Update: On November 21, the Moscow City Court overturned the verdict against Mayer, returning the case to prosecutors, due to procedural violations. According to the news agency RAPSI , different copies of the her sentence listed different kinds of imprisonment (prosecutors' documents indicated a “colony-settlement,” while the court's paperwork identified a “standard-regime penal colony”). Mayer will remain jailed, while prosecutors rework the case against her.

Joshua Roberts / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Twitter General Director Jack Dorsie and the chief operating director of Facebook Cheryl Sandberg on September 5 performed the US Senate Intelligence Committee. At the next hearings devoted to the intervention of the authorities of foreign states in the election of the US President in 2016, there was little interesting about Facebook (Sandberg tried to respond with standard phrases), but a lot about Twitter (Dorsie was quite frank).

The Ministry of Communications has stopped developing an order to transfer Russians to SIM cards with cryptographic protection systems certified by the FSB. A federal official told RNS about this, and a source close to one of the mobile operators confirmed it. According to the official, the order of the Ministry of Communications required replacing 200 million FSB-certified SIM cards every year; the purchase price of such a SIM card is five dollars.

London says ‘Alexander Petrov’ and ‘Ruslan Boshirov’ tried to kill Sergey Skripal, Russia braces for tougher U.S. sanctions, and a feminist faces felony hate speech charges Wednesday, September 5, 2018 This day in history. On September 5, 1996, just a few months after winning reelection as president, Boris Yeltsin announced in a television interview that he would undergo heart surgery. After a quintuple heart bypass surgery that November, Yeltsin spent months hospitalized.

Vladimir Putin says he’s no fan of collective punishment, but it’s alive and well in Chechnya, where relatives of the teenagers who recently staged four coordinated attacks on police officers have reportedly been expelled from the republic.

The hole drilled into the Russian module on the International Space Station was made and plugged (unsuccessfully) before it was ever launched into orbit, three sources in Russia’s rocket and space industry told the news agency RIA Novosti . A commission assembled by the rocket and space corporation Energia, which developed and built the “Soyuz” module, has reportedly determined that the plating was damaged before the equipment was sent to the International Space Station.

The Supreme Court of Kalmykia commuted the sentence of Alexei Mutulov, a former employee of the local IK-1, who beat and tried to strangle a prisoner. The lawyer Vitaliy Zubenko, who represents the interests of the victim, informed Mediazona about this. Mutulov was convicted under the article on abuse of power.

Stanislav Kalinichenko can’t seem to catch a break. In early August, he was released from pretrial detention in Kemerovo after four months of incarceration on charges that were ultimately tossed out . What was Kalinichenko’s crime? He hit a cop while a group of them were beating and strangling him during an interrogation.

Russia’s Security Council thinks tougher U.S. sanctions are coming. According to the magazine RBC , the group has already collected action plans from Russia’s Finance Ministry, Economic Development Ministry, Industry and Trade Ministry, Central Bank, Vnesheconombank, Rostec, and other agencies.

Metropolitan Police Alexander Petrov (left) and Ruslan Boshirov The St. Petersburg edition of Fontanka without links to sources reported details about two men whom Great Britain accused of poisoning Sergei and Julia Skripal . According to the British police, these are employees of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the General Staff of Russia Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov.

Metropolitan Police “Alexander Petrov” (left) and “Ruslan Boshirov,” the Russian suspects identified in the “Novichok” attack in England. On September 5, British counter-terrorism officials put names and faces to the two suspects they blame for carrying out the March 4 “Novichok” nerve agent attack in England against Sergey Skripal and his daughter.

The reader from Murmansk sent Medusa a photograph of a five -story building, one of the entrances of which partially destroyed the gas explosion in March 2018. Judging by the picture, the authorities did not restore the collapsed floors, but “mothballed” them, covering them with a roof and making “walls” from metal panels. When the photo was taken, it is unknown.

September 5. Sergei Skripal was poisoned by two GRU employees The main news of the day . The British authorities unveiled the names of Russians, who, according to them, poisoned Sergei Skripal and his daughter Julia: these are Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov (such names were in the documents, it is assumed that they are fictional).

Krisztian Bocsi / Bloomberg / Getty Images Buzzfeed said that in August 2018, employees of the American organization “ Campaign for Accounts ” bought advertisements in Google, using the name and postal address of the Russian “ Internet Research Agency ”. Employees of the American NPO wanted to prove that Google poorly filters requests for advertising a political and racist nature. They spent two days and $ 35 on the implementation of their idea, Google did not notice anything.

The video blogger Mikhail Kshishtovsky published the first release of the new show - “Ceditel”. In the image of a policeman, Kshishtovsky asks the children uncomfortable questions. Each time a child speaks a lie, a sound signal is heard. Also, their parents are observed - adults also show the reaction of adults. Children's first issue of the show The heroine of the first video was the seven -year -old Esenia Hess.