Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov threatened to "burn in blue flame" former Chechen field commander Akhmed Zakayev . He said this during a broadcast on the Instagram account of Chechen parliament speaker Magomed Daudov, the publication "Kavkaz.Realii" reported. "If you say my father's name again, see what will happen to you. Even if this world burns in blue flames , I will burn you in blue flames if you say my father's name. You are not a man and you are not worthy of saying his name.

The Crimean authorities received a loan of 1.3 billion rubles to create infrastructure for a new resort town, which they plan to create on the western coast of the peninsula. This was announced by the head of the Crimea Sergey Aksyonov. “The 1.3 billion allocated is a project that is being implemented in the Saki district between the cities of Saki and Evpatoria on the highway closer to Saki,” Aksenov said on the air of the Krym-24 TV channel (quote from Gazeta.ru ) .

Update. After the publication of the note, Interfax reported that the plane had landed safely at St. Petersburg airport. None of the 96 passengers and six crew members were hurt . An Airbus A319 passenger plane flying from Antalya gave a distress signal before landing in St. Petersburg, Interfax reports, citing an informed source.

The authorities in the self-proclaimed “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR) are organizing hundreds of buses and a dozen trains to transport local residents with Russian passports across the border so that they can vote in this weekend’s State Duma elections. According to Interfax, the authorities in the DNR — an unrecognized territory located in eastern Ukraine — are organizing no less than 825 bus routes and 12 train routes to Russia’s neighboring Rostov region.

The authorities of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic (DPR) will organize 825 bus and 12 train trips to the Rostov region so that residents of the DPR with Russian passports can vote in the elections to the State Duma, writes Interfax As the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said in a video message, a simplified border control system will be provided for residents of the region who go to vote in the Rostov region.

BBC Russia profiles the former president’s political life since becoming a former prime minister Kremlin Press Service In a new report for BBC Russia, journalist Pyotr Kozlov profiles Dmitry Medvedev’s political life since losing his job as prime minister in January 2020. “Roughly two dozen sources at the highest echelons of the Russian government” mostly told Kozlov that Medvedev has been unhappy in his new position as deputy chairman of Russia’s Security Council.

Telecommunications operators in Russia started blocking Google Docs late in the evening on September 15, the GlobalCheck project reported. According to GlobalCheck, which monitors Russia’s Internet blocking system, the site docs.google.com is being blocked by the telecommunications operators MTS, MegaFon, and Rostelecom. The Internet watchdog Roskomsvoboda reports that Tele2 users are also experiencing disruptions.

Ukraine’s National Security Council is blocking popular (pro-Russian) news outlets. What does this mean for freedom of speech? Anna Marchenko / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Journalists protesting against the authorities shutting down opposition-leaning television channels. Kyiv. August 23, 2021. Since early 2021, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has regularly resorted to sanctioning his domestic opponents.

On the afternoon of September 15, Roskomnadzor began blocking the Red Shield VPN service in Russia, said the founder of this VPN service, Vladislav Zdolnikov . "Russian authorities began blocking Red Shield VPN on TSPU today at 15:00 Moscow time. Apparently, the blocking is related to the publication of the Smart Voting lists," Zdolnikov wrote in his Telegram channel "IT and SORM." Zdolnikov added that he intends to sue Roskomnadzor and is ready to go to the European Court of Human Rights.

Russian operators have begun blocking the Google Docs service in Russia, the GlobalCheck project, which monitors the Russian Internet blocking system, reported late in the evening on September 15. According to him, the site docs.google.com is blocked by operators MTS, Megafon and Rostelecom. The Roskomsvoboda project reports that interruptions are also observed by Tele2 users.

The Prosecutor's Office of Abkhazia opened a criminal case on abuse of office against three officers of the Internal Affairs Directorate for the Gagra district, who are suspected of torturing Artem Russkikh, a resident of St. Petersburg. This is stated in the messages of the prosecutor's office and the human rights project "Zone of Law" . According to investigators, on April 7, three police officers detained a Petersburger, suspecting him of drug trafficking.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow sent Anton Kotov, an employee of the Klimovsk-Dez company, under arrest, who became a defendant in a criminal case of poisoning two people who died after eating a watermelon. This was reported by Interfax, referring to the press service of the court.

Galina Yuzefovich and Anton Dolin argue about this in the "Book Bazaar" In the new issue of the “Book Bazaar”, the literary observer Galina Yuzefovich and film critic Anton Dolin discuss successful (very rare) and failure (many) films based on the works of Mikhail Bulgakov. The podcast is released by the “Technique of Speech” studio, and this season about film adaptations is released not only in audio format , but also on Yetube .

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson has made a number of changes to the country's government, including replacing the Foreign Secretary, the BBC reports. Elizabeth Truss, who until recently headed the Department for International Trade, has been appointed as the new head of the British Foreign Office to replace Dominic Raab. At the same time, Raab remained in the government, receiving the post of deputy prime minister, as well as justice minister, where he replaced Michael Gove.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case after the death of a one and a half month old boy in St. Petersburg, who died due to part of the needle that damaged his lungs. The case is being investigated under the article on causing death by negligence. According to the UK, after the birth, the boy was in several hospitals in St. Petersburg. When he was given medical assistance, a foreign object was left in the child's body - part of the needle.