Trump, as expected, “popped like a bulldozer”, interrupted his opponent, he lost his style. The efforts of the moderator to lead the debate into the mainstream stipulated by the rules did not bring success. The first round of debate between Donald Trump and Joe Biden was expected: it was one of the last chances for the US president to reverse the negative situation in the campaign, to make his opponent make a mistake. What happened in the end?

All the essential questions drowned behind the squabble. There was a feeling of a complete senseless mess, such as we have on a talk show in Ukraine The first debate is over. Much to my surprise, cognitively Biden was not bad at all. Except for the obvious failure - the statement that Hunter never used drugs, but soon, forgetting about this lie, Biden said that yes, Hunter had a problem, but he was cured.

Dmitriev does not give up MAIN • Yury Dmitriev, the head of the local branch of Memorial, called lawlessness the decision of the Supreme Court of Karelia, whose was increased sentence to 13 years the day before. “Not broken, not wilted, ready to fight on! We will still fight, ” wrote a historian from the pre-trial detention center.

The government submitted to the State Duma a bill to extend for another year the moratorium on the transfer of contributions to the funded part of the pension. This is reported by Interfax . The “freeze” has been in effect since 2014 and is renewed annually: 6% of the salary of Russians in the funded part of the pension is sent to the insurance part, without the formation of pension savings. The moratorium is currently in effect until 2022.

The tightening of punishment for the historian Yury Dmitriev from 3.5 to 13 years in a colony in the European Union was regarded as politically motivated and they announced the need to release the head of the Karelian "Memorial". "The European Union believes that Dmitriev's criminal prosecution was prompted by his human rights work and his research into political repression during the Soviet period," an told Interfax .

At the airport in Minsk, security forces detained basketball player Elena Levchenko, who spoke in support of the opposition. According to TUT.BY , she was supposed to fly out for planned treatment and rehabilitation, but she was taken to the police department in connection with her participation in illegal mass events. Levchenko was accused of violating the procedure for organizing or holding mass events and was left in a special detention center pending trial.

The film by Armenian director Jivan Avetisyan "Gate to Paradise" was removed from the out-of-competition program of the 42nd Moscow International Film Festival. It is reported by NSN . “The picture is dedicated to Karabakh, the conflict in its historical aspect. They considered that the picture of the war, which began again, would be perceived as an open statement on the side of one country.

A court in Minsk arrested well-known basketball player Elena Levchenko for 15 days, finding her guilty of participating in unauthorized mass events. The blame was established from a photo on Instagram and news on the Pressball Internet portal, TUT.BY reports . Levchenko was charged with participating in two protests.

The Central Election Commission recognized the work of the election commission of St. Petersburg as unsatisfactory and invited its members to resign. The head of the CEC, Ella Pamfilova, said that if the recommendations are not implemented, the department will seek the dissolution of the commission through the courts. She recalled that the results of the commission's work are recognized as unsatisfactory for the third time.

This story can be thrown right in Putin's face. His personal shame And remember, there was such a youth movement "Nashi"? Huge rallies in the center of Moscow. T-shirts with portraits of Putin. Fights with the opposition. Annual forum on Lake Seliger with the participation of the president. And, of course, an endless stream of budget money. When the Nashi appeared in Russian politics, I was 22 years old. We bumped into the streets and fought in debates.

Chekists have always killed. And now they gave a Stalin term to Yuri Dmitriev, a man who did everything in his power to return the names of those who were shot, so as not to let us forget about the atrocities committed Chekists have always killed. Already on October 29, 1917 - and there was no Cheka yet - but the Bolshevik comrades (sorry, but they are all Chekists for me) had already fired cannons at the Junker boys who were trying to defend the Provisional Government.

I think that most commentators will give the "first debate victory" to Biden - exactly because Trump burned tens of millions of dollars, making him senile, and there was no senility at all I don't envy those who watched the US presidential debates for the first time. Usually - on Youtube you can watch the last sixty years - it's a much more civilized, sometimes even boring thing. This time it was different.

The head of the Karelian "Memorial" Yuri Dmitriev wrote a letter from the pre-trial detention center, in which he said that he was ready for further struggle. The historian, whose term of imprisonment was extended to 13 years in a strict regime colony, was written by the historian to photographer Victoria Ivleva the day before. It is published by Novaya Gazeta .