Russian state-owned oil and gas company Surgutneftegaz earned an additional $1.4 billion by selling oil above the sanctions ceiling to two firms affiliated with Latvian citizen Alexei Khalyavin. This is stated in the investigation of The Insider . Three Dubai companies are associated with Khalyavin: Black Pearl Energy Trading LLC , where he was the owner and director, and its affiliates OGC Shipping LLC and Conmar Maritime .

From the beginning of July to September 18, the American corporation Apple removed almost 60 VPN applications from the Russian AppStore . This was reported by Roskomsvoboda with reference to the results of a study by the GreatFire project, which monitors the state of censored sites. In total, 98 VPN services are not available in the Russian AppStore . 32 of them were blocked until July, another 30 from July 8 to August 11.

The Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg sentenced Andrei Yedigarev, a 62-year-old ex-deputy from the Udmurt city of Glazov, to three years in a general regime colony in the case of justifying terrorism. It's My City reports . Judge Alexander Raitsky also banned the politician from administering Internet resources for several years. The prosecution requested nine years in prison for Yedigarev.

Prisoners of IK-6 in the village of Mirny, Nizhny Novgorod region, were planning to escape; they were transferred to a pre-trial detention center. This was reported by the department of the Investigative Committee for the region. According to investigators, the three men had been developing an escape plan since August; they prepared for him items prohibited in the colony. During searches, investigators seized extremist religious literature, manuscripts and knives from the convicts.

Photo: Olga Romashova / Mediazone In October 2022, the UN Human Rights Council established the position of special -folder on the regulations in the field of human rights in Russia. The human rights activist from Bulgaria Marian Katsarov was chosen to this position. The representative of Russia at the UN Gennady Gatilov called it “active Russophobe”, from which “nothing good” cannot be expected, and said that Moscow does not intend to cooperate with it.

The founder of the pro-Russian telegram channel “Archangel Special Forces” was 26-year-old Yevgeny Zhulidov, who was in the 45th Brigade of Special Forces of the Airborne Forces. This was reported by the Ukrainian project evocation.info and the publication "Important Stories". The archangel special forces created in September 2021 has almost 1.2 million subscribers. The shooting of murders in the war in Ukraine and a video of interrogations of prisoners are regularly published there.

In Kharkov, as a result of Russian shelling, an aerial bomb hit a nine-story panel building in the Kievsky district. According to the mayor of the city, Igor Terekhov, six floors collapsed - from the eighth to the third. To date, according to the regional administration, three deaths and 22 injuries are known. The rubble is being cleared there.

In April 2024, the Russian security forces stole the Tyumen Kamil Kasimov in Astana, took him first to the military unit in Priozersk, and from there to Omsk, where he was appointed six years of strict colony in the desertion case in wartime.

The Russian military during the deployment of the Iskander-M missile system. Photo: Yuri Smityuk / TASS In May, Kazakhstani human rights defenders reported the detention of 23-year-old Russian Kamil Kasimov, who did not want to participate in the war against Ukraine, escaped from the missile and settled in Astana. In mid -August, a military court in Omsk sentenced him to 6 years in a strict regime in the case of desertion in wartime.

The American bank JPMorgan Chase and the British HSBC processed payments from African companies in 2017, which were controlled by the founder of Wagner PMC Evgeniy Prigozhin, according to the C4ADS report . The Financial Times drew attention to it . C4ADS obtained invoices showing Sudanese mining company Meroe Gold, controlled by Prigozhin, purchased more than $688,000 worth of crushing and screening facilities in China in 2017 and sent an interim payment through JPMorgan Chase.

In Simferopol, a 77-year-old woman from Irkutsk, who was wanted on charges of killing two grandchildren in 1999, was detained. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The woman was detained after in August 2024 she applied for the restoration of her passport to the department for migration of the Internal Affairs Directorate for Simferopol. Siberian was delivered to Irkutsk.

A drone fell in Taganrog, said the governor of the Rostov region Vasily Golubev. According to him, a fire started “in a timber warehouse,” and four nearby cars also caught fire. No one was hurt. The public page “This is Rostov” published footage of eyewitnesses. They show that a fire occurred in the OptStroy store on Nikolaevskoye Highway, where they sell building materials. Next to it there is also a hardware store "Roofing Center".

Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Commission for Investigating Foreign Intervention Andrei Lugovoi said that he “initiated the issue” of recognizing the activities of the Council of Europe as “undesirable” in Russia, since this organization, in his opinion, “has completely degraded as a democratic platform.” The Council of Europe was founded in 1949, it is the oldest international organization in Europe, consisting of 46 states.

The Alagirsky District Court of North Ossetia imposed a four-year suspended sentence on police officer Joni Makiev, head of the criminal investigation department of the Department of Internal Affairs of the city of Alagir. The republican department of the FSB reported this to the publication Krylya TV.

State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin announced a bill “to ban the ideology of childlessness and the childfree movement.” The document itself has not yet been posted in the State Duma database. According to the deputy’s post, the amendments will provide for administrative fines for “promoting the conscious refusal of childbearing” - up to 400 thousand for citizens and up to 5 million rubles for legal entities.