They will not exchange political zek, since we do not give Russian citizens to anyone. Yesterday, the hundredth day of his hunger strike was marked by this particular news, and it cannot be said that it was sensational. After the Kremlin was rejected by the request for pardon, filed by Oleg Sentsov’s mother, mainly such news should be expected, very monotonous. And the mantra about citizenship was repeated repeatedly. Nevertheless, yesterday's news is worth talking.

On August 22, the first part of the new US sanctions in relation to Russia because of the poisoning in the British city of Salisbury former GRU officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia. In Washington, they are convinced that Moscow violated the American law of 1991 on monitoring chemical and biological weapons and a ban on its military use.

In Moscow, several drivers of dump trucks of the Avtodor state enterprise are holding a hunger strike. This is the second protest of protest this year, they announced the first hunger strike in April. Then the authorities promised to make concessions and fulfill the requirements of activists. According to drivers, the situation has not changed: they are still forced to work overtime, they pay less than the promised, but they have to live in cramped and dirty closets.

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The United States, France and Great Britain threatened the Syrian President Bashar Assad with a decisive answer if he applies chemical weapons during the operation to return the Idlib province under his control. The parties are concerned about the military offensive, which, in their opinion, threatens the region with severe humanitarian consequences. This is stated in a joint statement dedicated to the fifth anniversary of the chemical attack in the Syrian Guta.

The Central Bank of Russia began to purchase gold in anticipation of new sanctions by the United States. It is reported by Bloomberg. For July, Russia purchased more than 26 tons of gold. As a result, the country's gold reserve reached 2170 tons and is estimated at more than 77 billion dollars. At the same time, Russia continues to get rid of American assets. According to Bloomberg, this may be due to an attempt to protect itself from new sanctions by the United States.

The United States again called on Russia to free Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who is starving in Russian prison for 100 days. In Washington, they are alarmed by the prospect of the fact that another "innocent person is dying in a Russian prison," said the official representative of the US State Department Hiser Neurt. She demanded the immediate liberation of Sentsov and all Ukrainian citizens illegally held in Russia and the annexed Crimea.

The social network Facebook deleted 650 accounts, whose owners tried to influence politics in the UK, USA, Latin America and the Middle East. Deleted accounts are related to Iran and Russia. This is stated in the statement of the social network. The Facebook leadership did not find a direct connection between the pages, but it is argued that their owners used similar tactics - they created a network of accounts to mislead other users about themselves and their activities.

A resident of Kamchatka Alexei Nikolaev filed a statement to the prosecutor's office due to the speech of the representative of the Orthodox Church in the children's camp. According to the Siberia. Reali correspondent, the father of a schoolgirl, who is in the health center, he wants to bring the local diocese to criminal and administrative responsibility. The reason was the meeting of the priest Boris Murzin with children.

More than 100 migrants from Africa broke into the fenced territory of the Spanish Enclave Seuta on the northern coast of Morocco. They used metal cutting tools to make holes in a double fence. According to El Pais, the police failed to restrain illegal immigrants. Migrants threw excrement and unanimous lime at security forces. Seven police officers received burns. Illegal migrants regularly try to penetrate the fence between Morocco and Spain to get to Europe.

The Office of the President of the Russian Federation allocates 624 million rubles for the repair of the Capitol Dome in Havana. Does our country need to spend money on the repair of the parliament building in another state? Why does Russia forgive debts to other countries, but never forgives the ruble to its citizens?

18-year-old Anna Pavlikova and 19-year-old Maria Dubovik spent more than five months in the pre-trial detention center in the “New Greatness” case-youth organization, which, according to the investigation, was preparing to overthrow the constitutional system. Lawyers and human rights activists called the creation of "greatness" by the provocation of special services in order to intimidate oppositional youth.

The Ministry of Justice of Georgia sent a lawsuit against Russia to the European Court of Human Rights. The statement by the Ministry of Justice of Georgia says that Russia exercises real control in the territory of South Ossetia and Abkhazia, therefore, it is Moscow that is responsible for the abduction and murder of Georgian citizens in these territories.

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