Alexander Lesun On the 15th day of the 2016 Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, the Russian team won four gold and one silver medals. Gold medals were received by the Russian Handball women's team, the free -style fighter Abdulrashid Sadulaev (weight category up to 86 kg), Pentaborets Alexander Lesun. In addition, Margarita Mamun won gold in personal gymnastics in personal all -around in rhythmic gymnastics, and Yana Kudryavtseva won silver.

What Russian schoolchildren know about the events of the 90s are found out by the students of the Lyceum of the Higher School of Economics Alina Shtyrkina, Alexander Ruleva, Polina Kholodkova, Elizabeth Semina and Lyceum teacher Alexander Girinsky.

New Iranian anti-aircraft missile system Iran introduced the anti-aircraft missile system of its own production, reports France Press. The presentation of the complex was attended by President of the country Hassan Rouhani. The Iranian leader noted that Tehran doubled his military budget compared to 2015. The country's authorities say that new weapons were created exclusively to protect the country from an external threat.

What are the participants of the August events to their children about? What facts of the perestroika period do Russian schoolchildren know? Does the past of parents affect the life principles of children? We analyze these questions in the “Cool hour of Freedom” with the students of the Lyceum of the Higher School of Economics Alina Shtyarkina, Alexandra Ruleva, Polina Kholodkova, Elizabeth Semina and the teacher of the lyceum Alexander Girinsky.

On the Kuban in the village of Kazan, on Sunday, a rally of farmers was held against corruption of local authorities, after which a column of 17 tractors and dozen cars went to Moscow. Protesters will seek meetings with the federal authorities, the New Gazeta reports . The promotions are involved not only in the inhabitants of the Kuban, but also by farmers and truckers from St. Petersburg, Rostov-on-Don and Saratov.

In Novosibirsk, the leaders of the regional headquarters of the National Liberation Movement announced the need to investigate the events of 1991 at a rally dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the State Emergency Committee. Details are reported by Tatyana Stabel. The NOD campaign was agreed with the Mary of Novosibirsk and gathered about 40 people in the very center of the city.

The putty failed. What next? The final program "in the country and the world". Presenter: Irina Kanevskaya. Air: 24 August 1991

So far, politicians believe that everything is fine (the number does not decrease, fluttered predictably), psychologists record increased seismic activity - archetypal anxiety; She rises and grows from the depths of the collective unconscious. A skew in our cultural matrix lies in the fact that the border between “bad” and “good” does not pass between “life” and “death”, but along the “one’s owners”. During periods of prohibitive external loads (wars first of all), this displacement is exposed.

Tragic events in Moscow during an attempt by a coup in August 1991 In Moscow today they remembered the heroes of the events of 1991, the Radio Liberty correspondent reports. Activists laid flowers to the graves of the three dead defenders of the White House in the Vagankovsky cemetery and to the graves of Boris Yeltsin, Mstislav Rostropovich and Yegor Gaidar in the Novodevichy cemetery.

The festival "Island 91" was held in Moscow, dedicated to the 25th anniversary of the events of August 1991

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European Commission Head Jean-Claude Junker The European Union will cancel the visa for Turkish citizens from October this year, if Ankara fulfills the necessary conditions, the head of the European Commission Jean-Claude Junker said on Sunday. Junker noted that Turkey must stop using anti -terrorism legislation against the opposition. According to him, this requirement applies not only to the Turkish government, but also to the population of the country.

Donald Trump The manager of the US Presidential Candidate from the Democratic Party, Hillary Clinton, accused her opponent from Republicans Donald Trump of financial ties with Russia. Robbie Muk said on Sunday that Trump’s election campaign was visible and the Kremlin’s hand was visible and called on the billionaire to explain whether he was the “Kremlin puppet” in the presidential race, ABC News reports .

Police at a rally "deceived Crimea". Simferopol, August 20, 2016 In Simferopol, the police dispersed the participants of the coordinated rally "deceived Crimea". Several activists were detained. This was announced on Saturday by one of the organizers of the action Ilya Bolshedvorov. He noted that the police did not submit any documents on the ban on the event. According to the site "Crimea. Realities" , about 50 people came to the rally.

A crowded tram in the center of Pyongyan North Korea demanded the repatriation of restaurant employees who moved to South Korea at the beginning of this year. “We will continue the struggle until we can save and return our women,” the official statement of Pyongyang, widespread by the TSAT news agency, said in an official statement of the TST on August 21.