Archive photo In the Donbass in the conflict zone there is still a lot of inevitable heavy weapons, said the deputy head of the OSCE observation, Alexander Khug. We are talking about artillery installations, mortars and multiple launch rocket systems, which must be allocated according to the Minsk agreements. According to Hug, it is necessary to increase the distance between the positions of the Ukrainian military and separatists.

In Surgut on Friday, unknown were doused with paint a bust of Joseph Stalin, established the day earlier at the initiative of local activists. The organizers of the installation of a bust promise to contact the police, reports Interfax. The bust of Stalin was installed on the city embankment of Surgut. It is located near the place where the authorities planned to place the monument to the victims of repression. The opening of the monument was not agreed with the city administration.

Archive photo In Russia on Friday, the election campaign ended. On Saturday, the country will host the so -called "day of silence." Any agitation is prohibited before the elections to the State Duma, including the conduct of party actions and rallies, the distribution of leaflets and political advertising in the media. According to the Levada Center, more than half of the Russians are indifferent to the elections, about a third of the respondents do not know about the upcoming vote.

Documentary film "Seam. A psychologist at the war ”on the physical and psychological injuries of the Ukrainian military, participants in hostilities against pro -Russian separatists in the Donbass. The main characters of the picture are a Ukrainian military psychologist and reconnaissance officer, three times wounded in the zone of military operation.

The Constitutional Court of Germany rejected the request of five Russian athletes on admission to participation in the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, AP reports. The court explained such an answer by the fact that this would become an intervention in the decisions adopted by the International Paralympic Committee, reports Associated Press. On August 7, the International Paralympic Committee (MPC) removed the Russian team in full force from participating in the Paralympics in Brazil.

The election discussions on the Web have carried away those who do not believe in the elections It is unlikely that anyone is seriously awaiting surprises from new elections to the State Duma. It is all the more surprising how bright discussion turned on the network in the last days before voting: Facebook is full of hot calls at all costs to express their will, and no less hot attempts to dissuade those who were going to spend the day off on a campaign on the polling station.

American experts - about the scenarios of the new political cycle in Russia Can elections to the State Duma affect the reputation of Vladimir Putin in the United States? Will the legitimacy of the new Duma will undermine the presence of delegates from the annexed Crimea? Can elections bring the situation in the country to a boiling point? Are there any parallels between the elections in the USA and the elections in Russia?

On the political and cultural life of St. Petersburg

Entrance to Aleppo The UN Security Council on Friday will hold an emergency meeting due to violation of the ceasefire in Syria, introduced through the mediation of Russia and the USA on September 12. The Syrian Center for Monitoring Human Rights announced on Friday about the most powerful clashes between government troops and moderate opposition during the ceasefire. The fighting was recorded in the east of Damascus, in Aleppo, and in the province of Idlib.

In St. Petersburg, the eighth international festival "Quirfest 2016" was opened. This is a sociocultural project, the purpose of which is a positive dialogue with society and the support of LGBT and other vulnerable groups living among increased aggression and xenophobia.

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Muscovites, overlooking Tverskaya Street the night before in the center of the Russian capital, went to the rally on September 16. They argue that they could soon be on the street: they were transferred to a non -residential fund, but new apartments were not provided.

The director of the "Analytical Center of Yuri Levada" ("Levada-Center") Lev Gudkov in an interview with Radio Liberty denied the message that the organization would not appeal the inclusion in the register of non-profit organizations performing the functions of "foreign agents" in court. He specified that his words were incorrectly understood or intentionally distorted.

Agitation "United Russia" in Moscow According to the movement in defense of the rights of voters "Voice" , whose activists studied more than 700 thousand reports on the media, the current election campaign is the most apathetic and boring, compared to previous ones. It passes without a noticeable information trace. Why is this so? Why do the Kremlin political technologists, led by their chief conductor Vyacheslav Volodin, need such elections? What goals do they pursue?

Vladimir Putin and the editor of Russia Today Margarita Simonyan Neither the West nor the East. In some ways, the majority of residents of the three countries of Central Europe who answered the questions of sociologists about the geopolitical orientation of their states feel. In the Czech Republic and Hungary, who chose the version "between the West and the East" - 48%, in Slovakia - 52%. Part of the West feel from a quarter (in Slovakia) to a third (in Hungary) of respondents.