The United States has acknowledged that ten civilians were killed in a strike by an American MQ-9 Reaper drone in Kabul on August 29, Pentagon spokesman Kenneth McKenzie said, presenting the results of a military investigation. McKenzie said US intelligence had been tracking the car of 43-year-old charity worker Zemari Ahmadi for eight hours, believing he might be linked to the terrorist group Islamic State in Khorasan. In particular, Ahmadi's car was seen in territory linked to the terrorists.

Why did Apple and Google agree to take down Navalny’s app? And what does it mean for the RuNet? We asked an expert. Evgeny Feldman Just a few weeks ago, Russia’s federal censor blocked the website for Alexey Navalny’s voting initiative “Smart Vote.” On September 15, Navalny’s team went ahead and released their list of recommended candidates regardless, uploading it to a Google Doc. Later that evening, Google Docs became temporarily unavailable inside Russia.

In a message on Friday evening, Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced that the popular instant messenger is suspending support for all “ bots associated with election campaigning” during Russia’s parliamentary elections, which began today and conclude on Sunday, September 19. Justifying the decision, Durov explained in a post on his Telegram channel that the network will observe Russia’s “election silence” during the voting process.

How the first day of elections to the State Duma went. Main Dmitry Lovetsky / AP / Scanpix / Leta September 17 - the first of three days of voting in the elections to the State Duma. 14 parties participate in them, the lists of which are 3.8 thousand candidates. In single -mandate districts, two thousand more candidates from parties and 10 self -nominates are running.

Alexey Druzhinin / Press Service of the President of the Russian Federation / AP / Scanpix / Leta Russian President Vladimir Putin on September 17, for the first time in his life, voted remotely. Putin has been on self-isolation in Novo-Ogarsevo for several days-due to the fact that several people in his environment fell ill with coronavirus. The Kremlin press service distributed a video where Putin votes.

Kremlin critic Vladimir Kara-Murza is taking the Russian Investigative Committee to court for allegedly failing to investigate two apparent attempts on his life.

Footage of Vladimir Putin voting online raises questions about whether the president really cast an electronic ballot Notoriously uncomfortable with personal computers, President Vladimir Putin voted online on September 17, casting his ballot remotely while in self-isolation, following exposure to COVID-infected colleagues. Footage of Putin voting shows him entering his office and sitting down at a computer where the Web browser is already opened to Russia’s electronic voting system.

The Navalny app was removed from Russian stores Apple and Google. How Putin voted over the Internet without a phone. Who are "serial candidates" - and why they are needed Good evening, This message (material) was created and (or) widespread by a foreign media that performs the functions of a foreign agent, and (or) a Russian legal entity that performs the functions of a foreign agent This is the daily Medusa newsletter about the most important thing that happened during the day.

On Friday, September 17, Moscow’s Basmanny District Court jailed suspects Dmitry Chebanov and Nikita Kreshchuk on charges of “inciting mass riots” amid this weekend’s State Duma elections. According to the rights group Apologia Protesta , “the investigation considers Dmitry Chebanov the leader of a movement called ‘Chto Delat’.” Chebanov is the founder of a Telegram channel by the same name.

The lawyer of Roskomsvoboda Sarkis Darbinyan answers Evgeny Feldman Google and Apple deleted the Navalny application on the first day of the election In recent weeks, Roskomnadzor blocks the Smart Voting website in Russia. On the evening of September 15, the Google Docs service did not work in Russia for some time, where the team of Alexei Navalny loaded the list of candidates in the State Duma elections recommended by the “smart vote”.

The Ministry of Justice has called the contents of the Rosfinmonitoring letter, due to which Open Media journalists Yulia Yarosh and Maxim Glikina were recognized as "foreign agents," a state secret. This is stated in the ruling of the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow, which was provided to Mediazona by lawyer Anastasia Burakova.

Meduza breaks down the main intrigues of this weekend’s elections in Russia Egor Aleev / TASS From September 17–19, Russians are heading to the polls to cast their ballots in the 2021 State Duma elections. The first day of voting on Friday was marked by abnormally long lines at polling stations, reportedly due to pressure on civil servants meant to ensure high turnout right from the start. Allegedly, the authorities are gunning for United Russia to win 45 percent of the vote.

Investigation of "Medusa" 🕵️ tot Alexey Druzhinin / Press Service of the President of the Russian Federation / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Putin during electronic voting On September 17, 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin first voted in Russian elections over the Internet. He probably chose this form of will due to sudden departure for self-isolation : a few days before the election, Putin said that many people in his environment fell ill with coronavirus.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation is an employee of the Investigative Committee at the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the city of Liski, on which they attacked.

Observers from the pro-government Independent Public Monitoring project were given instructions on how, in fact, to monitor the elections to the State Duma and cover it. I had to explain on cats (yes!). This is reported by the telegram channel "Rotonda". The instruction, which was shown to Rotunda by an employee of a budgetary institution, states that observers are required to write eight posts on the voting process in social networks. Every day, from Friday to Sunday.