Russian Sergei Mironov was detained today in the capital of Armenia at the request of the United States on suspicion of money laundering and illegal technology transfer, his lawyer Karen Nersesyan told RIA Novosti. “While we don’t know exactly what he is accused of, during his arrest they announced that he was wanted by the US authorities for laundering 50 thousand dollars and transferring some technologies,” Nersesyan explained.

Left-wing activist Filipp Galtsov, who was put on the wanted list in Russia for the Bolotnaya case and received political asylum in Sweden, spoke on the OVD-Info website about the kidnapping he experienced two weeks ago. Galtsov, who conducts public activities in support of prisoners in the “Bolotnaya case,” writes that on August 10 in Stockholm he noticed that he was being followed. He was pursued by two men who were waiting for him at his place of work and followed him on the subway.

A resident of the Kamchatka village of Tilichiki was sentenced to three years and three months in a general regime colony for committing “violent acts of a sexual nature” against a drunk woman in a public toilet, after which she lost consciousness and died of hypothermia, according to a message on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee.

The Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee for the Saratov Region opened a criminal case against a 62-year-old resident of the city of Balakovo, who is suspected of transferring a bribe to a police officer, according to a statement on the department’s website.

Moscow police detained one of the organizers of a financial pyramid, in which they tried to attract deaf-mute and hard-of-hearing people to participate with promises of high interest rates, according to a message on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The coach of the women's football club "Torpedo" Faig Nagdaliev, who was detained at the Moscow metro station "Taganskaya" after being reprimanded by the police for smoking in a public place, wrote a statement about the beating, radio station "Moscow Says" reports . According to Nagdaliev, on August 25, he left the building of the Russian Football Union and, on the way to the metro, met a group of police officers who were smoking on the street.

At one of the Moscow airports, FSB operatives detained the deputy chairman of the board of the Federal Grid Company of the Unified Energy System (FSK UES), Valery Goncharov, reports . Novaya Gazeta According to the publication, Goncharov is suspected of fraud on an especially large scale during the construction of an energy bridge to Crimea. Searches were carried out at his place of work and several home addresses.

A murder suspect escaped from a hospital in northern Moscow, TASS reports , citing law enforcement agencies. The man who escaped from custody was treated at the Central Clinical Psychiatric Hospital on 8th March Street. “The murder suspect escaped from a medical facility, where he was under the protection of employees of a private security company,” the agency’s interlocutor said.

A fire in a warehouse in the north-east of Moscow occurred due to a faulty lamp, Interfax reports , citing Ilya Denisov, head of the capital's main directorate of the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

In the Tosnensky district of the Leningrad region, the body of the 52-year-old chairman of Polyana gardening, Yuri Kallin, was discovered, 47news reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies. Callin's body was found on the afternoon of August 26 on the side of the road in the Polyany gardening area. According to preliminary data, the shot in the head, which resulted in the death of the gardening chairman, was fired from a hunting rifle.

As a result of a special operation in Kabardino-Balkaria, security forces killed two militants, a law enforcement source told RIA Novosti. The counter-terrorism operation (CTO) regime, which has been in force on the territory of the republic since early Saturday morning, has been cancelled. The CTO regime was introduced at 06:20 am in part of the territory of Nalchik and the Chegem region.

A criminal case has been opened in Moscow regarding a fire in a warehouse on Altufevskoye Highway; according to investigators, the cause of the incident was arson, official representative of the Moscow department of the Investigative Committee Yulia Ivanova told Interfax. According to her, the case was opened under Part 2 of Article 167 of the Criminal Code - intentional destruction or damage to property, which through negligence resulted in the death of a person and other grave consequences.

In the north-east of Moscow, a fire in the industrial part of a building killed more than 20 people, reports , citing a source in the city’s emergency services. the Moscow agency “At the address: Altufevskoe highway, building 5, a fire occurred on the territory of the printing house. In the production part of the building on the fourth floor, people were accommodated in a room that was not intended for this. During the fire extinguishing, more than 20 corpses were discovered in the building.