An Islamic Revolutionary Court in the Iranian province of West Azerbaijan has sentenced two LGBT+ activists to death for "spreading debauchery on Earth." Zara Sedighi Hamedani, 31, and Elham Chubdar, 24, were charged with "propaganda of homosexuality", "propaganda of Christianity" and "communicating with media opposed to the Islamic Republic." These are the first death sentences in Iranian history handed down to women because of their sexual orientation, according to the Kurdish human rights

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow fined Honored Artist of Russia Tatyana Rudina 50,000 rubles for “discrediting” the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The court said that the case was connected with the post of the artist in social networks, "aimed at a negative attitude towards the ongoing military operation." It is not known which publication is being referred to.

A video appeared on the Internet in which, to the song “And the winter will be big,” a man in a Gazprom jacket stops the gas supply. The operation of the gas pipeline stops, and the EU flag, European cities, Nord Stream 2 and winter Russian landscapes appear on the frames, in particular Krasnoyarsk, which has not yet been gasified. Telegram channel "Merciless PR" claims that for the first time the video was published from them. “The author of the idea, a TV journalist and marketer from St.

In Russian schools - new rules. We tell how teachers relate to them and how they are bypassed The school week in every Russian school should now begin with a solemn raising of the Russian flag and the performance of the anthem, and “to form a sense of patriotism” introduced weekly classroom hours “Talking about the important” according to the training for the training for manuals. In addition, students were forbidden to use phones during the lessons.

This is reported by "Free Space" from the hall of the Basmanny Court of Moscow. The registration certificate for Novaya rasskaz-gazeta was canceled at the request of Roskomnadzor. The publication was registered in 2009, and the first issue was published in July 2022 - this caused claims from the RKN. “The first issue came out on July 15, and the plaintiff applied on the 22nd. The RKN was notified as early as June 1 that the release of the New Story-Gazeta was planned for July.

The European Commission approved the suspension of the visa facilitation agreement with Russia. The decision will come into force on September 12. The abolition of the simplified visa regime means that for Russian citizens, the consular fee for applying for Schengen visas will increase from 35 to 80 euros, and the process of applying for documents will be more complicated.

Russia buys millions of artillery shells and missiles from North Korea. This means that US and European sanctions have seriously affected the supply of the Russian armed forces, writes The New York Times, citing US intelligence data. At the same time, other economic sanctions have not yet harmed Russia. Russia counted on support from China, but the country did not dare to violate export controls regarding military supplies, so now Russia is interacting with Iran and China.

In 46 regions of Russia, the FSB came with searches to 178 people, whom the service called "supporters of the Columbine and Maniacs; Murder Cult" movements.

The manager of rapper Oksimiron, Zhenya Murodshoeva, tweeted a video from the spit of Vasilyevsky Island in St. Petersburg, where a person who looks like an artist reads something to the camera. "Autumn. Particularly fucked birds come from the south, ”the manager wrote. Oksimiron himself has not yet commented on reports of his return to Russia. Murodshoeva did not answer the question of the Agency journalist.

On the afternoon of September 6, an explosion occurred in occupied Berdyansk, the Russian-controlled Internal Affairs Directorate for Melitopol reported. A car belonging to the military commandant of Berdyansk Artem Bardin was blown up near the city administration building. There was a shootout after the explosion.

Kaliningrad pediatrician Elina Sushkevich was sentenced to nine years in prison, the former head physician of maternity hospital No. 4 Elena Belaya was sentenced to nine and a half years in prison. The doctors were found guilty of killing the child. The investigation believes that they deliberately injected a child born at 24 weeks of pregnancy with a lethal dose of magnesium so as not to spoil the statistics of the maternity hospital. The case was considered in Moscow.

Zinaida Pronchenko - about whether it is possible to continue to engage in cultural journalism during the war After the outbreak of war, the famous film critic and blogger, chief editor of the site of the magazine "Art of Cinema" Zinaida Pronchenko quit from all work and left Russia. Six months later, she reflects on the "cold", as now to write about culture in Russian and whether to write at all. I would like to start with a disclaimer. Or with an epigraph.

Head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Alexander Bastrykin opened the 102nd season of the Vakhtangov Theatre. He read poems of his own composition and awarded the director of the theater Kirill Krok with the departmental medal "350 Years of Peter the Great", and the theater staff with a certificate of honor.

In the second season of the series "Vampires of the Middle Band" there will be no Ukrainian actress Ekaterina Kuznetsova, who played one of the main roles. Investigator Annushka in the new season of Vampires of the Middle Band will be played by Russian actress Anastasia Stezhko. She starred in the series "Policeman from Rublyovka" and "Dyldy". The Start video service, which produces Vampires of the Middle Band, did not comment on Kuznetsova's departure.

Historian Tamara Eidelman - about the dictatorship in Russia and Ukrainian democracy Tamara Eidelman is a historian and teacher, author of books and lectures on propaganda and dictators of the 20th century. The editor-in-chief of Kholoda Taisiya Bekbulatova talked with her about modern Russia-how the country went to tightening the regime, why democracy has settled in historically close Ukraine and whether the Putin regime with the USSR of the 1930s or fascist Germany could be compared.