The Russian government proposed President Vladimir Putin to dence the European Convention to prevent torture and inhuman appeal or punishment. The corresponding decision was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. We are talking about the withdrawal of Russia from both the Convention itself and the protocols adopted to it. The European Convention on Torture Prevention was adopted by the Council of Europe in 1987. Russia ratified it in 1996, when it became a member of the Council.

The American director Woody Allen responded to the criticism of the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry, after the department called his speech at the Moscow International Cinema Week. “As for the conflict in Ukraine, I am firmly convinced that Vladimir Putin is completely wrong. The war that he untied is terrible. But, no matter what politicians do, I do not think that the cessation of creative discussions is a good way to help, ”the director said in an interview with The Guardian.

Police officers of the Moscow Region detained the actor-activist Pavel Chrisevich, his wife told the OVD-info. The corrugatedist was detained on the afternoon of August 25, but this became known only in the evening. According to the wife of Krisevich, he was taken to the police department No. 2 in Mytishchi to sign a warning about the inadmissibility of violations of the law before the elections in September. After that, the connection with the artist disappeared.

The Tagan court of Moscow fined Mangalib LLC for 14 million rubles for seven protocols on the "propaganda of LGBT" (Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for mangs published on the website of the Mangalib online library, Mediazona said. The court appointed two million rubles a fine for each of the seven publications. Among them - “The girl of the revolutionary Uten: Theater version” and “Banana fish”.

This is what is known about himself and his criminal case Arsen Markaryan page on Instagram Attention! The text has a mat. Do not read it if it is unacceptable for you. Listen to the audio version of this text on "Radio Medusa" Blogger Arsen Markaryan, who became famous due to open hostility towards women, was detained on August 23 in the Moscow Region in the case of insulting the memory of the defenders of the Fatherland (part 4 of the criminal article 354.1 “Rehabilitation of Nazism”).

From the beginning of September, the Russian platform for monetizing the Boosty content will introduce new rules that will affect “foreign agents”. The warning about this was received by The Bell. So, the authors declared in Russia “foreign agents” will no longer be able to publish new posts. This function will be technically inaccessible. “Inoage” will also have to place the appropriate marking in their profile.

In the highest Russian leadership, large -scale rearrangements are planned, says RTVI with reference to sources. The start of the chain of the permutations was given by the Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov, who on the afternoon of August 25 filed an application for the post of chairman of the Supreme Court. His candidacy for this post will be the only one.

President of Poland Karol Navrotsky imposed a veto on the bill adopted by the Sejm, which provided for the extension of social benefits for Ukrainian refugees. The document extended until March 2026 the right of refugees to temporary protection and social benefits - including unconditional benefits for minor children and free medical care. Without the entry of the new law, these benefits will cease on September 30.

Since May 2024, Russian journalist Pyotr Ruzavin has been fighting on the side of the Ukrainian army. He wrote about this on his Facebook. According to Ruzavin, he serves in the team of the National Guard "Charter" in a unit engaged in the launch of drones. In the summer of 2024, he was wounded and hospitalized, but a few weeks after that he returned to duty. “During this time it was different: sometimes I was happy, sometimes it was very difficult, sometimes tolerant. Sometimes - very scary.

As part of the next exchange of prisoners, the former mayor of Kherson, 65-year-old Vladimir Nikolayenko, abducted shortly after the occupation of the city by the Russian military, returned to Ukraine. Nikolayenko, a member of Euromaidan, the mayor of Kherson, he was first elected in May 2014 against the backdrop of protests and riots in eastern Ukraine. Nikolayenko spoke extremely harshly about pro -Russian activists.

The Presnensky District Court of Moscow in absentia arrested the journalist of the Rain television channel Anna Mongite in the case of the spread of Fakes about the Russian army (paragraph “D” of part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), Mediazona reports. The case against Mongites became known at the end of July.

Der Spiegel found new documents that shed light on the origins of the conflict of Moscow with the West Diana Walker / Getty Images Bill Clinton, Boris Yeltsin and Helmut Kol at the G7 summit in Japan, 1993 The US presidential administration Bill Clinton in the early 1990s seriously considered the possibility of Russia's adoption in NATO. The main obstacle was the German government, led by Chancellor Helmut Kole.

We talk about the useful functions of our readers that you might not notice In December 2023, books first appeared in the Medusa appendix . Then these were only the “my beloved country” of the journalist Elena Kostyuchenko and one chapter from the book “War and Punishment” by Mikhail Zygar. So that you can read more books for free, we have developed our own reader.

Russian Prosecutor General Igor Krasnov filed an application for the post of chairman of the Supreme Court, said Nikolai Timoshin, chairman of the Higher Qualification Collegium of Judges (VKKS). The post of chairman of the Supreme Court was released at the end of July after the death of Irina Pyatosova. Are there any other applicants for this post is unknown. Applications for the post of head of the Supreme Court are terminated on August 25.

On September 1, bookstores that will sell books “Ino -Agents” will not be able to apply for benefits by municipalities, and warned in the Russian Book Union. In particular, the organization says, shops will be deprived of preferential lease and advertising, will not be able to have the status of social entrepreneurship and participate in municipal competitions.