Zakhar Prilepin The outgoing week was noted at once by several news related to the identity of the Russian writer and the former commander of one of the battalions of the separatists of the self -proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" Zakhara Prilepin.

The press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov commented on the promise of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov to expel human rights activists from Chechnya. “I don’t know if his words were torn out of context,” Peskov said.

The jerk promised 18 years ago did not happen to the future

John Bolton and Petro Poroshenko at a meeting in Kyiv, August 24, 2018 Ukraine and European countries should look for alternative energy sources in order not to depend on the supply of Russian gas. This was announced at a press conference in Kyiv by the US Presidential Assistant John Bolton. According to Bolton, European countries need to consider the possibility of gas supplies from Azerbaijan through the Adriatic Sea.

The authorities closed a militarized children's camp, created with the support of a Russian group

The Moscow authorities refused to consider the application for a rally against the pension reform, filed by the supporters of the opposition Alexei Navalny. It is reported by "Interfax." The city hall stated that the application for the action was filed ahead of schedule. Navalny claims that the notification of the rally was sent in accordance with the decision of the Plenum of the Supreme Court of Russia.

Several convicted residents of Tatarstan at once announced torture and pressure from the employees of the unit to combat organized crime of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. All of them sent their statements about the crime to law enforcement agencies and Vladimir Putin. The main culprit, they call the deputy chief of the unit to combat the organized crime of Dmitry Marfin. " IDEL. Reali" tells what convicts and their relatives accuse law enforcement officers.

The State Department of the United States has published a document on new sanctions against Russia, which will enter into force on August 27 and will be valid for at least a year or before further notification.

Results of the week on Saturday issue 7:40 Good afternoon Today, three years have been executed from the date of the sentence to the Crimeans Oleg Sentsov (20 years) and Alexander Kolchenko (10 years) - for terrorism and the organization of the sabotage group. Sentsov holds a hunger strike 104th day, and his salvation was gone in Russia-there are many prisoners in Russia.

Which led two post -Soviet countries to such a different choice of development course. The political strategist and publicist Stanislav Belkovsky and Ukrainian political scientist, the head of the Center for Applied Political Studies of Pentu, Vladimir Fesenko, TV presenter and publicist Vitaly Portnikov, are discussed. Mikhail Sokolov is broadcast. Video and text are available on the link https://www.svoboda.org/a/29451317.html

Valentina Matvienko Chairman of the Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation “In our country, the average salary of women is 74% of the average salary of men. True, you can console yourself with the fact that in 2005 this figure was only 60%. There seems to be shifts.

In Russia, political parties and the candidates themselves show less interest in regional elections. In 16 Russian regions, where elections to the legislative assemblies will be held in September, twice as few candidates are exhibited than five years ago. This is stated in the analytical report of the movement in defense of the rights of voters "Voice".

The Russian authorities will not seize 500 billion rubles of income from large companies to fulfill the May Decree. This was stated by the assistant to the Russian president Andrei Belousov, who previously proposed to take over the business of the business, the Vedomosti newspaper reports . Belousov met with representatives of large companies who allegedly agreed to voluntarily invest in social projects. The amount of investment will be determined by a specially created working group.

Riot police detaining activists at the court building in Minsk In Minsk near the House of Justice, OMON employees detained about twenty opposition activists. Among the detainees the leader of the Belarusian National Congress Nikolai Statkevich. Activists gathered at the court building to support the heads of the independent trade union of employees of the electronic industry (rap) Gennady Fedynich and Igor Komlik .

Alexey Paramonov, Soviet football player In Moscow, in the 94th year of his life, a football player and coach Alexei Paramonov, the oldest veteran of the Moscow Spartak, died. The TASS agency reports that in June, Paramonov was hospitalized, and last week he was put in intensive care. The funeral is scheduled for August 27. The Committee of Football Veterans of the Russian Football Union promised to help with their organization.