A week after Vladimir Putin’s decision to place under temporary management the Russian assets of Auchan, Lehman PRO (formerly Leroy Merlin), FM Logistic and Nestlé, a new asset management scheme was publicly announced and general directors were named. Judging by their biographies, we may be talking about a temporary scheme, following which the real beneficiaries will be named. So far, only a few connections between the new managers and large and reputable businessmen are visible. "Lemana PRO" .

The Ministry of Labor has published a draft order that repeals existing rules allowing some foreigners to work outside the region where they are permitted to work or reside. Two lists of professions that provide foreign specialists with benefits when finding employment and obtaining a residence permit will cease to apply.

The exclusion from the EU sanctions list came as a surprise even to the co-founder of Alfa-Bank, Mikhail Fridman, Bloomberg writes, citing a source. Details. By the time Fridman was removed from the sanctions list, he had almost lost hope of lifting the restrictions, the agency’s interlocutor said. ️ Friedman, as Bloomberg writes, received an almost accidental benefit from the efforts of another billionaire Alisher Usmanov to lift sanctions against him.

Rosfinmonitoring on Wednesday added journalist Yuri Dud to the list of terrorists and extremists. His last name has an asterisk - this is how people are marked in relation to whom the Russian authorities have information about involvement in terrorism. The department did not say what exactly became the basis for the decision.

Putin presented the queues at polling stations as a show of support for the authorities. In fact, first public sector employees stood in line, and then opponents of the authorities Vladimir Putin on Wednesday made a comment on the results of the State Duma elections. He said that Ukraine tried to disrupt the vote,… pic.twitter.com/c2oUBEYhym — Agency News (@agents_media) September 23, 2026 Vladimir Putin on Wednesday made a comment on the results of the State Duma elections.

Several legal entities of French companies, which Vladimir Putin transferred to external management last week, were headed by Evgeniy Nenashev. This is a former official of the Moscow Region Department of Territory Maintenance and co-founder of the Second Chance Foundation, which was created with the support of New People, the Agency’s analysis shows. In 2021, he drove a Rolls-Royce. The company of Nenashev’s father was bought by Novatek Leonid Mikhelson and Gennady Timchenko. Details .

At least 73 polling stations in Moscow (out of 1,443) had their vote counting protocols changed, electoral analyst Ivan Shukshin told the Agency. In some cases, changes were made to protocols that had previously been falsified in favor of United Russia, another electoral expert Roman Udot commented on what was happening. Details. After the elections, at least 182 protocols were changed, Shukshin told the Agency.

Leonid Slutsky, who has headed the LDPR since the death of Vladimir Zhirinovsky, flew with billionaire Roman Abramovich and his son to negotiations in Saudi Arabia in August 2022, which ended with the release of Viktor Medvedchuk, the godfather of President Vladimir Putin. The Project found this out as part of a large-scale study of officials' flights, which will be published next week.

The hacker group Black8Mirror announced the publication of the archive of Mikhail Babich, the former presidential envoy to the Volga Federal District, who has been working as deputy director of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation since 2021. Among the published materials is alleged correspondence between Babich and presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov, in which Vladimir Putin, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev and Yevgeny Prigozhin are discussed.

Vladimir Alekseev Deputy Chief of the Main Directorate of the General Staff of the Ministry of Defense Vladimir Alekseev and commander of the Akhmat special forces Apti Alaudinov vouched in court for Ekaterina Kustova, deputy director for development of the Efko group of companies, accused of particularly large-scale fraud and embezzlement, RBC reported, citing a company representative. Her father-in-law, billionaire Valery Kustov, was arrested at the end of July.