Philosopher Arseny Kumankov on why Russians have a moral duty to evade the draft Tate Gallery Dove, Pablo Picasso, lithograph, 1949 This essay was written by Arseny Kumankov, a professor at the The Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences. In 2022, Kumankov published a book titled War in the 21st Century, in which he analyzed modern military conflicts from a moral perspective. He wrote this piece for Meduza’s Ideas section. Participating in the war against Ukraine is a moral crime.

As part of the eighth package of sanctions against Russia, announced by the European Union on September 28, it is planned to introduce personal restrictions against 30 new individuals and eight companies.

Belgorod Regional Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported Wednesday that “munitions were detonated” in the city’s Valuysky District. The explosion, which reportedly injured 14 people, was caused by “the human factor,” Gladkov said. According to the Telegram channel Mash, a grenade launcher was unintentionally fired during military training.

The Moscow Department of Transport announced the closure to traffic of a number of streets and embankments in the city center on September 30. In particular, traffic will be blocked on the Kremlin, Moskvoretskaya embankments, Vasilyevsky Spusk, Ilyinka, Varvarka, Bolotnaya, Staraya Square streets.

The SOTA Tver Court of Moscow arrested for two months the poet Artem Kamardin and two other participants in Mayakovsky Readings, Yegor Stvbu and Nikolai Daineko.

Filmmaker Andrey Zvyagintsev explains his resignation from the Russian Oscar Committee Anna Matveyeva The Russian film director Andrey Zvyagintsev On Sept. 26, Russia’s Oscar Committee announced that it would not be nominating a feature film for this year’s Academy Awards. Nikita Mikhalkov, head of the Russian Cinematographers’ Union, said that “it would be senseless” to submit a film under current circumstances.

In a video address published Wednesday, Altai Krai military commissar Marat Usmanov said that Russians who are conscripted by mistake are themselves to blame for the error. “There’s been a lot of outrage about the fact that citizens who have the right to defer have been receiving military summonses. That became possible as a result of citizens themselves not fulfilling their obligation to [...] notify the military commissariat of changes to their family status or their workplace,” said Usmanov.

This year, the writer talks about how to laugh in the face of the Apocalypse (which is always nearby in Russia). And gives instructions on how to escape from reality On September 29, the publishing house Eksmo is published by Victor Pelevin’s novel “KGBT+”. In 2022, a writer, which has been published new books annually for nine years, tells the story of the “Superior” in Imen KGBT+-a hero who, through the brain implant, makes many people experience some collective meditation.

Member of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, MK journalist Eva Merkacheva stated that not a single “real human rights activist” was included in the new compositions of public monitoring commissions (PMCs) announced for 43 regions of the Russian Federation.

The Investigative Department of the FSB of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case due to damage to the Russian gas pipelines “Northern Stream-1” and “Northern Stream-2”. According to the Prosecutor General’s Office, the investigation is carried out under part 1 of Article 361 of the Criminal Code (“Act of International Terrorism”, punishable by imprisonment from 10 to 20 years or lifelong).

A “detonation of ammunition” occurred in the Valuysky urban district, the governor of the Belgorod region Vyacheslav Gladkov said in his telegram channel. According to the official, as a result 14 people received injuries of varying severity. The cause of the detonation was the "human factor," he added. “All necessary medical care is being provided. Operational services are on site and are investigating what happened, ”Gladkov wrote.

The Soviet District Court of Makhachkala sentenced journalist Yulia Vishnevetskaya to five days of administrative arrest for violating the rules for participating in a rally. She was detained after protests against mobilization that took place in the center of Makhachkala on September 26.

Photos "Medusa" For a week now, thousands of Russians running from mobilization have been in a colossal queue on the border of Russia and Georgia. The Russian authorities pulled out military equipment to the border crossing of the Upper Lars and deployed a mobilization point, but this does not stop people.

Ukrainian law enforcement agencies accused the employees of the Russian Guard from the Kemerovo region and the Krasnoyarsk Territory of the execution of cars of civilians in Gostol of the Kyiv region on February 25. The National Police statement says that as a result, 11 people died and 15 were injured. The messages of the Kiev prosecutor's office and the SBU show other data - five dead and six wounded.

"Mediazona" told who and how they are persecuted for these attacks Channel "We are Lomonosovites" in Telegram Russian military registration and enlistment offices began to set fire immediately after the outbreak of war in Ukraine. For seven months, more than fifty attacks were made on military commissariats and administrative buildings. By the summer, the number of such attacks began to decline - in August it became known only one case, while in May there were 14.