On September 5, Moscow’s Tverskoy District Court sentenced activist Konstantin Kostov to four years in prison. For attending a political demonstration on August 10 in support of free elections in Moscow, Kotov was convicted of breaking Russia’s law against repeated violations of public-assembly statutes. Everything about this case is unprecedented: the investigation, the trial, the severity of the sentence, and the felony statute itself.

Four stories from the rain report Google Police Department of Ramensky In June 2019, the former head of the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Combating of the Drugs of the city of the city of Ramenskoye Dmitry Ponkratov was arrested ; Before that, three of his former subordinates were detained in custody. According to investigators , in 2017 they falsified the criminal case against 25-year-old Alexander Nesterenko, throwing his amphetamine.

On September 5, the Tver District Court of Moscow appointed four years of colony of general regime to the defendant of the Moscow Case to the programmer Konstantin Kotov. For the appearance in the promotion in defense of free elections in Moscow on August 10, Kotov was convicted under the article on repeated violation of the rules of the rally.

Anton Novoderezhkin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta The Moscow City Hall promised that the Internet voting system would be transparent, but in the end it turned out to be even more closed than ordinary elections. In the usual elections, you can take and count the ballots, in the elections via the Internet there will be no such opportunity. Observers, in principle, will not have the opportunity to understand whether the voices were calculated correctly.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed decrees pardoning at least 12 Russians. This was stated by lawyer Valentin Rybin, representing the interests of some of them. “Decrees have been issued to pardon about 12 convicted Russians who have already been delivered from places of serving their sentences and are at the collection point for persons who participate in the exchange. I think that this is preparation for the start of the exchange procedure, ”said the lawyer.

An anonymous high schooler in Moscow has leaked an audio recording to the website Mediazona , capturing a speech by a visitor dressed in a police uniform, who introduced herself to the class as a juvenile case inspector. In her remarks, the woman threatened the students with criminal prosecution for attending political protests, warning that they’d have no legal recourse, if a case against them is opened.

Thomas Bjornstad / Unsplash American experts and medical officials continue to explore a series of diseases associated with smoking vape, which covered more than two dozen states. More than 200 people fell ill, two of them died. After an almost two-week investigation, experts from New York and the Federal Directorate for Products and Medicines (FDA) found only one general supplement in mixtures for wages-vitamin E, which was considered harmless even in increased doses.

I wasn't going to tell anyone about this, I'm holding on as best I can. The perpetrator was wearing gloves and a mask, prepared, young, flexible. I went to let the cat in - and suddenly I see a dark shadow. He pulled out a stun gun and tried to poke me 10-15 times. I have burnt places, but more scratches and bruises. At first I was frightened, and then I began to thrash him as hard as I could, and began to swear at him very loudly.

Nearly a month after a mysterious explosion apparently involving a radioactive-isotope-fueled rocket engine, authorities in the Arkhangelsk region have officially recognized the pontoons damaged in the blast as “ potentially dangerous objects .” The local government says it’s formally informed Rosatom, the Defense Ministry, the National Weather Service, and the Consumer Protection and Welfare Federal Service.

AP / Scanpix / Leta Screenshot Video with a diplay of Barack Obama, on which marker sections of the face are marked. Facebook announced the Deepfake Detection Challenge contest. Together with Microsoft, MIT, the University of California in Berkeley, the University of Oxford and other research organizations, the social network decided to hold a competition, the participants of which will have to develop the most effective way to distinguish Deepfake Video and photos.

The authorities of the Arkhangelsk region have officially named the pontoons damaged by the rocket explosion in the Arkhangelsk region as “potentially dangerous objects.” The regional government reported that information about this had been sent to Rosatom, the Ministry of Defense, Roshydromet, and Rospotrebnadzor. The report emphasizes that there are no factors posing a threat to the life and health of the population in the area of ​​the village of Nenoksa.

Novaya Gazeta journalist, municipal deputy Ilya Azar appealed to the Investigative Committee of Russia with a demand to open a criminal case on abuse of power against police officers who left his two-year-old daughter alone in an open apartment. This was announced by the head of the international human rights group "Agora" Pavel Chikov in his telegram channel. A copy of Azar's statement is published ) by "Apology of Protest", whose lawyer Tatyana Molokanova provides legal assistance to Azar.

The family of the first deputy mayor of Moscow, Natalya Sergunina, earned more than a billion rubles on the failed development of the Khodynka field. This is stated in the new FBK investigation. The development project for the Khodynka field has existed since the late 1990s; in its place, it was planned to create a landscape park, an aviation and astronautics museum, and build residential buildings and a school.

High -ranking officials at protocol events, which then fall into television, often accompany the same persons depicting "people from the people." For example, Vladimir Putin regularly buys ice cream from the saleswoman, who immediately after that disappears with his cart , and the fishermen who eat with the president of the ear fall into the parishioners of the temple standing near Putin during the service in winter.

Ella Pamfilova, who was attacked by an attacker on the night of September 6, injured her finger on her hand and was injured from a stun gun in the abdomen, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the CEC press service. “I hold on as best I can, of course, it hurts,” she said.