Russia’s Foreign Affairs Ministry says that “discrepancies and inconsistencies” in the situation surrounding opposition figure Alexey Navalny’s poisoning indicate that it could have been “staged.” “Germany’s actions were so well-coordinated that a lot of questions started to surface about whether we are dealing with another staged mystical use of chemical weapons, though now not in Syria and the UK, but in Russia,” the ministry said in a comment on Friday, September 25.

Looking back on Evgeny Savchenko’s 27-year career as governor of Russia’s Belgorod region Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant The head of Russia’s Belgorod Region, Evgeny Savchenko, served in this post for 27 years, making him the country’s last remaining governor from the Yeltsin era. On Thursday, September 17, he announced his resignation unexpectedly, opting to take up the mandate of regional parliamentary deputy and become a senator.

Military An-26 crashed near Kharkiv, 057.ua reports. Previously, there were cadets on board who conducted a training flight. Interfax, citing the military, reports that there are dead and wounded.

The Russian Foreign Ministry admitted that the situation with the poisoning of politician Alexei Navalny could be a "staging". “Germany’s actions were so well-adjusted that it began to raise a lot of questions about whether we are dealing with another staging of the mystical use of chemical weapons, but now not in Syria and Great Britain, but here in Russia,” it said. in a statement on the department's website.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Hackers-oppositions participate in Belarusian protests-“cyber partisans”. Who are they? And why are they a threat to the security forces who support Lukashenko? Since the beginning of September, hackers have hacked the sites of several Belarusian departments. The responsibility for this was taken by the group of Belarusian cyberpartisan.

Ivan Kurilla looks back at the American historian who helped redefine Soviet studies before becoming a pariah at home in the age of Putin Eugene Gologursky / East Hampton Library / Getty Images The historian Stephen Cohen died on September 18 at the age of 81. During Perestroika, the American scholar’s work on early Soviet history (translated into Russian) influenced the USSR’s own understanding of Stalinism.

The PDSA charitable organization, which since 1943, presenting annual an awards to animals that distinguished themselves with courage and showed heroism in military conditions, first awarded such a reward to the rat. The laureate was a giant African marsuponed rat named Magawa - for its participation in the clearance of the territory of Cambodia. So far, only dogs received such awards. PDSA In Cambodia, since the Civil War of the 1967-1975, more than six million mines still remain.

Self -insulation is returning to Moscow. In Brazil, the carnival was canceled for the first time in a hundred years. Russia and Greece are discussing the resumption of flights Good evening, This is the Medusa newsletter about the coronavirus during the pandemic. She comes out on weekdays instead of the "evening jellyfish." If one of your friends sent this letter to you and you have not yet been subscribed to the newsletter, subscribe here .

Yalta City Administration Former deputy head of the Yalta City Administration, Mikhail Zagortsev Yalta Mayor Ivan Imgrunt has fired his deputy over statements he made in support of the protests in Belarus. The former deputy mayor, Mikhail Zagortsev — who held this post for just four days — used to be a district official in Belarus. “His statements are incompatible with holding this position,” the Yalta mayor told the newswire Kryminform.

Russia’s Attorney General’s Office has filed a lawsuit with the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court requesting the dissolution of the Church of the Last Testament, a religious organization based in Siberia, also known as the “Vissarion commune.” The lawsuit comes just a few days after the arrest of the sect’s leaders. Law enforcement officials arrested the head of the commune, Vissarion, whose legal name is Sergey Torop, during an operation in Krasnoyarsk Krai on September 22.

Users of VKontakte in Ukraine will be “registered,” said Aleksey Danilov, Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council. The social network has been banned in Ukraine since 2017, but people continue to use it. “If they continue to distribute Russian content, they will have certain problems with our police and law enforcement agencies,” Danilov said. VKontakte opposed the registration of users.

Moscow is experiencing a spike in coronavirus cases, but there’s no lockdown in sight Sergey Karpukhin / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Moscow is experiencing a sharp increase in new coronavirus cases. As of Friday, September 25, the Russian capital had recorded 1,560 new cases in the last day — 510 more than the day before and nearly twice as many as last week. This marks the highest daily increase the city has seen since June 12. “Yes, it’s a spike.

Scott Olson / Getty Images / AFP / Scanpix / Leta people in Minneapolis help a homeless woman who suffered from tearful gas. May 29, 2020 At the end of May, due to the murder of George Floyd in the United States, mass protests began against racism and police violence. Against their background, there were proposals to reduce the staff of the police or completely dissolve it.

At the auctions on the Moscow Exchange on the afternoon of September 25, the euro exchange rate exceeded 91 rubles. The dollar also strengthened against the ruble, exceeding the mark of 78 rubles per dollar - this was the maximum since April 2020. The last time the exchange rate of the euro exceeded 91 rubles was in February 2016.

In the children's program "Kalykhanka", the Belarusian analogue "Good night, kids!" On the National Channel "Belarus 3", on September 24, they showed a scene with the overthrow of the power -loving Mishka Topa. Topa sat on the throne, boasted of a crown and stated that now he would give orders to everyone. Presenter Elena Bikreneva, she is also a fairy of dreams, and the fox Yana, dressed in a white-red-white dress, asked Mishka to sit a little on the throne.