As presidential elections in the United States approached, anxiety of both political commentators and ordinary Americans is growing. The unexpected success of Donald Trump caused concern not only in the Ukrainian diaspora or among Russian dissidents, but also among many American intellectuals.

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Natalia Sharina Natalia Sharin is accused of extremism and embezzlement The prosecutor's office did not approve the indictment in the case against the director of the library of Ukrainian literature Natalia Sharina, accused of embezzlement and extremism, and returned it to the Investigative Committee. This was announced on Monday by Interfax her lawyer Ivan Pavlov. The reasons for this decision are still unknown, he added. Sharina has been under house arrest from October 30, 2015.

"In 2014, we, as medieval barbarians, destroyed all international treaties. We changed the territory to people," the party explained in the Krasnodar branch The Branch of the Party of People’s Freedom (Parnassus) in the Krasnodar Territory appealed to the Consulate General of Ukraine with a request to allow their candidates to visit Crimea annexed by Russia to conduct agitation in the Russian State Duma.

Opponents of the mass development of the Krasnogorsk district of the Moscow region on the evening of August 15 gathered for a rally in Moscow. Activists believe that an ill -conceived urban planning policy will lead to new environmental problems and transport collapse in the suburbs.

Fifteen years ago, the rustic George Bush, touched literally to the tears of the Putin blanket about the cross-saved cross, looked deep into his eyes and saw some wonderful things there. I even had to answer this remark with a whole book - Another look Into Putin's Soul.

The poster of the film Films with Andrei Zadansky Alexander Genis: At the height of the election campaign, the most turbulent for those 40 years that I have been following them in America, the host of the “Films” “Ach”, director Andrei Zadan, watched a new documentary, which he considered the pearl of political cinema. Andrei Zadansky: If I understand something in this, then this picture will be nominated for an Oscar among the best documentaries.

"Kitoboi" Turner in the Metro Turner in the metro. Brexit and English music Alexander Genis: This summer, Great Britain suffered the most severe reputation losses. First, “Brexit”, threatening the country's political chaos and economic crisis. Then, which, perhaps, is even more painful - the defeat of English football players from sports ash from Iceland.

Daria Klina Earlier, the athlete was removed from participating in the Games in Rio on the basis of information received from WADA On August 15, the sports arbitration court granted the appeal of the Russian athlete Daria Klisina to ban on participating in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. The athlete filed a complaint against the decision of the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF), after on Saturday, August 13, she was removed from participation in the Olympic Games .

Sergey Tsoi The former press secretary of the Moscow Mayor Yuri Luzhkov Sergey Tsoi was appointed the new vice-president for Rosneft's economic activity. This was reported to the RBC agency by a source in Rosneft and confirmed the interlocutor close to the company. The predecessor of Tsoi in this position Thomas Hendel was transferred to the post of adviser to the chief executive director of Rosneft Igor Sechin.

The Sports Arbitration Court granted the appeal of the Russian athlete Daria Klisina to the decision to prevent her to participate in the Olympics The sports arbitration court granted the appeal of the Russian athlete Daria Klisina to the decision of the International Association of athletics federations to prevent her to participate in the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. On August 15, reported by Reuters . The hearing in the case of the athlete was held on August 14.

Promotion to Smolny Garbage defenders want to achieve a solution to the problems of St. Petersburg, which have not been solved for years In St. Petersburg, the first pickets against officials were held at Smolny, who, according to city defenders, lobby for the interests of developers who violate the laws. According to Radio Liberty in St. Petersburg, Tatyana Voltskaya, activists are going to spend such pickets every day for several hours.

Saakashvili missed his vineyard in Kakheti