Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak said on Friday that Russian companies will redirect some of the liquefied natural gas currently supplied to European markets to other markets, as Vladimir Putin proposed this week. There are a number of obstacles to this, in particular long-term contracts and a shortage of tankers, writes Bloomberg. Details.

Just 1 mg of epibatidine, which was used to poison Alexei Navalny, can lead to the death of a person. This dose of poison cannot be felt, for example, in a glass of water, Indiana University professor Richard Fitch, who in the 2000s worked under the guidance of epibatidine discoverer John Daly, told the Agency. We are publishing excerpts from his answers to our questions. Details .

Russia is providing Iran with intelligence to target American troops in the Middle East, The Washington Post writes, citing three sources. This is the first evidence of Moscow's indirect participation in the war in the Middle East, the newspaper notes. Details . Moscow provided Tehran with information about the location of American military installations, including warships and aircraft, the newspaper's sources said. “It looks like this is a pretty big initiative,” one said.

Immediately after the performance about the “enemy” Telegram was staged for Vladimir Putin, the story of the strangulation of the messenger was continued. It became known that the FAS sent the administrator of one of the channels a notice of a possible violation of advertising legislation due to two posts. A few hours later, the FAS officially confirmed that it considers advertising on Telegram, as well as on YouTube, illegal.

On Thursday evening, the court placed former First Deputy Defense Minister Ruslan Tsalikov under house arrest on charges of creating a criminal community, theft and bribery. He became the third Shoigu’s deputy from those who came with him to the Ministry of Defense in the early 2010s to be imprisoned. Details . Tsalikov, according to Kommersant, is charged with fraud at Voentorg, whose former general director Vladimir Pavlov is accused of creating a criminal community.