In Belarus is an uprising. It is uprising: for the rebellion, he lacks organization, and in order to become a revolution, it should still defeat and lead to deep changes. But outwardly, this uprising looks like an unexpected return of more than 30 years ago-in 1989, the "wonderful year" of Central Europe, when communist regimes in five countries collapsed in several months.

A court in Moscow sentenced five fans of the CSKA football club to a fine of three thousand rubles each and a ban on attending matches because of the white-red-white flag hung at the stadium - one of the historical national symbols of Belarusians, with which opposition supporters take to rallies in Belarus itself. This is reported by "Apology of Protest". Alexander Nikitin, Evgeny Alexandrov, Artyom Gradovsky and Alexander Rudnev were banned from attending sporting events for six months.

Svetlana Tikhanovskaya-the rival of the President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko in the August 9 elections, against the official results of which for a month, protests have been held in Belarus- on Wednesday she visited Warsaw , where she met with Poland Mateusz Marates. This is her first departure outside Lithuania, where she, under pressure from the authorities, left shortly after the election. Tikhanovskaya was welcomed by hundreds of her supporters.

A spontaneous action in defense of opposition activists pursued by the Belarusian authorities, on the evening of September 8 ended in detention. More than 50 people were in autozaks.

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Anthropologist Dmitry Gromov and human rights activist Sergei Okhotin about how the thieves subculture became extremist The Supreme Court of Russia recognized the movement of AUE ("Prisoner of the only one") with an extremist organization and banned it in the country. AUE subculture is rather a symbolic or aesthetic phenomenon, in most cases not related to the criminal world and not carrying a real threat to security.

Alexander Lukashenko and Vladimir Putin More than 40 percent of Russian inhabitants do not want to unite with Belarus and prefer good neighborly relations with it. This follows from a survey of the All -Russian Center for Public Opinion (VTsIOM). Against the background of growth of tension and mass protests in Belarus, Russians are not inclined to force the process of unification of the two countries, sociologists note. 22 percent of respondents spoke out for the Union State.

Everything you need to know early in the morning of September 9 Good morning! Today, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, whom protesters in Belarus consider the legally elected president of the country, goes to Poland for meetings with local politicians.

The Ministry of Education canceled the introduction of a mandatory unified state exam in a foreign language planned for 2022. This decision was made by the Ministry of Education on Educational Standards, the press service of the department told TASS. Earlier, officials were asked to cancel the exam as "not corresponding to national sovereignty." Pupils who plan to go to universities at the end of the next school year were to be taken an obligatory exam.

Candidates for deputies removed from the election The court in Tatarstan on September 7 withdrew from the elections of all opposition candidates opposing the construction of a garbage plant in the village of Osinovo near Kazan. They were shot on the last day, on which by law the court could make such a decision. The claims were filed by their competitors.

"Direct line with Vladimir Putin" will not take place in 2020. This was reported by TASS by Presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. The straight line scheduled for June was previously postponed due to coronavirus pandemia According to him, by virtue of the conditions this year, the President has been holding a direct line for the past few months, "so it would be excessive to conduct it in the traditional format.

The Investigative Committee charged at least 603 million rubles to the Deputy Minister of Energy Anatoly Tikhonov, his adviser and two vice presidents of one of the largest Russian IT-Holdings “Lanit”, according to the website of the department. Today the court will consider the request for their arrest. Tikhonov was detained on September 8 at home.