United Russia deputies Ernest Valeev and Anatoly Vyborny, headed by the chairman of the Duma Committee on Security and Anti-Corruption Vasily Piskarev, submitted two bills to the State Duma that introduce punishment and equate maps and images “challenging the territorial integrity of Russia” to extremism.

RusNews journalist Maria Ponomarenko, who was arrested in the case of "fakes" about the Russian army, opened her veins due to a deterioration in her mental state. The journalist was rescued. On September 16, during an appeal to extend her arrest, Ponomarenko said that she had been diagnosed with hysterical personality disorder. According to the journalist, she does not receive the necessary assistance in the pre-trial detention center.

Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov published on his YouTube channel a video interview with Yevgeny Nuzhin, a captured Wagner fighter, who was serving time in Skopin's Ryazan IK-3. According to the prisoner, he ended up in a colony 23 years ago because he killed a man during the "mess" and wounded another. For this, he was given 24 years in prison and four more for attempting to escape. The source of "Important stories" confirmed this information.

The governor of the Nizhny Novgorod region, Gleb Nikitin, opposed the proposal of the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, on the "self-mobilization" of the regions. At the same time, Nikitin said that the region had already formed a battalion of volunteers who would go to war in Ukraine. “In matters of defense and security, we will adhere to the need to fulfill the orders of the military leadership,” the official said.

Journalists “like this” gained access to the reports of Russian military personnel who refused to participate in the war against Ukraine. The editorial office received several dozen documents from the headquarters of the Russian group in Raisins, which the Armed Forces of Ukraine was recently released.

In the self-proclaimed LPR, an explosion occurred in the office of the Prosecutor General, he died, Interfax reported, citing emergency services. Also killed Deputy Prosecutor General Ekaterina Steglenko and four other people. The head of the republic, Leonid Pasechnik, called the incident a terrorist attack. In Kherson, the building of the local administration came under fire, Russian news agencies report.

In the afternoon of September 16, shelling resumed on the border between Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan. The parties blame each other. The Ministry of Health of Kyrgyzstan reported that 87 people were injured. Earlier it was reported that the Parliament of Kyrgyzstan is going to an emergency meeting, the imposition of martial law in the country was not excluded. At the same time, about 136 thousand people were evacuated from the conflict zone on the border with Tajikistan.

What's going on with the music industry How did the war with Ukraine affect the concert industry in Russia? The war affected my work in 2014. It’s not that all [foreign artists] because of the [annexation] of Crimea have fundamentally stopped traveling to Russia, but the dollar/ruble exchange rate has increased from 30 to 75 — because of this, the opportunity to bring many artists has disappeared. Some people managed to invite, everything was slowly restored by 2020.

The head of the Rus Sitting Foundation Olga Romanova - about how the recruitment of prisoners for war is arranged Representatives of the Wagner PMC recruit Russian prisoners to war in Ukraine, promising them cash payments and amnesty. On September 15, the associates of Alexei Navalny published a video in which Evgeny Prigozhin personally campaigns sitting to the front.

Volodymyr Rogov, a representative of the occupation administration of the Zaporozhye region, said that Oleg Boyko, deputy head of the pro-Russian city administration, and his wife, Lyudmila Boyko, were killed in Berdyansk. According to Rogov, Boyko was killed near their garage. Lyudmila Boyko headed the city territorial election commission for holding a referendum on the accession of the Zaporozhye region to Russia. Rogov blamed the “Kiev regime” for the murder.

On August 26, the prosecutor's office began checking the Research and Educational Center "Memorial" (NIPTs), to which the liquidated "International Memorial" transferred the building on Karetny Ryad in Moscow. After that, the executive directors of both organizations, Elena Zhemkova and Boris Belenkin, were summoned to court in a case to invalidate the transfer of the building. On September 14, the accounts of the NIPTs, Zhemkova and Belenkin were arrested.

What is known about him In the city of Izyum, the Kharkov region, over which the Ukrainian army restored control last week, found a mass burial. We are talking about about 440 graves: most of them are probably buried by local residents. "Cold" tells what else this is known. What the Ukrainian authorities say For the first time about mass burials, it became known yesterday from the head of the investigative department of the Kharkiv region of the Kharkov region Sergey Bolvinov .

I'm probably five, my grandmother leads me along the garden - that's what we called the square on our street. We go to the store, and there is a chance that they will buy me sweets (sticky caramels without wrappers, sugar sprinkles, others are not sold in our area). And my grandmother is holding my hand. And I should be happy, and I'm terrified. Because in the morning I saw on TV how the world ends. The world is black and white, the TV is also black and white, but that only makes it worse.

From today, Russia is free from the obligations that were imposed on it as a member of the Council of Europe. Six months ago, on March 15, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe voted for the immediate exclusion of Russia from the membership of the organization. The Institute of Law and Public Policy has prepared a report on the results of Russia's 26-year membership in the Council of Europe.