Exactly 20 years ago, in August 1999, a war began in the North Caucasus, which made Vladimir Putin the President of Russia. Was the War project designed for Putin, or made the war in the inevitable course of the “successor” special operation itself? “When in August 1999 the director of the FSB Vladimir Putin, his rating, suddenly became the prime minister,” writes Elena Tregubova , who then worked in the journalistic “Kremlin pool,” was just a penny - 2%.

Rally on Sakharov Avenue August 10, 2019 Evgeny Ovcharov, Alexey Venediktov, Sergey Zhavoronkov, Stanislav Toporkov about propaganda and rallies A new large rally in Moscow and new detentions during the "festivities". Propaganda can no longer fail to notice protests, but is trying to file them as a chaotic fermentation of random people with obscure goals, but clear, of course, foreign, financing. What and to whom will the Russians believe?

On Monday, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested for two months until October 11, a member of the Yabloko party Valeria Kostenka. He is accused of participating in the riots for shares on July 27. It is reported by "MBH Media". Valeria Kostenka is taken from the Sudavideo building: MBH media pic.twitter.com/pyybdm1gqcc - MBH Media (@mbkhmedia) August 12, 2019 According to the representative of the Investigative Committee, the bark testified, confessed to the crime and repented.

The muddered leg of Konstantin Konovalov, which was broken by the police on July 27 The Investigative Committee of Russia called the “legitimate” actions of the police who broke the leg to the designer Konstantin Konovalov before the start of the action on July 27. The victim reported this on Twitter. I was answered by the SK on the application of a broken leg: “... the actions of law enforcement officers against you are legitimate” “...

The most interesting events of the week are in the "mirror" of blogs and social networks: disputes, jokes, fresh Internet memes.

The farmer Mikhail Shlyaposhnikov from the near Moscow Kolionov was accused of "undermining the financial system of the Russian Federation", for the fact that he printed the local currency tied to chicken eggs. Now its "colion" is traded on crypto-rhms, and blockchain technologies are used for pension reform in the scale of one small happy village.

In Moscow on Saturday, after a protest on Sakharov Avenue, according to the OVD-Info, 256 people were detained. At least four were left in the police at night, the rest were released. People were detained in the center of Moscow, in the area of the Kitay-Gorod metro station. Law enforcement officers blocked the approaches to the administration of the President of Russia on Old Square and detained those who tried to go through them.

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On Monday, the Tver District Court of Moscow arrested for 30 days the chief of the election headquarters of the unregistered candidate for the Moscow City Duma Ivan Zhdanov. Boris Zolotarevsky was blamed for a repeated violation of the rules of the rally. Zolotarevsky on August 10, from the scene of the agreed rally on Sakharov Avenue, called on the audience after the rally to “take a walk” near the administration of the President of Russia.

In Georgia, the owner of one of the most popular and influential Rustavi-2 television companies, businessman Kibar Halvashi, said that he was ready to sell the television channel to anyone, except former president Mikhail Saakashvili. Halvashi explained his decision with a huge debt of the channel both before the budget and to private individuals and companies.

Andrei Dubchak is probably the only photojournalist who took pictures in the Donbass since the beginning of the armed conflict. For this photo gallery, he selected the most valuable, from his point of view, memories. "This military name is Eduard Yuryevich Federov, he was a marine infantryman. I took this picture in March 2018, when he accompanied me on the forefront near Mariupol. He asked him to give him several photographs as a keepsake. And on June 27, he was overwhelmed by a deadly bullet.

The Russian Guard denies belonging to the employee’s department who hit the girl in the stomach during the detention after the rally in Moscow on August 10. This is stated in a statement by the Russian Guard, which was received yesterday to the editorial office of the Radio "Says Moscow". On the eve of the head of the Agora human rights group, Pavel Chikov announced a reward of 100 thousand rubles for data on the personality of a policeman who hit Daria Sosnovskaya in the stomach.

Protest action at Hong Kong Airport, August 12, 2019 Hong Kong International Airport on August 12 abolished all flying flights. This is due to protests that have been going on for more than two months. Thousands of protesters gathered today at the airport. South China Morning Post reports that traffic jams formed at the entrances to the airport. Some protesters go on the road and walk. A number of demonstrators in their hands are posters with the image of the eye.

The Supreme Court refused to transfer from Chechnya to another region the consideration of the case of eight residents of Dagestan. He was posthumously charged with attacking police officers in Chechnya. Relatives of the dead insist that their relatives were abducted a few days before his death. This was announced in the telegram channel by lawyer Andrei Sabinin. It is reported by "Mediazona".