For the second year in a row, the days of memory of the executed in Karelia are held without Yuri Dmitriev Photo: Anna Artemyeva / "New Gazeta" “Dmitriev is sitting behind Sandarmokh,” - friend and co -author of Dmitriev Anatoly Razumov (historian, editor of the Leningrad Martyrologist, head of the Center “Returned Names”) brief, although when he talks about searches and Solovetsky stages, the rain begins outside the window. He lived with Yuri Alekseevich a week on the eve of the second arrest.

Interview with Mikhail Saakashvili Photo: RIA Novosti Why did the Russian army not take Tbilisi in 2008, about the “soft force”, which should attract separatist territories, and what Mikhail Saakashvili himself is ready to sacrifice in exchange for the return of Abkhazia and South Ossetia - he told Pavel Kanygin in an interview -Mikhail Nikolozovich, when the war began, why did you not ask your American allies to intercede? Did they know that they would not respond anyway?

The unofficial so-called "friends of Georgia" group, which includes ten countries, called on Russia to cancel recognition of the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia and fully implement the ceasefire agreement brokered by the European Union on August 12, 2008. The appeal was published on the website of the American Embassy in Georgia.

One of the employees of the Belarusian site TUT.BY Ulyana Boboed, who was detained in the case of illegal access to the information feed of the state agency BelTA, was released after interrogation at the Investigative Committee of Belarus. The founder of TUT.BY Yuri Zisser announced this on his Facebook page. “Yevgenia Berezyuk, a former editorial staff member who quit back in 2016, was released after interrogation,” Zisser added.

Photo project of Sergey Nazarov - about people who fled from the war from South Ossetia to Georgia In 2008, as a result of the armed conflict between South Ossetia and Georgia, thousands of Georgian families living in Ossetia were forced to leave their homes, their native land and flee to the historical homeland, to Georgia. For such families, about 40 special villages were built. The village Tsarovani.

Ukrainian citizen Stanislav Klykh, who was convicted in Russia for participating in the Chechen war, was transferred from a psychiatric hospital back to a colony. This was announced by the Commissioner of the Verkhovna Rada for Human Rights Lyudmila Denisova on her Facebook. “Stanislav said that in a psychiatric hospital he was “pumped up” with psychotropic drugs, and he does not know how this will affect his condition in the future. According to Tamara (Klykh's mother - ed.

Five Belarusian journalists were detained on charges of unauthorized access to information On Tuesday morning, employees of the Investigative Committee of Belarus, accompanied by OMON, came to the editorial office of the TUT.BY portal and the Belapan news agency. In the Minsk business center Omega Tower on Dzerzhinsky Avenue, where the TUT.BY office is located, several floors were cordoned off. Belapan journalists were not allowed to work.

Why is national IT business in Russia good prospects Photo: EPA Apple published a quarterly report that broke the most daring expectations of analysts, and the company's exchange capitalization for the first time in the history of mankind exceeded $ 1 trillion. You can treat the amounts of capitalization in different ways, especially after Facebook last week for one trading session lost $ 120 billion.

This must be able to: make so much nasty things and so little to extract from this benefit Photo: Yuri Kozyrev / "New Gazeta" On August 8, 2008, it is considered the official date of the beginning of the Russian-Georgian War. The war began in South Ossetia. I was in this unrecognized republic before I remember how, having returned, she told my friend: “There will be a war in the Caucasus. And it will begin in South Ossetia.

The Central Electoral Commission (CEC) will consider on August 8 three initiatives to hold a referendum on raising the retirement age. This was reported by Kommersant, citing a source. According to him, another initiative was shown by "just a group of citizens-activists." At the same time, the question they proposed sounds like another initiator of the referendum, a candidate for mayor of Moscow, Ilya Sviridov.

Internal offshores create in Russia for those who run from classic under pressure from American sanctions Photo: RIA Novosti At the end of July, Vladimir Putin signed a package of laws establishing two zones on the territory of Russia with preferential conditions for the work of foreign companies - on Russian islands in the Primorsky Territory and Oktyabrsky in the Kaliningrad region.

The European Union is trying to protect its economy from US sanctions against Iran Photo: Reuters On Monday, the United States unilaterally left the Iranian agreement. Washington resumes large -scale sanctions against the Middle Eastern country. The actions of the American administration caused a “deep regret” in Europe - this is stated in a joint statement by foreign ministers of Great Britain, Germany and France.

South Ossetia after the war with Georgia: refugees, poverty, life of ethnic Georgians and hope for Russia Photo: Sergey Nazarov, for "New" Ten years ago, on August 8, 2008, the third Georgian-Ossetian conflict began the third after the collapse of the USSR. According to the official Tbilisi, at about 2 a.m. the South Ossetian army attacked several Georgian villages near the capital of South Ossetia, in response, the Armed Forces of Georgia began the bombing of the city.

Will the new strategy help turn the peripheral department into an independent political player Photo: RIA Novosti Last week, Aleksei Kudrin, who settles in the role of the Chamber of County Chamber, presented the new strategy of the department until 2024. In principle, the old would have fit for another year, but Kudrin decided to hurry up and set a new vector for the development of the site controlled by him.

The Department of the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region launched an investigation after reports of abuse of prisoners in local pre-trial detention centers and colonies. “Currently, the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region is checking information published in a number of media outlets about human rights violations in places of deprivation of liberty,” the says .