The film about how a putsch occurred in the USSR and how Radio Liberty helped in the fight against it On August 19, 1991, a military coup was made in the USSR. Instead of information programs, the USSR television began to show the Swan Lake.

The deputy chief editor and head of the Internet release service of RBC Vladimir Motorin quit the holding. He stated this on his Facebook page. According to Motorin, he did not leave RBC earlier, because he believed that those who stayed could save the publication. In May of this year, it became known about the dismissal of most of the leadership of RBC. Soon after this, many of his employees decided to leave the publication.

Oleg Gazmanov and Joseph Kobzon On Wednesday evening, Russian singer Oleg Gazmanov was not allowed into Lithuania, explaining that in the country he was included in the list of unwanted persons. He reported this on the social network "Instagram". On Thursday afternoon, Gazmanov will have to return to Moscow - he was allowed to spend the night at the hotel, since the transit zone of Vilnius Airport was busy, Interfax reports with reference to the service of guarding the state border of Lithuania.

Kishinev. Veterans of war in Transnistria The Moldova Foreign Ministry expressed dissatisfaction with Russian diplomats in connection with recent military exercises with the participation of the Russian Federation in Transnistria. The ministry made a statement on August 18 that the exercises are "illegal, provocative and unacceptable." The statement notes that they are aimed at "undermining the sovereignty and territorial integrity of" Moldova.

The boy who survived after a airstrike in Aleppo became a symbol of the war in Syria after his photograph was widespread in the media and social networks. The journalist who took a picture was talking about eight dead from the air strike, five of them are children. The Syrian Center for Monitoring Human Rights said that the Army of the President Bashar al -Assad had bombarded the bombing. In early August, the United Nations said that the situation in Aleppo was close to a humanitarian disaster.

John McCain The Russian Prosecutor General on Thursday recognized the International Republican Institute, headed by American Senator John McCain, unwanted to the organization. The website of the department says that the work of the institute poses a threat to security and the basics of the constitutional system of Russia. The International Republican Institute has been working for more than twenty years. The organization conducted trainings for deputies of the State Duma and regional officials.

The musical producer Joseph Prigozhin said on Thursday on the air of Radio Liberty that neither he nor his wife - singer Valery - signed any documents that approve of the annexation of Russia of Crimea. A document entitled "Culture figures - in support of the position of the President in Ukraine and the Crimea", under which the signature of Prigozhin, Valeria and more than 400 Russian cultural figures was published on the website of the Russian Ministry of Culture in March 2014.

Leader Parnas Mikhail Kasyanov answered the question of Radio Liberty about the mutual withdrawal of opposition candidates in the districts.

Rescue services on the site of the previous explosion at the police station in southern Turkey on August 15 Three people were killed and at least 50 were injured as a result of undermining the car filled with explosives at the police station in the Turkish city of Elazyg on Thursday morning, Reuters reports .

Staffan de Miscisture The United Nations on Thursday suspended the work of the humanitarian mission in Syria due to intensified military operations, said the special representative of the UN for Syria Staffan de Miscuruity. According to him, in August, not a single convoy with humanitarian aid reached the besieged areas of the country, including Aleppo. Miscural again called for introducing 48-hour humanitarian pauses to deliver assistance to besieged cities.

The world's largest aircraft - Airlander 10 hybrid airship - successfully completed its first flight. The tests took place in Central England. The airship can transport about 80 tons of cargo and develop speeds of up to 150 kilometers per hour.

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Student Patimat Gadzhieva in court On Thursday, the Moscow District District Military Court sentenced a student at Sechenov University Patimat Gadzhiev to a fine of 400 thousand rubles in the case of the placement of the Islamic State terrorist group banned in Russia, Interfax reports . The girl was found guilty of articles about extremism and public justification of terrorism. The accusation required four years of the colony, the defense insisted on the absence of a crime.

Payette: The Obama administration made more for Ukraine than anyone

US Ambassador to Ukraine Payette: you cannot allow the Kremlin to distract from who the victim is and who is the aggressor in the Crimea