Valentina Cherevatenko The Memorial human rights center recognized the criminal prosecution of the head of the Don Woman, Valentina Cherevatenko, accused under the article on “malicious evasion” from the implementation of the law on “foreign agents”. According to human rights activists , Cherevatenko became the victim of "the state that the state leads against public organizations that allow itself to be criticized by power." The case against Cherevatenko was opened in June 2016.

Maryana Torocheshnikova: The Human Rights Watch International Human Rights Office published a report on the situation in the Chechen Republic and repressions regarding critics of the regime of Ramzan Kadyrov. “Like a minefield” - this is the name of a report based on 43 interviews with human rights activists, journalists, lawyers and people who paid for their critical comments addressed to the current leadership of the republic.

Victor Vasnetsov. Portrait of Ivan the Terrible. 1897 Memory of Yakov Solomonovich Lurie (1921-1996) Archival project "Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago." On top of the barriers. For the first time on August 24, 1996.

Sergey Mironov Russian citizen Sergei Mironov, detained in Yerevan at the request of the United States, returned to Moscow on Wednesday. According to RIA Novosti, he arrived at Vnukovo Airport with his wife and lawyer. The day before, the court in Yerevan rejected the request of the prosecutor’s office to arrest Mironov, declared by law enforcement agencies of the United States on the international wanted list on charges of laundering and illegal weapons trading via the Internet.

Muscovites and guests of the capital answered the question of the Radio Liberty correspondent

"Face to face". Guest of the Moscow Studio - Galina Starovoitova. The host is Mikhail Sokolov. For the first time on the air: August 31, 1996.

The Federal Senate of Brazil on Wednesday announced impeachment to President Dilma Rusef, BBC reports . By the end of 2018, the post of head of state will be occupied by Brazilian Vice President Michel Temer. The open vote was attended by 81 member of the Senate, of which 61 people spoke out for the resignation of Rusef. It is reported that after the decision was made, she read out an excerpt from the poem of the Soviet poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.

Supporter of Scotland's independence on the eve of the referendum, September 2014 Will the decay of Britain look like the collapse of the USSR? Comparison by the eyes of the Scotsman who knows Russia "Problems in the relations of [Russia and Ukraine] can be traced, moving into the past-by the time Russia became the successor of the USSR .

Evgeny Weinberg, leading analyst in the raw materials markets of the German Commerzbank, about the “overheated” oil market, the roles of OPEC and how levels have a sharply changed on it today are moving today

German Chancellor Angela Merkel German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that recent attacks in the country committed by Islamists are not related to the influx of refugees. In an interview with SueDdeutsche Zeitung , published on Wednesday, she noted that terrorism was in Germany and before the migration crisis. Merkel recognized mistakes in the country's migration policy: according to her, pan -European reforms on migrants were needed ten years ago.

Granma newspaper with an article on the restoration of American-Cuban diplomatic relations against the background of the US Embassy in Havana American airlines resume regular flights to Cuba after a 55-year break The Jetblue airline is the first of the American air carriers to resume regular flights to Cuba. On Wednesday, for the first time in 55 years, the American airliner will make a regular flight from the United States to Cuba.

Abu Muhammad al-Adnani The US Department of Defense called the Moscow statement a “joke” about the liquidation of one of the leaders of the Islamic State (IG) in Syria as a result of the Russian aircraft manufacture. About this with reference to a senior American official reports Reuters. The death commander Abu Muhammad al-Adnani in the Ministry of Defense said on Wednesday.

Sergey Medvedev: I want to recall one of the legendary Soviet Isters of 1970 - "White Sun of the Desert", with its sacramental, one of the main memes of Soviet culture: "Gulchatai, open the face." When the film was shot, it seemed that it was some kind of ridiculous relic that belongs to that old basmic culture, and in the modern, modernized Soviet Union, this can only be perceived only as a joke.

Plovets Alexander Makarov, member of the Paralympic team of Russia The Federal Court of Switzerland rejected the complaint of the Russian Paralympicians about the ban on participating in 2016 games in Rio de Janeiro. Thus, athletes are finally suspended from the competition in Brazil. The International Paralympic Committee removed the Russian team from the Games in Rio in early August. This decision was appealed in a sports arbitration court in Lausanne, but the appeal was rejected.

Deputy Chairman of the Government of Russia Olga Golodets Students in Russia in Russia in the 2016/2017 academic year will not be indexed. As Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Olga Golodets said on Wednesday to reporters, such a issue was not considered. Former Minister of Education Dmitry Livanov in 2015 said that from September 1, 2016, scholarships in Russia will index 4 percent.