Pictures from the exhibition Alexander Genis: Today, our traditional column will go to one of the most famous museums in New York, which most often falls on the pictures of tourists. This, of course, the New York Museum of Guggenheim. His famous spiral is an ideal place for a retrospective. It allows you to build the exposure chronologically and look around it - both from above and below.

Tank leaves the Kremlin, August 21, 1991 August 19 is not only an apple saved , the birthday of vests and the day of the front -line dog , but also the day of the beginning of the August putsch, a failed attempt by Soviet functionaries and security forces to preserve the collapsing USSR.

“The guys called me, who knew that lawlessness was going on in the colony, and asked:“ What to do, we were being launched in Kerch. ”I advised them right away how they would come, to get up. They hid the blades and immediately cut off. Lenya from Dnepropetrovsk, now in Solikamsk, and a guy from Donetsk. They did not touch all of them,” the former says the former, - the former says the former. Murad Aliyev, prisoned by the Kerch colony.

On August 10, 2018, the UN Committee against torture issued recommendations for Russia. In addition to numerous remarks on the gross violations of the Convention against torture (such as recent mockery of the prisoner in the Yaroslavl colony or inadequate investigation of the case of Sergei Magnitsky’s case), the committee also issued two recommendations directly regarding the topic of the so -called drug fighting in Russia.

Black cormorants feed on fish, and their excrement, saturated with phosphorus, can burn a tree on which these birds nest. This happened in Lithuania, in the reserve on the Curonian Spit in the Yodkrant region. 30 years ago, after a long break, cormorants began to return to these places, and now a large bird colony arose here. The cormorants are monogamous and live in pairs.

The portrait of Oleg Sentsov was created from the names of the Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia. Work of the artist Andrei Ermolenko Czech filmmakers announced on August 21 by the day of the beginning of the "chain" hunger strike in support of the Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, serving a 20-year term in a Russian prison. This was announced by one of the initiators of the action, documentist Vit Yanechka from the Association of directors, scriptwriters and playwrights (ARAS).

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The Moscow City Court recognized the arrest of the Khachaturian sisters accused of the murder of his father, and rejected the request for the defense of the accused to transfer them under house arrest. At the same time, during the meeting, the representative of the prosecutor's office said that information about the sexual violence of the father of his daughters appeared in the case.

Films with Andrei Zadansky Alexander Genis: When America seems to be experiencing unique times, there is nothing better than turning to history. This is exactly what the host of the film reconciliation of the American hour Andrei Zagdansky suggested that we take the documentary of Robert Gordon and Morgan Neville “The Best Enemies” for discussions.

Pope Francis, August 19, 2018 The pontiff called the methods of seducing young people "atrocities The head of the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis, condemned sexual abuses by priests and publicly repented. He published the corresponding letter on August 20. The other day, the American jury published a multi -page document on pedophilia among the Catholic clergy. It is reported by NPR (National Public Radio, National Public Radio).

The court in the Rostov Region sentenced to 2 years 3 months in prison of the liberty of a citizen of Ukraine Roman Ternovsky. He is accused of participating in the "right sector" - a Ukrainian nationalist organization banned in Russia. According to investigators, in 2015-2016, Ternovsky in Ukraine was engaged in the manufacture and spread of paraphernalia with the symbols of the Right Sector, and also conducted the propaganda of the organization on the Internet.

Svetlana Khorkina One of the most noticeable and discussed texts of Monday on the Russian -speaking Internet was an interview that Sports.ru journalist Alexander Golovin was a multiple Olympic champion in sports gymnastics and former State Duma deputy Svetlana Khorkina.

Alexey Beloborodov in court, August 20, 2018 The Grandmother's Court of Moscow sent under October 16 the former deputy general director of Energia Corporation Alexei Beloborodov, accused of attempted fraud, Interfax said . A similar decision was made in relation to another person involved in the criminal case - Oleg Pynov.

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In the city of Korneli-de-Lobregate in the northeast of Spain, in the autonomous province of Catalonia, the police shot a man who burst into the police station with a knife. According to the official message, the attack occurred on Monday night. The attacker attacked police officers, so fire was opened on him, the report said. None of the police officers were injured. The Spanish media gives the details of the incident.