Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Olga Golodets instructed to investigate the death of Artem Chechikov, who could not help at Sheremetyevo Airport for a long time after a heart attack. On August 18, 24-year-old Artem Chechkov returned with his wife from a wedding trip from Barcelona to Chelyabinsk. In the flight of Chechikov, it became bad with the heart. The pilots landed the plane at the nearest airport, called the reanimobile to the ladder, but there was no ambulance brigade in Sheremetyevo.

First Moscow Restaurant "McDonald's", January 31, 1990 They say that the golden arch of this winged diner is familiar to the world better than the symbols of all other religions - from the cross to the crescent. Many believe that there is nothing good in this. Fighting with a variety of gastronomic culture, “McDonald's” willing the planet with its universal menu. In principle, I agree with this, and in America I wander in McDonald's only by need - in search of a restroom.

Alexander Ankvab In the self -proclaimed Republic of Abkhazia, extraordinary presidential elections are held Extraordinary presidential elections in the self -proclaimed Republic of Abkhazia are held against the backdrop of an exacerbation of the domestic political situation.

Memory of Boris Dubin, translator and sociologist. Radio Liberty repeats the program with the participation of one of the brilliant Russian intellectuals and enlighteners. "Unclaimed solidarity." By the anniversary of the Soviet invasion of Prague. Complex of Soviet superiority, memory of memory. The attitude of post -Soviet societies to the invasion.

Residents of Rostov-on-Don in the presence of the police exchange arguments in favor and against Ukraine, August 24, 2014 In Rostov-on-Don on August 24-on the Independence Day of Ukraine-about ten civilian activists tried to hold a picket on Lenin Square in support of the sovereignty of Ukraine. But aggressive supporters of the so -called New Russia prevented this, there were much more.

In the east of Ukraine over the past day, five military men have died, eight more were injured. According to the representative of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Andrei Lysenko, government troops continue the offensive. Separatists on Sunday from the Grad installations fired at the village of Kommunar in the Donetsk region. In the village they burn at home, Ukrainian troops came to the aid of local residents.

To the 75th anniversary of the secret protocols of 1939. Has the Treaty with Germany helped the Soviet Union? Would he become the cause of World War II, or would the war come without him? How did historians look for the originals of the document? Says Professor Oleg Budnitsky Ivan Tolstoy: The myth of the pact. On August 23, the 75th anniversary of the signing of the non -aggression agreement between Germany and the Soviet Union has turned 75 years.

In Kyiv, a military parade was held, dedicated to the Day of Independence of Ukraine. More than 25 thousand troops and cadets and several dozen units of armored vehicles took part in it. Armored vehicles "Watch", Zenit and Ut-U, Point-U, S-300, as well as BTR-3 and BTR-4E-4Es, passed along the main street of Kyiv, the Vysota Cars, the BTR-3 and BTR-4E.

The Palestinian Police said that the Israeli military air forces completely destroyed the seven-story building in the gas sector, where the office of the Palestinian Ministry of the Interior was located. The commercial center in Rafaha was severely damaged, when she was sheated, seven people were injured. According to Palestinian medical sources, in the western part of the gas sector, two people became victims of air strikes, five more were injured.

In Iraq on Saturday, at least 34 people became victims of explosions. When attacking a suicide bomber on an office of security services in Baghdad, at least three people were killed and nine suffered. In the city of Baacuba, 60 kilometers north of the Iraqi capital, 13 people were killed as a result of attacks and clashes between the police and the alleged militants of the Islamic State group.

25 activists of the Coalition "Democratic Petersburg" decided to congratulate Ukraine on Independence Day, going to Nevsky Prospekt with a series of single pickets. The main slogan of the action is "Congratulations to Ukraine on Independence Day!" According to Radio Liberty correspondent Tatyana Voltskaya, the organizers of the action distributed a statement on the Internet that said: “We always performed and continue to support the people of Ukraine and its European choice.

In the province of Rakka in the north-east of Syria, the armed detachments of the Islamists occupied a significant part of the territory of the air-air base of Tabka. The Syrian human rights group, based in the UK, claims on the basis of data from its sources in Syria that on Sunday the battles for control over the base continued, but, apparently, it is already in the hands of the Islamic State group detachments.

To the 75th anniversary of the secret protocols of 1939. Has the Treaty with Germany helped the Soviet Union? Would he become the cause of World War II, or would the war come without him? How did historians look for the originals of the document? Says Professor Oleg Budnitsky.

US Secretary of State John Kerry confirmed that the American journalist captured in Syria was released by a group associated with Al-Qaeda, who was fighting against the government of Syria President Bashar al-Assad. Peter Theo Curtis was released through the mediation of Katar authorities just a few days after a video appeared on the Internet with a scene of decapitating American journalist James Fotley.