The Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs has canceled the residence permit of Russian citizen Evgeniy Irzhansky, who organized performances in the country by artists and artists with an anti-war position. this He announced on his Facebook. Irzhanski has been living in Serbia since 2022. He received a residence permit for the country as an individual entrepreneur - a Russian company provides consulting services to a company from Germany and organizes concerts.

The Office of the Investigative Committee for the Voronezh Region opened a criminal case against a traffic police officer suspected of taking tests for a local deputy who fatally hit a pensioner at a pedestrian crossing. this The department reports . The policeman is accused of exceeding official powers (clause “e” of Part 3 of Article 286 of the Criminal Code) and falsifying evidence in an administrative case (Part 1 of Article 303 of the Criminal Code).

A criminal case was opened against mathematician Azat Miftakhov for justifying terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of his comments while watching a TV show among prisoners. His lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina told Mediazona about this. What exactly the convicts watched and what Miftakhov said at the same time is unknown. Last Friday, August 25, the RTVI television channel reported that a new criminal case had been opened against the anarchist.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has agreed to travel to China for the October Belt and Road summit. This is reported by three Bloomberg sources “familiar with the matter.” If the trip takes place, it will be the first visit by a Russian president since the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC) issued an arrest warrant for him. According to Bloomberg interlocutors , Putin accepted the invitation of Chinese President Xi Jinping because the country guaranteed his safety.

The National Anti-Terrorism Center, part of the Czech police, has launched an investigation due to the work of the Austrian banking group Raiffeisen Bank International ( RBI ) in Russia. this The police press service reported to the state channel Česká televize . The investigation began following a complaint from several Czech bank clients who are members of the Association for the Rights of Citizens and Entrepreneurs ( .pdf ).

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow extended the arrest of 36-year-old Alexei Tikhomirov, who is accused of sabotage (Part 1 of Article 281 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent. As it became known at the meeting, Tikhomirov was detained on April 14, but this had not been publicly reported before. The reason for the criminal case was the arson of relay cabinets on the railway. It is not known exactly when and where this arson occurred.

One of largest the world's crypto exchanges, OKX , has announced that it will no longer be able to transact with the Russian ruble on its P2P platform, where users trade cryptocurrencies with each other. “Users from Russia still have access to the opportunity to trade other currencies,” added representatives of the exchange. Yesterday, OKX also removed sanctioned Russian banks from payment methods on the platform. This affected Sberbank, Alfa and Tinkoff.

Starting September 4, Russian schools will resume “Conversations about Important Things”—classroom hours during which “key aspects of human life in modern Russia” are discussed. As noted , the authorities have already published training manuals for the first three classes of the new school year. Mediazona The first class hour will be dedicated to the Day of Knowledge.

The farewell ceremony for the head of Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin, took place in a closed format, reports his press service . He was buried in a cemetery in St. Petersburg. “The farewell to Evgeniy Viktorovich took place in a closed format. Those who wish to say goodbye can visit the Porokhovskoye cemetery,” the message reads. correspondent An MSK1.RU was told at the cemetery that Prigozhin was buried at about 13:00.

to the “list of terrorists and extremists” maintained by Rosfinmonitoring . was added A 31-year-old human rights activist from Chechnya, Abubakar Yangulbaev, Those accused and convicted under “extremist” and “terrorist” charges are added there, and their Russian accounts are blocked. A week ago, his data appeared in the federal wanted list of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Moscow City Court considered an appeal against the arrest of former “Minister of Defense of the DPR” Igor Strelkov (Girkin) in the case of calls for extremism on the Internet and left him in custody. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. The defense demanded that Girkin be transferred to house arrest, since he does not intend to hide and has a disease.

At the Northern Cemetery in the Vyborg district of St. Petersburg, one of the leaders of Wagner PMC Valery Chekalov (with the call sign “Rover”) was buried. report this Correspondents and Rotunda . police and National Guard reinforcements at the cemetery In the morning , there were ; all cars entering were inspected. Most of the more than a hundred guests came in black, only a few people had the symbols of the Wagner PMC with them.

On August 28, the 2nd Western District District Military Court appointed 400 thousand rubles a fine of a 20-year-old resident of Murmansk Chancin Kukui in the case of justification of terrorism (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). About this "Mediazone" was told by the press secretary of the court Irina Zhirnova. The meeting with the consent of the parties was held on video conference.

In the Chelyabinsk region, near the village of Prudny, Sosnovsky district, a Mi-8 helicopter crashed, emergency services told RIA Novosti. Information about the crash was confirmed by TASS in the district administration. Telegram channels Baza and “112” initially wrote that there were four people on board who died. Then Baza , Shot and RIA Novosti clarified that there were three people in the helicopter, all of them died.

The ECHR recognized the attack of the Cossacks with nagikes and gas cans on the participants of the Pussy Riot punk group in 2014 in Sochi in a violation of the rights of corporators to freedom from torture and freedom of expression (Articles 3 and 10 of the European Convention on the Protection of Human Rights). The applicants were Pussy Riot Maria Alekhina, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Peter Verzilov, as well as the Krasnodar artist Lusine Dzhanyan and activist Alexei Nekrasov.