The Su-25 military attack aircraft crashed on Monday in the Krasnodar region, the pilot ejected, there were no casualties, RIA Novosti reported , citing the press service and information department of the Russian Ministry of Defense. According to the department, the dispatch service lost contact with the Su-25 pilot at 20.17 Moscow time. At this time, the aircraft was performing a training flight.

A member of the punk group Pussy Riot, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who is serving a sentence for an action in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in correctional colony No. 14 in Mordovia, on Monday, September 23, declared an indefinite hunger strike and demands a transfer to another colony, according to a press release from the human rights association "Agora" ", received in Forbes.

Russia on Monday handed over the Bushehr nuclear power plant to Iran for operation, RIA Novosti reported , citing an official representative of Rosatom. “Today the first Iranian nuclear power plant in Bushehr was handed over to the customer,” the agency quotes him as saying. The guaranteed operation life of the plant will last two years, Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Iranian Atomic Energy Organization, said earlier. During these years, Russian specialists will work at the nuclear power plant.

The dispute over the claim of Sukhoi Civil Aircraft (SCAC) against the insurance company Capital Insurance for the recovery of insurance in the amount of $29.5 million for the Sukhoi Superjet 100 (SSJ-100) airliner that crashed in Indonesia in May 2012 may be peaceful agency reported on Monday , the RAPSI .

Islamists from the Somali group al-Shabab, who seized the Westgate shopping center in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Saturday, set fire to the building, from which gunshots and explosions continue to be heard and black smoke rises above, Reuters reported on Monday . The militants continue to hold several people hostage.

Deputy head of correctional colony No. 14 Yuri Kupriyanov, whom imprisoned Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova accused of threatening to kill , wrote a statement to the prosecutor's office against the convict's husband Pyotr Verzilov and her lawyer Irina Khrunova, accusing them of inducing the illegal creation of preferential conditions for Tolokonnikova , reported on the website of the Federal Penitentiary Service for Mordovia.

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case on police negligence after the murder of former paratrooper Ruslan Marzhanov in the city of Pugachev, Saratov region, after which mass unrest occurred in the city, RIA Novosti reported with reference to the deputy head of the SUSK investigative department for the region, Sergei Sedov. A case has been opened against police officers who allowed a crime to be committed in the cafe next to which Marzhanov was killed, Sedov said.

After the entry into force of the association agreement with the EU, Ukraine will lose its trading privileges with Russia, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said at a meeting with the Council of the Chamber of the Federation Council on Monday, September 23. He did not rule out the possibility of introducing restrictions, RIA Novosti reports .

A militant attack on Nairobi's Westgate shopping center killed 62 people, not 69 as previously reported, the Kenyan Red Cross said on Twitter on Monday. The organization explained that an error occurred when counting bodies in morgues. Kenyan Interior Minister Joseph Ole Lenku told reporters that at least two terrorists were killed and several more militants were wounded. Nairobi police say most of the hostages have already been released.

The creator of Russia's largest social network VKontakte, Pavel Durov, on Monday supported Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, who went on a hunger strike against the arbitrariness that she believes reigns in correctional colony No. 14 in Mordovia, and on his page called for support for the member of the Pussy Riot group.

Vladislav Surkov, on Friday, September 20, appointed to the post of assistant to the president, will bring two of his longtime associates to the Kremlin administration - Ivan Demidov, who now holds the post of Deputy Minister of Culture, and Senator Nikita Ivanov, writes the Izvestia newspaper, citing sources in the Kremlin in Monday.

Canadian smartphone manufacturer BlackBerry Ltd. gave preliminary consent in principle to the proposed sale of the company to a group of investors led by insurer Fairfax Financial. The amount of the transaction, as a result of which the former Research-in-Motion (RIM) will leave the market and become private, will be $4.7 billion. Trading in BlackBerry shares on NASDAQ has been suspended.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, on the sidelines of the CSTO summit that opened in Sochi, briefly discussed the Uralkali case with Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko, Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters on Monday. “It was a short face-to-face conversation. The topic of Uralkali was touched upon very briefly,” RIA Novosti quotes Peskov as saying .

The Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) of Russia approved the application of Delta-trans-invest LLC, part of the TransGroup AS group of companies, to acquire a 25% stake in Aeroexpress LLC, the Prime agency reported on Monday with reference to a press release departments. If the deal is implemented, Delta-trans-invest will increase its stake in Aeroexpress to 50%. Currently, Russian Railways (RZD) owns 50% of Aeroexpress shares.

The deputy head of one of the branches of the Moscow United Energy Company (MOEK) OJSC was detained in Moscow on suspicion of commercial bribery worth 1.2 million rubles, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The agency, citing a representative of the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, reports that “N. Kotkov." According to information from open sources, we are talking about Nikolai Kotkov.