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Snow has fallen in the south of the Krasnoyarsk Territory, RIA Novosti reports.

“Snow has fallen in the mountains and has not yet melted,” the agency was told in the visitor center of the natural park « Ergaki».

According to the representative of the park, at present the air temperature in the mountains is about six degrees Celsius.

Last Friday, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the region warned of possible frosts in the center and in the south regions on August 20 and 21.

Earlier, a specialist of the West Siberian Hydrometeorological Center Marina Vinogradova predicted a sharp cooling in the regions of the Siberian Federal District.

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In Guangzhou, a new complex of Hong Kong University of Science and Technology is scheduled to open in September this year. Construction took three years. 

The university specializes in research in biology, physics, chemistry , Mathematics, Environmental Protection and Materials Science. According to various rankings, it is among the best universities in China and Asia. 

Pictures of the new — in the photo feed aif.ru. 

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To the head of the RF Ministry of Defense Sergei Shoigu at the International military-technical forum “Army-2022” presented promising samples of military equipment. 

According to the press service of the department, the minister got acquainted with the latest system with elements of artificial intelligence, which is installed on drones to suppress enemy air defense. The technology allows you to deceive trained neural networks installed on enemy weapons.

Later, during a visit to the exposition, Sergei Shoigu studied the line of remotely controlled combat modules: “Kurganets-BM”, “Epokha” and “Armada”.

Earlier, within the framework of the military-technical forum “Army-2022” “Rosoboronexport” presented export versions of the T-14 “Armata” tank and the Tiger armored car. 

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The former chief freelance psychiatrist-narcologist of the Ministry of Health of Russia, Yevgeny Bryun, was sent under house arrest, TASS reports.

The decision was made by the Kuzminsky Court of Moscow, thus satisfying the petition of the investigation. The preventive measure against Brun will be in effect until October 3, 2022.

Former chief freelance psychiatrist-narcologist of the Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation Evgeny Bryun was detained on August 18 in the case of fraud with tenders for the supply of test systems after interrogation at the Internal Affairs Directorate . He is charged with Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale).

The Ministry of Health of the Russian Federation stated that Evgeny Bryun is not the main freelance specialist of the ministry, since this position was abolished. The department also announced its intention to cooperate with the investigation.

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In connection with the increase in the incidence of coronavirus, residents of the Republic of Tatarstan were recommended to wear medical masks in crowded places, in public transport and at work. The necessary changes were made to the local government decree. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to Marina Patyashina, head of the regional department of Rospotrebnadzor.

It was also recommended to wear masks in educational institutions, when visiting hospitals and social services.

According to Patyashina, in In the Republic of Tatarstan, there is an expected increase in the incidence of COVID-19 caused by a mutation of the virus.

“The infection is spreading rapidly, the number of cases will increase,” she said.

In Tatarstan, the number of cases of coronavirus in August has almost doubled. On average, 78 citizens are infected daily with the infection, in July the figure was 42 people.

Earlier it was reported that a mask regime was introduced in Buryatia due to the high incidence of coronavirus.

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The Ukrainian provocation at the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant was prevented. At the same time, there is no doubt that Kyiv will again try to carry out a criminal plan. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to Vladimir Rogov, a member of the main council of the administration of the Zaporozhye region.

According to him, the situation at the nuclear power plant was relatively calm the day before.

“Thanks to publicity and early publication plans of Zelensky’s militants (President of Ukraine – ed.), managed to prevent a provocation,” Rogov said.

He added that if the Ukrainian provocation is implemented, the consequences could be irreparable. The representative of the authorities of the Zaporozhye region is sure that the Armed Forces of Ukraine will continue to shell the ZNPP.

Earlier former and current employees of the Zaporizhzhya NPP in video messages called for an end to the shelling of the plant.

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The words about the need to revaccinate against coronavirus no more than three times should not be regarded as a practical recommendation. This opinion was shared with aif.ru by a specialist in vaccination, associate professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases in Children of the Russian National Research Medical University. NI Pirogova Ivan Konovalov.

“They only say that there is not enough vaccine against COVID-19 in the world and a huge part of the population in poor countries has not yet received even the first dose. And since the WHO is largely aimed at maintaining health in these countries, it is pursuing a policy aimed at redistributing part of the vaccines in their favor. Remember how they opposed revaccination, emphasizing that it is redundant against the backdrop of a lack of vaccines in third world countries,” Ivan Konovalov added.

According to the expert, the situation in Russia is different. In the country, the vaccine is available in abundance and is effective. Konovalov added that in this regard, Russia can apply an independent and most optimal vaccination campaign policy. This means that there is no need to artificially limit vaccination to only three stages.

It was previously reported that the chairman of the WHO Strategic Advisory Group of Experts on Immunization, Alejandro Cravioto, said at a press conference in Geneva that the fourth vaccination against coronavirus should be prescribed only to persons who have a risk of concomitant diseases.

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Alleged accomplice of narcologist Yevgeny Bryun, Vice-President of the Russian Narcological League Vladimir Yakushev, pleaded guilty to fraud and made a deal with the investigation. He was placed under house arrest.  This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the investigator in the Kuzminsky court of the capital of the Russian Federation.

The investigator said that he considers the arrest of Yakushev inappropriate and asked to send him under house arrest until October 3. The court agreed with these arguments and made an appropriate decision.

Earlier it was reported that the former chief freelance psychiatrist-narcologist of the Russian Ministry of Health Yevgeny Bryun was also sent under house arrest until October 3.

Recall , Evgeny Bryun was detained August 18 in the case of fraud with tenders for the supply of test systems after interrogation at the Internal Affairs Directorate. He is charged with h. 4 tbsp. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale).

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The former chief narcologist of the Russian Ministry of Health Yevgeny Bryun and his alleged accomplice, deputy head of the Association of Narcologists of the Russian Federation Vladimir Yakushev, are accused of embezzling 20 million rubles from the Moscow Department of Health through front organizations. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Moscow prosecutor's office.

Bryun and Yakushev were accused of embezzling funds from the Moscow Department of Health in the amount of at least 20 million rubles through controlled companies that did not carry out financial and economic activities. The prosecutor's office noted that the supplies of medical devices were organized at a significantly inflated cost for the Moscow Scientific and Practical Center for Narcology DZM. -systems after interrogation in the ATC. He is charged with h. 4 tbsp. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale).

Earlier it was reported that Yevgeny Bryun was placed under house arrest until October 3. Also, before this date, the alleged accomplice of the narcologist Vladimir Yakushev was sent under house arrest, who pleaded guilty to fraud and made a deal with the investigation.

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The head of the administration of the Kherson region Vladimir Saldo, who is currently undergoing treatment at the Research Institute. Sklifosovsky, & nbsp; after a possible poisoning with military substances & nbsp; went on the mend. A message about this was published on the official's Telegram channel.

It is specified that the state of health of the Balance has improved thanks to the competent specialists of the medical institution. He already communicates with relatives and colleagues, and also reads the news. There is a positive trend, but the examination is still ongoing.

It is also reported that the Russian side, after the statement of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, began an additional investigation into the poisoning of Vladimir Saldo with military substances.

Earlier, the Russian Ministry of Defense spoke about the facts the use of poisonous substances by the Armed Forces of Ukraine against the Russian military in the Zaporozhye region. The servicemen of the RF Armed Forces were taken to the hospital with signs of poisoning with botulinum toxin type “B”.

Recall that the head of the military-civilian administration of the Kherson region, Vladimir Saldo, was hospitalized after a medical examination on August 4. After the policy got worse, he was taken to the Sklifosovsky Research Institute.

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International military-technical forum “Army-2022” continues its work in the Patriot Park. What interesting things were shown on the sixth day of the forum — in the Aif.ru photo feed.

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82-year-old Minzyfa Shevkun spent two months in the basement of her house under Ukrainian bombing in the vicinity of Lugansk until she managed to get to Russia. However, here another problem awaited her – communication with officials. In four months, the woman lost 30 kg and ended up in the hospital, but she never received Russian citizenship. Only after the intervention of aif.ru did the situation change dramatically.

The passport was handed to an elderly woman right in the hospital room on the third day after the publication of the article in the weekly Arguments and Facts.

Details of this dramatic stories about how Minzyfa Shevkun found her half-sister in Russia, who fled from the LPR back in 2014, after Ukrainian troops bombed their house, and the daughter-in-law and grandson were blown up by a Ukrainian mine, read soon on aif.ru.

Earlier human rights commissioner in the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova sent an appeal to the head of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs with a request to consider a proposal to simplify the procedure for migration registration of arrivals from Donbass and Ukraine.

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The people of Switzerland may rebel and start looting due to the lack of electricity in the coming winter. Police chief Fredi Fessler told Blick.

According to him, the energy crisis can lead to the fact that people will not be able to withdraw money from ATMs, pay with cards for purchases, refuel, heaters will stop working, and the streets plunge into darkness. In this situation, Fessler believes, the people may rebel or begin to commit robberies.

He noted that such a development of events is not expected, but the government should prepare for this.

Now the state authorities are actively prepare for the threat of electricity shortages in the winter. The Swiss have already been urged to stock up on candles and firewood due to possible power outages.

It has been previously reported that ski resorts in Switzerland may turn off lifts to save electricity amid the energy crisis.

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Mikhailmeets his 33rd birthday in a forest near Ryazan. With a shovel in his hand, he, shrouded in smoke, walks between smoldering stumps and logs, throwing them with the soil dug out here — fortunately, there is light sand almost everywhere. 

«The holiday is either labor or sports, — the birthday man remarks philosophically. — I have a labor one».

Michael — firefighter paratrooper from Yoshkar-Ola, serves in the local branch of the FBU “Avialesookhrana”. Near Ryazan, he and his colleagues were sent to help extinguish the forest in these Yesenin places. Troopers of the Federal Aviation Forest Protection — this is a kind of fire special forces of the forest department: where it burns, they are transferred there. And Mikhail spends his birthday this way for the 13th year in a row. As he entered this service, he wanders through various burning forests. What to do if you were born on a date that coincides with the peak of the fire season, and chose this profession for yourself.

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Smoke of anxiety

Smoke from a forest fire near Ryazan last week dragged Moscow, half of the Moscow region, the city of the Ryazan region and other regions of Central Russia. Everyone vividly remembered the nightmarish summer of 2010, when peat bogs burning in the east of the Moscow Region doomed millions of people to life in the dark. By Thursday, the direction of the wind had changed, the smoke in the capital cleared, but the fire on 6,000 hectares of forest — in fact, far from the largest — has become a federal issue. First, Chief of the Ministry of Emergency Situations Alexander Kurenkov flew to the extinguishing site, on Friday he was replaced by the head of Rosleskhoz Ivan Sovetnikov, all this time Acting Governor Pavel Malkov was at the scene of the emergency >.

“More or less seriously started to burn from last weekend, — said one of the participants in the extinguishing, an employee of the Ryazan Ministry of Emergency Situations. — Our “Please” worked, then we connected. They would have extinguished it little by little, but then on Wednesday someone posted a video of the fire on the Internet. And then it started spinning.

Smoke enveloped Moscow on Thursday, but the video was posted the day before, on Wednesday. The authorities of Moscow and the Moscow region immediately mobilized their firefighters, pulled up public utilities with tank trucks and set off to help the Ryazan residents in a large column, — just to keep the smoke out. Didn't have time for a day — the path is still not the closest. Four firefighting helicopters based in the Moscow region also went to the site, for them a landing site was equipped here with a refueling point, navigation and meteorological support. By Friday morning, the group of firefighters consisted of almost 400 people, provided with 135 units of a wide variety of equipment. Even more were those who ensured the security of settlements. Although there was no direct threat of the fire spreading to housing, there were columns of buses in places in case of evacuation, a gas service was on duty, everywhere there were city watering machines filled to capacity with water. Four Il-76 and Be-200 aircraft were placed in reserve. In general, the matter was taken seriously. And by the weekend, more than 800 people, who had three hundred pieces of equipment, and an air group of 11 aircraft and helicopters were already fighting the fire. Quite quickly they were able to limit the spread of fire from the south and east, but the northern and western edges of the flame did not give in. Heat, wind and traces of fires in 2010 interfered. Then a lot of forest burned out here too, and the logs lying on the ground, which have remained since then, have become very good fuel for the fire. 

Just for comparison. The area of ​​the Ryazan fire — 6 thousand hectares. The area of ​​fires in the forests of Yakutia last year — 3.5 million hectares. Then the smoke reached the Urals, Khakassia, Yamal, the Trans-Baikal Territory, the Irkutsk Region, Yugra, Sakhalin, northeast Kazakhstan and Alaska. The work of airports and ferry crossings was stopped. In Yakutsk, on August 12, 2021, air pollution exceeded the regulatory parameters by almost 250 times. At the same time, this time, not a single airport was closed due to smoke, despite the strength of the smoke, there were no reports of a multiple excess of the MPC.

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An ordinary forest fire in 90% of cases — grassroots. It doesn't look very attractive — just a forest in which smoldering stumps and logs smoke here and there. You can walk on it in any durable shoes, without respirators and similar protective equipment. Sometimes the grass will flare up, some kind of branch. But basically it's just smoke, there is a lot of it, carried by the wind, it can envelop large areas. And the only way to deal with such burning — throw everything that smokes into the ground. That is, just go through the entire territory with shovels and, in fact, dig up. That is why it is so hard to put out peat fires — throwing combustible peat on the fire is useless. Here is — the main work of forest firefighters and firefighters-paratroopers of Avialesookhrana. If you still manage to dig a mineralized strip — a shallow trench half a meter wide — then the fire will not go anywhere, it will stop in front of it and will wait for its handful of sand from the forest firefighters who came to the rescue. 

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You can also fill it with water, but there is not so much of it in the forest. You can’t bring more than 20 liters on yourself, a tank truck can drive far from everywhere, aviation — too expensive, and the volume of liquid in the belly of the aircraft, in the bucket under the helicopter — very scarce. So men in yellow-green overalls of regional divisions of the forest guard and the federal forest fire service are digging up the burning hectares of forest. 

In the area covered by such a fire, up to 10 percent of mature trees die. The rest, scorched in the lower part of the trunk, survive and grow further. For larches such a fire — a signal to drop more cones: the destroyed undergrowth no longer forms a shadow, and it will be easier for young shoots to break through in spring. So here is the evolutionary mechanism.

Another thing — top fire. With a strong wind, the fire rises along the trunks to the tops of the trees and the light show begins. In seconds, the flame can overcome hundreds of meters, jump over rivers and roads, red-hot pine cones scatter in all directions. Nothing can be done with such Armageddon with one shovel. This is where aircraft are needed that are capable of dropping several tons of water onto the edge of such a fire from above, knocking it down, transferring it back to the grassroots. And he will be finally defeated by the usual tool — shovels. But crown fires, fortunately, are rare. And by the way, they don't produce a lot of smoke.

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According to the law, firefighters of the Ministry of Emergency Situations are responsible for settlements, roads, industrial enterprises — places where there are people. To work in the thicket, Rosleskhoz has its own very competent, although not so prominent specialists. And only in the event of a declaration of an emergency, the Ministry of Emergency Situations can advance from the border of the villages and go into the forest in order to “destroy the enemy on its territory.” Or send planes there for the same purpose.

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They began to act according to the rules of emergency situations in the Ryazan region after the video was published on the Internet. Until that moment, the regional government reported that “everything is under control”, and for some reason no one noticed the spreading spot of the fire on the map of the Rosleskhoz remote monitoring information system (this is an open resource, available to everyone who is interested).

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"Most likely, the failure happened at the middle level of the regional government, — told aif.ru Head of Rosleskhoz Ivan Sovetnikov. — Some of the deputy ministers of the region or heads of departments did not want to report upstairs about the problem — either he was ashamed, or he was afraid of something. Because of this, we did not receive information in time and did not deploy our forces and means.

Extinguishing forest fires — responsibility of the region. According to Sovetnikov, they have all the resources to fight the “ordinary” fires. And here the case turned out to be more serious, for it it was necessary to use the federal reserve — it is, the area of ​​fires this year is a third of last year, so it would not be a problem to transfer several dozen specialists near Ryazan. However, time was lost and now hundreds of people are already fighting the fire.

What exactly prevented local officials from sounding the alarm in time, investigators will find out. A criminal case has already been opened on the fact of the fire and the violations committed during its extinguishing.

So far, it is believed that a dry thunderstorm was the cause of everything: this phenomenon was recorded by meteorologists, and the flames came from that part of the forest where there are practically no people can not be. However, this is only the version of the acting governor Pavel Malkov. Ivan Sovetnikov does not refute it, but suggests that we first finish the extinguishing, and then look for the culprits.

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For the opposition such elections — often more of an opportunity to hype and declare oneself than an attempt to really come to power. In such a campaign wildfire — a perfectly fitting story. Yes, and in the information field, he surfaced only after two weeks of burning, on the eve of how smog covered Moscow. Any detailed weather forecast can foresee such a development of events.

On the other hand, if it were not for the publication of the video, the federal forest firefighters would not have arrived in the forest near Ryazan, the helicopters of the Moscow Aviation Center would not have been flying here. And it’s not at all a fact that firefighter-paratrooper Mikhail, who celebrates his birthday with a shock fight with fire, and his colleagues with shovels at the ready, could cope with the elements.

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Three European dwarfs, Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia, as well as Finland, Poland and Norway, stopped letting Russians from Schengen visas or are going to make such a decision.

According to Senator Vladimir Dzhabarov, this is how these notorious Russophobes want to prove their loyalty to Washington and London. But the main reason is that they risk almost nothing. Few of the Russian tourists or business people come to mind to visit these countries. There are no super-palaces or high-class hotels.

“As for business people, they are not eager to go there, business in these countries is breathing its last. And let's ask the European giants, do they agree to close the entry of tourists from Russia? – the senator became interested.

Dzhabarov stressed that the countries where the main tourist flows from Russia are sent have already categorically opposed such a measure. These are Portugal, Germany, Cyprus, France, Italy and Greece.

The senator said that Spain has already lost more than one billion euros this year due to covid restrictions and visa problems. These losses are caused by the non-arrival of Russians in the country.

Greece has already lost about 700 million euros. Italy, France and other European countries will sum up disappointing results by the end of the year. But the overall picture is the same.

Dzhabarov stressed that all these losses were caused by the desire to appease the British or Americans, as well as support the neo-Nazi regime in Ukraine.

See also: “Where to go on vacation in August 2022″

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Newsweek analyst believes that Spain deceived Kyiv

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The publicist made such a conclusion in his article for Newsweek after Madrid failed to fulfill its promise to transfer lethal weapons to Ukraine. Agreements on military assistance were announced in the spring. Then the Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez came to Kyiv.

After that, the journalist recalls, Kyiv received from Madrid several units of light artillery, one evacuation armored vehicle and a small amount of anti-tank weapons. In April, Spain sent several tanks to Ukraine by sea. Kyiv was delighted with such support of the ally. But the military vehicles left their ammunition and also returned by sea to their homeland. 

In June, Madrid “became generous” for 40 German Leopard tanks. They expressed their readiness not only to supply equipment, but also to train the military to use it. Such supply must be approved by the country of origin. German chancellor Olaf Scholz was “cool” to this idea, but was ready to sign the necessary papers. A couple of weeks later, it turned out that Spain had not even made a corresponding request. 

Then the number of possibly delivered equipment decreased to 10 units. And then the issue was completely removed from the agenda. The Spanish Minister of Defense said that the technical condition of the tanks does not allow them to be safely operated.

Last week, information appeared about the possible transfer of 20 armored M113s. However, Ukrainians are not happy with such charity. These machines were built back in the 70s of the last century. In Spain, they are being written off.

The analyst summarizes his conclusions with the conclusion that the Spanish prime minister used pro-Ukrainian rhetoric only to raise his own rating. In fact, he did not intend to fulfill his promises. The journalist believes that a number of other European politicians can follow this example. 

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Commander of the second tank company, callsign “Ignat”, says that now his unit is advancing in the Dzerzhinsk area.

– Now we are fighting in the area of ​​the Maiorskoye entry-exit checkpoint, – the military man clarifies. – We are working with closed firing positions, we knock out the enemy from their fortified areas and strongholds.

The so-called Maiorskoe checkpoint has been under the control of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) in recent years. President Zelensky came here in 2020. Then he promised peace in the Donbass. But in fact, he ruined tens of thousands of lives in order to strangle Donbass.

The Gorlovsky tanker explained that now they do not have the opportunity to work from direct fire, “on the forehead”, therefore, this particular technique of warfare was chosen: tankers hit the enemy at a distance of seven to ten kilometers, which allows them to remain invisible, and therefore invulnerable to enemy.

– The operation of tanks in this situation is much more efficient than if fired from artillery pieces, – Ignat is convinced. – The speed of tank shells, the dispersion of fragments and firepower is an order of magnitude superior.< /p>

Correction of work is carried out with the help of drones.

– What other military tricks do you use? – I'm interested.

“Very often we use a “tank carousel” in our work,” the interlocutor shares. “One tank drives up, works out, hides, and the second immediately leaves for the position. Thus, the fire is conducted almost continuously, which does not give the enemy the opportunity to rest. There were cases when in the “tank carousel” they alternated not in one car, but in pairs. At the same time, the deuce that had fired back changed its position, and fired again from a different direction. This technique completely disorients the enemy. He simply does not understand where to expect the next blow. As a result, the Ukrainian troops drop their weapons and flee.

However, despite the frequent flight in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, according to the interlocutor, one should not underestimate the enemy. He keeps the defense active. The fortified positions built over eight years contribute to this.

– But this does not prevent us from knocking them out. It just takes a little more time, sums up Ignat.

The officer said that over the past month, his unit has moved forward, recaptured several small settlements and is soon preparing an attack on Dzerzhinsk. In terms of mileage, this is not so much, just a few kilometers, but in terms of significance, it is undoubtedly a big breakthrough.

“Each battle is unique in its own way,” the tanker continues. – But there are those who are remembered for a long time. We had a case – during the assault we worked out a “tank carousel”, and one tank, instead of returning, went straight to the enemy's trenches. Breaking through the landing and firing from a tank gun, he practically leveled the trenches with the ground, which, of course, shocked the Ukrainian soldiers. They did not even try to defend themselves, they abandoned everything – weapons, personal belongings – and fled.

The work of the crew cannot be called anything other than a manifestation of courage, the commander is convinced. After all, not everyone dares to do this. Although the tank is considered to be the most powerful technique, modern anti-tank guns and missiles can also cause him a number of problems. Moreover, the tankers already had experience of such “meetings”.

– One cannot but admit that Western anti-tank weapons pose a threat to our tanks. But we try to protect our cars with regular dynamic protection. Plus, we weld cumulative screens onto tanks. It really works, we have repeatedly convinced ourselves in practice. Therefore, no matter what the West supplies to Ukraine, we will still beat the enemy and go to the end.

Donetsk, DPR.

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Reports of the Russian Ministry of Defense, testimonies of correspondents, the reaction of world politicians

The armed forces of the Russian Federation, as well as units of the DPR and LPR continue to conduct a special military operation. On Saturday morning, the People's Militia of the DPR reported that the unprepared, poorly armed, mobilized Armed Forces of Ukraine near Zaitsevo accepted the offer to lay down their arms and surrender.

On the eve of the Portuguese Foreign Ministry opposed the ban on entry into the EU for Russian tourists.

Former US Secretary of State Henry Kissinger believes that the prolongation of the conflict in Ukraine threatens to escalate and needs to be completed through negotiations.

An air defense system went off in Sevastopol on Friday evening, preliminary on a drone, all targets were hit, Governor Mikhail said Razvozhaev. In turn, the adviser to the head of Crimea, Oleg Kryuchkov, said that an air defense system had allegedly worked in Evpatoria.

The air defense system repelled a missile attack by Ukrainian troops on the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station in the Kherson region on Friday. And after midnight, on Saturday, Ukrainian troops tried to strike at Melitopol, four explosions thundered, the air defense system went off.

Follow with us the main events of Saturday, August 20th. Online of the previous day can be read here.

Photo: Russian Defense Ministry video frame.

8:55 According to Sevastopol Governor Mikhail Razvozhaev, a drone flew into the roof of the Black Sea Fleet Headquarters. There was an explosion, smoke rising from the building. According to Razvozhaev, there were no casualties. All emergency services are on site.

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“Burzhuyka” – in apartments, firewood – on balconies

News, which for some reason greatly excited the Ukrainian and Russian media: Andriy Sadovoy, the mayor of Lvov, urged the townspeople to stock up on firewood, as there will definitely be no gas from Russia by winter.

Photo: Mikhail Kovalev

Why? It is difficult to understand the mayor’s logic: either the “broad Ukrainians” in spite of the “Muscovites” will themselves refuse it, or the evil “Muscovites” will no longer give gas to the “broad Ukrainians” – there’s no way to figure it out. But the main thing Sadovoy announced: so that the people of Lviv would not freeze on New Year's Eve, the city authorities have already begun to buy potbelly stoves everywhere.

And well done! far-sighted. Winter will come without gas and electricity, and potbelly stoves – here they are! Throw firewood – here you are immediately warm and light. That is why Sadovoy said that for Ukraine “no one canceled firewood.” And he added: “Citizens should prepare for a situation that is difficult to imagine.”

Difficult? And why? Not enough, apparently, the life experience of the Lviv residents spoiled by Kyiv. Whether it's the Crimeans.

***

While Crimea was Ukrainian, wintering with a potbelly stove became commonplace for its inhabitants. It was only later, when the peninsula said goodbye to Kyiv, in the “square” they began to compose all sorts of fables about how fabulous life was in their beloved “Ukrainian pearl”, until Russia took it away. In fact, they wintered in the “pearl” in the way that Lvov is now afraid to “imagine”.

Ten or fifteen years ago, arriving in Koktebel in late autumn to my mother-in-law Raisa Vyacheslavovna, I had to observe the following picture: in a three-story apartment building, five hundred meters from the sea, a sooty chimney of a potbelly stove protruded from almost every window, from which gray smoke flowed, enveloping the slender cypresses under the window in a caustic fog.

In those apartments, from the windows of which the pipes did not stick out, as a rule, no one lived – a sure sign for burglars: the owners left to spend the winter with their relatives – in Kyiv, Moscow, Lvov … Crimea became deserted by winter. Remained the most persistent. Indigenous. Like my now deceased mother-in-law.

As a girl, during the war, she, along with her mother and brothers, were brought by train from somewhere near Tambov to the Crimea, when Stalin evicted the Crimean Tatars from there. Some whole families with meager belongings were put in lorries, sent away from their native mountains and steppes. Others with the same miserable belongings and young children were taken from the Russian hinterland and settled in Tatar huts to make Crimea their homeland.

And it became their home. Here, hungry military children in the summer could feed themselves “on grazing.” Already in early spring, every blade of grass and the first berry became food for them. Cherry plum was tied next, without having time to ripen, as it was eaten still green. Then came apples, peaches, nuts, grapes… “That's why we survived,” my mother-in-law always recalled with gratitude the generous Crimean land.

Crimea fed, warmed with the southern sun, rocked in the warm waves of the Black Sea. Tambov, Ryazan, St. Petersburg “dead people” grew stronger, grew, matured, and themselves slowly began to take care of their land-breadwinner.

Later, the families of the Crimean Tatars, evicted during the war, began to return. Everyone was anxious: both those who returned to their old houses, and those who, in the absence of their former owners, had long since settled down in them. Kyiv politicians played on these fears, pushing people head-on. At first, they even succeeded. But over time, somehow everything calmed down and it turned out that there is enough space in Crimea for everyone.

Crimea united. Ukrainians, Russians, Jews, Tatars, Greeks, Karaites, Krymchaks – there was just no one here. Everyone lived nearby, spoke Russian, Ukrainian, Tatar, calling themselves Crimeans.

***

Even in the late 90s and early 2000s, when the Kyiv authorities finally went crazy, and difficult times came for Crimea – there was no gas, heat, water – people did not lose their minds, helping each other to survive.

We lived poor, but friendly, because my mother-in-law would never agree to leave the Crimea for Moscow even for the winter. In the village, the electricity was always turned off, because of which the refrigerator was on its last legs. For several days they did not give water, and therefore in the bathroom there were 60-liter plastic barrels of water by the sink. As soon as the tap started to drip, they had to be urgently filled, as the water could be turned off again at any moment.

Even when they stopped heating in the high-rise buildings of Koktebeli – the Ukrainian authorities insisted that “there is no money” – and the sandstone walls froze through from the cold sea wind, my mother-in-law did not give up. Like all her neighbors, she installed a potbelly stove, bringing a pipe through the window. In her luxurious three-room apartment by Soviet standards, she closed the extra rooms, since the “bourgeois” heat was only enough for one, and she began to go out onto the balcony not as before to admire the sea, but to collect firewood brought and neatly stacked on the balcony by the handy Azim, a Crimean Tatar neighbor.

Stacks of firewood were kept not only on balconies, but also on landings. Nearby were five-liter bottles of drinking water. For her, from time to time they went to the spring, since it was impossible to drink the Dnieper water going to the Crimea through the canal. When pressure finally appeared in the water pipes, a gray sludge with sand and grass burst out of the tap with a crack.

The Crimeans, who remained to spend the winter in their cold apartments, also had to keep an eye on the empty neighboring housing. The mother-in-law on the landing watched the apartments of the Ukrainians who had left for Dnepropetrovsk and Kyiv, but she herself was not going to go anywhere. She was sincerely happy if she didn’t have to run to the village store in the cold, because in the morning Ilyas or Farkhad from the steppe Crimea would bring fresh Tatar products in their old, still Soviet Zhiguli: cheese, milk, meat, cottage cheese, vegetables …

And they really drove right into the courtyard in the morning, woke up the tenants with a beep and opened the trunk loaded with goodies – choose what you like. Loud-voiced neighbors in old coats that smelled of “bourgeois” smoke descended to them, began to barter, discussing the latest news along the way.

Once – it was in 2013, when in Kyiv they were already shouting “who does not jump, that is a Muscovite” – I listened in the courtyard to the conversation of my neighbors and was very surprised: women were discussing the Moscow Kremlin and Duma leadership, calling all Russian politicians after names, adding at the same time in a familiar way: “ours” or “ours”.

I felt sorry for my mother-in-law's girlfriends – they were completely out of touch with reality. We haven’t had a common country for a long time, they live in the Ukrainian Crimea, and from old memory they still consider Russian politicians to be their own.

When their argument became too heated, I could not stand it and intervened:

– Why are you haunted by our Russian leadership? You have your own in Kyiv.

In response, without a shadow of a doubt, it sounded:

– The Russian leadership is also ours.

– Yes, what is yours! I got excited. – It left you back in 1991 and hasn't remembered you since! You are now Ukrainians. In Koktebel you even have a road sign to the main attraction – the Voloshin Museum – and then only in Ukrainian and English: “Voloshin's House” and “Voloshin's house”. Not a word in Russian!

-No, they insisted. – We are not Ukrainians, we are Crimeans.

Farkhad, who had brought groceries and certainly did not look like a Ukrainian, also stuck his head out of the trunk, looked reproachfully at me and said quietly:

– We are Crimeans. We were, we are and we will be.

And my mother-in-law strictly added:

– If something happens in Crimea, Putin will not leave us in trouble!

The neighbors nodded, but I sincerely laughed, finally turning everyone against me.

Then the idea of ​​Russian assistance to the Crimeans seemed so naive and absurd to me that it caused only laughter. Having tried to alleviate the awkwardness, I, from the position of a journalist for a leading Moscow publication, began to explain in detail to these people that their conclusions were not legally and politically justified. And in which case, they should not expect help from Russia. What they so hope for cannot be in principle!

But none of them heard me. Everyone stayed the same.

***

Only in 2014, when the Crimean spring happened, I realized with great surprise how wrong I was, and how worldly wise these simple women turned out to be, living in a house by the sea with firewood on the balconies, “potbelly stoves” in apartments and pipes in the windows.

Kyiv then tried to avenge their choice – deprived them of electricity, gas, water. He buried the North Crimean Canal, blew up high-rise power lines, through which energy from the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station went to the peninsula. But these people still never regretted their choice. Although, already in possession of the long-awaited Russian passports, they again sat without electricity for weeks, every now and then they repaired electrical appliances that could not withstand voltage surges, lit candles and old kerosene lamps in order to somehow light up their home in the evenings.

But every morning, in spite of all the authorities and politicians, the Crimean sun rose over the sea again and again. Ilyas or Farkhad again drove into the yard in a rare Zhiguli, opened the trunk with fresh Tatar products, and the people, as always, went down to the entrance to bargain and gossip about the news and wash the bones now absolutely for their Russian politicians.

Today, Crimeans, I think, have forgotten about the former Ukrainian way of life. Ceilings and walls have long been cleaned from the soot of “bourgeois” houses, electricity, gas, water are in the houses … And I am glad that my mother-in-law survived until the time when she was again able to see her beloved Crimea the same as it was during her youth .

***

However, now a similar page of history is opening up for the residents of Lviv. The time has come for them to stock up on potbelly stoves, firewood and drinking water, preparing, as the Lviv mayor said, “for a situation that is hard to imagine.”

But I won’t tell them: this is for Crimea! So you need it!

Nobody needs it like that. And if the people of Lviv have to go through what once the Crimeans, let them, even in the most gloomy circumstances, try to remain human beings, helping each other to survive in difficult times.

Although I think it will be more difficult for them to do this – there is no unity. Their mayor, Sadovyi, has already stated that all immigrants from the Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine – and there are a lot of them there now – are obliged to switch to the Ukrainian language in Lviv, since the Russian language and culture will be thrown out of the state and public life of Ukraine for at least 50 years. Ek, swung it!

True, when the Kyiv authorities demanded in Koktebel to change the plates with Russian names to Ukrainian ones, renaming the Voloshin's house-museum into “budinok”, they did not even count on 50 years. Forever and ever. And who remembers this now?

There is a Russian proverb “mysteries are never rich”. But the mayor of Lvov, Sadovoy, certainly does not like Russian sayings. And the Polish ones? I think more. The rest of Lviv, apparently, too. Well, good. In that direction, they slowly move. And while they have to study the equipment of bourgeois stoves, it would be nice to ask at the same time how the word “firewood” will be in Polish? They will need it soon. Even faster than it looks. Apparently, as soon as the European neighbors let them know whose language and culture this time they are going to “throw out of state and public life for at least 50 years.”

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Liz Cheney splits the Republican Party and wants to become President of the United States

There are still two years before the US presidential election, but passions are already running high. Donald Trump, whose estate was recently ransacked by FBI agents, is tormenting his supporters with anticipation of when he will announce his candidacy. Meanwhile, in the ranks of the Republican Party, the ex-president of America has a competitor. Liz Cheney is considering running for president. Who is this woman who has challenged not only Trump, but most Republicans? And what are her chances of success? Let's try to figure it out.

Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney has announced that she is considering running for the White House to prevent Donald Trump from winning another term as President of the United States.

Having signaled that she had presidential ambitions, Cheney apparently decided to turn her own loss to her advantage by raising the flag of an anti-Trump uprising within the conservative camp. “Liz Cheney's political life seems to be ending – and just beginning,” was the headline of The Washington Post recently.

The other day, Cheney decisively lost the Republican primaries in Wyoming and is now losing her seat in the US Congress. Trump-backed challenger Harriet Hageman edged out her rival by nearly 40 percentage points as Republican voters retaliated against Cheney for her vote to impeach Trump and her focus on her role on the House Select Committee investigating the January 6, 2021 Capitol assault.

This group of lawmakers, chaired by Republican Cheney, is investigating Donald Trump's role in a futile attempt to stay in office after losing to Joe Biden and fueling a riot in the Capitol by supporters of the ex-president last January.

The loss in the Republican primary in Wyoming came as no surprise to Cheney. She had long expected to cede the state victory — and with it her seat in the U.S. House of Representatives — to a Trump-backed candidate. But she uses her defeat as a start for a game with higher stakes.

The other day, 56-year-old Liz Cheney was asked on the NBC Today program if she was thinking about running for president. She didn't answer the question directly, but when pressed a second time, she admitted that she did: “I'm thinking about it and will make a decision in the coming months.”

Cheney stated that she “will do her best to keep Donald Trump out of the Oval Office.” After her defeat to Hageman was confirmed, aides revealed that Liz Cheney was planning to form her own political action committee.

“In the coming weeks, Liz will form an organization to educate the American people about the ongoing threat to our Republic and mobilize a united effort to counter any Donald Trump presidential campaign,” Cheney spokesman Jeremy Adler said.

According to NBC, the new organization would be called The Great Task, the title of Cheney's last speech to Wyoming voters, a reference to Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg speech.

Liz Cheney laid out her priorities for the next few months before leaving the House of Representatives in January. In particular, she expressed concern that the Republican Party was struck by the “cult of personality” (it is not difficult to guess that this is an attack on Trump).

“We must return this party to where we accept the values ​​and principles on which it was based. And talk about the fundamental questions of civil law, the fundamental questions of what it means to be a constitutional republic,” Cheney urges.

Now looking like a kind of “black sheep” in the party, Liz Cheney also attacked the leader of the Republicans in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy, who orchestrated her removal from the leadership of the party in May 2021 after she condemned Trump’s statements about the “stolen” elections. She expressed her belief that “the Republican Party is in a very bad state today.”

“Donald Trump betrayed Republican voters,” Cheney rages. – He lied to them. Those who support him have been lied to and popular patriotism is being used against them. People are cashing in on patriotism… I believe that Donald Trump continues to pose a very serious threat, a risk to our republic, and I think that for his victory it will take a broad and united front of Republicans, Democrats and independents. This is what I intend to be a part of.”

It will be a difficult and lonely struggle within the party to achieve this goal, as the vast majority of Republican lawmakers either firmly support Trump or refrain from criticizing him.

“Of course, Cheney will continue to identify as a Republican, but she will definitely be on the fringes of her party: what was once marginal is now the center, and what was in the center has become marginal,” the Financial Times quoted a senior fellow as saying. Matt Continetti American Enterprise Institute.

Liz Cheney's request for leadership in the Republican Party, and there – and at the level of the United States – is not a momentary whim. Analysts say she has a long-term strategy to lead the post-Trump Republicans.

Liz Cheney has a good background for presidential ambitions. Not only is she a representative of a political dynasty, the eldest daughter of former Republican Vice President Dick Cheney, but she has managed to gain a well-known reputation in American politics in her own right – she held several positions in the State Department during the George W. Bush administration, in particular, as a deputy assistant Secretary of State for Middle East Affairs.

And yet the shadow of her father falls on the figure of Trump's opponent. “When you study Rep. Liz Cheney’s (R-Wyoming) speech style—an unwavering tone of voice even as she delivers dire warnings about the unreliability of American democracy, a slight tilt of her head forward as she fixes her gaze on the audience, a leisurely intonation in her reproaches to deniers of the election, even her clenched jaw – it is impossible not to see her father Dick Cheney, writes The Washington Post. “The manners and style of the former vice president are forever in his daughter.”

Cheney is considered a member of the Republican establishment, one of the leaders of the neo-conservative wing of the party, and a “hawk” in foreign policy (to the extent that she opposes the policy of no first use of nuclear weapons, but defends the practice of torture by US intelligence agencies). During the Trump administration, she was critical of his administration's foreign policy while voting strongly in support of his overall agenda.

At a certain point, Liz Cheney did not even act as a “white crow”, but a “black sheep” from the point of view of many Republican party members: she supported the second impeachment of Donald Trump for his role in the storming of the US Capitol in 2021. For this, they tried to remove her from the leadership of the party, and at least not on the first attempt, the supporters of the ex-president succeeded, taking advantage of the support of the leader of the Republican minority in the House of Representatives, Kevin McCarthy. Due to outright hatred on the part of some Republicans, Liz Cheney had to spend 58 thousand dollars on private security.

But in July last year, Democrat Nancy Pelosi appointed Cheney to the House Select Committee on the attack on the Capitol on January 6, and two month, she became vice-chairman of the committee.

In the meantime, Liz Cheney's divisive position, from the point of view of Trump's supporters, cost her a loss in the Republican primaries in Wyoming, and, consequently, a seat in the House of Representatives. And at the moment, her prospects look bleak.

So Liz Cheney became “a stranger among her own and her own among strangers.” True, according to experts, she remains a staunch conservative – and Democrats, who like her opposition to Trump, will never like her policies. As The Washington Post writes about this, “Cheney's presence in American politics is both pleasant and unpleasant. Her conservative political preferences are undeniable. What she voted for hurts liberals.”

And as the Financial Times points out, Cheney’s family ties to the George W. center-left voters, even as she grew in respect among liberals as she fought to hold Trump accountable.

If she runs for president, the right-wing anger against her will only increase, whether she opposes Trump for the Republican nomination or as an independent.

“After Jan. 6, Cheney had a choice between political viability, which would include softening her outrage at Trump's lies about the 2020 election, or political suicide,” writes an op-ed in Politico. She opted for the spectacular act of self-immolation — lighting up the night sky like a nuclear reactor at the start of the HBO miniseries Chernobyl. It was a wonderful loss. Few elected officials are willing to sacrifice their office because of a deep principle. Cheney did so without hesitation. History will remember her fondly and better than other members of her party who repeated or tolerated lies just to maintain or gain political power. However, she has undoubtedly cut herself off from being able to positively influence the direction of the Republican Party through electoral politics. If she runs for president either in the GOP primary or as an independent in the general election, the effort will be empty at best and possibly quite damaging.”

It's hard to say what will happen in 2024 yet. – you still have to live to see it. But for now, observers believe that Liz Cheney will have little chance of winning, but she will be able to take decisive votes from Trump.

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“The US ruling elite encourages the ideology of radical groups in Ukraine and the Baltics”

Recently, President Vladimir Putin announced the first International Anti-Fascist Congress, which begins its work in the Moscow region on Saturday. The expert told us about the relevance of the fight against modern fascism, including in countries that imagine themselves to be the “stronghold of world democracy”.

“Nothing strange, because she was not completely trampled down,” comments the president of the All-Russian Police Association, Lieutenant General, Doctor of Law, Honored Lawyer of Russia, Professor Yuri Zhdanov. “They only extinguished the big fire, but the embers remained. And these embers or, let's say, the spores of the “brown plague” are cherished in the main world nursery of this infection – in the USA. It was from American fascism that metastases originated, which sprouted in many countries – satellites of the United States. I believe that this will also be discussed at the first ever International Anti-Fascist Congress.

– This is a common misconception based on the effect of external perception. Well, such as “zigs”, legionnaire salutes, black uniforms and other paraphernalia, torchlight processions … This is all, of course, spectacular, but you need to understand why all this is started and who pays for the show. And when you start to understand, it turns out that all this horror was not originally created by the “gloomy German genius”.

– Yes, and there were also the Frenchman Gobineau and the Italian Mussolini. And many others. However, in all its glory, racial theory first appeared on the southern plantations of the North American United States. And racism, Nazism and fascism are inseparable. And it does not matter whether the Negroes are oppressed, whether the Indians or the Jews are exterminated, whether the same white people are sold into slavery, as the British did with the Irish. Fascists, even if they don't call themselves that, always divide people into “higher” and “lower”.

But let's understand the original essence of fascism. It is in the name, from the Latin word “fascio” – a rod with which the guilty are flogged. The ancient Roman lictors, who carried out punishments, wore a bundle of such “fascios” in which an executioner's ax was stuck. That is, they could flog, or they could cut off something, say, a head. It was the personification and symbol of power. Formally, it seems to be legal. But in fact – arbitrary and limitless. Fascists are a single group of people who themselves establish and enforce laws. And these laws are punitive. I will not go into history, but the first fascist states were Sparta and Ancient Rome of the era of the early empire, where a handful of people reigned supreme over the majority of the population. The Spartans were outrageous over the helots, also, by the way, the Greeks turned into slaves. And in Rome, for the first time, a military junta was born – the triumvirate of Caesar, Crassus and Pompey. The triumvirs, however, ended very badly, no one died a natural death. But the founding fathers of the United States really liked the tradition and they called their temple the Capitol. For the majority – a reference to the alleged traditions of democracy, a reminder of the ancient Roman Senate. But the initiates understand…

– The fact that at any moment all this democratic tinsel can fly around like autumn leaves, and the real masters of America will come to power, who for the time being rule the country from behind the scenes. No, I am not a supporter of the notorious conspiracy theory, but do you think about why any fascist organizations are unequivocally and unconditionally banned in Russia? And in the “civilized” countries – republics and monarchies – they legally exist. Although they do not flourish everywhere, they are considered legal. This is a reserve for local “masters of life”, in case something goes wrong in their country. There are hundreds of official organizations of such “reservists” in the USA. And it is possible that their services may soon be needed.

– And this too. In the meantime, they are actively and not unsuccessfully developing the practice of using the Nazis in Europe. The American ruling elite, represented by the Democratic Party, is pursuing a provocative course of simultaneously encouraging neo-Nazi ideology and radical fascist groups as a shock fighting force in Ukraine, the Baltics, Poland, Canada and elsewhere to promote their political narratives and physically confront opponents. This allows, by tightening legislation, using hidden operational and tactical mechanisms for the actions of special services, and manipulating public opinion through media-controlled media, to “push through” their own openly fascist policy both within the country and in foreign policy.

The bet is made on neo-Nazi groups, pro-fascist movements. American intelligence agencies are provocatively pitting irreconcilable political opponents – supporters of Democrats and Republicans, “Trumpists”, social groups – “whites” and “blacks”, migrants and “native” Americans, national and sexual minorities. Paramilitary formations – Antifa and pseudo-human rights, essentially destructive movements – BLM, are used, inevitably undermine the socio-political situation. This leads to new massacres, internal and “external” terrorist attacks, military conflicts. That is, special projects of American intelligence services are being implemented both on the territory of their country and on the territory of other countries.

I believe that at the International Anti-Fascist Congress they will definitely notice the intensified process of external expansion, the internationalization of American fascism outside, in particular to Ukraine, the Baltic states, Poland. I consider it necessary to emphasize: internal terrorism in the United States and Ukrainian, Baltic, Polish, Canadian and other fascist structures are two sides of the same coin, in fact, they are metastases of American fascism.

– And no one calls the United States fascist state. Bye. But fascism for America is not Hitler's delusional and expansive statements about the highest value and purity of the “Aryan race” and millions of victims, and not the philosophical “doctrine of fascism” of Mussolini.

For the United States, fascism is their own history of the formation of American statehood, a chronologically earlier and longer (than for Italy and Germany) historical stage. This is the official political course of the ruling elite, aimed at fighting for the “purity of the nation” within the nation, the state apparatus, which provides the mechanism for the implementation of this racial struggle – the courts, the police, medicine, special commissions.

And then there is the scientific elite, which, within the framework of eugenic, that is, selective science, has prepared not only a supposedly scientific justification for the necessity, expediency and effectiveness of racial selection, but also conducting medical manipulations (sterilization) and other inhumane experiments on their own citizens. By the way, the methods and results of these studies were later adopted by the Hitlerite Nazi regime in concentration camps.

Let's also remember the leading industrial giants, who at one time provided the technical capabilities for the implementation of fascist ideas, and their generous willingness to share the terrifying “best practices ”, and cooperation with the growing strength of the Nazi regime in Germany.

Therefore, at first glance, the “tolerance” of official America towards fascism and neo-Nazis, which is hardly explained at first glance, declared as freedom of speech, opinion and expression of will, is just one of the echoes of that monstrous historical past through which the American state itself passed, and which is now bashfully hushed up. This is, first of all, fascism in relation to American citizens who have been massively segregated, sterilized in the framework of the eugenic doctrine of “racial purity”.

The Americans themselves are talking about all this. In his book An American Example for Hitler. The United States and the Rise of Nazi Race Legislation,” law professor James Whitman argues that Hitler was inspired by American racism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Hitler admired America for the way it “excluded certain races from naturalization”. He saw America as an example of a “single state” and hoped to recreate such a state in Germany. The Nazi leader wrote about this in his autobiographical manifesto Mein Kampf. In 1928, Hitler even praised the Americans for the way they hunted Indians during their continental expansion to the west.

Coercive sterilization, racial segregation, bans on interracial marriages, and even the infamous gas chambers were all done in the US for eugenics research years before the same thing happened in Nazi Germany. The books of the American researcher Edwin Black “IBM and the Holocaust” (2001) and “The Conspiracy Against the Weak” (2003) are devoted to this.

In December 2006, the New York Times published a 617-page Secret Justice Department report, The Office of Special Investigations: Striving for Accountability in the Aftermath of the Holocaust, which details how the CIA and the FBI helped Nazi criminals escape punishment, recruited and took them to the United States to work under cover against the USSR.

“America, which has positioned itself as a safe haven for those fleeing persecution, has become a safe haven for the executioners themselves,” the report emphasized. It provides examples of the Nazi executioners of the Third Reich, whose devotion to the American intelligence agencies of the CIA and the FBI allowed them to escape punishment.

The high degree of “usefulness” and awareness for the CIA and FBI of former Nazi criminals in confronting the USSR during the Cold War outweighed the arguments about the need to prosecute them for war crimes, and only after the publication of a secret report were some declassified Nazi criminals transferred for trial in USA and other countries.

This previously secret document also reveals the attitude of official Kyiv towards Nazi criminals.

The annotation to the released document noted: “The inside history of the United States government's Nazi-hunting operation provides exciting new evidence about some of the most notorious Nazi cases of the past three decades. The Justice Department has kept the 600-page report under wraps for the past four years, releasing a heavily redacted version last month to a private research group that sued to force it to be published.”

After that, decide – how to classify a state created in the USA?

– I don't know if it will be a coup d'état. But there is no doubt that the Democrat-controlled forces in the US intelligence services will do everything possible from them through their agents to organize simultaneous violent protests by pro-fascist groups. After all, that's what they were bred for. Also, the process of further influence of the American intelligence services on the increased Nazification of political processes in Ukraine, the Baltic states and Poland is beyond doubt.

The danger of fascism has never disappeared anywhere. One should always remember the words of the writer Julius Fucik executed in 1943 by the Nazis: “People, I loved you! Be vigilant!”.

In general, there is something to discuss at the International Anti-Fascist Congress.

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And they promise state protection

The government has submitted a bill to parliament that proposes obliging officials in the regions under threat of dismissal to report to the prosecutor's office about all attempts to persuade them to take bribes. For officials at the federal and municipal levels, such a requirement has not yet been spelled out in anti-corruption legislation.

The initiative was developed in accordance with the National Anti-Corruption Plan for 2021-24, Vasily Piskarev, head of the relevant Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption (ER), reminded journalists. It is proposed to prescribe in the current law “On Combating Corruption” the obligation of “persons holding public office in the constituent entities of the Russian Federation” to report to the prosecutor's office or other bodies that have the right to conduct inspections about all cases of contacting them “in order to induce them to commit corruption offences.” About all attempts to give a bribe in any form, in simple terms. The government wants to set a deadline for fulfilling the requirement at five days. It is specifically stipulated that officials at the regional level who reported such information about themselves – and at the same time those who informed law enforcement agencies about the facts of committing corruption offenses by other officials at the regional level or officials – will be “under the protection of the state.” Mr. Piskarev noted the importance of this norm: “because the inducement to break the law can be accompanied not only by promises of any benefits, but also by threats, and a civil servant who has rejected such proposals must be sure of his safety.”

The list of officials at the regional level is established by a decree of the President of the Russian Federation. These are members of regional governments, deputies of legislative assemblies headed by the speaker and vice-speakers, members of the regional election commission, auditors of the regional accounts chambers and local commissioners for human or child rights, justices of the peace, etc.

A similar requirement has already been established since 2021 by another federal law for deputies of regional parliaments, the explanatory note says. If you look at the same law “On Combating Corruption”, then it contains similar norms only for officials at all levels, from federal to municipal. For officials of all levels, including the federal one (this is the president, government, State Duma deputies and senators, federal judges, judges of the Constitutional Court, the Supreme Court, the Prosecutor General, the Secretary of the Security Council and his deputy, the head of the Investigative Committee, auditors of the Accounts Chamber, members of the Central Election Commission, etc. .d., etc.), both regional and municipal, only the requirement to be sure to report to the anti-corruption commission about the presence of a conflict of interest, that is, such a situation that has arisen when personal interest can affect the content and result of the work, is fixed.

The explanatory note to the introduced bill also reminds that for non-compliance with the new requirement, there will be some kind of “responsibility” established by laws or other regulations. There are no explanations. What can be discussed? “In this case, of course, not about administrative or criminal liability, which arises only if a corruption offense is committed, but about disciplinary, dismissal due to loss of confidence, for example,” the deputy head of the Duma Security Committee explained to MK. and Anti-Corruption Ernest Valeev (ER).

Since 2017, all information about those dismissed due to loss of confidence due to violation of various anti-corruption requirements has been entered into a special register and stored there for five years. Last name, first name, patronymic, place of work that the citizen lost, date of entry and exclusion of information (the entry is prematurely deleted due to death or if the decision to dismiss was canceled) … The register can be found on the Internet. As of August 8, 2022, it had more than 3 thousand entries. Officials of the municipal and regional levels, employees of regional customs and various kinds of supervisory authorities, municipal deputies, bailiffs, investigators, national guardsmen and policemen, forensic experts, employees of military registration and enlistment offices, assistants to prosecutors… First Secretary of the Consular Department of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

How relevant is the topic of fighting corruption for Russians now, in the context of the situation that has radically changed after February 24, 2022, and for the Russian authorities too? There are problems with international cooperation in this area, as in many others. The very National Anti-Corruption Plan, in pursuance of which bills are regularly written, which the Parliament then adopts, refers, for example, to Russia's cooperation with the GRECO organization (Group of States against Corruption). But this organization was created by the Council of Europe, in which Russia is no longer a member since mid-March 2022. What is the point in taking measures similar to the one proposed by the initiative now submitted to the State Duma?

The anti-corruption topic is still of interest to Russians, political scientist Alexei Makarkin believes, “if only because corruption contributes to a decrease in the efficiency of the state apparatus, which directly affects both the economy and the social sphere, the consequences of which are felt by citizens.” In addition, “anti-corruption legislation, among other things, creates opportunities for strengthening state control over officials,” he reminded MK.

“If we talk about real tools to fight corruption, then the most rational of them is the reduction of state participation in the economy and the distribution of funds, property, preferences. Now there are no signs of this. But the second dimension – a demonstration of the dependence of civil power on the power – has not disappeared. There were pauses in the arrests of officials at the beginning of the covid epidemic and in February-March 2022, but now they have resumed again. This is not directly related to the fight against corruption, but it allows regional structures of law enforcement agencies to fulfill their KPIs (Key Performance Indicators – MK.),” said political scientist Mikhail Vinogradov. As for the public attitude to this topic, this dimension of the problem is “now on the periphery of attention,” he admitted in a conversation with MK: “people usually react sharply to resonant scandals, films, excesses, but ideas about the effectiveness of the fight against corruption (and there are no expectations of its increase) in society as a whole, the respondents rather say that the existing realities are not immutable”. “At the same time, the anti-corruption field itself can hardly be called transparent. For example, in July, during the adoption by the Duma in the first reading of the scandalous amendments to the law “On Advertising”, it turned out that the project did not pass an anti-corruption examination, since this procedure does not exist for documents submitted by State Duma deputies – it is carried out only in relation to external projects,” noted expert.

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First woman to walk on the moon as part of the US Artemis lunar program. This is reported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA).

She will be part of the crew, which is planned to be delivered to the moon in 2025.

The agency announced that 13 possible areas for the future landing of astronauts. All of them are located near the South Pole of the Moon. Among them are the Malapert crater, the edge of the Faustini crater and others.

The landing site will depend on the choice of the starting window. For this reason, a decision will be made only after the final flight dates have been determined.

The NASA Artemis program includes three stages. On the first one, it is planned to launch the Orion spacecraft, on the second – a flight around the Moon with a crew, on the third – the delivery of astronauts to the Earth's satellite and their subsequent sending to Mars.

Earlier it was reported that NASA postponed the launch of the VIPER rover to the Moon. It was originally planned to be delivered to the Earth satellite in November 2023 for surface exploration. Launch delayed until 2024.

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On August 20, the Soviet nuclear project turned 77 years old. It was created as a response to US plans to destroy the USSR with nuclear warheads. But as soon as we had our own bombs, which became a reliable shield, their creators immediately began to work on projects of the “peaceful atom”. And they created an industry that still sets the tone for our technological development.

Peaceful people

Having dropped two of its first three bombs on Japanese cities, the United States already from the second half of 1945 gave birth to one war plan after another. The most famous — “Dropshot” (short stroke in tennis). According to it, 300 nuclear bombs and 250 thousand tons of ordinary ones were going to be dropped on the cities of the Soviet Union. The appearance in our country in 1949 of the atomic bomb, and then the test in 1953 of the world's first thermonuclear and in 1955 — superbombs (cascading thermonuclear charge) stopped the former ally. Since then, we call our nuclear potential a shield, it still protects our country and keeps the world from a global war.

“The main task that we had to solve with our work, — force the United States to renounce the use of nuclear weapons. We have achieved it. We were able in a short time in a destroyed country to create our own similar weapon, which forced the Americans to abandon their plans to commit such a rash act, — told «AiF» a few years ago, the last of the participants in the atomic project Arkady Brish.

But even before the completion of the military project, at the suggestion of its supervisor academician Igor Kurchatov, research began and developments on the use of atomic energy for peaceful purposes. The world's first pilot nuclear power plant in Obninsk started operating in June 1954

New stations — new reactors

Almost 15 years ago, on December 1, 2007, the state corporation “Rosatom” was established by presidential decree, which inherited the country's nuclear industry. Now in our country there are 37 power units at 11 nuclear power plants, and 20% of the energy produced is generated by nuclear generation. The Russian state corporation has the world's largest portfolio of orders for the construction of nuclear power plants. Today, 35 power units in 12 countries are at various stages of implementation. Three new units are being built in Russia.

New blocks — new reactors. At the Beloyarsk nuclear power plant in the Sverdlovsk region. 2 fast neutron reactors operate: BN-600 and BN-800. A third one will appear later: BN-1200. Figures — these are the megawatts of energy that the reactor is capable of delivering, the letters mean: fast sodium. But our witty atomic scientists always decipher abbreviations in their own way. This one is like this: great hope.

The BN-800 reactor resembles a huge octopus with an orange body and silver tentacles. Photo: RIA Novosti/Pavel Lisitsyn

The hope lies in the possibility of closing the fuel cycle. In “Rosatom” the strategy of two-component nuclear energy was adopted. This means that nuclear power plants with two types of reactors will operate in a single system: thermal and fast neutrons. In the latter, uranium-238 — is involved in the fuel cycle. item that used to go to waste. That is, two-component allows you to take the spent nuclear fuel of thermal reactors, extract depleted uranium from it and produce “firewood” for fast reactors, thus closing the nuclear fuel cycle. 

But that's not all. The advent of BN reactors created the conditions for closing the nuclear fuel cycle within one reactor, which is now being done at the Siberian Chemical Combine in Seversk (Tomsk Region). A lead-cooled fast neutron reactor BREST-300, which has no analogues in the world, is being built there. The atomic scientists gave a telling name to this project: Breakthrough.

Low power demand

On the other hand, many parts of the world need small power sources. And the Russian state corporation is launching stations with low-power reactors — up to 300 MW. One of them, “Akademik Lomonosov”, — floating, moored in Pevek in Chukotka. 

Its modernized version will meet the needs of the Baimsky GOK, which develops one of the world's largest gold-copper deposits — also in Chukotka. And the first small ground-based nuclear power plant will be built in Yakutia to develop the Kyuchus gold deposit.

The reactors that will equip low-power nuclear power plants have already been created. This is a series of RITM-200 — they work on the latest Arktika icebreakers; and “Siberia”. Nuclear icebreaker fleet — one more direction of using the energy of the atom for peaceful purposes. Now Russia has 6 operational icebreakers and construction is underway 3. 

New Project 22220 nuclear-powered ships (operating Arktika and Sibir, Ural, Yakutia and Yakutia under construction) Chukotka») — universal, they can guide ships both on deep Arctic routes and in shallow areas, as well as in the mouths of polar rivers.

By the way, in the composition of “Atomflot” includes the world's only nuclear-powered lighter carrier Sevmorput. It can carry cargo and containers and is able to operate in ice.

With the largest icebreaking fleet in the world, Rosatom is now responsible for the development of the entire infrastructure of the Northern Sea Route.

Radiation Pill

Nuclear medicine makes it possible to detect early and treat oncological, cardiological, endocrinological and other diseases very effectively, including in situations where other methods (surgical, pharmacological ) are already powerless. 

Radiation can absolutely safely sterilize food, medical devices and medicines, treat insect carriers of dangerous infections, protect agricultural products, reveal hidden defects in products and structures without destroying them, improve the properties of materials, determine the age of archaeological finds, etc. At the same time, objects after exposure to ionizing radiation do not contain residual radiation, and therefore remain safe for humans and the environment. And all this — also “peaceful atom”. 

“Printed” turbine 

Nuclear industry — it is the driving force behind the development of the country's economy. It uses not only nuclear technologies, but also many others. 

«In addition to an environmentally friendly and reliable source of energy, the “peaceful atom” contributes to the development of science, industry, education, medicine, agriculture”, — says the CEO of the state corporation Alexey Likhachev. 

Everyone has heard about the composite wing of the future Russian medium-range airliner MS-21. And where did they develop and produce composite materials for it? At the Kazan enterprise of the composite division of the nuclear state corporation Umatex. It is one of the world's top ten wide-range carbon fiber manufacturers.

We talked in detail about a single-laser 3D printer created by nuclear scientists several years ago. And recently they put into operation a two-laser machine — it is 60% more productive than the “big brother”; and is able to separate two types of powders. Employees of the state corporation are already “printing” equipment for nuclear power plants, as well as experimental parts for aircraft and engine building. “Printed” even a small gas turbine plant. They are going to make implants for medical purposes: jaws, eye sockets, etc. 

Implant for medical purposes. Photo: AiF/Marina Nabatnikova

Large Russian data centers (data processing centers), which are necessary, among other things, so that personal information about each of us does not leak to unfriendly countries, are being created near nuclear power plants — there are quite large territories and energy — here she is, nearby, and they “eat” there is a lot of it. 

Implant for medical purposes. Photo: AiF/Marina Nabatnikova

In two nuclear centers — in Snezhinsk and Sarov — own powerful supercomputers. The institutes of the state corporation produce serial supercomputers with a capacity of up to 100 teraflops for industrial enterprises, transport companies, and educational organizations. And by 2024 according to the plans the quantum computer of “Rosatom” will appear.

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The head of the laboratory of the Hydrometeorological Center of the Russian Federation, Lyudmila Parshina, told what the weather will be like in September in different regions of the country. Rossiyskaya Gazeta writes about this.

According to the expert, the weather in the central part of Russia will be normal. At night it is expected from plus 6 to 12 degrees, during the day – from 16 to 22 degrees of heat. When it gets cold, nighttime temperatures can drop to zero, and daytime – up to plus 10 degrees.

In the south of the country, including in the Kursk and Belgorod regions, as well as in the Kuban and Crimea, it can be a couple of degrees colder than usual. In Siberia, on the contrary, the weather will be slightly warmer. In Primorye, in the south of the Khabarovsk Territory, in the Sverdlovsk, Chelyabinsk and Kurgan regions, it will be warm during the day – 17-23 degrees.

September can be rainy in the center and northwest of the country. It will not do without rain in the Arkhangelsk region, Komi, in the Urals, in the Volga region and even in resorts.

Earlier, meteorologists reported that a sharp cold snap with frosts would come at the end of this week in the regions of the Siberian Federal District.

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On the night of August 20 nbsp;near St. Petersburg and in the Leningrad Region the northern lights adorned the sky. The phenomenon was seen over Krasnaya Gorka and Motornoye village. Also, photos of the aurora, taken in Kronstadt and on the island of Hogland, appeared on the network.

The sky turned green and purple at about one in the morning. It is noted that an unusual natural phenomenon is recorded near St. Petersburg and in the Leningrad region for the third day in a row.

Earlier, the Hydrometeorological Center of the Russian Federation gave a forecast for September in different regions of the country. According to meteorologists, the weather in the central part of Russia will be normal. In the south it will be a couple of degrees colder. In Siberia, on the contrary, the weather will be a little warmer. 

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Over the past day, the number of cases of coronavirus infection in Russia has increased by 40 010. A day earlier, this figure was 37 609, the federal operational headquarters for combating infection reported.

More than 40,000 people infected with COVID-19 per day were detected in the country for the first time since March 14. In total, 19,077,764 cases of coronavirus infection have been recorded in Russia since the beginning of the pandemic.

Over the past day, 69 people have died in the country, since the beginning of the pandemic – 383 496. 24 & nbsp; 222 people recovered in a day, were hospitalized & ndash; 3 450.

It is noted that in Moscow the number of cases of infection was 8,259 per day.

Earlier it was reported that in Russia, according to WHO, the transmission of the Omicron strain has accelerated; BA.5, while the number of deaths has decreased. Experts expressed concern that “very high levels of transmission of COVID-19 due to BA.5 Omicron sublines” remain.

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