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The Fontanka Internet publication established the identities of three more alleged leaders of the “private military company Wagner”. According to the resource, they are Alexander Kuznetsov, nicknamed Ratibor, Andrei Bogatov with the call sign of the tramp and Andrei Troshev - Sedoy. These people, like the leader of the PMC Dmitry Utkin, were photographed with Russian President Vladimir Putin at a reception in the Kremlin in 2016.

One of the protests against the war in the east of Ukraine near the building of the Russian Embassy in Prague In the Czech Republic and Slovakia, on August 21, the tragic events of 1968 recall - then the troops of the USSR and several more countries of the Warsaw Treaty committed the invasion of Czechoslovakia, suppressing the reforms of the Prague Spring, declared by the Kremlin with a threat of socialism.

VARA VASILIEVA Over two and a half decades, many options for interpretation of the events of August 1991 appeared, questions remain, to which society is still looking for answers. Was that putting-agony of the Soviet authoritarian system, or a performance carefully directed by someone? Was Mikhail Gorbachev really blocked at his dacha in Foros, or was it simply beneficial for him to imagine the state of things that way? And so on, and the like ...

At the Mir mine in Yakutia , search and rescue work continues for the third week. On August 4, as a result of a breakthrough of water from a career, a mine was flooded, where 151 people were at the time of the incident. In the first two days, it was possible to save 142 miners. Eight people still remain underground, the searches of which do not stop. The risk to the life of rescuers is still posed by the threat of uncontrolled descent of the water career accumulated at the bottom.

On August 21, at noon, the famous Big-Ben in London will call for the last time and shut up until 2021 during the repair of watches and the restoration of the tower itself. However, during this time, the bell will be connected several times back-for special occasions, for example, on New Year's Eve, BBC reports. Initially, the name "Big-Ben" belonged to a 13-ton bell .

Central Bank of Russia "Due to the shortage of personnel, salaries in the country are growing much higher pace than labor productivity" Source: Izvestia True, in recent years, the growth of salaries in Russia could have ahead of the increase in performance by 1.5–2 times At the end of July, the Central Bank, making the next decision at a key rate and predicting that the growth of Russia's economy in 2017 will be 1.3–1.8%, noted : “Economic growth is approaching a potential level.

The state prosecutor asked the court to sentenced the leader of the Tatar Patriotic Front Altyn Urda Danis Safargali to five years in prison on charges of hatred and enmity on the basis of nationality. It is reported by "IDEL. REALIALS" (Radio Liberty project). Safargali is accused of intentionally causing easy harm to health, beatings, hooliganism and extremism for 15 posts on the VKontakte social network. The activist did not plead guilty.

Catalonia police distributed a photograph of the suspect in the terrorist attack, August 21, 2017 The driver of the truck, who shot down 14 and wounded more than 100 people in the center of Barcelona, was killed. This was reported by the Catalonia police. The attacker is the name of Yunes Abuayakub. He is 22 years old, he is a native of Morocco. At night, the police searched him in the house in the city of Ripol in Catalonia.

For the first time since 1918, US inhabitants can observe a complete solar eclipse. NASA and Reuters video

In St. Petersburg, Marse Field was excluded from the Hyde Park list. According to Fontanka on Monday, the corresponding resolution was signed on August 17 by the city governor Georgy Poltavchenko. Thus, on the square it is no longer possible to hold shares without coordination with the authorities. Until recently, Marso the field remained the only "Hyde Park" in the center of St. Petersburg. Mass protests were repeatedly held on the square.

Former mayor of Vladivostok Igor Pushkarev Igor Pushkarev, who was arrested in a corruption criminal case, filed a letter to President Vladimir Putin with a request to defend and justice. A letter marked "on the rights of advertising" was published by the newspaper Vedomosti. In a letter, Pushkarev claims that for more than a year has been in custody of far -fetched prosecution and fabricated case.

The US Embassy in Russia announced the suspension of non -immigration visas in the Russian regions on August 23, 2017. On September 1, interviews for the issuance of visas will be held only at the US Embassy in Moscow, the US Embassy in Russia said . On August 21, the abolition of interviews appointed at consulates in St. Petersburg, Yekaterinburg and Vladivostok will begin.

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow