to end.

Children's hospice "House with a lighthouse" together with The New Times collects funds to help sick children When Sasha was born, his mother proudly talked about the height and weight of the baby and about high ratings on the Apgar scale. And the first months were all good. But when Sasha was three months old, he stopped holding the head, and at 6 months the genetic diagnosis was confirmed: spinal amyotrophy. Doctors said they could not do anything.

By Monday morning in Moscow, by decision of the city authorities, more than 90 street trading facilities recognized as illegally built were demolished, and work continues on 11 facilities. In total, 107 buildings with a total area of ​​30.5 thousand m2 were included in the demolition list of the second wave, published on June 28, Interfax reports. Unlike the demolition that took place in February, this one did not come as a surprise to the owners.

Hunger strikes, protest marches, hostage capture and other methods of human reactions to an “undeclared crisis” Miners are starving in Rostov. In Moscow, mothers from large families, standing in line for housing. Farmers of the Krasnodar Territory go by a tractor march to Moscow; True, they fail to go far. The entrepreneur from the Moscow Region writes a video message to Putin, and then captures hostages at the Moscow bank - after his company ruined.

September 3 would have turned 75 to Sergey Dovlatov Peers who survived him for a quarter century are still active authors, who created among other things a huge number of memories, research and reflection on Dovlatov. Moreover, many of them, representatives of the Leningrad Literary Circle of the 60-70s, are widely known primarily primarily as Dovlatian characters; His language and his cult of an autobiograph writer, who, by his nature, seems to be attached to his time, do not become obsolete.

On August 25, the head of Sberbank German Gref announced that there are signs of stabilization in the Russian economy. And a day later, the Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation reported: in July 2016, seasonally adjusted GDP decreased by 0.1% compared to June. What's happening? Summer is coming to an end, and no significant changes in the state of the Russian economy are visible.

On August 23, the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) in Lausanne (Switzerland) confirmed the decision of the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) to remove the Russian team from participating in the Rio Games: 267 people were punished for 35 positive doping tests that disappeared without a trace in space over the past 5 years The two most hated people in the world now by our official propaganda are the head of the IPC, Englishman Philip Craven, by the way, holder of the Order of Honor of