On August 4–5, the annual days of memory of the victims of Stalinist repressions took place in Karelia. Mourning events are held in the tract of Sandarmokh, where in 1937-1938 9,500 people were shot. This place was discovered by a local historian and local historian Yuri Dmitriev, who devoted his life to the search for mass burials of the Great Terror era.

The Kremlin refused Oleg Sentsov’s mother in satisfaction of the pardon of his son. The Russian authorities say that to begin the pardon procedure, Ukrainian film director Sentsov, on the 94th day holding a hunger strike in a colony in northern Russia, must independently turn to Russian President Vladimir Putin with such a request. Not only close, but also thousands of people in Russia, Ukraine and other countries are concerned about the state of health of Oleg Sentsov.

The St. Petersburg Union of Scientists asked President of Russia Vladimir Putin to release Viktor Kudryavtsev from the investigative isolator of the accused of the leading researcher at TsNIIMASH. It is reported by Kommersant. A 74-year-old scientist is contained in a pre-trial detention center in conditions that "threaten his health and even life," the message says. Victor Kudryavtsev suffered a heart attack and is sick with diabetes.

A survey of passers -by on the streets of Moscow

Everything you need to know early in the morning of August 15 Good morning! In Moscow, in the year 81, Eduard Uspensky died , who came up with a good half of the good that was in Soviet childhood. Rip. “And crocodiles live for three hundred years, so I am still very young,” Gene objected. But in the news, it is as if someone “collects evil”: The Kremlin refused Oleg Sentsov’s mother to pardon her son. The Ukrainian film director holds a hunger strike on the 94th day.

In the west of Kabul, on Wednesday, 25 people became victims of the explosion, about 40 were injured. This was reported by ABC News. According to an eyewitness, an explosion was committed by a suicide bomber who, right during class, burst into the territory of the educational center and led an explosive device. Most of the dead were 18 years old: at the time of the attack in the class there were about a hundred students who were preparing for entrance exams.

On August 4–5, the annual days of memory of the victims of Stalinist repressions took place in Karelia. Mourning events are held in the tract of Sandarmokh, where in 1937-1938 9,500 people were shot. This place was discovered by a local historian and local historian Yuri Dmitriev, who devoted his life to the search for mass burials of the Great Terror era.

Alexander Lukashenko once again “shook” the Belarusian government and accused Russia of “barbaric” attitude to Belarus. Are the relations of Moscow and Minsk strategic changes threaten? President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, during a meeting on the integrated development of the Orsha region, ordered to remove two ministers (construction and industry) and demanded that the same week submit proposals for replacements in the leadership of the government.

Employees of the Russian Museum in St. Petersburg appealed to the city prosecutor's office demanding that the management of the institution be checked. The complaint is related to the planned reconstruction of one of the courtyards of the Mikhailovsky Palace, where the museum is located. Its employees believe that the restructuring of the complex is only an occasion to get money. They call $ 20 million.

The work of the gold mining plant in Kamchatka Gold-industrial producers warned of the possible losses of the Russian budget due to the seizure of “over-by-apartment”, proposed by the assistant to Vladimir Putin. The chairman of the Union of Golden Professors of Russia, Sergei Kashuba, sent a letter to the Ministry of Industry and Trade, where he predicted that increasing the tax burden on gold miners will lead to a decrease in metal production in Russia.

In the United States, a woman-transgender woman is first nominated by a contender for the post of governor from one of the largest parties. The Democratic Party in the state of Vermont supported the candidacy of Christine Hollcover. On the primaries, she managed to go around three of her opponents, among whom was a 14-year-old teenager.

John Bolton The US Presidential Assistant John Bolton will meet in Geneva with representatives of Israel and Ukraine next week, as well as with the representative of Russia, Secretary of the Security Council Nikolai Patrushev. This was announced on Tuesday by the press secretary of the White House Sarah Sanders . According to her, the topic of negotiations will be national security.

The Investigative Committee of St. Petersburg completed the investigation of the criminal case of sexual violence against the pupils of the city center for orphans. The accusations of “sexual violent acts” were brought by the former deputy director of the orphanage Mikhail Elin, former director of school No. 565 of the Kirovsky district of St. Petersburg Stanislav Vinogradov, as well as three former pupils and students of this school.

Is there an only way to keep your power? Financial analyst Semen Novoprudsky and politician Nikolai Rybakov about how the authorities behave in the event of a total collapse of the economy Full video version of the program Elena Rykovtseva: We continue the conversation about the fall of the ruble and how this can affect the political state of the country and whether this will lead to an increase in the repressive regime that exists in Russia.

At the meeting of the youth democratic camp "Territory of Freedom" The Ministry of Justice introduced the St. Petersburg "Youth Human Rights Group" to the register of non -profit organizations performing the functions of the "foreign agent". This autonomous non -profit organization is engaged in enlightenment in the field of human rights protection, holds Olympiads and contests for senior schoolchildren. The deputy of the St.