Ukrainian director on hunger strike in Russian prison speaks of deteriorating health but says he's not going to give up Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who went on a hunger strike in a Russian colony on May 14, where he is serving time on charges of plotting terrorist attacks, wrote a testament to his work. This was told on Facebook by his sister Natalya Kaplan.

The language, style and meaning of the appeal of the head of the National Guard to Alexei Navalny Viktor Zolotov challenges Alexei Navalny to a duel. This is a response to an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation, which described a banal, but large-scale theft in the purchase of food for employees of the Zolotov department.

MegaFon, Mail.ru Group, the Russian Direct Investment Fund and Alibaba Group create a joint venture worth about $2 billion - AliExpress Russia. AliExpress Russia will include the assets of Alibaba Group in Russia, as well as the group's cross-border operations - in particular, the international trading platform AliExpress and the Russian b2c-platform Tmall, Kommersant writes .

The United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg published data on the consideration of cases of those detained on September 9 for protests against raising the retirement age. In total, the courts considered 255 materials out of 301 received. 70 people were sent to arrest from 1 to 25 days, 11 were sentenced to compulsory labor for a period of 20 to 60 hours. 158 rally participants were fined from 5,000 to 20,000 rubles.

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un sent a letter to US President Donald Trump asking him to meet again. According to AFP, citing White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders, Trump received a "very warm and positive" letter from Kim Jong-un. Sanders noted that this is evidence of progress in relations between Washington and Pyongyang and added that the issue of the next meeting is already at the stage of coordination.

The house arrest for director Kirill Serebrennikov has been extended until October 19. The decision was made by the Moscow City Court. According to Interfax , the investigation still believes that the director and other defendants in the Seventh Studio case may hide or put pressure on witnesses. “Investigator Lavrov let me go to Rostov when my mother died, and several more times, and he knows for sure that I fulfill all the agreements and return,” Serebrennikov said at the trial.

Senator from Karachay-Cherkessia Rauf Arashukov ordered the murder in 2010 of the leader of the Circassian movement "Adyge-Khase" Aslan Zhukov, Rasul Adzhiev, who was arrested in the case, told the investigation. got acquainted with the protocol of interrogation of Adzhiev RBC . Adzhiev became the third person who, during interrogations, called Senator Arashukov the customer of the crimes.

What is this book about and why the White House is going to sue its author Bob Woodward's book comes out only today, but the world has been discussing it for the last week - since the major US media received a copy and published excerpts from the publication. The White House is threatening to sue the author, and Donald Trump says he will write his own, more truthful book.

The head of the Russian Guard recorded a video message to Alexei Navalny, in which he challenged him to a duel because of the investigation of the Anti-Corruption Foundation on the department’s purchases Viktor Zolotov called Alexei Navalny “to the ring, tatami, anywhere” and promised to turn him into “a good, juicy chop” in a few minutes.

KADYROV FRIEND AND accomplice THE HEAD OF THE REGUARD VICTOR ZOLOTOV DECIDED TO RUN ON NAVALNY! An amazing thing: General Viktor Zolotov was offended as a "Russian officer" by accusations of theft in the Russian Guard system! At the same time, the head of Rosoprichnina openly threatens Navalny, without being interrogated (yet!!) in the case of the murder of the leader of the Russian opposition. And he is by no means offended by suspicions of complicity in the murder of Boris Nemtsov!

The governor of Khakassia, Viktor Zimin, should resign before the second round of elections for the head of the region, the Kremlin believes. In the first round, Zimin lost to the Communist Party candidate Valentin Konovalov. As Vedomosti’s source in the presidential administration says, an “uncontrollable situation” has developed in Khakassia: “External financial management has been introduced there, there is no money for salaries of public sector employees.

The EU and the UK can reach an agreement on Brexit within 6-8 weeks. This was stated by the coordinator of these negotiations from the European Union, the French politician Michel Barnier. According to Bloomberg, Barnier said this while speaking at a conference in Slovenian Bled. He called the agreement on the terms of the UK's exit from the EU realistic and possible and said that the parties need to reach a consensus before the beginning of November.

Russian hospitals are cutting junior staff to comply with presidential decrees to raise salaries. This was reported by RANEPA experts. The Institute's report "Implementation of the May 2012 Decrees" describes how healthcare institutions implemented the presidential decree to increase the salaries of medical workers.

The head of the Karelian branch of Memorial lost custody of his adopted daughter due to a criminal case. Her grandmother became her new guardian. It is reported by TASS. The Commissioner for Children's Rights in Karelia, Gennady Saraev, told the agency that Dmitriev's adopted daughter was handed over to her grandmother immediately after the pedophilia case was opened.

The US administration has threatened to impose sanctions against the International Criminal Court in The Hague (ICC). They are also going to close the office of the Palestine Liberation Organization in Washington (PLO). According to US national security adviser John Bolton, this is due to the calls of the PLO to the International Criminal Court to investigate Israel. Now this authority is going to consider the crimes of the US military in Afghanistan, writes The Guardian.