Mark Jetway, Deputy Chairman of the Board of Novatek, has been arrested in the United States. This was reported on the website of the US Department of Justice. Jetway is accused of hiding assets in order to evade taxes. According to investigators, in the period from 2005 to 2016, Jetway hid his assets with the help of offshore companies - at the peak, these amounts reached $ 93 million.

Graphing Russia’s parliamentary election results shows a ruling party declining faster than you’d think The graphs below are based on voting results released by Russia’s Central Election Commission and compiled by independent analyst Sergey Shpilkin. They demonstrate the relationship between turnout and support for the country’s two most popular political parties, United Russia and the Communist Party (KPRF), at individual polling stations nationwide.

Meduza’s dispatch from Russia’s Rostov region, where residents of Ukraine’s separatist territories cast ballots in the State Duma elections Valentin Sprinchak / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Residents of the unrecognized Donetsk People’s Republic travelling to Russia on a bus organized for voters during the State Duma elections During the State Duma elections, Russian passport holders from the Donetsk and Luhansk “People’s Republics” — two unrecognized territories in eastern Ukraine — cast their ballots

A Ka-27 helicopter made a hard landing in Kamchatka. It is reported by TASS with reference to a source. The incident occurred in the region of Mount Ostraya during a training flight. According to TASS, there were three people on board, according to Interfax - up to five, their fate is still unknown. The helicopter belongs to the FSB of Russia, TASS clarifies. A search operation has been launched in the area of ​​the incident, but its active phase will only begin in the morning.

Roskosmos has announced a tender to study the organization of manned flights to the moon, including landing a man on its surface. The corresponding document is published on the public procurement website. The initial price of the contract is 1.734 billion rubles. The deadline for its implementation is 2022-2025.

Update. The number of climbers killed on Elbrus has increased to five people, the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations reported . On Elbrus, a group of climbers sent a signal for help, reports the Russian Ministry of Emergency Situations. The group consisted of 19 people; before the distress signal was sent, they were at an altitude of approximately 5,000 meters.

Eric Romanenko / TASS collection of signatures by the court in Rostov-on-Don in support of the activist Anastasia Shevchenko, who was convicted of work in an “unwanted organization” In Chuvashia, a number of courts are taking place over the head of the human rights project “Apology of protest” Alexei Glukhov. Ten administrative protocols were drawn up on him, all because of the posts and reposts in the social networks Glukhov.

Story retracted: After Meduza published this story, the Navalny Live YouTube channel started broadcasting again. Navalny’s team says it has received no warnings from Google that its channel will be blocked, though it remains unclear why the YouTube broadcast was initially inaccessible. Meduza apologizes for the confusion. Alexey Navalny’s main YouTube channel, “Navalny Live,” was briefly blocked on Thursday, September 23.

Anthony Behar / Sipa / Vida Press Linda Evangelist, 2013 The supermodel Linda Evangelist in recent years has not appeared in public, because it was “brutally disfigured” due to the side effect of the cosmetic procedure. The evangelist spoke about this on her Instagram. Today I took a big step to correct the error from which I suffered and that I kept secret for more than five years. My subscribers wondered why I no longer work, although [model] careers of my peers are flourishing.

In Moscow, the police began to detain participants in the protest action of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, which took place on Pushkinskaya Square on September 20. It is reported by "OVD-Info". In particular, on the afternoon of September 23, Sergei Vlasov, a municipal deputy of the Pechatniki district, was detained.

How Perm is experiencing a massacre at the university. Navalny's associates summed up the results of a “smart vote”. We talked with the widow of Alexander Litvinenko about her case against Russia 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 today.

Semyon Antonov / TASS / Scanpix / Leta elections in Cheboksary. September 18, 2021 Last weekend - September 17-19 - in addition to the elections to the State Duma in Russia, elections were held in local parliaments of 39 regions. RBC calculated how the voting results in these regions have changed compared to past elections. In general, United Russia won all regional elections, but almost everywhere its results were worse than voting in 2016.

The Russian Investigative Committee’s Perm Krai Investigative Department Chief, Sergey Sarapultsev, was found dead in his apartment on Thursday, September 23. This was reported by the newspaper Kommersant, which cited several sources from various government agencies. An unnamed source told the state news agency TASS that Sarapultsev died by suicide. Also citing an anonymous source, Interfax reported that the suicide was motivated by family problems.

Politician Alexei Navalny criticized IT companies for blocking Smart Voting. A post about this appeared on Navalny's social networks. According to Navalny, he was surprised "how obediently the almighty Big Tech turned" into assistants to Vladimir Putin, "falsifying the results." One of the challenges of the new age is that false prophets now come to us not in sheep's clothing, but in hoodies and stretched jeans.

Members of the Moscow precinct and territorial election commissions, together with election observers, advocated the abolition of the results of remote electronic voting (DEG) in Moscow. They addressed an open letter to the head of the public election observation headquarters in Moscow, Alexei Venediktov.