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news of the day
It is done ! UN experts visited the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant on Thursday. The head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said he “saw what he needed to see” during the inspection of this Ukrainian power plant, which has been regularly bombed for weeks.
“We were able, during these few hours, to gather a lot of information. I saw the main things that I needed to see”, assured Rafael Grossi to the Russian media who accompanied the delegation of experts from the IAEA in this plant occupied by Russian forces. This visit comes as the Ukrainian operator of atomic power plants Energoatom announced in the morning the shutdown of one of the nuclear reactors of the plant following Russian bombardments.
sentence of the day
We have to assume that we can always continue to talk to everyone (…) especially those with whom we don’t agree. »
This is the feeling of the French president. This Thursday, Emmanuel Macron advocated the continuation of dialogue with Moscow and, by extension, the Russian leader Vladimir Putin. “Who wants Turkey to be the only power in the world that continues to talk to Russia? “, he wondered in front of the French ambassadors gathered at the Elysée.
The number of the day
35. This is the number of museums destroyed or damaged since the beginning of the Russian invasion in Ukraine. The 26th General Conference of the International Council of Museums (ICOM), which was held from August 20 to 28, also counted the damage and destruction of 159 churches or religious buildings, six cinemas and 44 libraries. A way of showing that the cultural heritage of Ukraine will remain profoundly upset by this war.
The trend of the day
Russian President Vladimir Putin will not attend the funeral on Saturday of the last leader of the USSR, Mikhail Gorbachev, who died at the age of 91, the Kremlin spokesman said Thursday. “We know that the main ceremony will be on September 3, as well as the funeral, but the president’s schedule will not allow him to be there,” Dmitry Peskov told reporters, adding that Vladimir Putin had already went to the Moscow hospital where Mikhail Gorbachev died to “place flowers near his coffin”.
A great political figure of the 20th century, he marked history by precipitating, in spite of himself, the fall of the Soviet empire in 1991, when he was trying to save it with democratic and economic reforms. The dislocation of the USSR, described by Vladimir Putin as “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the 20th century”, marked the end of the Cold War. Despite his major free speech reforms, Mikhail Gorbachev is held responsible by many Russians for the collapse of a superpower and the years of economic, social and moral crisis that followed.