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.

Book Review of Marina Efimova Alexander Genis: After - according to the now unanimous opinion of experts - it was the Kremlin hackers who came across electronic correspondence of the functionaries of the Democratic Party, the old question of the value of spy activity surfaced in public discourse. The book “Secret War” allows you to place this again urgent problem in a historical context. The microphone has the leading Koch Marina Efimova.

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.

Russian paralympians in training Russian Paralympicians were removed from games in Rio de Janeiro on August 7 by the decision of the International Committee The Paralympic Committee of Russia (PCR) filed an appeal to the Russian team from participating in the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro to the Sports Arbitration Court in Lausanne (CAS).

Arrested "Ukrainian saboteur" Evgeny Panov It is reported that these are residents of Russia annexed by Russia, who recently received Russian citizenship In the case of supposedly preparing a sabotage in the Crimea annexed by Russia, two more people were detained. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in Russian law enforcement agencies. According to him, these are residents of the peninsula who have recently received Russian citizenship.

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.

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Hadija Ismailova The lawyer intends to file a cassation appeal to the Supreme Court On August 15, the Baku Court of Appeal rejected the complaint of journalist Hadiji Ismailova to refuse to allow her a temporary departure from Azerbaijan. The ban was introduced in connection with its criminal record. On May 25, 2016, the Supreme Court of Azerbaijan replaced the real term with 3.5 years of conditional conclusion. On August 8, this period was reduced to two years and three months.