Ivan Shukshin / Twitter Ivan Shukshin, a Russian web-programmer based in Gelendzhik, wrote a script that registers changes to the Federal Financial Monitoring Agency’s list of “extremists and terrorists.” One of the quirks about Rosfinmonitoring’s registry is that people tend to end up on the list before a court actually convicts them of a felony offense (for example, hate speech).

Norway's Fisheries Minister Per Sandberg has resigned over safety violations while on a trip to Iran. He also left the post of deputy head of the Norwegian Progress Party, according to NRK broadcaster. In July, Sandberg spent a holiday in Iran. The official did not tell the prime minister's office in advance where he was going; he spoke about his stay in Iran two days after his arrival.

86 people, including 83 children, were hospitalized after being poisoned at the Spartak children's camp in the Shamilsky district of Dagestan. Interfax reports this with reference to the regional office of Rospotrebnadzor. The victims are in mild to moderate condition. It is assumed that they were infected with salmonellosis . The source of the infection was poor quality products. "The camp is closed.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) fired agent Peter Strok, who criticized Donald Trump in personal correspondence. Strok's lawyer Eitan Golman told The Washington Post. The reason for Strok's dismissal was his correspondence with FBI lawyer Lisa Page, with whom the agent had an affair. In particular, in August 2016, when asked by Page if Trump would become president, Strok replied: “No.

Alexey Nikolsky / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Putin, Hassan Rouhani, Ilham Aliyev, Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov and Nursultan Nazarbayev sign the Convention on the Legal Status of the Caspian Sea, August 12, 2018 The countries of the Caspian Five - Russia, Iran, Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan - agreed on the principles of the section of the Caspian Sea.

Meduza speaks to an accused spy, Vkontakte offers help to ‘extremists,’ and a ‘mothers' march’ is coming to Moscow Monday, August 13, 2018 This day in history. On August 13, 1990, USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev signed an executive order restoring the rights of all victims of Soviet political repressions between the 1920s and 1950s.

Over the weekend, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin attended a town hall meeting in Saratov, where a woman asked the inevitable question about lawmakers’ initiative to raise the country’s retirement age. “We won’t live [to collect payments under the new system]! We’re barely crawling, as it is,” the woman told Volodin, who tried awkwardly to lighten the mood by joking that the elderly can always start hitting the gym to stay alive.

Protesters will march through Moscow this Wednesday, August 15, demanding the release of Anna Pavlikova and Maria Dubovik, two teenagers arrested in March for allegedly belonging to the “Novoe Velichie” (New Greatness) extremist movement. Organizers are calling it the “ Mothers’ March ,” and calling on demonstrators to carry their children’s favorite toys. The event does not have a permit from the city. At the time of this writing, 910 people have RSVP’d for the march on Facebook.

For the first time ever, a Russian court has fined a registered “foreign agent” for failing to identify itself as a foreign agent on its Facebook page. On August 13, a court in Yoshkar-Ola imposed a 300,000-ruble ($4,430) fine on the “Chelovek i Zakon” (Person and Law) group, which was blacklisted in 2014.

Seven journalists from the beleaguered Moloko Plus project say someone recently tried to hack their email and Facebook accounts. According to the group’s founder, Pavel Nikulin, the intrusions came from Internet users with IP addresses in Brazil and the United States. On July 14, a day before Moloko Plus was unveiled at a presentation in Krasnodar, Nikulin was forced to appear at a local police station and hand over copies of his almanac, so they could be examined for possible extremism.

On August 13, a court in Oryol sentenced a man to five years in prison for posting a comment on Vkontakte in support of the terrorist organization ISIS. The suspect confessed to the crime and threw himself at the mercy of the court, avoiding a maximum penalty of seven years in prison. Administrators at Vkontakte, Russia’s most popular social network, are speaking out against the “groundless persecution” of Internet users.

Administrators at Vkontakte, Russia’s most popular social network, are speaking out against the “groundless persecution” of Internet users.

Russian rapper Oksimiron urged to support Maria Motuznaya, a resident of Barnaul, who is accused of extremism because of the pictures on VKontakte.

August 13th. VKontakte is against criminal cases for reposts, a schoolboy is against the church News The dollar is already 68. And the euro is 78. Everyone got used to the idea of ​​new sanctions, but a new trouble came from where they did not expect - from Turkey. There are very big problems with the local currency, which fell by 20% in two days, so bidders around the world are panicking and selling the currencies of developing countries.

Meduza interviews the energy-industry executive arrested for espionage in Russia Alexander Avilov / The “Moskva” city news agency Karina Tsurkan at Moscow’s Lefortovsky District Court, August 10, 2018 On July 15, Russian Federal Security Service agents arrested Karina Tsurkan, a top executive at the energy company “Inter RAO.” She is charged with espionage for allegedly being a foreign citizen and collaborating with businessmen who have ties to either Moldovan or Romanian intelligence.