A group of deputies and senators from United Russia, the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia, A Just Russia and New People have prepared amendments to the law on Education, which provide for the introduction of mandatory federal programs in humanitarian subjects in school. The bill was published to it .

The Ministry of Justice added several more people to the list of media “foreign agents”: political scientist Valery Solovy, journalists Elena Shukaeva and Andrei Afanasyev. This is reported on the department's website. to another register of individuals - “foreign agents” were added Publicist Yulia Latynina, historian Tamara Eidelman and blogger Michael Naki . According to the ministry, they “carried out political activities” in the interests of Ukraine.

The Ministry of Justice excluded the St. Petersburg HIV service foundation “Humanitarian Action”, which helps drug users, from the register of “foreign agents”. This is reported on the ministry's website. “The grounds for exclusion from the register were the organization’s termination of the functions of a foreign agent and the results of the [Ministry of Justice] inspection,” the press release says. “Humanitarian Action” was recognized as a “foreign agent” in December 2020.

Alfa Group co-founder Mikhail Fridman proposed transferring $1 billion to the Ukrainian bank Alfa-Bank Ukraine in order to lift UK sanctions. writes about this The Wall Street Journal , citing sources from among American officials.

Photo: Vyacheslav Madiyevskyi / Reuters Ukrainian troops are reporting promotion in the Kharkov region and access to Kupyansk, the Ministry of Defense responds with the video about the “transfer of troops” and closes comments on his page. The center of Kharkov and the city of Donbass were subjected to shelling. The Mediazone chose the main thing from everything that happened during the day in the war and in connection with the war.

The European Commission advised against issuing multiple-entry visas with a long validity period to Russians, since in the long term Russian citizens “may not meet the conditions for entry into the EU.” This is stated in the guideline regarding new visa restrictions.

At the end of August, six young people were detained in Tyumen, Surgut and Yekaterinburg. As Mediazona found out, at least one of them - 27-year-old anti-fascist from Yekaterinburg Yuri Neznamov - reported torture. According to lawyer Fedor Akchermyshev, Neznamov was detained in Yekaterinburg on August 31, taken to Tyumen, where on September 3 he was sent to a pre-trial detention center on charges of organizing a terrorist community and participating in it (Article 205.4 of the Criminal Code).

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Crimean Tatar Yashar Shikhametov to 11 years in a maximum security colony in a terrorism case (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code). this . reports Crimean Solidarity The prosecutor asked that Shikhametov be given the same sentence, noting that it was “less than prescribed” due to a mitigating circumstance - the presence of a dependent minor child on the defendant’s behalf.

“Yandex.Music” deleted the Novaya Gazeta.Europe podcast “What’s New” without explanation, the publication reports . The editors of Novaya Gazeta.Europe suggest that this happened because of an episode with journalist Elena Milashina, in which she talks about the terrorist attack and storming of school No. 1 in Beslan. The publication contacted Yandex support, but has not yet received a response about the reasons for the deletion.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow arrested Russian citizen Mikhail Baranov in the case of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). Interfax was told about this by the press service of the court. Baranov will be in custody until November 7. According to investigators, he tried to give out information constituting a state secret to a foreign state. There are no details of his biography in the court message. The case materials are classified.

In St. Petersburg, a criminal case was opened for damage to a cultural heritage site (Part 1 of Article 243 of the Criminal Code) due to painted eyes on a sculpture in the Summer Garden. about this . writes The city prosecutor's office In early September, a copy of the bust by Italian sculptor Antonio Corradini added eyes with a black marker. According to the St. Petersburg prosecutor's office, the restoration of the sculpture cost 16.5 thousand rubles.

Rosfinmonitoring excluded blogger Yuri Khovansky from the list of extremists and terrorists. This is reported in the telegram channel about updates to the list, which is maintained by programmer Ivan Shukshin. Data about Khovansky also disappeared from the Rosinfomonitorig website itself. In July, a court in St. Petersburg dismissed the criminal case against the blogger.

In St. Petersburg, protocols were drawn up against five deputies of the Smolninskoye municipal formation for “discrediting” the army. this on his Twitter . announced Deputy Nikita Yuferev In addition to Yuferev himself, employees of the city police department No. 76 opened administrative cases (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code) against deputies Dmitry Baltrukov, Dmitry Palyuga, Ivan Chebotar and Anna Kiseleva. Two more were released from the police without reports.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow extended until November 12 the arrest of politician Ilya Yashin in the case of “fake news” about the army (clause “e” of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona was told about this by the press service of the court. The meeting was held behind closed doors without the press. The court rejected the defense's request to select a preventive measure not related to detention.

The prosecutor's office of the Oktyabrsky District of Omsk approved charges against a 52-year-old Omsk resident in a criminal case of insulting women, according to the department's website. He is accused under the article on public humiliation of human dignity on the basis of gender (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code), which carries up to 5 years of imprisonment. According to investigators, an Omsk resident published an offensive post on Vkontakte in December 2021.