A Saudi Arabian court has sentenced Noura bint Said al-Qahtani to 45 years in prison for social media posts, the Associated Press reported after obtaining a court document. The court found that the convicted woman had used the internet to “tear apart the fabric of society” and “disrupt public order,” writes the DAWN organization, which first reported the verdict. It is not known what exactly al-Qahtani wrote on social media.

Scholar Artemy Kalinovsky suggests a Shakespearian perspective on Mikhail Gorbachev’s legacy By Artemy Kalinovsky Like the USSR itself, the last man to lead the Soviet Union is now gone. As people around the world remember Mikhail Gorbachev’s life and his impact on world history, many struggle to make sense of his legacy.

On August 31, the FSB reported that it had issued a warning to a student from St. Petersburg with access to state secrets who allegedly tried to establish contact with Ukrainian special services. According to the FSB, the student contacted an SBU representative to provide assistance to "one of the Ukrainian volunteer paramilitary associations." The warning was issued because the student's actions, in the opinion of the special service, "create conditions" for him to commit treason.

The foreign ministers of Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland said they would consider introducing restrictions on the entry of Russian citizens with European visas in anticipation of the adoption by the European Union of more serious restrictive measures on issuing visas to Russians.

EU foreign ministers have agreed to completely suspend the bloc’s visa facilitation agreement with Russia. “This will significantly reduce the number of new visas issued by the EU member states. It's going to be more difficult, it's going to take longer,” said the European Union’s foreign policy chief, Josep Borrell, when announcing the decision in Prague on Wednesday, August 31.

Aleksey Arestovich claimed that the murder was the work of partisans In June, in a cafe in Kherson, occupied by Russian troops, a gunfight broke out between servicemen and FSB officers, resulting in the death of three people, Yahoo News reports , citing an internal document of the Russian Investigative Committee.

A “referendum” on whether to join Russia will be held in the occupied parts of Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia region in September, according to Alexander Saulenko, the Russian-appointed mayor of Berdyansk. “We’re preparing for the referendum. It’s scheduled for September. I can’t give an exact date yet,” Saulenko told TASS .

A delegation from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has arrived in Zaporizhzhia, according to the Ukrainian state energy company Enerhoatom. The representatives, led by IAEA Director General Rafael Grossi, plan to travel from the Ukrainian-held city to the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant to conduct an inspection. Local collaborationist officials reported earlier that the IAEA officials will not be issued special passes to enter Russian-controlled territory.

Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Portrait of Mikhail Gorbachev in the Gorbachev-Fund building in Moscow, August 31, 2022 Mikhail Gorbachev will be buried on Saturday, September 3, at the Novodevichy cemetery, next to his wife Raisa Gorbacheva. The farewell ceremony will be held in the column hall of the House of Unions in the center of Moscow, where statesmen are escorted (for example, in April there was a farewell ceremony with Vladimir Zhirinovsky).

What are they saying about Mikhail Gorbachev in Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania (unlike other Western countries, here he is by no means considered a positive hero) Andre Durand / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Soviet paratroopers attack the Lithuanian protesters in the city of Vilnius, Lithuania. January 11, 1991 On August 30, 2022, the first and only president of the USSR Mikhail Gorbachev, one of the most significant politicians of the twentieth century, died . He was 91 years old.

Russian opposition politician Alexey Navalny's team of anti-corruption activists announced the launch of its “Smart Vote” initiative for this year’s Moscow municipal elections, which will take place from September 9–11. The team announced on Twitter that the recommendations will focus on municipal elections in Moscow. “We believe that this is the election that will give us the greatest chance of doing damage to Putin and his party of warmongers.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Gorbachev is a good or bad politician? We are trying to evaluate this from the point of view of historical science On August 30, Mikhail Gorbachev died - the last Secretary General of the CPSU Central Committee, the first and last president of the USSR. He was 91 years old. Mikhail Gorbachev spent six years in power.

On September 1, the school week in Russian schools will begin with the ceremony at which they will perform the Russian anthem and raise the flag of Russia. Every Monday, schools were recommended to start with “talking about the important” - an extracurricular lesson, where they will talk about the “exploits” of the Russian military in Ukraine. On September 1, Vladimir Putin will hold an open lesson “Talking about the important” in Kaliningrad.

On September 6, the European Commission announced that the agreement on a simplified visa regime between the EU and Russia will cease to apply on September 12. European Commissioner for Home Affairs Ylva Johansson spoke about this at a press conference. Earlier, on August 31, EU countries agreed to suspend the agreement with Russia on simplified issuance of visas.

The Secretariat of the National Union of Writers of Ukraine (NUWU) has demanded that the museum of writer Mikhail Bulgakov in Kiev be closed. This is stated in a statement on the organization's website.