* A student at Perm State University opened fire, killing six people and injuring 28 others. The shooter himself, as reported in the UK, was wounded while resisting the security forces, he was hospitalized. According to media reports, the attacker is 18-year-old Timur Bekmansurov. Before the shooting, he wrote a long post on VKontakte. It says that he "hates himself" and that he "wants to hurt anyone" who "gets" in his way.
Russia is summing up the results of the elections to the State Duma. Across the country, after processing 98.84% of the protocols, 7 United Russia is in the lead (49.83%), followed by the Communist Party of the Russian Federation (18.94%), followed by the Liberal Democratic Party (7.52%), as well as A Just Russia ( .47%) and New People (5.33%). The rest of the parties did not overcome the 5% threshold required to win seats in the lower house of parliament. In the gubernatorial elections held in a number of regions, the leaders the current heads of the subjects turned out to be . About summing up the results of the elections - in our online.
In Moscow, opposition candidates, despite initial leadership in a number of constituencies, lost , according to official figures, to their pro-government rivals from the Sobyanin list. This happened after the counting of votes of voters who voted online. The announcement of the results of electronic voting in Moscow was postponed several times. Those who disagree with the results of the elections gathered tonight on Pushkin Square . The Communist Party of the Russian Federation applied for a rally, but the capital's mayor's office refused to approve it, citing the coronavirus pandemic. According to a Novaya Gazeta correspondent, about 200 protesters came to Pushkinskaya .
The Moscow court of Brest sentenced Russian woman Irina Vikholm to one and a half years in prison , who in Belarus became a defendant in a criminal case of libel against Alexander Lukashenko. According to investigators, Vikholm posted on Twitter a photo of Lukashenka and “slanderous information about his committing an “act of terrorism and air piracy.” In the publication, the woman quoted a statement from the Greek Foreign Ministry regarding the situation with the Ryanair flight.
August retail prices for buckwheat in Russia rose to 102.5 rubles per kilogram, the highest in ten years. The last time they exceeded the mark of 100 rubles per 1 kilogram was in May 2011, when buckwheat rose in price to 112 rubles.