Gazprom has notified the French energy company Engie of suspending gas supplies from 1 September. This was reported in the telegram channel of Gazprom. The Russian company said it did not receive full payment from Engie for gas delivered in July. Further deliveries will be suspended until Engie pays the debt, Gazprom said.

Former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev has died at the age of 91, Russian state media reported on Tuesday, August 30. “This evening, after a serious and prolonged illness, Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev died,” Moscow’s Central Clinical Hospital said in a statement, as quoted by TASS. Evgeny Feldman Mikhail Gorbachev was born in 1931, in what is today Russia’s Stavropol Krai. He earned a law degree from Moscow State University and a second diploma from the Stavropol Agricultural Institute.

At the age of 91, President of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev died, TASS told TASS with reference to the Central Clinical Hospital . “Tonight after a serious and long illness, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev died,” the agency was told to the Central Design Code. Evgeny Feldman Mikhail Gorbachev was born on the territory of the current Stavropol Territory. From the age of 15 he worked as an assistant combineer.

How wartime pressures drew former first son Ilya Medvedev into politics Story by Andrey Soshnikov (Current Time), Svetlana Reiter (Meduza), and Elizaveta Surnacheva (Current Time), with additional reporting by Kristina Safonova (Meduza). English-language version by Sam Breazeale.

The Finnish state railway operator VR Group has written off all Allegro trains that ran between St. Petersburg and Helsinki. “The company has written off all rolling stock and spare parts related to Allegro for a total of 45.4 million euros,” VR Group said in its financial report for the first half of 2022. It also says that VR Group has begun negotiations on the sale of subsidiaries related to freight transportation in the eastern direction.

Kirill Stremousov, deputy head of the administration of the Kherson region controlled by the Russian authorities, left for Russia. He confirmed this information to the telegram channel “We can explain”. “I am really in Russia and I am constantly moving,” Stremousov said. He did not specify where he is now, and whether he is going to return to the Kherson region.

Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS Against the backdrop of Ukrainian forces launching a counteroffensive in the south, there has been an uptick in reports of assassination attempts targeting collaborationist and Russian-appointed officials in the occupied territories. According to Meduza’s tally, nearly a dozen of Moscow’s proxies have been killed since March and a number of others have been hospitalized with injuries after surviving apparent attempts on their lives.

The Koptevsky District Court of Moscow has arrested former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev in absentia for spreading fake news about the Russian armed forces. It is reported by " Interfax " with reference to the press service of the court. According to the agency, Ponomarev was charged with spreading "fakes" about the army "based on political, ideological, racial, national or religious hatred", for which up to 10 years in prison are provided.

German law enforcement agencies have conducted searches at Riol Chemie. It is suspected of illegally supplying Russia with components that can be used to create chemical and biological weapons, including the poisonous substance Novichok. Riol Chemie is alleged to have supplied toxic chemicals and laboratory materials to Russia more than 30 times over the past three and a half years without permission, OCCRP and German media reported.

For the first time, the Taiwanese military opened fire on a Chinese unmanned aerial vehicle with live weapons. This is reported by Taiwan News. Taiwan's airspace on August 30 entered According to a statement from Taiwan's defense ministry, three groups of "civilian" drones . The military fired several flares, after which the drones flew towards China. After some time, another UAV appeared, but, unlike the previous ones, it did not respond to the warnings of the military.

on his Telegram channel Deputy Chairman of the Russian Security Council Dmitry Medvedev commented that the EU wants to tighten the rules for issuing Schengen visas to Russian citizens. European bosses got their Russophobic cackling about Schengen visas to the citizens of our country. Let them quickly introduce a complete ban on their extradition. Finally, everyone will finally be convinced of how Europe treats the citizens of Russia.

On September 5, the former journalist of Kommersant and Vedomosti Ivan Safronov was sentenced to 22 years in prison under the article on treason. Safronov was found guilty of the transfer of secret information to the special services of Germany and the Czech Republic. The publication “Project”, which studied the case file, found that almost all of these “secret information” is in the public domain on the Internet. Photo on the cover: Denis Kamiev

Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS Against the backdrop of Ukrainian forces launching a counteroffensive in the south, there has been an uptick in reports of assassination attempts targeting collaborationist and Russian-appointed officials in the occupied territories. According to Meduza’s tally, nearly a dozen of Moscow’s proxies have been killed since March and a number of others have been hospitalized with injuries after surviving apparent attempts on their lives.

The Russian BBC Service published the last word Ivan Safronov Evgeny Feldman for "Medusa" The accusation requested 24 years in prison for Ivan Safronov, a former journalist of Kommersant and Vedomosti, an adviser to the head of Roscosmos, who was arrested in 2020 in the case of Stateizer. According to the FSB, in 2015-2017, he transferred secret information to the special services of Germany and the Czech Republic. But almost all this information is in the public domain .

But surveillance in the framework of this case began after an article on the sale of Russian fighters to Egypt Evgenia Novozhenina / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The state prosecutor demanded the sentence of the former Kommersant journalist Ivan Safronov to the 24 years of the colony in the case of the Stateizer.