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The most interesting of our common past. Incomplete story. Unjust wounds. Still live hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago. Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy chooses from our ether still relevant and turned out to be eternal.

Sergey Furgal The Moscow City Court allowed the Investigative Committee to present to the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergey Furgal an accusation of the murder of entrepreneur Evgeny Zori. It is reported by RIA Novosti. In 2005, the Khabarovsk prosecutor's office recognized the Furgal to be not involved in this crime. The decision on the termination of criminal prosecution, issued more than a year ago, can be canceled only through the court.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) accepted the complaint of Nikolai Ovchinnikov, whose daughter Anna was killed by her own husband. At the same time, the court in Strasbourg first raised not only issues in the Russian government in the Russian government, but also how Russian officials are developing and implementing a risk assessment strategy for potential victims. This was reported by the lawyer "Zone of Law" Valentina Frolova.

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Vladimir Putin signed Decree on the organization of military-political work in the National Guard of Russia, which was created in 2016 from the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The text of the document, which comes into force on September 21, does not specify what exactly this work will be.

Anton Dolin Kinocritic Anton Dolin ceases cooperation with the Vecherny Urgant program, which is aired on the Russian First Channel. As he wrote on Facebook , "the decision on this was not made by me and not the creators of the program." Who made such a decision and why, Dolin did not explain. He thanked Ivan Urgant and his program for cooperation, which lasted more than eight years.

More than 60 percent that took part in a referendum in Italy supported the amendments to the country's constitution on a reduction in the number of deputies and senators. These are the data of the eczitpol published on Monday after the closing of the plots. Voting took place for two days. According to the amendments that the parliament previously approved, from 2023 the number of deputies will be reduced from 630 to 400, and senators from 315 to 200.

When in the early 1950s a group of New York emigrants was carried away by the creation of a new Radio Liberation station, the question arose of a sound identification sign, a musical symbol, a proud and recognizable Chevron. I did not have to think for a long time. The oldest Russian composer Alexander Tikhonovich Grechaninov, the author of the “Free Russia Anthem”, written back on the revolutionary days of February 1917, lived near New York.

The former presidential candidate from the opposition Svetlana Tikhanovskaya came to Brussels on Monday. There, on the eve of the EU summit, the discussion of sanctions against Belarusian officials continues - for violence against participants in protest actions and falsification of the results of the presidential election.

Picket at the Ministry of Education of Belarus in support of teachers who honestly calculated the votes during the presidential election On September 18, in Minsk, the gathered pro -government forum "Women for Belarus" (which appeared as a reaction to the Saturday Women's protest marches dispersed in recent weeks by the police) demonstrated that Alexander Lukashenko was looking for support, including teachers.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny demanded that the Russian authorities return his clothes in which he was on August 20, when he was hospitalized in Omsk. Record about this appeared on the Navalny website. For the first time on his behalf, the opposition wrote that they "tried to kill him with a fighting poisonous substance." Navalny drew attention to the fact that the deadlines of the "pre -investigation verification" in his case expired, since 30 days have already passed since the poisoning.

The smoke of California and Oreno conflagrations reached the east coast of the United States , and then to Europe. A disaster of biblical proportions fell upon the country, without waiting for the previous attack to end. Forest fires are raging in a total area of 13,970 square kilometers - this is more than the entire state of Connecticut, and a little less than, for example, Montenegro. Only half a million people are evacuated from Oregon, where entire cities burned out.

Former Opposition Candidate of Belarus Svetlana Tikhanovskaya and members of the Presidium of the opposition Coordination Council Olga Kovalkov and Pavel Latushko performed at a meeting of the European Parliament Committee on International Affairs in Brussels. Tikhanovskaya and Kovalkov performed personally, Latushko - by video communication. Tikhanovskaya spoke about the requirements of protesting participants in Belarus, saying that they represent the majority of the Belarusian society.

On November 3, 1918, in the Alexander Kremlin, in the Alexander Kremlin, with a confusion, with the Red Army, floral garlands, banners and Marseille, a monument to Maximilian Robespierra was opened. At the opening, the French communist J. Sadul said: the old religion taught the people to obey and promised paradise in the sky. The new religion of communism teaches to build paradise on Earth. On the night of November 7 of the same year, the work of Beatrice Sandomirskaya collapsed.