Meduza examines the rise and fall of Grigory Melkonyants, Russia’s leading electoral observer Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Grigory Melkonyants in court, Moscow, August 18, 2023 Story by Andrey Pertsev . Translation by Sasha Molotkova . Grigory Melkonyants, co-chairman of the independent voter protection movement Golos and one of the foremost figures in Russian electoral monitoring, has been arrested in Moscow. The case is far from credible.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky is going to prepare a bill equating corruption in wartime to high treason. Zelensky stated this, writes Ukrayinska Pravda, in an interview with Natalya Moseychuk, shown on the telethon. I have set a task, and the Ukrainian legislator will be offered my proposals to equate corruption with high treason in wartime. I understand that such weapons cannot operate permanently in society, but in wartime, I think it will help.

It is far from the first - the director of the "escape from the show -core" also began his career In August 2023, it became known that the student of VGIK from Uzbekistan Gulnara Ivanova bought the right to film the film of the story of Stephen King "The Man who did not shook hands." This is not the first time King allows you to make a film according to his work for a symbolic amount.

Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky said that after the Ukrainian Armed Forces reach the borders of Crimea, it will be possible to talk about a political path for the liberation of the peninsula. “If we are on the administrative border with Crimea, I believe that we can politically press the demilitarization of Russia on the territory of Crimea,” RBC-Ukraine quotes Zelensky’s statement, which he made in an interview with the 1+1 TV channel .

In the Kaluga region, foreigners who decide to obtain Russian citizenship are refused to accept documents, requiring them to first sign a contract for military service, human rights activist Tatyana Kotlyar told 7×7 - Horizontal Russia. Kotlyar said that five such cases are known, but judging by the stories of the foreigners themselves and their relatives, many more people faced such a situation in the Kaluga region.

Propagandist and Editor-in-chief of RT Margarita Simonyan told Russian state news agency RIA Novosti that a second drone this week came down near her house outside of Moscow. “It’s loud, I want to tell you that. It wakes you up at 3:30 a.m. when you’ve only just managed to fall asleep,” she said.

Ukrainian counterintelligence launched a drone attack on a military airfield in Russia’s Kursk region, a source in Ukraine’s special services told the publication RBC Ukraine. The source says that overnight on August 27, suicide drones “worked on four Su-30 airplanes and one MiG-29,” as well as the radar systems of an S-300 missile system and two Pantsir anti-aircraft missile systems. Nearly all the drones reached their targets, the source said.

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RT editor-in-chief and propagandist Margarita Simonyan told RIA Novosti that the second drone in a week fell near her house in the Moscow region. “It falls loudly, I want to tell you. At half past three you wake up, just after falling asleep,” she said.

Russia’s Investigative Committee announced that it has established the identities of the 10 people who died in an August 23 plane crash in the Tver region, saying the identities correspond to the flight’s passenger list. The committee’s statement said that molecular genetic analysis was required to establish victims’ identities.

The Gulag History Museum has canceled the screening of films about repressions, “Captain Volkonogov Fled” and “For You and Me,” scheduled for August 27, writes Sota. The “ku-ku” Telegram channel, run by art critic Ksenia Korobeinikova, writes that the decision not to hold the show was made at the last minute by the Moscow City Hall’s Department of Culture “after denunciations from particularly agitated citizens.” The Gulag History Museum is an institution subordinate to the Moscow government.

The SBU counterintelligence attacked a military airfield in the Kursk region with drones, a source in the intelligence service told RBC-Ukraine. According to him, kamikaze drones on the night of August 27 “worked on four Su-30 aircraft and one MIG-29.” Also, the publication’s interlocutor said, the radars of the S-300 complex and two Pantsir air defense systems were hit. Almost all the drones reached their targets, a source in the SBU said.

The mayor of Melitopol, Ivan Fedorov, reported a strong fire on the territory of one of the enterprises in occupied Berdyansk. Fedorov wrote that military equipment had been brought to the workshops of the plant that caught fire the day before. He did not comment on the possible causes of the fire. As notes , residents of Berdyansk did not report explosions or shelling of the city, after which a fire could have started.

This is one of the best roles of the British actress Bleecker Street On September 7, the film of the Israeli director Guy Nativ Golda is released in the Russian rental. Judgment Day ”-biography of the Prime Minister of Israel Golda Meir. The main role was played by Helen Mirren, who received the Oscar for the film “Queen” about Elizabeth II.

In Krasnoyarsk, police detained two teenagers who overturned portraits of Yevgeny Prigozhin and Dmitry Utkin, installed on Red Square after the plane crash of the founder of the PMC Wagner. One of the teenagers, who tried to escape, was thrown face down to the ground and pinned down by the police. The second teenager, writes NGS24.RU, managed to escape from the police, but later he himself came to the department.