"Memorial" installed stands with portraits of victims of the shooting house in which it is planned to open a perfume boutique Photo: Victoria Odissonova / "New Gazeta" Before the shooting house (Nikolskaya St., 23), two stands appeared. On one - information about the most disastrous house: from 1933 to 1949, the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR was located here.

Punitive psychiatry returned to the FSIN institutions Photo: RIA Novosti According to the International Human Rights Society, at least two million people became victims of punitive psychiatry in the USSR. “Sluggish schizophrenia” was a favorite diagnosis of Soviet psychiatrists not only for political dissidents, but also for tramps, deviates from the army and religious dissenters. Haloperidol helped fight the "socially dangerous" citizens of the Soviet Union.

The administration of US President Donald Trump is finalizing a package of sanctions against companies involved in the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline project. This was reported to The Wall Street Journal by US officials. In August 2017, the U.S. Congress, as part of a package of sanctions against Russia for alleged election meddling, gave the president the power to impose sanctions on companies and individuals working on the pipeline.

Economist Dmitry Prokofiev explains how the political struggle of twenty years ago was determined by the Russian present Photo: Sergey Metelitsa / Photokhronika TASS August 1998 is more important for Russian politics than August 1991. That is why modern stories about default are trying to reduce exclusively to the economy. However, the economy here lost to politics. The canonical version of the events was formulated by officials.

In Russia, the total wage arrears for July 2018 increased by 586.3 million rubles (20.9%) compared to the previous month and as of August 1 amounted to almost 3.4 billion rubles. Information concerns organizations that are not related to small businesses. This is stated in the report of the Federal State Statistics Service (Rosstat).

Children's hospice "House with a lighthouse" urgently needs money for life Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" There is good news - the children's hospice “House with a lighthouse” in Moscow is built. There is a worse news - to open it, you need to collect another 80 million rubles. Without furniture, medical equipment, special strollers and armchairs, household appliances and toys of the housewarming, which they have been waiting for five years, will not be. And this is unbearably unjust.

Maria Butina, who was arrested in the United States for working as an unregistered foreign agent, was transferred to another prison. This was reported to TASS by her lawyer Robert Driscoll. Butina was transferred from a city prison in Washington to a prison in one of the nearest suburbs - the city of Alexandria (Virginia). This happened on the evening of 17 August without explanation and without notice to the lawyer who visited her on the morning of 18 August.

The statistics of children in need of unregistered antiepileptic drugs, announced by the Minister of Health Veronika Skvortsova, is underestimated. about this to Ekho Moskvy on Facebook. wrote Lida Moniava, deputy director of the House with a Lighthouse Children's Hospice, In an interview with Komsomolskaya Pravda, Skvortsova reported that across Russia, only seven children needed unregistered drugs for epilepsy. These data were obtained by the ministry from 77 regions.

this The channel of the Echo of Moscow radio station on Youtube video hosting has resumed work, the journalist of the publication Alexander Plushev announced in his telegram channel. subscribers The number of channel remained the same - about 200 thousand people, the entire archive of the station's broadcasts was also saved. Previously unknown on the afternoon of August 18, he logged into the Ekho Moskvy Youtube account and destroyed the channel.

The Russian ship "Mekhanik Pogodin", located in the port of Kherson, was blocked there for three years. about this . Izet Gdanov, First Deputy Permanent Representative of the President of Ukraine in the Autonomous Republic of Crimea, told Hromadskom Radio “On August 10, the asset of this company, namely the vessel Mechanik Pogodin, was blocked for three years in the port of Kherson,” Gdanov told the publication.

"Dad, die" - the best film of the Festival "Window to Europe" Frame from the movie "At the Angel Angina" The festival in Vyborg takes place at the end of summer, calendar and festival on the western border. In a city founded by the Swedes included in the Russian state by Peter - for the safety of the capital of the Russian Empire. The Decembrists were prisoners of the Vyborg castle, here they hid the leader of the world proletariat before the final revolution.

On the eve of the next “Minsk meeting”, the Russians held in Ukraine asked to exchange them for Ukrainian prisoners. "Gromad" tells their stories Transportation of prisoners. Photo: Valery Matytsin / TASS The administration of the President of Ukraine has already stated that Petro Poroshenko was ready to pardon all the Russians at any time - as soon as the counter -“political will” appears in Russia to free and exchange everyone under trial or in prisons of Ukrainians.

On August 17, the Motovilikhinsky District Court of Perm issued the liberation from the colony Valery Parfenov, convicted in the case of the initiative group in the referendum “For the responsible power”, counting his deadline for the so -called The Law "Day for one and a half." To the message of the movement "Left Flang Perm" drew attention to "Grani.ru". In his appeal, Parfyonov announced his intention to applied for a court decision.

In Moscow, a farewell ceremony was held for the writer Eduard Uspensky, after which he was buried at the Troekurovsky cemetery. This was reported to TASS by the writer's lawyer. .

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko signed a law that exempts enterprises of the military-industrial complex (OPK), members of the state concern Ukroboronprom, from paying debts to companies from "aggressor states". The document prohibits enforcement of decisions of foreign courts on the collection of debts from Ukrainian defense industry enterprises in favor of the enterprises of the “occupying state”.