The Luna-25 automatic station crashed due to the fact that it did not include accelerometers, said Roskosmos CEO Yuri Borisov. “The adjusting engine did not stop its work according to the information from the accelerometer. This is the device that shows a change in speed. The reason is that accelerometers have not turned on, ”he said. According to Borisov, the failure in the work of accelerometers is the main reason for the crash of the station, which is considered by the experts.

A Madrid court has banned the former head of the Spanish Football Federation, Luis Rubiales, from approaching football player Jennifer Hermoso closer than 200 meters, reports BBC News. Rubiales was also banned from communicating with the athlete during the investigation. The prosecutor's request that the former sports official appear in court every 15 days was rejected. On September 15, Rubiales, who resigned on September 10, appeared in court for the first time.

Journalists from Mediazona and the BBC Russian Service, together with a team of volunteers, confirmed, based on open data, the identities of 32,164 Russian soldiers who died during the full-scale war in Ukraine. According to researchers, at least 1,910 people died while repelling the counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The largest number of deaths were among prisoners - the names of 6,073 deceased convicts are known.

The State Duma Commission on Mandate Issues submitted for consideration to the lower house of the Russian parliament a draft resolution on the early termination of powers of deputy from the United Russia faction Sergei Sokol. The document was published in the State Duma legislative activity database. The draft resolution states that Sokol himself submitted an application to resign as deputy.

A migration policy gap leaves deported Ukrainians in limbo at the Russia–Georgia border Tako Robakidze / Bloomberg / Getty Images On the night of August 16, six Ukrainian men found themselves at the border between Russia and Georgia. Five of them were former prisoners from the Kherson region of Ukraine and had been forcibly deported by the Russian military; the sixth was a man from Kharkiv who had come to Russia to pick up his sister.

The Committee to Protect Journalists is urging the Latvian authorities to respond to reports that state-sponsored hackers have targeted at least three journalists working in the country. CPJ’s call follows revelations this week that the Latvian phone number of Meduza co-founder Galina Timchenko was infected with Pegasus spyware in February.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has added publicist and political strategist Stanislav Belkovsky and journalist Ilya Shepelin to the register of “foreign agents.” The register also includes: Evgeny Kochegin, former coordinator of Alexei Navalny’s headquarters in Volgograd; Kirill Sedov, host of Khodorkovsky Live; Yuri Fedorov, military expert.

The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on Latvian authorities to investigate after three journalists working in the country said they had been targeted by pro-government hackers. “The growing number of reports of possible hacking attacks on at least three more independent journalists working in Latvia is even more alarming given the recent revelation that Russian journalist Galina Timchenko’s phone was infected with the Pegasus spyware.

Russian draftees won’t be rotated out of combat zones in Ukraine until the “special military operation” is complete, says State Duma Defense Committee Chairman Andrey Kartapolov. Soldiers forced into military service by President Putin’s partial mobilization order last year still have the right to brief rest and recuperation once every six months of service, Kartapolov told journalists on Friday.

The European Commission did not extend restrictions on the import of agricultural products from Ukraine after September 15, when the relevant measures expire. This was reported in a press release from the department. The European Commission concluded that restrictions on Ukrainian exports, which were introduced in May, eliminated market distortions in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia. It was these countries that demanded a ban on exports from Ukraine.

Boris Grebenshchikov’s new album is available free on Bandcamp. In four allegorical songs, the exiled master songwriter blends sorrow and hope for today’s Russia. Boris Grebenshchikov, the lead man of the iconic Russian experimental band “Aquarium,” now based in London, has released a new album with the cryptic title “Bogrukinog” (translating roughly as “God-arms-and-legs”).

Columbian artist and sculptor Fernando Bothero died at the age of 91 in his house in Monaco, the W Radio radio station said. Boris Horvat / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Fernando Bothero poses against the background of one of his paintings. November 2017 The director of the station Hulio Sanchez Kristo, who talked with the artist in recent days, said that Bothero had recently been hospitalized with pneumonia. After several days in the hospital, he decided to continue treatment at home.

A Ukrainian “Sea Baby” drone hit a Russian Samum missile carrier in the Black Sea on Friday, Ukrainska Pravda reported , citing sources in Ukraine’s Security Service. According to the sources, the vessel was near the entrance to Sevastopol Bay at the time of the strike. The naval drone reportedly did “significant damage” to the ship, causing it to lose power. The ship was towed away for repairs “with a significant tilt at the stern and listing to starboard,” the outlet reported.

Drryazko played for Lithuania at the Olympiads five times - and 13 times became the champion of the country Erikas ovcarenko / Scanpix / Leta Margarita Drryazko, 2021 Lithuania President Gitanas Nauceda signed a decree on the deprivation of citizenship of the skater Margarita Drobyazko, who since 1992 has played for Lithuania and since 1993 has been a citizen of this state. The decision was made on the recommendation of the Citizenship Commission.

The Russian newspaper Kommersant and the Wagner Group-affiliated Telegram channel Grey Zone reported Friday that General Sergey Surovikin is currently located in Algiers . Both outlets published photos of the general. According to Kommersant, Surovikin traveled to the city as part of a Russian Defense Ministry delegation.