Mikhail Slobodin, who became a defendant in the bribery case, left the post of general director of VimpelCom. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the international company Vimpelcom Ltd. The report emphasizes that the resignation is connected with "today's news about Mikhail Slobodin and his former employer, the T Plus company." Shell Morten Johnsen will take the position of the head of VimpelCom. in August.

The Shali District Court of Chechnya sentenced journalist Zhalaudi Geriev, who collaborates with the Caucasian Knot website, to three years in prison. He was found guilty of illegal possession of drugs, the newspaper reports. When exactly the decision was made is not specified. in the card There is no information about the verdict of the case against Geriev on the website of the court. The Chechen departments did not publish any official announcements about Geriev's verdict.

The heads of the energy company T Plus, Yevgeny Olkhovik and Boris Vainkhizer, who were detained on September 5 in a bribery case, will be transferred to the Komi Republic to have a preventive measure chosen. This was reported to TASS by a source familiar with the situation. There is no official confirmation of this information.

Director of Levada Center Lev Gudkov-on the inclusion of the organization in the register of "foreign agents" Photo: Evgeny Feldman / "New Gazeta" The Ministry of Justice included one of the largest sociological organizations of the country-Levada Center in the register of “foreign agents”. The “Anti-Maidan” movement demanded to recognize the “Levada Center” by the “foreign agent”.

Blogger from Yekaterinburg Ruslan Sokolovsky, accused of inciting hatred and insulting the feelings of believers for anti-church statements, was arrested, in particular, because he did not have a permanent place of residence and registration, as well as because of possible drug use. This was stated in the press service of the regional department of the UK.

Photo: Dmitry Dukhanin / "Kommersant" In Russia, a new loud corruption story: In the morning of September 5, investigators came with searches for the Renov office Viktor Vekselberg, and two top managers of the company were already arrested during the day. Moreover, the Investigative Committee said that he was looking for Mikhail Slobodin-one of the most famous business leaders in Russia, who once worked in Renov, and now heads Vimpelcom (Beeline).

In St. Petersburg, the head of the non-canonical Ukrainian Reformed Orthodox Church, Sergei Zhuravlev, was fined. He was accused of illegal missionary activity. The amount of the fine was five thousand rubles. Sergei Zhuravlev said that he would not pay a fine so as not to create a precedent. Punishment for missionary activity outside the places stipulated by the law "On freedom of conscience" appeared in the legislation after the adoption of the " Yarovaya package ".

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has included the research organization "Yuri Levada Analytical Center" in the register of NGOs acting as a foreign agent. Alexei Grazhdankin, deputy director of the Levada Center, told Interfax that the status of a foreign agent "will create certain difficulties in terms of interaction with other organizations", but "will not critically affect" the work of the organization.

In Dagestan, FSB officers detained the deputy head of the criminal investigation department of the local department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Gimbat Lakhiyalov, and the head of the criminal investigation department of Khasavyurt, Rasul Saduev. Searches were organized at the place of residence and workplaces of the detainees, TASS reports , citing a source. A RIA Novosti source in law enforcement agencies said that Lakhiyalov and Saduev are suspected in the case of extortion.

Pulitserian laureate Ron Saskind tells how his son with autism learned to live in Disney cartoons Photo: Documentary Cinema Center On September 8, the film “Animated Life” about Owen’s boy will be shown in the center of documentary cinema: at three years he forgot how to talk; Doctors diagnosed him with regressive autism - and as a result, the child learned to read, speak and live in Disney cartoons.

Photo: Sergey Mikheev / Kommersant For a week, the Moscow 57th school has been continuing to develop events around the accusations of one of the teachers of sexual relations with students. Formally, the teacher quit back in July, but last week the alleged reason for the dismissal was made public on Facebook - after which the discussion around the situation went into public space.

Filmmaker Warner Bros. demanded that Google remove several "pirated" links to his own site. This drew the attention of the site Torrent Freak, whose administrators advocate the free distribution of information. They found three references to the Warner Bros. website in the Google Copyright Query Database. - pages with the films "The Dark Knight", "The Matrix" and "Lucky".

The Prosecutor General's Office submitted a proposal to the Minister of Culture of Russia Vladimir Medinsky. The department demanded that the Ministry of Culture develop a procedure for the import of cultural property for personal use without customs duties. In 2010, Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan agreed that when importing cultural property for personal use into the territory of the Customs Union, fees can be waived.

Mikhail Slobodin, CEO of Vimpelcom and member of the board of directors of T Plus, became a defendant in a criminal case on bribery to the leadership of the Komi Republic. This was stated by the press secretary of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation Vladimir Markin. As part of the same case, the leaders of T Plus, Yevgeny Olkhovik and Boris Vainzikher, were detained.

The City Electoral Commission of St. Petersburg approved the application of the Yabloko party to hold a referendum on the issue of naming the bridge over the Duderhof Canal in honor of the first President of Chechnya, Akhmat Kadyrov. Fontanka reports this. The initiative group managed to submit an application only the third time - previously, election commission employees twice found violations in the documents.