The 1st Eastern District Military Court sentenced Vyacheslav Tsang-Khoya to 15 years in prison in the case of sabotage and treason. This was reported by court representatives. Tsang-Khoyu, according to the sentence, will spend the first three years in prison, and the rest of the term in a maximum security colony. A case was opened against him under six articles of the Criminal Code.

The administration of the Pushkinsky district of St. Petersburg refused to hold a funeral ceremony in memory of the Jews killed there in 1941 during the German occupation. The Jewish Community Center of St. Petersburg reported this. Officials, according to the response , referred to the city government’s decree on coronavirus restrictions. It still includes a ban on public events, although most other requirements have been lifted.

Российские военные во время развертывания ракетного комплекса «Искандер-М». Фото: Юрий Смитюк / ТАСС In May, Kazakhstani human rights activists reported the detention of 23-year-old Russian Kamil Kasimov, who did not want to participate in the war against Ukraine, fled from his missile unit and settled in Astana. In mid-August, a military court in Omsk sentenced him to 6 years of maximum security prison for desertion in wartime.

A draft budget for 2025-2027 was submitted to the State Duma - it follows from it that in 2025 the authorities plan to spend almost 41% of expenses on defense and internal security. The document has already been approved by the government. It is not yet known exactly when the project will be considered by the State Duma. As stated in the text of the explanatory note to the project, almost 41.47 trillion rubles are included in budget expenditures for 2025.

Vladimir Putin included First Deputy Prime Minister Denis Manturov and his former security guard, who holds the position of presidential assistant, Alexei Dyumin, into the Russian Security Council. The decree on this was published on the portal of regulatory legal acts. In addition to them, the head of the Main Directorate of Special Programs of the President, Alexander Lints, and the head of the Federal Medical-Biological Agency, Veronica Skvortsova, were included in the Security Council.

Vladimir Putin awarded the title of Hero of Russia to the military commander of the VGTRK Evgeny Poddubny. The decree on this is published on the portal of regulatory legal acts. As stated in the document, the title of Poddubny was awarded "for the courage and heroism manifested in the performance of official duty." Putin signed a decree on September 26. A fragment of the decree signed by Vladimir Putin On August 7, Poddubny was injured during the attack of drones in the Kursk region.

The vice-president of the company that built icebreakers, Valery Timofeev, was sentenced to 12 years in a maximum security colony for treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). This “Mediazona” became known only after the defense’s unsuccessful attempt to appeal the verdict today in the First Court of Appeal of General Jurisdiction. As it became known today, Timofeev was sentenced on May 28. He was also fined 300 thousand rubles.

The Russian version of the Pure dating app has lost the ability to choose sexual preferences from the entire list, which is available to users from other countries. Users of the service drew attention to this, reports SotaVision . The publication RTVI was convinced of the changes. In the “Temptations” section, only “innocent” items are now available for Russian users, writes SotaVision: for example, hugs, kisses, massage, music, literature.

On July 22, the Severodvinsk City Court of the Arkhangelsk Region imposed a one-and-a-half-year suspended sentence on 77-year-old Northern Arctic Federal University professor Alexander Butin in the case of attempting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office. This is stated in the court ruling, which was discovered by Mediazona.

The court, at the request of the investigation, seized the property of the former head of the clothing department of the Ministry of Defense, ex-deputy general director of the Textile Trading Company, Vladimir Demchik, accused of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code). The Investigative Committee reports this. Demchik’s country house, three-room apartment and more than 100 million rubles were seized.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced DOXA journalist Maria Menshikova in absentia to seven years in a general regime colony. This was reported by Network Freedom. Menshikova was found guilty of justifying terrorism on the Internet (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). In addition to the actual sentence, she was also given a four-year ban on administering Internet resources.

The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow sentenced Alexander Permyakov, accused in the case of the attempt on the life of Zakhar Prilepin, to life imprisonment. A TASS correspondent reports this. Permyakov must spend the first five years of his sentence in prison, the rest of the term in a special regime colony. The court also fined him 700 thousand rubles. Prosecutor Nadezhda Tikhonova asked to impose a life sentence on the accused.

Russian soldier Nikolai Kozlovsky, who died due to torture and violence by the command of the 6th Motorized Rifle Division, was a former employee of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Altai Territory, Mediazona found out. This summer, journalists from the Ukrainian publication Suspilne published material about the criminal case that the Investigative Committee of Russia opened against the leadership of the 6th Motorized Rifle Division.

FSB officers detained seven suspects in Magas and Nazran for plotting sabotage at energy infrastructure facilities in Ingushetia and attacks on law enforcement officers. This is reported on the department's website. Initially, the security forces were going to detain eight suspects, but one of them offered armed resistance and received injuries incompatible with life, according to the FSB. The remaining seven have already been arrested, the security service added.

The author of the Utub-channel Urbanturizm Andrey Pyzh, convicted of the evidence of secret data abroad, was released from IK-5 in St. Petersburg. This was reported in the social networks of the blogger. At the exit from the blogger’s colony, the support group was waiting for, dozens of people came to the meeting. Wagi said that he plans to engage in blogging and shoot videos about abandoned objects after liberation.