In this very brief history of the ruble, historian Ekaterina Pravilova explains how Russia’s national currency got coopted by the state’s autocratic and imperial ambitions Universal History Archive / Universal Images Group / Getty Images A portrait of Alexander III of Russia on a 25-ruble banknote issued in 1890 If money is not just a medium of economic exchange but also a political institution, then how does fiscal policy contribute to the politics of a nation?

If Ukraine is still at war in 2024, its current president Volodymyr Zelensky will run for another term in office. In an interview with the Portuguese public television RTP, Zelensky said he will not abandon Ukraine in wartime. “In 2024, if the war still continues, and if there’s an election, I will never in my life abandon my state. I’m the guarantor of the Constitution, and I must defend it under all circumstances,” Zelensky told the interviewer.

Military counterintelligence of the SBU attacked a military airfield in the Kursk region on August 27 using cardboard drones. This was reported by the “Operational Armed Forces” telegram channel, which published footage of testing such drones. Sources of the Ukrayinska Pravda publication in the intelligence services confirmed this information and the authenticity of the video. “According to our information, such drones are invisible to enemy radars.

On the night of September 1, residents of Pskov reported shooting in the city. in telegram channels Information about a possible drone attack appeared . The governor of the Pskov region, Mikhail Vedernikov , said that a “single unidentified object” was discovered in the sky near the Kresta airport. According to him, the shooting was explained by the fact that airspace control post observers were taking “measures to neutralize” the object.

The Kovrov city court rejected three claims by Alexei Navalny, filed due to the conditions of detention in correctional colony No. 6 in the Vladimir region. As the politician’s team writes , the first complaint concerned the reduction of time for meals in the punishment cell and cell-type premises, where Navalny is regularly sent. Previously, 25-30 minutes were allocated for food in the colony, but in May the time was halved - to 12-15 minutes.

Vladimir Zelensky intends to run for president of Ukraine again if elections are held in 2024 during the war. “In 2024, if the war continues, if elections are held, I will never abandon my state in my life. Because I am the guarantor of the Constitution, and I defend it in any case,” said in an interview with Portuguese public television RTP. the President of Ukraine Before the 2019 elections, Zelensky promised that he would only serve one presidential term and would not run for a second time.

Andrey Kurshin, who runs the Telegram channel Moscow Calling, has been arrested in Moscow. State news agency TASS reports , citing a source in law enforcement, that the Russian authorities have opened a criminal case on spreading “fakes” about Russia’s Armed Forces against Kurshin. Telegram channel Shot posted footage of Kurshin’s arrest at Moscow’s Leningradsky railway station.

The Moscow authorities, together with the Russian Defense Ministry, are rapidly creating air defense facilities to protect the Russian capital from Ukrainian drones. This was stated by Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, as reported by Interfax. "Last year we built the largest, most powerful line of defense for our military, who are fighting and working in the SVO zone.

Administrator of the Moscow Calling telegram channel Andrey Kurshin was detained in Moscow. As TASS reports , citing a source in law enforcement agencies, a criminal case has been opened against Kurshin for distributing “fakes” about the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The agency does not provide other details of the case. Shot published operational footage of Kurshin’s arrest at the Leningradsky railway station in Moscow.

To repel a drone attack on the Bryansk region, the Russian Ministry of Defense, among other things, used the Buk anti-aircraft missile system, Kommersant writes, citing its own sources. Three of the six drones that attacked the region on August 30 were suppressed by the Russian military using electronic warfare equipment, including anti-drone guns.

Russian Deputy Culture Minister Andrey Malyshev has rejected a proposal to release the films Barbie and Oppenheimer in Russian theaters, explaining that they don’t serve the purpose of preserving "traditional Russian values." Earlier, State Duma Deputy Speaker Vladislav Davankov sent a letter to Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin in which he suggested showing the American blockbusters in Russia without permission from the copyright holders.

Black comedy about Augusto Pinochet, which turned out to be a vampire. And one of the most expressive films about dictatorship Netflix The 80th International Film Festival began in Venice. One of his first prime minister is the gloomy comedy Pablo Larrain (Spencer, Jackie) Graf. Her main character - the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet, who did not die in the plot of the film, but has become a vampire - and now flies along the streets of Santiago to eat hearts and drink blood.

The Kalininsky District Court of St. Petersburg sentenced priest and doctor of theology Ioann Kurmoyarov to three years in prison in a general regime colony in the case of disseminating “unreliable” information about the Russian army (Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The court also prohibited Kurmoyarov from making publications on the Internet for two years, reported . the United Press Service of the St.

All operational activities of Wagner PMC in Africa and the Middle East after the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin will come under the direct military command of Russia. Bloomberg writes about this, citing sources close to the Ministry of Defense, the Kremlin and the PMC itself.

Moscow police detained Yekaterinburg resident Dmitry Bakhtin, who staged a solo picket in front of the Russian Government House in Moscow, Kholod reports. Bakhtin staged a protest demanding that his three-year-old son Misha be given the drug Risdiplam to treat spinal muscular atrophy ( SMA ), which the child had been diagnosed with. The action lasted less than two minutes. Bakhtin stood up with a poster "Help save my son", after which he was detained by the police.