Eight years ago, at the same summit in Australia, Putin, smiling at the Western leaders, denied the presence of Russian troops in the Donbass - and it got away with him. What is he counting on now?

Smoke from the explosion at the Saki air base, Crimea vk.com / incident_crimea / Global look Press The main news of the week is a series of explosions at the Saki military airfield in the Crimean village of Novofedorovka. The Ukrainian side talks about the significant losses of Russia, satellite pictures indicate a large number of destroyed aircraft (we can only guess about the dead).

Residents of Rostov-on-Don at the corpses of the executed residents of the city. 1943 Scherl / Global Look Press August 11, 2022-the 80th anniversary of the mass execution of Jews in the Rostov-on-Don occupied by the Nazis. This is the largest episode of the Holocaust in Russia, which was silent in Soviet times, and even now, not as famous, such as the events in the Ukrainian woman Yar.

The Second World War is not reasonably represented by the “War of Machines”, “War of Motors”. But the masses of various animals were also involved in military operations along with people. On the fronts of the war of the horses (there were more than 2.5 million in the Red Army, and in the Wehrmacht about 600 thousand), deer, moose, camels, as well as cattle became a dragging force for artillery guns.

Navalny reported on social networks that he created the Promzon trade union in the colony for citizens employed in enterprises of the penal system. “Hi, this is Navalny-the leader and founder of the trade union of citizens employed in enterprises of the penal system, the industrial zone,” the politician said. He said that as an employee of the colony (Navalny is busy in sewing production), has the right to create a trade union to protect his rights.

Unsplash.com About a third of Americans aged 60 years take additives with vitamin D (those who drink multivitamins or other products enriched with this vitamin are not included here). This vitamin is undoubtedly popular in Russia. Domestic endocrinologists even recommend that you take additives with vitamin D all year round to avoid its deficiency.

The Diet of Latvia recognized Russia with the “sponsor of terrorism” and called on the authorities of “single-minded countries” to immediately limit the issuance of tourist and entry visas to citizens of Russia and Belarus, as well as suspend the effects of tourist visas already issued. Latvia herself stopped issuing visas to Russians and Belarusians in early August. The application was approved by 67 out of 100 parliamentarians of the country.

Satellite picture of Saki airbase in Crimea of ​​August 10 Planet Labs PBC Military experts and journalists study the satellite photos of the Saki airfield in the Crimea, published by Planet Labs the day after the series of explosions that occurred there - and try to find out what exactly happened there and what destruction we can talk about.

At the end of August, Vilnius will host the next Congress of Free Russia, which organizes part of the Russian opposition. It is part that you can make an impressive list of political forces that do not participate in this, starting with the supporters of Alexei Navalny.

Collination of passenger trains on the Providen-Woster (Rhound Alend state) on August 12, 1853. This daguerrotype of the work of L.

Wikipedia.org “The path to the freedom of Russia and 100 million Russian peasants was difficult. The more valuable the victory of P.A. Stolypin, who in a matter of years managed to begin the transformation of the life and psychology of millions of people. Yes, this part of the history of the Russian Empire drowned in the madness of the revolution and the Civil War.

The Zamoskvoretsky court of Moscow refused to exclude LGBT blogger Karen Shainyan from the register of “foreign agents”.

Unsplash.com Work, sitting in a cafe at the full sense that you did not leave the office? To communicate with the digital copy of the interlocutor in real time, although he himself is now beyond the ocean? Shopping, staying at home, but as if having come to the store? Play literally inside the computer game? All this will allow metavseli - and the future seems to be around the corner. 90% of Russians do not know what metavselnaya is, the VTsIOM survey conducted in February this year showed.