An Estonian citizen was sentenced to a year and eight months in prison for collaborating with Russian intelligence. He has been in custody since 1 July. According to the local publication Postimees, we are talking about 32-year-old Evgeny Slavina. According to the investigation, in April 2016 he began to cooperate with employees of the Russian GRU and agreed to participate in the collection of information for the agency.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service fined the largest Russian mobile operators for overcharging national roaming. MTS, Beeline, Megafon and Tele2 will each pay 750,000 rubles. Anatoly Golomolzin, deputy head of the service, told TASS that the companies violated a clause of the Law on Protection of Competition. According to him, in October, the agency will also determine the amount of penalties for roaming cases within the country.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade proposed to give advantages when participating in regional and municipal public procurements to the Russian Machines holding and the GAZ group of Oleg Deripaska. The document was developed in pursuance of the general instructions of Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Kozak. As Kommerstant writes , we are talking about the introduction of restrictions on the purchase of agricultural machinery, road construction and special equipment, as well as buses.

Russians take money from Sberbank. The financial institution has become the main victim of the outflow of foreign currency deposits of individuals. According to Bloomberg, in August, depositors withdrew $1.5 billion from the country's banking system amid a new round of anti-Russian sanctions and the threat of a ban on dollar settlements for banks. Three-quarters of this amount, $1.2 billion, was withdrawn by individuals from Sberbank's foreign currency accounts.

Acting head of Khakassia, United Russia candidate Viktor Zimin withdrew his candidacy from the vote for the head of the region, which was to be held on September 23. “Zimin wrote a statement to the election commission about withdrawing his candidacy from the elections for health reasons,” told Interfax .

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, commenting on the expansion of the US sanctions list against Russian citizens and companies, urged not to play with fire. Yesterday's measures on the bill are already the 60th since 2011, he said, saying that they do not bring the expected result. “Each new round of sanctions demonstrates the complete absence of the desired result for our enemies from previous attempts to put pressure on Russia.

The second part of the Bellingcat and The Insider investigation Bellingcat and The Insider have published the second part of their investigation into the people the UK suspects of poisoning the Skripals. In the wake of their interview with Margarita Simonyan, the name suggested itself: "Salisberet".

NYPD is preparing for possible chemical attacks in light of the poisoning of Sergei and Yulia Skripal in London. Law enforcement officers of the city have tightened control and compiled a list of people who may become victims of attacks. This is reported by the NBC television channel, referring to the words of the head of the New York Police Counterterrorism Department, John Miller.

The reason for the death of the Russian Il-20 aircraft with 15 servicemen on September 17 was the indiscriminate fire of the Syrian air defense, according to the Israeli military, who presented Moscow with their version of what happened. The Syrian air defense acted irresponsibly and unprofessionally at a time when the Israeli Air Force aircraft were no longer there in the attack zone. The incident was not an Israeli provocation, an Israeli spokesman said, TASS reports .

Team29 in a special report told how treason, espionage and disclosure of state secrets are tried in Russia Team 29 - Ivan Pavlov's team of lawyers, who undertake to defend the most hopeless cases, published a report "History of high treason, espionage and state secrets in modern Russia." A project with people's stories is here , and below we publish abstracts. The Russian system of criminal prosecution does not work backwards, the report says.

The New York Times published a major investigation - The Conspiracy to Change Election Results. Much of what is contained in this investigation has already been published by The New York Times, as well as other American publications. There are also quite a few interesting details. For example, the newspaper's investigators suggest that Russian intelligence somehow gained access to the FBI's investigation of hacker attacks by GRU specialists on the servers of the US Democratic Party.

The Moscow City Court, at the suit of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, liquidated the Interregional Public Organization for the Promotion of the Development of Cultural Interaction in Civil Society (MROO SRKVGO) "StopHam". The claims of the Ministry of Justice were related to the fact that the company for a long time did not provide data on its activities to the department, Interfax reports .

Chairman of the Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation Ella Pamfilova invited Andrey Ishchenko and Andrey Tarasenko not to put forward their candidacies for the post of head of the Primorsky Territory.

The Central Bank transferred billions of state money to the Genbank operating in Crimea. We are talking about 20 billion rubles attracted from the Deposit Insurance Agency so that he could earn profit and restore capital, told Vedomosti Fitch analyst Alexander Danilov . The DIA representative confirmed that in February the state corporation provided the bank with 11.3 billion rubles.

The election commissions of Khakassia and the Vladimir region refused to accredit journalists for the second round of gubernatorial elections. In the Khabarovsk Territory, meanwhile, there are threats against the LDPR candidate. According to the website of the Golos movement, representatives of the Molniya agency were denied accreditation.