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Farm Wine in Russia - a rare product on the counter Wine is one of the few agricultural products that have not been banned for imports after the introduction of counter -sanctions. The state does not have illusions regarding import substitution: Russian wine factories still lack quality raw materials. At the same time, all state support goes to large vineyards, many of which are affiliated with the country's leadership, and private wineries do not have the opportunity to enter the market.

Municipal deputies Ilya Yashin and Konstantin Yankauskas are already serving the third term, and their colleague Julia Galyamin is the second. Alexey Navalny, after each detention and arrest, is ready to receive the next term without leaving the insulator. In this trick of the law enforcement system there is nothing new. The authorities used such methods to political prisoners in the days of Yuri Andropov. The timing and scale were then more serious.

Oppositionist Ilya Yashin on Sunday was detained at the exit of the special receiver in Moscow, where he was serving administrative arrest. He posted a video of the detention on his twitter.

Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar Prominent representatives of the Democratic faction in the lower house of the US Congress are considering punishing the Israeli ambassador to Washington Ron Demer and the American ambassador to Jerusalem David Friedman for their role in deciding the Israeli government not to let two American lawmakers - Democrats, Ilkhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib.

Single picket in Severodvinsk A catastrophe at the training ground near Severodvinsky in the Arkhangelsk region, as a result of which 7 people were killed on August 8 and which led to the release of radioactive substances, could be associated with the tests of the Scythian bottom base. Such a version is expressed by the New Gazeta. The newspaper analyzes both official reports of disaster and a number of unofficial versions that spoke in the press with reference to experts and sources.

The situation near Primorsky Vyborg district is on the verge of an explosion. Locals are outraged by cutting more than 200 hectares of protective forests and are ready to fight against the new port, which is going to build LLC Primorsky Code of Criminal Procedure . On August 18, a rally was held against the transformation of the resort coast into a port industrial zone. In the last days of Marta, through Ermilovo and Baltic, they took heavy equipment to the forests.

Voznesensky, Yevtushenko, Christmas, Akhmadulina in the era of Nikita Khrushchev. The performance of V.E.r.A. The workshop of Dmitry Brusnikin in the center of Voznesensky.

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Protests in Hong Kong In Hong Kong, hundreds of thousands of citizens continued protest performances on Sunday. Meanwhile, more decisive warnings and calls for the cessation of manifestations are heard from Beijing. In the last 10 weeks of mass manifestations in Hong Kong there were clashes with the police, but this weekend there were no acts of violence either from the protesters or from the police, BBC reports.

The Georgian Foreign Ministry expressed a decisive protest of Russia in connection with the detention of the state security committee of the self -proclaimed South Ossetia and the Russian border guards of eight residents of Georgian villages, adjacent to the administrative border of the former autonomy. The administration of the region Shida Kartli reports that the seven Georgian citizens were detained when they climbed the mountain to commit prayer in the local church.

Harvey Weinstein, Louis Xi Kay and Kevin Spacey, collage News of other worlds. Issue 90 1. In the United States, they began to offer "insurance from shame." It is intended for celebrities convicted of actions capable of destroying their career: for example, in harassment to women or racist statements. Insurance payments depend on celebrities' behavior in the past - each client is assigned a risk group depending on what he did and spoke during his previous career.

On August 18, 1958, Nabokov’s novel “Lolita” was published in the United States

For the Government of Germany, Britain’s exit from the European Union without a contract is a surprise, ”the Chancellor of Germany Angela Merkel said on Sunday, August 18, on Sunday, August 18. She performed in Berlin on the occasion of Open Day in the Government of Germany.

In Iceland on Sunday, August 18, a farewell ceremony with the Okyekudl glacier took place. His age is 700 years. Now there is a small white spot on the top of the volcano. In 2014, scientists first ceased to register the movement of the ice mass, and Okyekudl was recognized as ceasing to exist. The Prime Minister and Minister of Environment of Iceland arrived at the farewell ceremony.