Member of the Coordinating Council Maria Kolesnikova near the National Art Museum of Minsk was put into a minibus with the inscription "Communication" by unknown people and taken away in an unknown direction. reports this TUT.BY with reference to an eyewitness.

The tactics of the authorities, obviously, have changed: simply do not draw attention to the event, slowly catch up with state employees to the polling stations, properly calculate and announce the result of 70% for EdRo Regional and local elections are less than a week away, but this time there is no boycott gurgling on social media.

What would Navalny talk about every day if he were normal? What would you call for? That's right: smart voting Why did the authorities need the liquidation of Navalny? It's simple: they believe that the protest movement in Russia will fall apart if he is beheaded. It is enough to remove the leader - and there will be no more investigations of corruption, no more large rallies, and problems in the elections will evaporate.

The head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, proposed moving the single voting day from September to April so that it falls on school holidays. “If elections are always held on more than one day, then it is necessary either to postpone a single voting day or think about some kind of vacation. I think that it is better to find the optimal month and bring the EDG and holidays to a common denominator.

“The more they intimidate, the more people will go out into the street,” ex-presidential candidate Svetlana Tikhanovskaya commented on the detention of Maria Kolesnikova “The regime is engaged in terror, there is no other way to call it. The kidnapping of Maria Kolesnikova, Anton Rodnenkov and Ivan Kravtsov is an attempt to disrupt the work of the Coordinating Council, said Tikhanovskaya . “But that won't stop us. The more they intimidate, the more people will take to the streets.

It is necessary to kidnap the managers who organize the protest; at the same time, in no case should you touch people who are its symbols Lukashenka once again demonstrated his inability to act rationally. It is necessary to kidnap the managers who ORGANIZE the protest; at the same time, in no case should you touch people who are its SYMBOLS. The protest is based on emotions, and attacking the symbol will only spur these emotions.

The Prosecutor General's Office approved the indictment in the criminal case against Karina Turcan, who is accused of espionage. The case was sent to the Moscow City Court. Former Inter RAO top manager Karina Turcan was arrested in June 2018. She is charged with transferring secret information to the Information and Security Service of Moldova, which then allegedly transferred it to NATO bodies.

The head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Rogozin, refused to give personal guarantee for his adviser Ivan Safronov, who was accused of treason. According to Open Media, citing sources, Rogozin decided not to publicly stand up for his subordinate after consultations with FSB officers who work for Roscosmos. In July, when the security forces detained Safronov, Rogozin stated that he had worked for the corporation for a month and a half and had no access to classified information.

The most surprising thing about the reaction to Navalny's poisoning is the lack of reaction Well, that is, there are weak movements: it is clear that the Kremlin is in a deaf unconscious, as with a Boeing (“and you prove it”), the Foreign Ministry rattles pots, the old jesters Roshal and Pozner are released into the arena - the propaganda kettle habitually cooks something, gurgles and champs .

People in Minsk are not beaten by riot police, as on August 9-12, but by groups of people dressed in civilian clothes with rubber truncheons A new wave of mass violence in Belarus: after a three-week pause, mass beatings and kidnappings of citizens in Belarusian cities resumed last night. The novelty is that people are not beaten by riot police, as on August 9-12, but by groups of people dressed in civilian clothes with rubber truncheons.

Today, "The Navalny Factor" has become a political event, allowing not only to be convinced of what Russian reality is, but also to look at Western politics What happened to Alexei Navalny is a tragedy for his family and for his associates. This is a tragedy for Russia, in which opposing the authorities threatens with the loss of life. Today, The Navalny Factor has become a political event, allowing not only to be convinced of what Russian reality is, but also to look at Western politics.

According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus, during the protests on Sunday, the security forces detained 633 people. 363 people have been left in isolation wards until the court considers cases on administrative offenses. According to the police , 42 protest actions were held in various cities of the country, in which about 31 thousand people took part. At the same time, they provoked the security forces.

31% of Russians are ready to vote for United Russia if the elections to the State Duma were held next Sunday. These are the data of the Levada Center poll . 11% of respondents would vote for the LDPR, 7% for the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, 3% for A Just Russia. The rest of the parties won no more than 2%. 6% of Russians said they would spoil the ballot, and 22% would not go to the polls.

The Ministry of Finance in August for the first time since the end of 2017 used the National Welfare Fund to finance the budget deficit. According to RBC , the Ministry of Finance withdrew dollars, euros and pounds from the NWF's account at the Central Bank and exchanged them for 3.56 billion rubles in order to finance the budget deficit. The volume of the NWF as of September 1 amounted to 13 trillion 256.7 billion rubles. In August, its volume increased by 297.96 billion rubles.

Coronavirus could cost the global economy $35 trillion by 2025. This is the assessment of the Australian National University professor Warrick McKibbin, Kommersant writes with reference to Bloomberg . "We'll have to vaccinate enough people before the economic costs start to come down," he said. It will take a long time to make a vaccine widely available around the world, McKibbin warns. There are many reasons for concern in terms of the economy this year, the agency notes.