Elena Rykovtseva: Gennady Timchenko, who is unusually close to Vladimir Putin, a person who has Labrador Koni so close, it is impossible to imagine a great degree of proximity, gave an interview to ITAR TASS on how, on his family, his business reflected well -known sanctions. We will talk with our guests about whether the president’s environment can influence him in his decisions, thoughts, actions and actions exactly in connection with the fact that the circumstances of their life have changed?

In the west of the capital of Afghanistan, Kabul, during an attack on the territory of the National Academy of Defense, died an American general general, another 15 people were injured, including the German brigade general and 3 Afghan officers. The attacker was killed. The death of the general was confirmed by the US Department of Defense. His name is not yet called. This is the most senior from among the American troops who died in Afghanistan since 2001.

Former dissident, editor -in -chief of the "SETSERY newspapers" - about the Polish path, love for Russia and dislike for Putin Radio Liberty continues a series of publications dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the fall of the communist regime in Poland. Our interlocutors were ex-presidents of Poland Lech Valens and Alexander Kvasnevski and architect of radical economic reforms Leshk Balcerovich .

Moldova calls on Russia to withdraw troops from the self -proclaimed Transnistrian Republic. On August 5, the Moldavian Foreign Ministry called on Moscow to fulfill the Russian OSCE in 1999 and to remove one and a half thousand military personnel and thousands of tons of weapons and ammunition from Transnistria. On Monday, Moscow accused Moldova and Ukraine of trying to block access to Russian troops in Transnistria.

Instead of tourists, the Russian government will go to the warm sea in full force - in order to support the inhabitants of Crimea with their presence and make sure that the flour of international isolation due to the annexation of the peninsula is not in vain. Crimea, obviously, is destined to stay in the political halo of martyrdom - Russia, maybe I would like to feel, but cannot. Who would help yourself.

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The BBC World Service rejected the claims of Roskomnadzor and does not intend to delete the text of an interview with the Novosibirsk artist Artem Loskutov from the Internet, who talked about the "march for the federalization of Siberia." "Mr. Loskutov is an artist and activist, known as the organizer of events that, at first glance, are parody, but in fact they raise serious questions regarding life in Russia. The views of Mr. Loskutov represent his personal position, " the BBC statement said .

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In the Ivanovo region, five paintings by Isaac Levitan are stolen from the reserve museum in Plyos, Interfax reports. On Tuesday night, thieves penetrated the museum’s room through the window, breaking it, and tore off the canvases from the exhibition places. Among the stolen works "River Back", "Roses" and "Quiet River". According to preliminary data, the amount of damage caused is about 77 million rubles. In total, in the collection of the museum 18 works by Levitan.

In Pakistan, about thirty participants in anti -government formations have been killed today at the positions of Islamists in the North Vaziristan region. The statement of the Pakistani command states, in particular, about the destruction of six shelters of extremists. Blows were struck in the areas of Datakhal, Marsikhel and Kamsham. Government troops began a massive operation against the formations of Islamists near borders with Afghanistan in May of this year.

Freedom quotes 05 August 2014 Liveblog about discussions on the network Fresh from above 19:55 5.8.2014 Nobody will live to a pension. Bad and good scenarios. The problem of clinical oligophrenes. Wedding in jail Raising taxes is one of the options for increasing the budget, but it will be realized in the most extreme case #Medvedev - Government of Russia (@Pravitelstvo_rf) August 5, 2014 Well, that is, it will certainly be.

Russian television channels announced to Irma a short “Eurosadist” and “SS granddaughter”. For the first time, Irma briefly tells her story In Russia, the name of the television journalist and activist of the Maidan Irma CREM became known thanks to the plots of the Lifenews television channel and the unbridled program of NTV " The centurion in pantyhose ".

Alexey Navalny The Lublin Court of Moscow postponed the meeting on August 19 on the claim for the protection of the honor and dignity of the deputy mayor of Moscow Maxim Liksutov towards the opposition Alexei Navalny, his associate Georgy Alburov and the “Fund for Combating Corruption”. At a meeting on Tuesday, the court agreed with the plaintiff’s claims to provide time to familiarize himself with the defendant's objections to the claims, which asks only Alexei Navalny to act as the defendant.

The UN Office for Refugees urges Ukraine to create a centralized system for registering internal refugees, the number of which is growing sharply. According to the agency, more than 117 thousand people left the East of Ukraine, where fights are going on, and left for other regions of the country. In addition, 15,200 people left Crimea.

The separatists fired a column of unarmed Ukrainian troops who returned from the territory of Russia, the press center of special operations in eastern Ukraine reports. There are no victims among the military. The day before, a large group of Ukrainian military after a long battle was forced to retreat to the territory of Russia. Before leaving, they blew up the remaining military equipment and destroyed their weapons.