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?

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 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.

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

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.

A lawyer from Vladivostok Maxim Chikhunov submitted an application to bring to administrative responsibility of Russian President Vladimir Putin for riding a motorcycle without a helmet. He reported this on August 12 to the correspondent of the publication "Siberia. Reali". On the evening of August 10, Putin became a guest of the bike show of the Night Wolves Motokokluba "Shadow of Babylon". The head of state came to the annexed Sevastopol driving the Ural motorcycle.

Forest fires in the Krasnoyarsk Territory According to the Russian branch of Greenpeace, the area of forest fires in Siberia has reached a maximum since the beginning of the year - now it is almost five and a half million hectares. Despite the fact that rains and cooling caused an improvement in the situation, the organization predicts that 2019 will become a record for Russia in the territory, overwhelmed by forest fires.

Vladimir Putin in Hankal, Chechnya, 2000 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%.

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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".

How dangerous is the emission of radioactive substances that occurred during the tests in the Arkhangelsk region, which were the victims of the Rosatoma? *** At the next campaign demanding honest elections and terminating the Massaculi case ”, 256 people were detained on July 27 *** Mikhail Saakashvili accused of the passivity of the country of the West during the Russian-Georgian war of 2008, more all went to Nicolas Sarkozy

At the opposition rally on Sakharov Avenue in Moscow, August 10, 2019 Andrei Klimov, Deputy Chairman of the Council of the Federation Council for International Affairs, as well as a member of the Commission for the Protection of Russian Sovereignty, announced foreign influence on the protests of the opposition in Moscow and the intervention of the West in the internal affairs of Russia. According to him, the “first violin” in this case is played by the USA.

Putin for a bike show, 08/12/2019 Vladimir Putin seems to spend time easily and with pleasure. This Saturday, when in Moscow there was an opposition rally on Sakharov Avenue, he went to the Bike Show for Night Wolves in Sevastopol, he himself swept in the Urals with a stroller and rolled the heads of Russian administrations of Crimea and Sevastopol on it. We go, we go to the next village at the disco! We go, we go to the disco with our phonotek.

The organizers of the rally in Moscow on Sakharov Avenue on August 10 submitted an application to the city hall for the approval of a new campaign. This was announced by one of the initiators of the event, municipal deputy Ilya Azar. The organizers plan to conduct a procession from passionate Boulevard to Sakharov Avenue on August 17. The declared number of participants is 30 thousand people, the municipal deputy Elena Filina told Kommersant.