Last night, nine paratroopers of the 98th Svir Division of the Airborne Forces detained in Ukraine returned to Russia. This was reported by RIA Novosti, referring to the deputy commander of the airborne troops of Alexei Ragozin. On August 26, the Security Service of Ukraine reported the detention of ten Kostroma paratroopers in Ukraine. Soon, the Ukrainian military released one of the detainees - Artem Kuzmin, who received burns, was taken to a hospital in St. Petersburg.

Oleg Sentsov On Sunday, a solidarity evening with political prisoners of Crimea was held in Moscow In May 2014, four young people were detained in Crimea, who soon charged with terrorism and illegal turnover of weapons. Among them are director Oleg Sentsov, an activist of Avtodana and the author of the film "Gamer", and activist Alexander Kolchenko.

Emigrants and non -conformists, “Parisian school” and artists of the Soviet underground. The right to freedom in the non -free world. Graphic sketches as a personal diary of the artist and the space of his freedom. Improvisation and discipline, craft and magic. What is a “readiness for a masterpiece”? Squat as a way of life: beggar bugs or bonfires of ambitions? Parisian and Moscow squat. Unusual characters, new languages and personal art strategies of the XX and XXI centuries.

Iraqi military personnel, with the support of the Shiite militia detachments and Kurdish armed groups of Peshmerga on Sunday, entered the city of Ammerley besieged by militants of the Islamic State. The operation of the liberation of Ammerley began on Saturday. US military aviation struck the positions of Islamists on the approaches to the city. At the same time, American aircraft dumped humanitarian goods for city residents.

NATO intends to create five new military bases in Europe. This was written by the German edition of Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. According to the publication, the bases will be built in Poland, Romania, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. At these bases, about four thousand military personnel as part of a quick response units will be located. The newspaper notes that the leadership of the North Atlantic Union in this way intends to guarantee the safety of its members from Russia.

Holders of new euro longs: Federica Mogherini and Donald Tusk At the meeting of the EU leaders, Russia was threatened with new sanctions. But not right away Despite the next night vigil of its participants, the Summit of the European Union, held on August 30-31 in Brussels, did not become a revelation.

How the current old light works: people, words and things of Europe.

Alexander Osovtsov Former deputy and director of the Open Russia Foundation Alexander Osovtsov - about how to stop the war of Russia and Ukraine During the Chechen war, several hundred Russian soldiers and officers refused to participate in hostilities.

In the southeast of Iceland, the eruption of the Bardarbung volcano began. According to the country's weather service, eruption is not yet accompanied by the release of ash into the atmosphere, but the probability of this is extremely high. Due to the eruption, increased to the maximum-"red"-the level of danger to aviation. Above the part of Iceland, a airspace for flights at an altitude of up to five and a half thousand meters is closed.

The Strategies-31 campaign, held in St. Petersburg on August 31, resembled the previous shares of activists of the Unregistered Party “Another Russia” only in form: instead of protecting the freedom of assembly, it was dedicated to the events in Ukraine. As usual, the action was not agreed, and at the traditional place of its holding at the metro station "Gostiny Dvor" there was a concert of folk song and dance.

The head of the European Council Herman Van Rompei announced the leading elaboration of new EU sanctions against Russia in connection with its actions in Ukraine. Work on proposals for sanctions will be completed, according to the politician, "in one week." Van Rompey performed on Sunday after the EU summit in Brussels.

German tanks enter Polish territory. September 1939 Poland recalls the war of 75 years ago, looking at a new war in a neighboring country The 75th anniversary of the German attack on Poland on September 1, 1939, which became the beginning of World War II, remains in the shadow of other military events-Ukrainian. Recently, I had a chance to visit Westerplatt , a peninsula in the vicinity of Gdansk, a place special for the history of Poland, and the whole world.

Russian President Vladimir Putin Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the Ukrainian authorities should begin negotiations on the political organization of society and statehood in the south-east of the country. In an interview with the Sunday television program, Putin noted the presence of “agreements” with the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko on the need to complete the current crisis “peacefully”. What kind of agreements are in question, the President of Russia did not specify.

Reflections on the legacy of Boris Dubin. What is a "Russian European"? How can this type of thinker and public figure be described in the past and present -day Russia? Should the "Russian European" be certainly a dissident? Why is the enlightenment noble, but doomed? Discussion in the project of Europe.

In the Moscow studio, the scientific director of the Institute Alexander Adamsky, Deputy Director of the Institute Roman Selyukov, President of the Tutor Association Tatyana Kovaleva, Minister of Education and Science of Buryatia Aldar Damdinov and the director of the Eureka-Development secondary school Tatyana Ozova.