A year after the failed Ukrainian special operation to detain Russian mercenaries who fought in the east of Ukraine, many questions remain unanswered. Initially, the President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky denied the conduct of a special operation last summer in the summer of the SBU, designed to deliver to Ukraine from Russia mercenaries "PMC Wagner" involved in military crimes in the Donbass.

According to the Levada Center survey, half of the Russians supports the installation of the monument to Stalin, and only 20% against. Ten years ago, such people were a minority. What is worth a change in public opinion? And how is this due to the state policy of memory?

Poster in Crimea, 2014 The head of the Investigative Committee of Russia, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed his employees to verify the reasons for the detention at the Prague Airport of a Russian citizen Alexander Franketti.

The passenger two-engine aircraft of the regional message L-410 made a rigid landing in the Irkutsk region. Four people were killed in the disaster, including the pilot. 12 people were delivered to the hospital. Four victims are in serious condition, the rest under the supervision of doctors, Interfax told the operational headquarters to eliminate the consequences of the disaster RIA Novosti, citing a representative of emergency services, reported that the plane crashed in the taiga.

In Simferopol - the capital of the annexed Crimea - on September 11, a restored monument was erected to the founder of the Cheka to Felix Dzerzhinsky. This was announced by the Kryminform website, close to the Russian government of Crimea, with reference to the press service of the FSB Office for Crimea and Sevastopol. It is noted that the restored monument (bust of Dzerzhinsky) was erected in the center of Simferopol on the anniversary of the birthday of the founder of the Cheka - September 11.

According to the Levada Center survey, half of the Russians supports the installation of the monument to Stalin, and only 20% against. What is worth a change in public opinion? And how is this due to the state policy of memory?

About the city of youth of the great futurologist, science fiction, thinker. Holocaust and its influence on the work of Lem. Repeat of the 2017 program

Director of the Levada Center Denis Volkov-about why the Russians want to see a monument to Stalin Sergey Medvedev: Today we have a story about how the past in the most literal sense came to our present and future. According to recent surveys, almost half of Russians, 48%, support the installation of the monument to Joseph Stalin, and only 20% against. Even more-60% of people-want to see the Stalin-Center museum complex, by analogy with the Yeltsin Center or the center of Sakharov .

New York, September 11, 2021 The US Federal Bureau of Investigation on Saturday in the evening of Saturday was declassified by the first document related to the investigation of the attacks of September 11, 2001, which became about 3 thousand people. Earlier, President Joe Biden ordered the 20th anniversary of the documents on the 20th anniversary of terrorist attacks on New York and the Pentagon.

In St. Petersburg on Sunday, a procession was held in honor of Prince Alexander Nevsky, reckoned by the Orthodox Church to the Holy of Saints. On September 12, the day of the transfer of his relics to Petersburg is celebrated. This year, the 800th birthday of the prince is largely celebrated. The procession in St. Petersburg, as noted by the Fontanka publication, has been held for the first time since the beginning of the epidemic of coronavirus infection.

Archival picture: Kharkovpride in September 2019 The march for human rights "Kharkivpride" was held on Sunday in Kharkov. One of the organizers of the procession Anna Sharygin said that the participants in the procession demanded in particular the investigation of crimes on the basis of hatred. The security of the protesters was provided by the police.

The Pope Francis on Sunday arrived in Hungary for several hours to serve in the open air of the final mass of the International Eucharistic Congress. Before the worship, which took place on the Heroes Square in the Hungarian capital with the participation of tens of thousands of believers, Francis met with the President of Hungary, Yanosh Ader and Prime Minister Viktor Orban.

Over the past day, two Ukrainian military were killed in the conflict in eastern Ukraine in eastern Ukraine, as a result of shelling by Russia, 9 more were injured and 1 was injured. This was announced by the press center of the Ukrainian operation of the United Forces in the Donbass. We are talking about one of the largest losses per day lately. It is reported that the fire was battered, among other things, from artillery systems prohibited for use by the Minsk agreements.

I don’t know how the memory of other people works, but I have almost no day throughout my life, the events of which I would remember in a continuous sequence, from morning to evening. Except perhaps yesterday and one more, September 11, 2001. Here the fact that there were few events in it helps, in fact, one thing, but it spread for the whole day and even for life.

Guest of the next issue of the Caucasus Chronicle with Mayrbek Vachagayev - historian of the art of honey Shakhbiev