Writer Sasha Filipenko talks about the contradictions in calls not to issue Schengen visas to Russians Belarusian writer Sasha Filipenko is perhaps the most popular Russian-language author in the world right now. His books are translated into dozens of languages, his journalistic texts are published by leading world publications. With the permission of the author, Kholod publishes the original text of the column, which was published in translation in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.

The Koptevsky District Court of Moscow arrested ex-State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev in absentia for spreading "fake news" about the Russian armed forces. Ponomarev is charged with spreading "fake news" about the army based on political, ideological, racial, national or religious hatred (paragraph "e" of part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). It is not known what prompted the initiation of the criminal case. Ilya Ponomarev was a State Duma deputy from the Just Russia party.

Journalists of the BBC Russian Service found out that the criminal case of journalist Ivan Safronov is directly related to his professional activities. Safronov's exclusive text on the supply of Su-35 fighters to Egypt, which was published by Kommersant in March 2019, provoked a scandal in the Egyptian defense department. Anonymous comments for the material were given by two top managers of defense industry enterprises.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow on Tuesday appointed Leonid Gozman 15 days of administrative arrest for identifying the actions of the USSR and Nazi Germany (Part 1 of Article 13.48 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The reason for this was Gozman's Facebook post on October 28, 2020, in which he compared the crimes of Stalinism and Nazism.

Colleagues and familiar co -founder of the Dissernet project - about his personality and political motives for detention On August 28, the co -founder of the Dissernet project was detained Andrei Zazakin. He is accused of financing extremist activities due to the transfer of a thousand rubles to the “Corruption Fund”, which was declared an extremist organization in Russia and was liquidated by court decision.

High -ranking American and Ukrainian officials told The Washington Post that the Armed Forces managed to deceive the Russian military, forcing them to shoot at the wooden dummies of reactive systems Himars. According to the publication, according to these attitudes, the Russian military has never hit. Russia also did not yet provide undeniable evidence of the destruction of Himars.

In Volgodonsk, police detained Alexei Lyashkov, deputy director of the construction and municipal services department. He was given a measure of restraint in the form of a written undertaking not to leave. Lyashkov is suspected of setting dry grass on fire and destroying the Stepnaya Zastava ethnic center. A case was opened against the man for “deliberate destruction or damage to property” (Article 167 of the Criminal Code).

The governments of Germany and France have prepared a draft EU policy on relations with Russia and countering Kremlin propaganda. According to an internal document reviewed by Bloomberg, for this purpose, in Paris and Berlin, they propose to increase the level of information literacy of Russians with the help of YouTube and Tiktok bloggers, as well as to preserve the opportunity for ordinary citizens of the Russian Federation to visit democratic countries.

“Now we would like someone like Gorbachev…” I was born in November 1941 in Yekaterinburg, the war was already in full swing. When dad returned from the front, we were sent to Pskov with him. I spent my youth there, and after my studies I was assigned to Sverdlovsk, which became Yekaterinburg in 1991. Since then, I've been stuck here. All my life I worked in the Uralsky Rabochiy printing house: first as a designer, then as a foreman, and as the head of the stitching shop.

The operatives of the Department of Military Counterintelligence of the FSB shot in a video a conversation with the prisoner Andrei Yastrebov, who fights in Ukraine, said the human rights project gulagu.net. On the recording of the hawks, he repeats that he has “everything is fine”, “everything is fine” and despite the injury, he is going to return to the front line.

The Zheleznovodsk City Court of the Sevastopol Territory sentenced 12 Ingush policemen to one and a half years of imprisonment on probation in the case of non-execution of an order (Part 2 of Article 286.1 of the Criminal Code). In August 2019, a criminal case was opened against 13 policemen.

Ivan Safronov's defense challenged the entire composition of the court, as he considers it biased. Lawyer Yevgeny Smirnov told the telegram channel “We can explain” about this. The withdrawal was not accepted. Later on Tuesday, the prosecution requested a sentence for Safronov - 24 years in prison. Smirnov is confident that the prosecution and the court are working together in this case.

On August 19, the Lida Belarusian District Court recognized the social networks of the fictional virtual state of Veishnoria as extremist. The YouTube channel, the VKontakte group, Facebook and Instagram, Odnoklassniki, a TikTok account, as well as a channel and chat on Veishnoria's telegram were included in the list of "extremist materials". Veishnoria is a fictional virtual state created for the joint Russian-Belarusian military exercises "West-2017".

Politics Alexei Navalny, who is now in IK-6, was placed in a punishment cell (SHIZO) for the third time for seven days. “And this “ladder” will go up to the maximum possible 15 (days - Approx. “Cold”) , and then I will sit for 15 terms, “until I calm down.” The fact is that I am "too politically active for a prisoner." The trade union of prisoners created by me causes great irritation: “They didn’t put them in jail to make trade unions here,” the politician wrote on social networks.

Independent activist Almut Rochowanski about the idea of ​​a visa ban for Russians Almut Rochowanski, human rights activist working with refugees from the former Soviet Union, explains why the European idea of banning visas for Russians goes against European values and is dangerous for vulnerable segments of society. The proposed EU-wide “visa ban” for Russian citizens touches on issues I have worked on for nearly 20 years.