Grigory of Constantinople - Pioneer of the Klipova industry of the nineties. In 1999, he shot the film "Eight and a half dollars", which summarizes the decade. The post -Soviet rental at that time was collapsed, the film was released on video cassettes and became cult. For several years, Constantinople left the cinema for several years, in 2016 he returned with the Voluntarist mini-series "Drunk Company".

Three participants in the youth protest movement "Wake up, Kazakhstan" were taken to the police of Alma-Ata. A few more people received a summons, reports Radio Azattyk. Before the detention, the police claimed that they wanted to conduct a "preventive conversation" with them. However, as activist Roman Zakharov said in an interview with Radio Radio, one of the high -ranking city officials awaited him in the police department.

Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting with the government on August 26 expressed concern about the supposedly slowly growing income of Russian citizens. (In fact, they have been falling for more than five years). But the President of the Russian Federation is satisfied with the allegedly resumed economic growth. What did the tax press give the Putin regime, which was crushed by business and the population? After increasing taxes, the authorities continue to accumulate reserves.

Most residents of the Donetsk and Lugansk regions consider the territories of self -proclaimed "DPR" and "LPR" part of Ukraine. This follows from the results of a survey conducted by the Berlin Center of East European and International Studies (Zois). The survey was conducted in February and March 2019. With people in the territory controlled by the separatists, sociologists talked on the phone. With the rest of the residents of Donetsk and Lugansk regions - personally.

The Kiev Court of Appeal on Wednesday released from the guard of the head of the Ukrainian unit of the Russian State Agency "RIA Novosti" Kirill Vyshinsky. He was changed by the measure of restraint for an obligation to come to the court or the investigator on the first request, information agencies report. As RIA Novosti clarifies , Vyshinsky spent more than 400 days in custody. The Ukrainian authorities suspect him of state treason. The journalist denies his guilt. In July, he was arrested.

Release of video novations Radio Liberty and TV channel Present

Protection of the garbage training ground under construction In the Republic of Komi, Ecocactivists blocked at the entrance to the ferry crossing of the fuel trucks, heading towards the Arkhangelsk region - to the construction site of the garbage training ground near the Shies station. This was reported on Wednesday morning by the New Gazeta. According to the publication, for the first time, activists stopped the fuel car the night before.

70 years ago, on August 29, 1949, the Soviet Union conducted the first nuclear test. After that, Soviet nuclear weapons were honed at the Semipalatinsk training ground for four decades. Many now believe that this was the greatest tragedy of Kazakhstan.

AN-2 plane (archive photo) In the mountains of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, tourists found the wreckage of the An-2 aircraft missing in 1951. Fragments of the aircraft lay at an altitude of about two thousand meters. The car was identified by the engine number and the remains of the on -board number. The An-2 aircraft with A2597 number crashed on April 21, 1951 when executing a flight along the route Krasnoyarsk-Abakan-Kyzyl.

Sergio Mattarell (left) and the leader of the Democratic Party Nikola Dzingretti In Italy, the populist "Movement of the Five Stars" and the Left -Center Democratic Party said they came to an agreement to create a coalition government. The parties agreed that the prime minister would remain Giuseppe Conte. Italian President Sergio Mattarell invited Conte to the Quirinal Palace on Thursday, August 29, to instruct him to form a government based on the new parliamentary majority.

The Party of the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky "Servant of the People" is preparing 465 amendments to the Constitution of the country. This was stated by the representative of Zelensky in the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk. However, which amendments are talking about, he did not specify. "We are now determining the priority of their [bills] introducing into the Verkhovna Rada.

In Moscow, an opposition politician Ilya Yashin was again detained at the exit from the special receiver.

Human rights activists and volunteers help the arrested defendants in the criminal case of "riots" in Moscow receive letters, pass food and items that are not enough in jail. According to the coordinator of the Rosuznik project, the defendants in the "Moscow case" are sent about a hundred letters a day.

Kirill Shamalov Forbes magazine has published an annual rating of the richest families of Russia. In the first place on the list is still the Gutseriev clan. The total condition of its representatives is estimated at 5 billion 650 million dollars. At the same time, as Forbes notes, in the year the Gutserians lost 320 million, but this did not stop them from remaining the richest family of Russia. In their possession, in particular, oil companies, real estate, as well as M.

Putin eats ice cream at an exhibition of weapons in Nizhny Tagil, 2000. Vladimir Putin visited Max Erdogan along with Recep Erdogan and ate ice cream there, and bought it from the same saleswoman as two years ago .