Transit of power is a risky business. It is easy to make a mistake even to a multi -hearted person who, in the recent past, headed the most powerful special service, now became the Secretary General, is seriously ill, worries about the country and finds the successor. Yuri Andropov stops his gloomy eyes on Mikhail Gorbachev, a young, healthy, volitional and faithful man, and he, having waited Konstantin Chernenko, sits down on a communist throne.

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The anonymous telegram channel "Comrade Major" published data about three thousand people, including those detained at protest in Moscow on July 27 and August 3. This was reported by Mediazona , indicating that passport data and phone numbers of some of its journalists were published in the database. The Telegram channel "Comrade Major" calls the table with the data "of the base of Navalny's supporters." He argued that this base was laid out on the network by the supporters of the opposition.

Twenty years later, the question of who was the first to write on a sheet of paper the name of Vladimir Putin and slipped this sheet Boris Yeltsin seems deeply secondary. In any case, it was the choice of the closest encirclement of Boris Nikolaevich. The idea in a difficult situation to rely on a character of the second row, a quiet and inconspicuous director of the FSB, occurred to someone from the representatives of the so-called "family".

Conversation with writer Sergei Zhadan. Further in the program: Pasternak and music. Part two. Soldiers and their mothers tell. Weddings in August. Lithuania. In the section “Travel” - Ukrainian poet and prose writer Sergey Zhadan, laureate of prestigious international awards, author of the novels “Voroshilovgrad”, “Mesopotamia”, “boarding school”. Igor Pomerantsev : Sergey, I have a new heading, relatively new, it is called "Travel".

The Moscow police warned the residents of the city against participating in inconsistent protests on August 10. On this day, a coordinated rally is planned in the city in support of unregistered candidates for elections to the Moscow City Duma. The Ministry of Internal Affairs stated that in parallel with her on the Internet they call for inconsistent protests. Polish warning appeared on the website of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow.

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The girl from St. Petersburg communicates with riot police in Moscow protests. Tizer of the film Masha Pavlova and Andrei Kiselev

Matteo Salvini in Moscow Advisers of the Deputy Prime Minister of Italy, the leader of the Law -Populistic Party "League" Matteo Salvini - Gianluka Savoini and Claudio d'Amiko - have visited Russia dozens of times over the past two years. This is stated in a joint investigation of Buzzfeed and The Insider and Bellingcat groups. According to the investigation, only in 2018, Savoini flew to Moscow at least 14 times. Journalists received such data from the airline booking database.

Muscovites began to receive strange SMS with a proposal to unite in groups to organize constant protest activities. SMS leads to the site describing a certain project "Mobile Protest". This publication "MBH Media" was reported by subscribers. The SMS says: “Do not be silent. Come on August 10 at Sakharov - it will be hot. Take a passport with you - there will be detentions. How not to get to the cops - look at the link.

Former prosecutor Igor Stepanov demands to initiate a criminal case against Stalin. Radio Liberty questioned him about why he was doing this and what he thinks about what is happening now in Russia. The Russian media call Igor Stepanov the “former investigator of the prosecutor’s office for particularly important matters”, although he speaks of himself as a former prosecutor who refused to cross under the wing of the UK after the “anti -constitutional decree of Dmitry Medvedev”.

The Federal Penitentiary Service on August 10 will hold in Moscow a tournament for driving autosaks - cars for transporting detainees and suspects, TASS reports . Participants will demonstrate obstacle leading skills in the city, knowledge of traffic rules and shooting skills. The tournament is planned in the remote district of the city - Kapotne, drivers from different regions of Russia should take part in it.

"I remember the Donbass of my childhood." Conversation with writer Sergei Zhadan ***. And creativity and eccentricity. Pasternak and music. Transfer second ***. Monologists about the war and the army. Veterans recall. *** Lithuania. Weddings in August.

Vladimir Putin in total will rule Russia at least a quarter of a century. The first twenty years have already passed. What are the new five? In the studio, the analyst of the Karnegi Foundation Andrei Kolesnikov. In touch from Prague, political analyst Alexander Morozov. In touch from Berlin, journalist Boris Wright Shuster.