Logo party "Alternative for Germany" In Germany in the city of Magdeburg, the Ultra-right-right alternative to Germany, the Ultra-right Party, held on Saturday in the land parliament of the Federal Land Saxony-Anhalt one-day so-called Russian Congress. The officially declared goal of the Congress is to struggle to improve relations with Russia, for lifting the sanctions of the European Union, a criticism of the transatlantic community between Europe and the USA.

How did Kazakhstan change six years after the tragedy in Zhanaozen? Vitaly Portnikov is talking with Kazakhstani human rights activist Galym Agleuov.

In Rostov-on-Don, on Friday, the “live march” was held on the 75th anniversary of the execution in the Zmiyiv beam. In August 1942, the Nazis killed 27 thousand people there, most of whom were Jews. Soviet prisoners of war, participants in underground organizations, and seriously ill patients of Rostov hospitals were shot here.

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The Russian government proposed to introduce the former Federal Chancellor of Germany Gerhard Schroeder to the Board of Directors of Rosneft. It is proposed to make it an independent director of a joint -stock company with state participation. Schroeder is considered a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Rosneft plans to increase the number of members of the board of directors from nine to 11.

Political, economic, social, cultural, secular results of the week in Russia and in the world, presenter Dmitry Volchek, leads live.

Opponents of official propaganda in Venezuela organized "bus television" (in the picture) US President Donald Trump warned Venezuela on the possibility of military intervention on Friday. Reuters notes that in recent days acts of violence have become more frequent in Venezuela. The total number of victims of violence in four months exceeded 120.

Immediately after the group of unknown people disagreed with the city administration in St. Petersburg, the unknown group sprayed the tear gas into the faces of the participants leaving Marse field. During a month and a half rally, five young people in sportswear walked around the place of a meeting of the St. Petersburg LGBT community, and then attacked them with pepper spaces near the temple saved on blood.

The head of the center of youth initiatives of Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk and professional teacher Alexander Amandin nominated his candidacy for elections to the City Duma. He collected signatures and had to receive a candidate certificate. But he was immediately fired without explanation. Amandin is sure that in this way the local authorities punished him for trying to participate in the elections.

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The reason for talking with the Omsk artist Nikita Pozdnyakov is quite anecdotal. He was summoned to the Center for the fight against extremism, interrogated, transferred the case to court, and the court (all this happened instantly, within a few hours of August 9), he decided to refund him under Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses "Public Demonstration of Nazi Symbols" For Tatar on his chest. This is far from the first case of this kind in Russia.

Evgeny Ponasenkov Prayer standing , a promise to burn cinemas, threats to the director ... On August 12, in St. Petersburg opposite the Rock studio where the Matilda film was shot, a banner appeared with the inscription: “For faith, the king and the Fatherland! Teacher, hands away from the Russian king!

On August 12, the eighth St. Petersburg LGBT PREDE was held in the Hyde Park on the Marse Field. The authorities banned the procession, so the action took place in the form of a rally, which gathered about 60 people. After the rally ended, one participant with the poster “I love my wife” was detained by the police, and a group of unknown young people attacked activists and journalists, spraying tear gas in their direction.

Residents of Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia, opposed the possible demolition of the monument to the Beatles group. In the urban area where it was decided to build a shopping center, the Ulanbatorsk held stocks in defense of the monument. The bas -relief bronze image of the four "Beatles" against the background of a wall made in the form of an apple made of red brick has become a symbol of democratic transformations, writes Reuters.

In early August, the US Congress went on vacation, but Congress meetings continue. Every three days, the same scene is played out in the halls of plenary meetings of both chambers. Chairman (opens the meeting with a hammer blow). I ask for attention. The clerk reads the message. Senate clerk. Washington, County of Colombia, August 8, 2017.