The public prosecutor's office in the northern German city of Flensburg has launched an investigation after unknown drones were spotted in the skies over the federal state of Schleswig-Holstein, Bild reports . According to the publication, the drones flew at high speed — more than one hundred kilometers per hour — over an industrial zone where chemical plants, a gas terminal, and an inoperative nuclear power plant are located.

Orenburg authorities promised to pay 16 million rubles to the singer Shaman (Yaroslav Dronov) for performing at a concert on the occasion of City Day. State Duma deputy Nina Ostanina in a letter to the regional governor Denis Pasler notes that the authorities have still not paid compensation to all Orenburg residents who suffered from the spring flood. "16 million rubles have been allocated from the Orenburg city budget to pay the artist's fee.

Businessman Dmitry Volodin, owner of the Sheraton Hotel on Teatralnaya Square and the Knizhny Novgorod store on Minin Square, was detained in Nizhny Novgorod. According to NN.ru and Govorit Nizhny , he is suspected of giving a bribe to a Rosreestr employee. Details of the case are not provided. Volodin, 56, is known as a collector of Western European paintings; interviews with him have been published by The Art Newspaper Russia and other specialized publications.

A railway ferry with fuel tanks, attacked by a Ukrainian missile in the port of Kavkaz near the Kerch Strait, sank. This was reported by the operational headquarters of the Kuban government. According to regional authorities, there are no fires in the port itself. The Krasnodar Territory task force reported the attack at 17:30 Moscow time. At 20:30, Governor Veniamin Kondratyev wrote on his Telegram channel that 17 ferry crew members had been rescued.

The flag at the monument to the victims of political repression in St. Petersburg, 2020. Photo: David Frenkel / Mediazone For the past ten years, the Russian authorities have consistently limit the rights of LGBTK+ people. In 2013, the authorities banned the “propaganda of non -traditional sexual relations among minors”, after the invasion of Ukraine “Propaganda” was prohibited among Russians of any age. This law entered into force on December 5, 2022.

In the port of Kavkaz near the Kerch Strait, a Ukrainian strike caused a railway ferry with fuel tanks to catch fire. This was reported by the operational headquarters of the Kuban government. According to the photo from the scene, a column of black smoke is coming from the port. According to RIA Novosti, there were five people on board at the time of the explosion. Their fate is unknown. At 18:42 Moscow time, the authorities of Krasnodar Krai reported that the ferry had sunk.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has placed Nemtsov Bridge volunteer Viktor Levakov under house arrest in a case involving donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation, a Mediazona correspondent reports. The hearing was held behind closed doors; house arrest, according to the court's decision, will remain in effect until October 19. Viktor Levakov was detained yesterday.

The Colombian Basketball Federation (FCB) has promised to sue over the participation of the "Colombian national team" in the match against the Perm club "Parma". This was reported on the organization's Facebook page. On August 21, Parma defeated the team that the Russian Basketball Federation (RBF) presented as the Colombian national team 155:53 at the Friendship Cup in Perm.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has placed activist Konstantin Kotov under house arrest until October 19, a Mediazona correspondent reports. The 39-year-old programmer is accused of financing extremism due to donations to the FBK (Part 1 of Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). In addition to Kotov, another person was detained in a similar case - Nemtsov Bridge volunteer Viktor Levakov. The hearing on the measure of restraint was held behind closed doors.

The Ministry of Education and Science's "Unified Lesson" project has published a program for an extracurricular course for students in grades 5-9, "Family Studies," developed by the Institute for Education Development Strategy. Verstka drew attention to the document.

The investigation has filed a petition with the Basmanny District Court of Moscow to choose a preventive measure in the form of house arrest for activist Viktor Levakov in the case of donations to the FBK (Article 282.3 of the Criminal Code). Mediazona drew attention to the case file on the court’s website. Like activist Konstantin Kotov , he was searched on August 21 at his place of residence and place of registration in connection with the FBK donations case.

The Investigative Committee of St. Petersburg has once again opened a criminal case due to the police’s detention of members of the nationalist movement “Russian Community” during a mass conflict between taxi drivers. On August 20, the agency had already begun an investigation into this matter, as its chairman, Alexander Bastrykin, had demanded, but the decision to initiate a criminal case was soon overturned by the prosecutor's office.

The 2nd Western District Military Court has declared the conclusion of a contract between Danish citizen Niklas Hoffgaard and the Ministry of Defense illegal, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. "The man came to Russia to live here and wanted to be useful, he wants to help.

The FSB has opened criminal cases against three journalists who were filming reports about the Ukrainian military's invasion of the Kursk region. The agency reported this to TASS. We are talking about the correspondent of the American channel CNN Nick Payton Welsh and journalists of the TV channels Mi Ukraina and Hromadske Olesya Borovyk and Diana Butsko. They were charged in absentia with illegal border crossing (Article 322 of the Criminal Code).

Part of a four-story residential building in the Perm city of Kizel collapsed due to a gas explosion, the regional department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports . The roofing between the third and fourth floors of the building on Lenin Street collapsed. A man was rescued from under the rubble. Rescuers continue to clear the rubble and search for people there.