Donald Tusk The Chairman of the European Council Donald Tusk called the collapse of the Soviet Union a blessing for the peoples that inhabited it. He made such a statement during his visit to Georgia. “The collapse of the Soviet Union was not the largest geopolitical disaster,” the politician wrote on his Twitter. “Today in Georgia I want to say it loudly and clearly: the collapse of the USSR was a blessing for Georgians, Poles, Ukrainians and all Central and Eastern Europe.

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In the metropolitan district of Moskvorechi-Saburovo, near the Kolomenskoye museum-reserve, a 15-fold exceeding the permissible radiation background was recorded, Kommersant reports . In this area, according to the plans of the city authorities, a section of the southeastern chord should pass along with the bridge across Moscow-River.

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Head of Roscosmos Dmitry Rogozin The Goskosmos State Corporation proposed classifying purchases in the rocket and space industry in order to avoid disclosing “limited access information” and to combat sanctions. The corresponding document with amendments to the law is posted on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts. The text of the changes has not yet been published. Nevertheless, the authors of the initiative expect that it will enter into force in December, RBC reports .

Vitaly Mutko The sports arbitration court (CAS) in Lausanne satisfied the appeal of the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Vitaly Mutko. From the Russian official, lifelong detachment was removed from participation in the Olympic Games in any quality. A collegium of three arbitrators did not find any legal grounds for applying sanctions against Mutko, according to a court decision. The appeal was filed by Vitaly Mutko at the end of 2017.

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The Public Chamber of Russia will appeal to the UN Security Council in connection with the proposal of the journalist of the German edition of Die Welt to demolish the victory monument on the Prokhorovsky field , RIA Novosti reports.

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Vladimir Putin during memorable events on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the Victory in the Battle of Kursk. August 23, 2018 On July 12, on July 12, the 76th anniversary of the largest, according to the official version, oncoming tank battle of the Second World War between Soviet and German units near the Prokhorovka station of the Belgorod region, will be again pomp .

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow arrested the husband of a resident of Kaliningrad Antonina Zimina, arrested in July last year on charges of Stateismman. This was reported by the Interfax agency. The husband of Zimina Konstantin Antonz was also accused of treason. According to the court decision, it will be placed in jail until September 3. What exactly is he and his wife are not officially reported, since the case file contains the stamp "secret".

The layout of the device "Spectrum-RG" Roscosmos repeatedly postponed the launch of the Proton-M launch vehicle with the Spectr-RG space observatory, planned at the Baikonur cosmodrome on July 12. This was reported by the Interfax agency with reference to an unnamed source. This is the second transfer of the start of "Proton-M" CO "Spectr-RG". Initially, the launch was scheduled for June 21, then it was abandoned due to the detected malfunction of the device.

On Wednesday, five Iranian battle boats tried to capture the British oil tanker, which was in the Gulf of Persian near the coast of Iran. It is reported by Reuters with reference to American officials. Representatives of Great Britain have not yet commented on the incident, the agency said. It is reported that the Iranians on the radio demanded from the captain of the tanker British Heritage to change the course and go towards the Iranian territorial waters.

The Pskov journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva, who is accused of justifying terrorism, filed a complaint with the Russian Prosecutor General Yuri Chaika in connection with her inclusion in the federal list of extremists and terrorists and blocking accounts.

Previously convicted in Russia and released thanks to the exchange, the deputy of the Verkhovna Rada, Nadezhda Savchenko is going to go to uncontrolled territories of the Donetsk region of Ukraine in order to continue his election campaign there. Savchenko is running in the urban -type village of Zaitsevo in the Donbass, some of which is controlled by the unrecognized "Donetsk People's Republic", and part of the Ukrainian government.