The former owner of the Perm club "Lame Horse", where 156 people died in a fire , Anatoly Zak, was released. On August 22, the Kopeysk City Court of the Chelyabinsk Region granted Zak's petition to reduce his sentence under the law, which equated a day in a pretrial detention facility to a day and a half in a penal colony; the decision came into force on September 4. As a source in the FSIN administration for the Chelyabinsk region told Ura.ru, after his release Zak flew to Moscow.

The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) has confirmed that the British men poisoned in Amesbury, Charlie Rowley and Dawn Sturgess, were exposed to Novichok. The organisation's experts have established that Rowley and Sturgess were poisoned with the same nerve agent as the Skripals in Salisbury . However, the OPCW could not confirm that the agents from Salisbury and Amesbury were from the same batch, as the Salisbury sample was "exposed to the environment and moisture".

Vladislav Shulga, an employee of the Taganrog aircraft plant, accused of poisoning colleagues with thallium, was released from house arrest on bail. Kommersant writes about this with reference to Shulga's lawyer Ivan Zaitsev. According to Zaitsev, Shulga will continue to work at the aircraft factory. The lawyer also said that his client was scheduled for a forensic psychiatric examination. At the end of 2017, employees of the Taganrog aircraft plant began to complain of pain and hair loss.

Materials about the connection of the former top manager of Inter RAO Karina Turcan with Moldovan intelligence were forged, Turcan's lawyer Ivan Pavlov told RBC. The defense made such a conclusion after a “thorough analysis of the documents,” which the investigation considers evidence of Turcan’s espionage activities, Pavlov said, without specifying what kind of materials he was talking about.

Pavel Kanygin on why Zakharchenko was assassinated, Russia says Navalny's YouTube videos are U.S. election meddling, and a governor kills a bear Tuesday, September 4, 2018 This day in history. On September 4, 1934, the Russian baritone singer Eduard Khil was born in Smolensk.

The police have detained Olga Shalina, head of the Moscow branch of the unregistered party "The Other Russia." This was reported on the "Other Russia" Twitter account. The reason for the arrest was a protest in defense of freedom of assembly that took place on Triumfalnaya Square in Moscow on August 31.

Kirill Kukhmar / TASS / Vida Press Irkutsk Governor Sergey Levchenko On September 3, YouTube user Dmitry Larin shared a three-minute video showing Irkutsk Governor Sergey Levchenko killing a bear. Set in a snow-covered forest, the footage shows the governor on a hunting trip with several other men. He’s handed a loaded rifle and later fires multiple shots into a bear’s lair. The men then start shaking his hand, congratulating him.

September 4. In the USA - a touring sneakers, in Russia - they draw the wrong coats of arms Several news . Amazon, following Apple, reached a value of a trillion dollars (in a year in a year, having risen in price a half!). The Ministry of Justice wants to get the right to prohibit foreign HIV prevention programs (they are already there?). Tverskaya Street will make a pedestrian for three days (just under the rally of Navalny!).

Amazon's market capitalization has surpassed $1 trillion, according to CNBC. This happened as the price of one Amazon share on the stock exchange briefly reached $2,050.5. The price later dropped to $2036. In September 2017, Amazon's market value was about $470 billion. The company has more than doubled in price in a year. Amazon has become the third company in the world to exceed a trillion dollars in market value. Apple's capitalization reached this mark in early August.

Russian State Duma deputy Maxim Suraev says the hole discovered last week in the “Soyuz” Russian module aboard the International Space Station may have been drilled deliberately by a mentally unbalanced, homesick cosmonaut. “We’re all living people, and we might all want to go home, but going about it like this is completely disgraceful. If this was some cosmonaut’s trick (and we can’t rule it out), then this is very bad,” Suraev stated on September 4.

Anti-extremism police in Russia’s North Caucasian Federal District decided to torture the wrong man recently, and now at least one officer has been charged with abusing his authority. Federal investigators revealed on September 4 that they’ve opened a case against Rustam Zhiletezhev, following a complaint filed by someone living in Karachay-Cherkessia, who says he was tortured into giving false testimony. Medics later recorded bruising and evidence of electroshock on the victim’s body.

Actor Henry Cavill will star in the Netflix series about the witcher Geralt. The show will be an adaptation of popular fantasy novels by Polish writer Andrzej Sapkowski. Showrunner Lauren Hissrich shared the details of the casting on her Twitter: “He was the first person I met. Back then I didn’t have a team of writers and the scripts themselves – only the approval of the studio and a lot of enthusiasm.

Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation The Ministry of Defense is going to build the main temple of the Armed Forces of Russia in the Patriot Park near Moscow. The church should symbolize “the spirituality of the Russian army, raising the sword only to protect its Fatherland,” says the official page of the project on the website of the Ministry of Defense.

Sergey Malgavko / TASS / Vida Press Plant "Crimean Titan" in Armyansk Residents of the Crimean city of Armyansk complained for ten days about a pungent smell, breathing problems, temperature and rash. Their cars were covered with raid rust On the afternoon of August 25, residents of Armyansk - cities in the north of Crimea - felt a pungent smell on the street. On the same day, the townspeople began to complain about the rash, fever and sore throat.

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a London-based human rights organization, said that Russian military aircraft attacked the Idlib province in Syria on September 4. “Russian planes have resumed their bombardment of Idlib after a 22-day pause,” Abdel Rahman, the head of the organization, told DW. The fact that the Russian Air Force attacked targets in Idlib was also reported by the Turkish Anadolu agency, citing local sources.