On Lermontov Square in Moscow, a rally was held in memory of the events of August 1991. The memories of the participants in the White House defense sounded. The speakers tried to explain why the struggle for democracy was unsuccessful by the final victory. Among those who listened, there was a correspondent of "Freedom"

A fighter of the "Donbass" battalion, call sign "Moroz", after clearing the village of Grabskoye. When trying to break out of the Ilovaisk cauldron, he was captured. Grabskoe, August 17, 2014.

Eternal fire in the Park of Glory. Scum of Vladimir Ivakhnenko At the last moment, in Kyiv, they abandoned their intentions to mechanically combine the memory of two wars in the Glory Park In Kyiv on Independence Day on August 24, at the entrance to the Glory Park, they were going to replace the inscription “1941–1945” with the slogan “Glory to Ukraine!” And "Glory to the heroes!".

In the near future, a new literature selection system will be developed to equip libraries The Moscow Department of Culture will revise the list of books that are allowed to be purchased to public libraries of the capital. This was stated by the head of the board of directors of city libraries Alexander Kibovsky at a meeting of the department.

The village of Shirokino According to the special operation headquarters, the separatists activated the shelling of Ukrainian positions almost along the entire demarcation line In eastern Ukraine this morning, the separatists fired at Shirokino and Bogdanovka, reports UNN . During the day, one Ukrainian soldier and one peaceful resident were injured in the Luhansk region.

Nikolai Statkevich with his wife Marina Adamovich Nikolai Statkevich was arrested during the last presidential election in December 2010, and then sentenced to 6.5 years in prison on charges of organizing riots President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko pardoned the former presidential candidate from opposition Nikolai Statkevich and five more political prisoners. This was reported by the Radio Liberty correspondent in Minsk Vitaly Tsygankov.

Head of Palestinian Autonomy Mahmoud Abbas As one of the members of the management of the organization, Vassel Abu Yussef, said, more than half of the members of the executive committee of the Palestine Liberation Organization The head of the Palestinian autonomy, Mahmoud Abbas, left the post of head of the organization of the liberation of Palestine (OOP).

In an interview with Radio, Liberty great -ruled the great composer said that his ashes would not be reburied Relatives of composer Sergei Rachmaninov, buried in New York, categorically opposed the transfer of his ashes. This idea was made by the Minister of Culture of Russia Vladimir Medinsky.

The famous Czech actor Karel Roden in the role of Jan, Masha Malkova played his girlfriend Libka Family drama of the photographer Jan Saudek in the courtroom and on the film In 2015, the Czech Republic celebrates the anniversary of the famous photographer Jan Saudek. A native of a Jewish family who suffered during the Holocaust, Jan Saudek began to engage in photography in his youth. In the communist Czechoslovakia, he could not exhibit his frivolous work, but in the West they were well known .

A spontaneous procession in Mingiachevir against a police violence (Azerbaijan, August 22, 2015) Residents of the city of Mingiachevir staged a rally after the funeral of the man who died in a police station In the Azerbaijani city of Mingiachevir, at least 15 participants in an unauthorized, spontaneous protest against police violence were detained . Four police officers suffered in clashes with demonstrators.

How has the Ukrainian society changed over 24 years of independence? The host of the Roads to Freedom program Vitaly Portnikov talked about this with the director of the Institute of Demography and Social Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Ella Libanova.

Petersburg journalist Dmitry Zapolsky took many secrets of Vladimir Putin and Anatoly Sobchak to Thailand Radio Liberty continues to publish the memoirs of St. Petersburg politicians, journalists, public figures about Vladimir Putin and his environment. How and why did the Russian president rose to power? Who and for what reasons made key decisions of the 1990s, which largely determined the current development of Russia?

Vitaly Portnikov: Our program comes out on the eve of the Independence Day of Ukraine . We will talk about how Ukrainian society has changed over the years. In our studio is a famous Ukrainian scientist, a person who can really look at this Ukrainian society in the context of the last decades. These are academician Ella Libanova , director of the Institute of Demography and Social Research of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

Defenders of Democracy at the White House on one of the tanks introduced to Moscow on August 19, 1991 in connection with the announcement of a state of emergency in the capital Sergey Mitrokhin noted that in last year’s action dedicated to the events of August 1991 there were much more people In Moscow today, on the day of the Russian flag, they celebrated the anniversary of the Victory over the GKChP.