Russia will open the border with South Ossetia. This was announced following a meeting of the operational headquarters on coronavirus. As explained at the headquarters, the corresponding government decree will be signed "in the coming days." South Ossetia will become the second country after Abkhazia with which Russia will open a land border. Russia has also opened air links with the UK, Turkey, Tanzania, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the Maldives and Egypt.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov have apologized to Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic for the position of Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova, where she illustrated the meeting of Vucic in the White House with US President Donald Trump with a frame from Basic Instinct.

In Chechnya, security forces detained two brothers and two sisters of former field commander Akhmed Zakayev. He himself told the BBC Russian Service about this. According to Zakayev, the arrest took place on September 10 in the city of Urus-Martan. According to his relative, who witnessed the arrest, the security forces reported that they were taking the detainees to Grozny.

A semblance of real political competition makes the upcoming vote worth following in several regions Gleb Shchelkunov / Kommersant On Russia’s unified day of voting, September 13, residents of 18 regions will elect governors, another 11 regions will vote for local parliamentary deputies, and 22 regional capitals will hold city council elections.

How British spin-doctors and Boris Berezovsky tried to help Alexander Lukashenko win over the West Andreas Bastian / Caro / Scanpix / LETA About a decade ago, after a temporary falling out with Vladimir Putin, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko tried to pivot the country to the West. In this endeavor, he had help from a British PR firm that managed publicity for major clients, including multinational corporations and entire nations.

Relatives cannot receive the body of anarchist Aleksey Sutuga to bury him, as the Investigative Committee has lost the criminal case on his murder. Mediazona writes about this with reference to lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina. As Sidorkina explained, in order to obtain permission for burial, the murder case must be transferred to a specific investigator.

Konarad Rikardson / Sweden Foreign Ministry / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Svetlana Aleksievich (third left) surrounded by European diplomats, September 9, 2020 Diplomats from European countries are on duty at home at the writer Svetlana Aleksievich, a member of the Presidium of the Coordination Council (COP) of the opposition of Belarus. According to them, they do this to protect her from possible persecution.

The Investigative Committee of Russia created a department to investigate crimes "related to the rehabilitation of Nazism and the falsification of the history of the Fatherland." The department will search for the perpetrators of crimes committed during the Great Patriotic War, as well as "preventing the distortion of historical facts," the UK website said in a statement.

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The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation will seek to deprive the status of lawyer Elman Pashayev, who defended the actor Mikhail Efremov. “The Ministry of Justice of Russia plans to submit a proposal to terminate the status of lawyer Elman Pashaev and proposes to initiate disciplinary proceedings against lawyer Alexander Dobrovinsky,” the ministry’s press service said.

Police detained Belarusian journalist Dmitry Semchenko as part of an administrative case, Tut.by reports, citing the press service of the Minsk Interior Ministry. The journalist's wife, Yulia Semchenko, said that her husband was detained by three or four men in civilian clothes, two of whom were wearing masks. They said they were looking for people who participated in an unsanctioned rally.

The 235th garrison military court in Moscow sentenced Russian boxing champion Georgy Kushitashvili to three years probation for possession of cocaine and attacking a National Guard officer, RIA Novosti reports. Case of Giorgi Kushitashvili Giorgi Kushitashvili was detained in Moscow on February 2, when he and his friend were allegedly picking up a bookmark with drugs. He hit one of the National Guardsmen who stopped him and tried to escape.

Moscow residents who have contracted the flu or acute respiratory viral infection will not have to observe a 14-day quarantine if their coronavirus test is negative. This was announced on the Rossiya 24 TV channel by Moscow Deputy Mayor Anastasia Rakova. According to her, people who have developed flu or acute respiratory viral infection symptoms will still have to take a coronavirus test. "This rule remains, it is unshakable.

Lyudmila Kazak, the lawyer representing Belarusian opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova (Maryia Kalesnikava), has sent a statement to the Belarusian Investigative Committee on her behalf, demanding the launch of a criminal case against officers from the Belarusian KGB (the national intelligence service) and the Interior Ministry’s Main Directorate for Combating Organized Crime and Corruption (GUBOPiK).

Now in the United States, both Trump and Woodwordo are criticized Callaghan o Hare / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Patient with Covid-19 at the Houston Hospital in Texas, July 17, 2020 US President Donald Trump intentionally undermined the danger of coronavirus, although he knew that this infection could be fatal. This follows from an interview that Trump gave to the American journalist Bob Woodworda for his book “Rage”, which will go on sale on September 15.