The 73-year-old Barnier, a representative of the right-wing party, which took only fourth place in the elections, became the Prime Minister of France. Leftists promise mass protests On September 5, 60 days after the extraordinary parliamentary elections he himself appointed, French President Emmanuel Macron decided on the candidacy of a new prime minister. They appointed Michel Barnier, a 73-year-old former European Commissioner and multiple minister in the governments of Chirac and Sarkozy.

The cruel and distrustful dictator Stroessner figured out how to rule Paraguay, but lost power due to squabbling among the allies. Alfredo Stroessner. Photo: AP / TASS A year after the coup, when Paraguayan dictator Alfredo Stroessner lost power and was forced to flee the country, he met with British journalist Isabel Hilton in the capital of Brazil. After a short greeting, the general began to explain to the journalist what kind of regime he had built in the country.

For the first time, the supervisory agency drew attention to one of the most famous films on LGBT* themes, writes the Roskomsvoboda project**. According to human rights activists, on September 3, the RKN blocked links to this film on three pirated sites.

On the 20th anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in Russia, Novaya publishes materials from the criminal case, which the state has been hiding from victims and society for so many years Military personnel are on duty near the building of School No. 1, captured by militants. Photo: ITAR-TASS / Grigory Sysoev These documents, published for the first time, concern the most important issues surrounding the circumstances of the assault on school No.

66-year-old director Andrei Nekrasov was detained on August 24 in the Smolensk region, writes Deutsche Welle*. Nekrasov himself contacted journalists and said that he was in a detention center for foreign citizens, since he now only had German citizenship. The director said that he was detained by FSB officers in civilian clothes, who accused him of filming near their building. At the same time, Nekrasov claims that he did not know what kind of house it was.

Photo: MikeNick26 / social network X, 2018 On September 5, the European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) in Strasbourg published a decision on the lawsuit of 26 Russians against Russia. Among the plaintiffs were opposition politician Alexei Navalny, journalist Alexander Plyushchev*, then-deputy of the State Council of Komi Viktor Vorobyov* and others. The plaintiffs complained about the actions of the Russian government, which tried to block the Telegram messenger.

Having heard in Simonyan’s report that there are 354 hostages, the terrorists threaten to increase their number to this figure. But there is no remorse, but there is another wampuka AUDIO VERSION This material has an audio version on Youtube. Read by Irina Petrovskaya. The whole week passed under the sign of memory of the Beslan tragedy that happened 20 years ago.

In Engels, officials demand the demolition of a shelter for homeless animals Photo: Nadezhda Andreeva / Novaya Gazeta The Engels Committee on Land Resources demands the dismantling of enclosures at the “Dog’s Heart” shelter for homeless animals. According to officials, the land on the outskirts of the city was allocated for the construction of walking and training areas, and not for the permanent keeping of animals.

A still from a video of a passer-by attacking a woman wearing a hijab in Moscow The incident occurred at the entrance to the Novogireevo metro station in western Moscow. A middle-aged woman passing by approached a woman in a hijab and, turning on the phone, began to reprimand her that she should not dress like that. It quickly became clear that she mistook women in hijab for Tajiks and began accusing them of “their husbands” behaving aggressively in Russia and attacking Russians.

Why was a 72-year-old scientist and pioneer of the Internet industry in Russia, who owned, among other things, the rights to the “.SU” domain, sent to a pre-trial detention center to die? Alexey Soldatov at a press conference dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the .SU domain. Photo: Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS Scientist. 72 years old. For the first time in a pre-trial detention center. No, not what you think.

Photo: documents of deserter Kamil Kasimov Kamil Kasimov signed a contract with the Russian Ministry of Defense even before the start of the military special operation and the announcement of partial mobilization. After them, he could no longer break the contract and escaped from the military unit in 2023, eventually taking refuge in Kazakhstan. In Astana, he got a job, where he was detained in April 2024 - in the presence of a Russian military investigator, right at his workplace .

Miracles of the Eastern Economic Forum in Vladivostok Once upon a time, the Eastern Economic Forum was a platform where leaders of leading Asian powers met. Comrade Xi came personally from Beijing, baked pancakes with Putin on “Far East Street” and discussed multibillion-dollar projects.