An oligarch-linked political strategist is running in Russia’s regional elections despite being imprisoned in Libya Maxim Shugaley’s Facebook page Political consultants associated with Evgeny Prigozhin — the catering magnate with alleged ties to mercenaries, troll factories, and Vladimir Putin — are campaigning for the “Rodina” political party’s nominees ahead of regional parliamentary elections in Russia’s Komi Republic.

Belarus releases alleged recording of ‘intercepted conversation between Warsaw and Berlin’ about Navalny’s poisoning Nikolai Petrov / BelTA / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA During a meeting on September 3, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko (Alyaksandr Lukashenka) told Russia’s prime minister that the data confirming Alexey Navalny’s poisoning with a Novichok-type nerve agent was falsified.

Nikolai Petrov / Belta / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On September 3, President of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, at a meeting with the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Mishustin, said that data on the poisoning of the politician Alexei Navalny from the Novichka group-falsification.

During a remote address to the UN Security Council on Friday, September 4, Belarusian opposition leader Svetlana Tsikhanovskaya (Svyatlana Tsikhanouskaya) asked the United Nations to send an international observation mission to Belarus. “We ask the United Nations to condemn the use of excessive force by the Belarusian security services against protesters. We suggest a special session of the United Nations Human Rights Council to discuss the human rights situation in Belarus.

Argentine striker Lionel Messi remains at Barcelona. The player himself said this in an interview with Goal.com. According to Messi, he will play one more season for the club. He explained this by the inability to pay compensation of 700 million euros, which Barcelona insists on in case of early termination of the contract, and by the unwillingness to go to court.

Kevin Rotrok found out why the hackers are information that is already in the public domain Commercant journalists found an announcement on one of the forums in Darknet for free access to personal data of millions of American voters. The chief editor of the international version of Medusa Kevin Rotrok talked with cybersecurity experts and found that the data was already in the public domain.

Local outbreaks of the disease are possible in Moscow in the fall. The Ministry of Health has updated recommendations for the treatment of Covid. Mass vaccination - no earlier than the middle of next year Good evening, This is Meduza's newsletter about the coronavirus during the pandemic. It is published on weekdays instead of Evening Medusa. If this letter was sent to you by someone you know and you have not yet subscribed to the mailing list, subscribe here .

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic and Kosovo Prime Minister Avdullah Hoti agreed to normalize economic relations following talks in Washington. “President Donald Trump announced that Serbia and Kosovo have agreed to normalize economic relations. Another historic agreement reached by the President to make the world a more peaceful, prosperous place,” Deputy Secretary of State Judd Deere tweeted.

Russian state television airs new film about Beslan school siege in competition with independent investigators who say state officials bear responsibility for high death toll On September 3, the Russian state television network Rossiya 1 premiered a new documentary film by journalist Alexander Rogatkin about the 2004 terrorist attack against a school in Beslan.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. It turns out that the security forces in Russia can send a person to a psychiatric hospital against his will - and regularly do this. How and why is this done? At the end of August, it became known about the forced psychiatric hospitalization of several teenagers in Krasnoyarsk.

Alexander Lukashenko's rival in the Belarusian presidential elections, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, asked the UN to send an observation mission to Belarus. She said this during a remote speech to the UN Security Council, which was broadcast by RBC. "We ask the UN to condemn the excessive use of force against protesters in Belarus. We propose holding an emergency meeting of the UN Human Rights Council on Belarus.

He criticized the device of modern labor, and his ideas were far from not only scientists Rex / Shutterstock.com / Vida Press On September 3, the famous American anthropologist, political activist, professor of the London Economic School David Graber died in the Venice Hospital. This was announced by the wife of Graber, the artist Nika Dubrovskaya. He was 59 years old, the cause of death is still unknown.

The Delivery Club delivery service will hide customer phone numbers from couriers after one of the employees offered the client to “spend time together” after delivery. The incident became known on the afternoon of September 4. The media got the correspondence of the courier with the client in WhatsApp - in the dialogue, the employee asks the woman if she is alone at home and says that he really liked her.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow placed Andrey Pivovarov, executive director of Open Russia, under administrative arrest for 14 days because he organized a collection of signatures in Moscow against amendments to the Constitution on July 15. What happened on July 15th? On July 15, a rally against amendments to the Constitution of the Russian Federation was held in Moscow on Pushkinskaya Square.

The court of the Oktyabrsky district of Minsk has appointed three days of arrest for six journalists who were detained on September 1 while covering a student protest. This is reported by the Belarusian edition Onliner.