Moscow is constantly tightening the requirements for companies that are trying to leave the Russian market, now they require additional discounts when selling assets in Russia. It is reported by Reuters with reference to sources familiar with the situation. As the agency notes, because of this, the company is faced with a large jump in costs. According to Reuters, the losses of companies exceeded $ 80 billion due to write-offs and missed benefits.

The Russian Investigative Committee said on Friday that it had recovered 10 bodies from the scene of the plane crash that presumably killed Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. Genetic testing is being carried out to identify the deceased, the agency said in a statement. Investigators also said they had recovered the flight records from the destroyed aircraft. A detailed inspection of the scene of the crash is reportedly ongoing.

26-year-old Seda Suleymanova, detained in St. Petersburg, was handed over to relatives in Grozny and was not allowed to see her lawyers. This was reported by the human rights activist project “SK SOS”. Lawyers came to Grozny and looked for her in two police departments. The St. Petersburg police said the day before that Suleymanov would be transferred to one of the Grozny police departments.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. What is Prigozhin’s crash speaks about the evolution of Putinism? Is this a step towards tough totalitarianism? Or maybe - to the civil war? The death of Evgeny Prigozhin and the command of the PMC Wagner is indicative repressions against “their own” who form a new image of the Russian political system, writes Alexander Baunov, senior researcher at the Carnegie Foundation for the International World.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has updated the register of “foreign agents”, including, in particular, journalist Konstantin Eggert, political scientist Kirill Rogov and blogger Alexander Stefanov.

A criminal case has been opened against MSU postgraduate student and mathematician Azat Miftakhov under the article on public calls for terrorism, justification or propaganda of terrorism (Part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This was reported by RTVI, citing a response from Rosfinmonitoring. On August 17, Rosfinmonitoring added Miftakhov to the list of terrorists and extremists.

The Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case regarding the preparation of an attempt on the life of RT editor-in-chief Margarita Simonyan. This was reported by Mediazona with reference to the resolution dated August 25.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation reported that during investigative actions at the site of the crash of the private plane of the founder of the Wagner PMC, Evgeniy Prigozhin, the bodies of ten dead were found. To establish their identities, molecular genetic examinations are being carried out, the Investigative Committee said in a statement. The agency also said it had recovered the flight recorders of the crashed plane.

The Russian neo-Nazi sabotage and reconnaissance group “Rusich” announced that it would stop carrying out “any combat missions.” This is stated in the formation’s Telegram channel. “Until the situation with Slavyan is resolved in the direction we need (extradition to the Russian Federation), Rusich will stop performing any combat missions. There will be time to relax and resolve the accumulated matters.

Anatoly Maltsev / EPA / Scanpix / Leta is one of the wreckage of a crashed aircraft in the Tver region On August 23, the private plane of Evgenia Prigozhin crashed in the Tver region. As a result of the crash, all 10 people on board were killed. The founder of the PMC Wagner was listed in the list of passengers, which was published by the Federal Air Transport Agency. Officially, the death of Prigozhin is not confirmed.

In St. Petersburg, mourners gathered by a makeshift memorial to Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin. Here’s what they had to say about the mercenary leader and what he meant to them. Dmitry Lovetsky / AP / Scanpix / LETA A crowd gathers to honor Yevgeny Prigozhin the day after the plane crash that likely killed him. St. Petersburg, August 24, 2023.

The Moscow mayor's office refused to approve a rally that associates of former FSB officer Igor Strelkov (Girkin) wanted to hold in his support. This was reported in the telegram channel they created after Strelkov’s arrest. They cite a fragment from the response of the deputy prefect of the Eastern Administrative District of Moscow. It says that the mayor's decree on high alert, which was introduced in March 2020 due to the coronavirus pandemic, is still in force in the capital.

This is the version of Lukashenko himself. He first spoke about the crash of the founder of the PMC Wagner Getty images Alexander Lukashenko, at a meeting with reporters on August 25, first commented on the collapse of the aircraft of the founder of the PMC Wagner Evgeny Prigozhin, which occurred two days earlier in the Tver region.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko told journalists that Wagner Group founder Yevgeny Prigozhin never asked him for security guarantees, reports Belarusian state-run news agency Belta. According to Lukashenko, he was not required to guarantee Prigozhin’s safety. I am not supposed to ensure Prigozhin’s security. That’s the first point. The second point is that we’ve never spoken along these lines. Thirdly, I want you to remember that [the issue of] security came up twice.

The Governor of the Tula region, Alexei Dyumin, expressed his condolences to the family and relatives of the founder of the PMC Vagner Evgeny Prigozhin, the commander of the mercenaries Dmitry Utkin (call sign Wagner) and other people who died during the crash of the Prigozhin business jet in the Tver region.