In the Arkhangelsk region, a center was created for the training of volunteers and those wishing to serve under a contract, the age limit for participation is from 18 to 50 years. The first course will begin in September, its duration is 10 days. The initiators of the project were the Patriot Center, as well as the public organizations Combat Brotherhood and Own People. The founder of the latter, Konstantin Olyukov, says that “physical data and special training” are not needed to participate.

On the night of August 5-6, Lieutenant Mikhail Gorelov, who fought in Ukraine, his former classmates Nikita Gordeev and Roman Kovalev, as well as fellow villager Grigory Umalatov, broke into the territory of the Goloevka boarding house in the Smolensk region, where Ukrainian refugees live. According to the publication, on September 5, Umalatov met with his acquaintances at a local bar.

On August 28, security forces detained Andrey Zayakin, a Novaya Gazeta journalist, author of Novaya Gazeta.Europe, and co-founder of Dissernet, and searched his apartment. The journalist spent the night from 28 to 29 August in the temporary detention center on Petrovka. Zayakin is accused of financing extremist activities (Part 1 of Article 282.3) - he allegedly transferred 1,000 rubles to the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK). Under this article, Zayakin faces up to eight years in prison.

In order not to miss the main materials of "Cold", subscribe to our instagram and telegram . The other day, Kholod asked me to reflect on the topic of a comma in one of the main phrases of recent months: “You can’t leave, you can’t stay.” I have something to say about this, especially since September 1 marks exactly one year since I myself was forced to leave Russia.

Ex-Kommersant journalist Ivan Safronov is accused of treason because of the transfer of information that the investigation considers “state secret”, although almost all of it is in open sources. The accusation is also based on the testimony of witnesses, among whom are journalists who had no relation to state secrets, officials of the Ministry of Defense and an FSB officer under a pseudonym - this information is indicated in the indictment, which was studied by the Proekt publication.

Swedish manufacturer of telecom equipment Ericsson is preparing to close its office in Russia before the end of the year. According to Kommersant's sources in the telecommunications market, on August 22, the head office of Ericsson notified the Russian division of these plans. The management plans to cut all employees, including those leading the technical support of equipment on the networks of telecom operators.

The FSB said that, in addition to Natalya Vovk, another member of the “Ukrainian sabotage group” — Bogdan Tsyganenko, born in 1978, was preparing the murder of Daria Dugina. According to the Russian intelligence services, he arrived in Russia via Estonia on July 30 and left the day before the murder. Tsyganenko, according to investigators, provided Vovk with fake car numbers and documents, and also helped assemble a homemade bomb that Vovk allegedly set off.

German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, during a speech at the Charles University in Prague, proposed the creation of a unified European air defense system. He believes that a new air defense system at the European level would be cheaper and more efficient than at the national level.

In Russia and Belarus, they judge for reactions in social networks - this is the instruction on how to check your In July, a resident of Barnaul Alexei Argunov was fined that he “carried out a public action aimed at discrediting the use of the RF Armed Forces” - put a sad reaction to a post in “Odnoklassniki”. It is unknown why attention was drawn to Argunov, but not only he could be in such a situation. How to check in what posts there are already your likes and reactions?

The security forces detained politician Leonid Gozman because of a post on Facebook. He is charged with an article on the identification of the actions of the USSR and Nazi Germany (part 1 of article 13.48 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). He will stay overnight at the Tverskoy police station. The post that prompted the arrest read: “Hitler is an absolute evil, but Stalin is even worse. The SS are criminals, but the NKVD is even worse, because the Chekists killed their own.

When Lilia was 44 years old, she found the love of her life. And then the husband began to Alzheimer's disease - and now he does not recognize Lily The 67-year-old Estona Lilia (she asked for the “cold” not to give her last name) grew up with an Abuser stepfather. Her first husband beat her daughters. Everything changed when Lilia was already over 40: she fell in love with a Finnish man nine years older than her - and became his wife.

Alexei Kovalev, deputy chairman of the administration of the occupied Kherson region for agriculture, was found dead in his house in the city of Holaya Pristan. His death was confirmed by the Investigative Committee of Russia. The department said the cause of death was a gunshot wound. A girl who lived with the official also died. Earlier, Baza and Astra reported the death of Kovalev. According to them, Kovalev's body was found in his house in the city.

State Duma deputy from United Russia Yuri Shvytkin complained about the singer Valery Meladze to the Investigative Committee because of his concert, which took place in the Moscow disco club Raduga last weekend. He decided that the musician "overplayed and returned as if nothing had happened", and also called his act "cynical".

On August 29, Sergey Savenkov, Acting Prosecutor of Moscow, “in the interests of the Russian Federation” demanded that the works of M. Ya. Fedorov published on the Internet be recognized as extremist. "Mediazona" suggests that we are talking about rapper Oksimiron (Miron Fedorov - Approx. "Cold") . Journalists found the lawsuit in the filing cabinet of the Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow. What was the reason for the office work is unknown.