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.

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.

"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.

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.

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.

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

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

British Prime Minister Teresa May Great Britain will not begin negotiations on leaving the European Union this year. This was announced on Wednesday by the head of government, Teresa May at the first meeting with the ministers to leave the United Europe.

On September 1, in Russia, for the vast majority of schoolchildren, students, teachers and teachers, the new academic year begins, and at the state level the holiday "Knowledge Day" has been celebrated, preserved under the old name since the time of the USSR, since 1984.

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Russian Hrad Russian Installation, captured by the Ukrainian military in the Donbass Thousands of Russian troops took part in an armed conflict in eastern Ukraine and received state awards for this. Such conclusions came the investigation by Bellingcat. The report “War of Russia in Ukraine on Wednesday: treacherous numbers and medals” is based, in particular, on the analysis of medals for differences in battle, the photographs of which were posted in social networks from 2014 to 2016.

Vladimir Putin awards the Order of the courage of the captain of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Andrei Pelikhov at a solemn reception in honor of the employees of the special forces The Bellingcat International Investigative Group has published a new investigation - the results of working with photographs of state awards that Russian military laid out on their pages on social networks in 2014-2015.

Vyacheslav Maltsev. The new leader of the anti -Putin movement or an unprincipled populist? One of the most striking characters of the current, not too bright election campaign - judging by the reaction of social networks - was the Saratov oppositionist Vyacheslav Maltsev .

Darkness and silence. Film about the life of the community of blind men in the Udmurt city of Sarapul This community appeared as a result of a Soviet experiment. In 1980, in the city of Sarapul they decided to gather people without hearing and vision. The experiment was to check whether blind people could live independently, without the help of sighted and hearing relatives. They were able to.