More than a dozen people have declared a hunger strike in the town of Volno-Nadezhdinskoye, where local candidates from the Communist Party, LDPR, and Just Russia, as well as a few independents, saying that United Russia has been bribing voters ahead of the September 9 regional elections. Twenty candidates are competing for seats on Nadezhdinsky’s district council.

Russian pretrial detention officials didn’t know quite what to do with Nazar Gulevich, a transgender man charged with fraud. A previous contestant on a “psychic challenge” television show, Gulevich was arrested on August 25 for alleged equity theft. Police records indicate that he is still in process of transitioning physically from a woman to a man. Arresting officers first brought Gulevich to a women’s jail, which then rejected him after discovering that he is a transgender man.

Zakharchenko is killed, old graves heat a new controversy, and Putin's popularity rebounds Friday, August 31, 2018 ( Meduza 's newsletter will return on Tuesday, September 4. Happy Labor Day, Americans!) This day in history. On August 31, 1998, the Communist-led State Duma voted to reject Boris Yeltsin's nomination of Victor Chernomyrdin for prime minister.

Georgy Chentemirov The Russian Military Historical Society excavates bodies from the Sandarmokh forest, August 29, 2018 Who’s buried in the Sandarmokh forest north of Petrozavodsk? In 1997, an excavation crew led by Memorial’s Yuri Dmitriev discovered evidence that it’s the final resting grounds of an estimated 7,500 political prisoners executed by the Soviet police in 1937. A memorial stone surrounded by flowers and wreaths now marks the spot.

Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed condolences to the family and friends of the head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, who was killed in Donetsk on August 31, as well as "to all residents of Donbass." “The vile murder of Alexander Zakharchenko is another evidence: those who chose the path of terror, violence, intimidation do not want to seek a peaceful, political solution to the conflict, they do not want to have a real dialogue with the

Update . The Moscow Emergencies Ministry said that information about the collision of ships is not confirmed . On the evening of August 31, two pleasure boats collided in the Luzhnetskaya Embankment area on the Moscow River, an Interfax source said, citing eyewitnesses. Information about the incident is being checked, data on the victims have not been received, the source added.

Social media users have uncovered another ambiguous image that could be mistaken for either a photo of a blue door (and a green and white doorframe) or a 90-degree rotated photo of a beach. The opinions of 238 thousand users who took part in the survey were divided almost equally: 46% believe that this is a beach, and 54% that it is a door. What if it's a beach, but people were removed from the frame? This is how it looks pretty obvious: And if the door handle was smeared in the photo ?!

Alexander Ermolchenko / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Alexander Zakharchenko, the head of eastern Ukraine’s self-declared Donetsk People’s Republic (DNR), was killed in a cafe bombing in downtown Donetsk on Friday, August 31. The blast injured several people, including DNR Finance Minister Alexander Timofeyev. According to the newspaper Vedomosti , the “Separ” (Separatist) cafe belongs to Zakharchenko’s chief of security. Zakharchenko’s home is just around the corner from the establishment.

Donetsk is "closed for entry and exit" in connection with the assassination of the leader of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Alexander Zakharchenko, Russian news agencies were told in the operational command of the DPR. Earlier, Interfax sources announced the arrest of several "Ukrainian saboteurs and persons associated with them" on suspicion of the murder of Zakharchenko.

August 31. Zakharchenko was killed. VKontakte against the police. Trolleybuses disappear in Moscow Explosions and assassination attempts in Donetsk Alexander Zakharchenko was killed . The head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic died from injuries he received as a result of an explosion at the Separ cafe. DPR Finance Minister Alexander Timofeev was also wounded.

"Donetsk will avenge" the murder of Alexander Zakharchenko, said Denis Pushilin, head of the People's Assembly of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DNR). “This is yet another aggression on the part of Ukraine,” Pushilin said. The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU), in turn, stated that it had nothing to do with the assassination attempt on Zakharchenko. “We consider this the result of internecine wars,” Ukrayinska Pravda quotes a statement by SBU spokeswoman Olena Gitlyanska.

Alexander Ermolchenko / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The head of the DPR, Alexander Zakharchenko, died as a result of the explosion in the Separ cafe in the center of Donetsk. A few more people were injured - among them, in particular, the Minister of Taxes and Revenues of the DPR Alexander Timofeev. According to September 1, in addition to Zakharchenko, his bodyguard died; 12 people were injured.

The United States declassified the decoding of closed negotiations between Yeltsin and Clinton Alexander Sentsov, Alexander Chumichev / TASS Boris Yeltsin and Bill Clinton during a meeting in Germany, June 20, 1999 On the website of the presidential library of Bill Clinton , a transcript of his conversations with Russian President Boris Yeltsin appeared. The documents were declassified and posted in general access in mid -July, but researchers and journalists noticed them only on August 30.

Director Dmitry Krymov announced his departure from the Moscow theatre School of Dramatic Art , where he headed one of the laboratories. Krymov explained his decision with the words of dissident Andrei Sinyavsky: "My disagreements with the Soviet government are purely stylistic." Krymov added that his laboratory "will exist in every place" where he, his actors and artists will be.

Londoner Naimur Zakharia Rahman has been sentenced to life in prison for plotting to assassinate British Prime Minister Theresa May. Rahman, now 21, will not be able to file his first parole application until 30 years later, the verdict says. The court also separately sentenced Rahman to six years in prison on charges of distributing an Islamic State propaganda video. The defendant partially pleaded guilty.