Your humble servant is of the belief that by choosing politics, a person consciously agrees to greater openness in his life. Public activity obliges. What is inappropriate in relation to a private person is appropriate, and even necessary, in relation to a public figure, since the fate of other people depends on him to a much greater extent. Therefore, Eduard Veniaminovich should not have any complaints against the author for making his character-ethical-psychological portrait public.

On August 24, a meeting of the public initiative group for the development of transport infrastructure was held at the Voronezh House of Human Rights. From the very beginning, this group became a meeting place for people who are concerned about the situation on city roads, regardless of civil and political preferences.

"Everything is drowning in pharisaism..." Pasternak wrote an ominous phrase. For all time. Although I would not have disturbed this popularly familiar topic if it had not been for an accident near the court on August 17. The disputes did not subside there until the night. Near me, two people were furiously discussing the same thing, and one, finding no more arguments, suddenly barked: - Go... to church!

“We hasten to disappoint the Kremlin bastards: 2 women left the country due to dangers, but at least 12 Pussy Riot members remain in Russia,” the infamous Pussy Riot group reported on Twitter three hours ago. "Impale the rabid pelotaks! And crucify all the pedoleberasts on crosses!" - comments @sovprezidenta . Feminists who left Russia, with the help of their Western comrades, intend to prepare new actions ( @pussy_riot ).

Yesterday, a creative evening was held at the Artefaq club in support of political prisoners in the “May 6th Case” . Great event, there were a lot of good people. We collected 375 thousand rubles, which will be used to help prisoners. Plus, Artefaq will use 10% of the bar’s revenue from yesterday for the same purpose. Many thanks to all the organizers of the evening and special thanks to RosUznik .

My definition of myself as a democrat out of despair and my tendency to dream of a society with an educational qualification for voters often causes laughter or a condescending smile. This is the best case scenario. It happens that timid attempts to imagine a country where they vote with their minds seem completely extremist. Meanwhile, let's do the math. With a claim to responsibility for the data provided, I will say: - about 10% of voters automatically vote for the current government.

Photo: Reuters Nile Armstrong died - the first person who visited the moon. He was 82 years old. Armstrong died due to complications after heart surgery made in early August. The astronaut went down in history in July 1969, when he headed the crew of the Apollo-11 ship, the first spacecraft to deliver people to the moon. He stayed on the moon 2.5 hours.

Let's separate the wheat from the chaff. The Pussy Riot action in the CSU is pure politics. Not fooled by Surkov’s propaganda and the aggressive rhetoric of the speakers of the Russian Orthodox Church, the world media unanimously insist that the girls were imprisoned precisely for the anti-Putin song. And then it went as usual. They ruined his holiday, and he ruined their life.

Two people died in a terrible accident in the Nizhny Novgorod region. The Subaru crashed at full speed into a Niva parked on the side of the road. The heavy impact caused the domestic SUV to overturn. The driver of the foreign car and his passengers escaped with minor injuries, and instead of helping the victims they continued to celebrate something.

I quote without any humor. “The interregional public movement in support of Orthodox educational and social initiatives “Bee” has developed instructions for Orthodox citizens on how to counter blasphemers . If the temple you are in is attacked by blasphemers, you need to do the following: 1. To divert the blasphemer’s attention from attempts to desecrate the temple to himself by spitting in his face. 2. If the blasphemers use masks to hide their faces, tear off these masks. 3. Call the police.

In two regions of Russia, unknown persons cut down and toppled 4 worship crosses . On the night from Friday to Saturday in Arkhangelsk, in the Varavino-Factoria district, unknown persons cut down a worship cross installed on the site of the Church of the Holy Martyr Victor. A similar act of vandalism occurred on the same day in the Chelyabinsk region.

Only the lazy did not disposal the news that Sting, after he stood up for Pussey, immediately went to Italy to take part in the Silvio Berlusconi in a cramped between Putin's birthday. Italian journalists conducted an investigation and found out that Sting really came to Italy to speak at his birthday, but not a mythical Putin sister, but at the birthday of Irina Viner, the coach Alina Kabaeva and the former trustee of Putin in the last presidential election.

All this time, starting with the attack on “Beware of Religion” (I was not even at this exhibition as a spectator), I have been saying: the artistic space is through the looking glass. The artist’s statement is a gesture, not an act, just as playing an actor in a film as a bandit is not a crime, so the painting “Ivan the Terrible kills his son” is not a call for murder. The artist has the right to the most radical gestures while remaining in it. But they didn't hear me.

Environmental activist, head of Ecowatch Suren Ghazaryan was detained in Gelendzhik. The arrest took place during an action near the patriarch's dacha. On his Twitter, he writes: “The guards wrote that I threatened them, repeatedly swung a stone at them, caused psychological trauma... They handed me an obligation to appear and a decision to initiate a case.

On August 25, 1968, a demonstration took place near Lobnoye Mesto on Red Square in Moscow against the entry of Soviet troops into Czechoslovakia. Eight people took part in the demonstration. Let's remember their names, let's remember their faces - these people saved the honor of Russia. Konstantin Babitsky (1929-1993) Tatyana Baeva (*1947) Larisa Bogoraz (1929-2004) Natalya Gorbanevskaya (*1936) Vadim Delone (1947-1983) Vladimir Dremlyuga (*1940) Pavel Litvinov (*1940) Victor Fainberg (*1931).