Navalny gets another 20 days in jail, United Russia blows gubernatorial races, and the GRU has some funny passport policies Monday, September 24, 2018 This day in history.

Just as he was leaving jail after serving 30 days for staging an unpermitted protest in January, Alexey Navalny was detained again and dragged to another courtroom on September 24, to face charges for promoting a rally on September 9 against pension reform that lead to injury or property damage (a violation of Administrative Code 20.2). Hours later, he was convicted and sentenced to 20 more days in jail .

Over the weekend, LDPR candidates routed the incumbent governors in two runoff elections. In Vladimir, Governor Svetlana Orlova lost to Vladimir Sipyagin, 37.46 percent to 57.03 percent, and in Khabarovsk, acting Governor Vyacheslav Shport lost to Sergey Furgal by a whopping 27.97 percent to 69.57 percent. The newsletter The Bell argues that LDPR’s candidates won these races in spite of themselves, riding the protest vote.

Natalia Poklonskaya, the only United Russia State Duma deputy to vote against unpopular legislation that would raise the country’s retirement age, has introduced her own amendments to the bill, proposing monetary incentives to get Russians to retire later. According to Poklonskaya’s plan, the retirement age would not rise (from 55 to 60 for women and from 60 to 65 for men), but individuals could claim three-percent bonuses for every year that they defer pension payments.

On Monday, Moscow police detained Evgeniya Efimova, the ex-wife of Pavel Gusev, the owner and long-time chief editor of the newspaper Moskovsky Komsomolets . Efimova is reportedly being charged with “organized swindling” either on a large scale or resulting in the deprivation of someone’s housing.

The politician Alexei Navalny on the morning of September 24, the term of 30-day administrative arrest for re-violation of the rules of public event was over. A few seconds after Navalny left the special receiver, he was again detained. In the evening, the court sentenced him to another 20 days of arrest under 4 parts of Article 20.2 of the Administrative Code of the Russian Federation (actions during a rally that caused harm to human health or property).

Simonovsky court of Moscow sentenced the policy of Alexei Navalny to administrative arrest for a period of 20 days. Earlier, the police drew up an administrative protocol for the opposition under part 4 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (violations during a rally that entailed causing harm to human health or property). A new administrative case is connected with rallies on September 9 against pension reform, during which Navalny was in a special -reception.

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The social network VKontakte has handed over to investigators the personal correspondence of Eduard Nikitin, who is accused of extremism due to two posts made in 2015. The social network emphasized that they did this by court order and exclusively for the period specified in the relevant ruling - from August 19 to November 28, 2015. The investigation asks not to bring the accused to criminal liability, but to send him for compulsory treatment.

Unknown people planted a pig's head with a knife stuck in it under the door of Nadezhda Zagordan, a municipal deputy of the Moscow Izmailovo district. The deputy herself reported this on Facebook. According to Zagordan, the same pig’s head was thrown under the door of the apartment where her relatives live. She did not specify what exactly, in her opinion, the threats may be related to. I have an emergency again.

Detained in Oslo, Russian Mikhail Bochkarev works as an IT adviser in the Federation Council, in particular, he is responsible for the work of the website of the upper house of parliament, RBC reports citing sources. According to sources, Bochkarev was in Norway on a business trip, and it was not the first time he went there on business. On the evening of September 24, the Russian Foreign Ministry announced that the Norwegian Ambassador to Moscow, Rune Resaland, had been summoned.

The price of a barrel of Brent oil during trading on September 24 exceeded $81. This has happened for the first time since November 2014. Oil quotes rose against the backdrop of a decision reached over the weekend by oil-producing countries to continue to adhere to agreements to limit production. In 2014, the oil market collapsed twice: Brent quotes fell from $104 per barrel in August to $50 in January 2015. Since then, oil prices have remained low for four years.

Nail Fattakhov / TASS / Vida Press Landing in one of the courtyards of Chelyabinsk, September 24, 2018 In Chelyabinsk, heaps of garbage are lying throughout the city. City Hall contractors refuse to take it out because the new landfill is too far For almost two weeks, Chelyabinsk utilities cannot establish garbage collection from the city - local and Moscow media reports, local residents share photographs of crowded garbage collection in the yards of houses on social networks.

September 24th. "EP" flies into the abyss, Navalny goes from prison to prison Elections in Russia: "EP" continues to fly into the abyss. Yesterday in the Khabarovsk Territory and in the Vladimir region the second tours of the governor’s elections were held. In both cases, representatives of the LDPR opposed the current heads of regions (United Russia), and in both cases the “oppositionists” (they deserve quotes) won.

In Kazan, the private rehabilitation center for difficult teenagers "Symbol of Life" has stopped working. The decision to close the center was made by the court at the request of the prosecutor's office, which found in the center violations of the requirements of sanitary legislation: the rooms were poorly cleaned and the dishes were washed, and the workers did not have medical books.