Russia's financial sector has suffered direct losses of hundreds of billions of dollars due to Western sanctions imposed after the invasion of Ukraine, Bloomberg reports, citing an internal document from the Russian Finance Ministry. According to the agency, the report was prepared for a meeting of high-ranking Russian officials held on August 29. The contents of the document were confirmed by sources familiar with the meeting.

The DDT group reported that the concert scheduled for September 24 at the Gazprom Arena in St. Petersburg was postponed to May 27, 2023 “for reasons beyond the control of the artist and the organizers.” The DDT concert was originally scheduled to take place on October 9, 2021, but it was postponed to September 2022 due to coronavirus restrictions, Fontanka writes . In June, DDT announced that its major concert in Moscow had been postponed for a year because of the band's anti-war stance.

At least five people were injured after an aircraft crashed in the village of Kendzhe-Kulak in the east of the Stavropol Territory, Governor Vladimir Vladimirov said. The aircraft crashed into a field at about five o'clock in the evening, reports Interfax , citing local authorities. According to the governor, a firefighter and four local residents were injured, including a child. Their lives are not in danger. Baza claims that six people were injured, including a seven-year-old boy.

See how Evgeny Prigozhin recruits prisoners to war in Ukraine. Video and decoding Supporters of Alexei Navalny, who make the Popular Politics channel, published a video in which businessman Evgeny Polyozhin recruits Wagner PMCs to participate in the war in Ukraine. In which colony the record was made, it is not specified, presumably , this is IK-6 in Mari El. Medusa publishes a complete decoding of Prigozhin's performance. I am a representative of a private military company.

Jon Gambrell / AP / Scanpix / Leta Ukrainian flags with the names of those killed in the war with Russia, posted near the Independence Monument in Kyiv The International Working Group on Security Guarantees for Ukraine submitted recommendations ( .pdf ), which should form the basis of the future of the Kiev Security Treaty. The group is guided by the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andrei Ermak and the former NATO Secretary General Anders Fog Rasmussen.

Update. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky posted on his Telegram channel a photo from a destroyed dam at the Karachunovsky reservoir in Kryvyi Rih. “The terrorist country continues to fight against the civilian population. This time, missile strikes on hydraulic structures and an attempt to flood Krivoy Rog,” Zelensky said. On September 14, the Russian military launched a missile attack on Krivoy Rog, said Alexander Vilkul, head of the city's military administration.

Prisoners at Penal Colony No. 6 in Russia’s Vladimir region, where jailed opposition politician Alexey Navalny is serving a nine-year sentence, have reportedly been banned from looking at Navalny. Associates of Navalny described the new policy on their YouTube channel, Popular Politics, after they learned about it from relatives of prisoners in the facility.

US President Joe Biden plans to appoint Lynne Tracy, who currently heads the US diplomatic mission in Armenia, as the next US ambassador to Moscow, CNN reports, citing its sources. Lynne Tracy is a career Foreign Service officer . She served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Moscow from 2014 to 2017 and as Ambassador to Yerevan since 2019.

Subscribe to our YouTube on September 14, the coffin with the body of Elizabeth II was transported from the Buckingham Palace to Westminster, where the next five days, until the morning of September 19, everyone will be able to say goodbye to the Queen of Great Britain. The coffin with the body of Elizabeth was accompanied by an honorary guard, King Charles III, Princes William and Harry and other representatives of the royal family participated in the ceremony.

The Moscow City Court granted the prosecutor's office's demand to liquidate the interregional public organization Trade Union of Journalists and Mass Media Workers, Interfax reports . In June 2022, the prosecutor's office applied to the Moscow City Court with a demand to liquidate the trade union. The reason for this, writes , was an unscheduled inspection that the Moscow prosecutor's office conducted in May.

One of the former pupils said that he raped him with a club The page of the Yaroslavl sports club "Vityaz" in VKontakte Alexander Skopintsev in an open lesson. November 2015 On September 9, a Twitter user named Alexei said that in childhood he was engaged in the coach in Kudo from Yaroslav, Alexander Skopintsev and that he had committed sexualized violence over him - he put the rubber club in the anus.

Update. The authorities of Voronezh and Rostov-on-Don also refused to hold festive events on the occasion of the City Day. in Rostov A concert and fireworks were canceled in Voronezh , and fireworks and public events were canceled . In addition, were abandoned in the Krasnodar Territory.

Kadyrov said the regions of Russia should be mobilized Elena Afonina / TASS The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, said that the regions of Russia must declare mobilization to help the Russian military participating in the "special operation" in Ukraine. Kadyrov’s video message appeared in his telegram channel. As for the special operation, all this has long passed into military operations.

Prisoners in IK-6 in the Vladimir region, where Alexei Navalny is being held, have been banned from looking at the politician. This was reported to the YouTube channel “Popular Politics,” created by Navalny’s associates in the FBK , by relatives of those held in IK-6. According to them, when Navalny is being led out, three bells are rung - a signal for prisoners, which tells them to either turn away or move away from the windows if the politician is outside at that moment.

Andrey Marochko, a spokesman for the so-called People’s Militia of the Luhansk People’s Republic (LNR) says that Ukrainian troops are approaching the border of the self-proclaimed republic, reports news agency TASS. In some areas, the line of contact is about 10 kilometers (6 miles) from the border of territory controlled by the self-declared republic, he said on air on Russia-1.