Bellingcat and The Insider found out the real name of Ruslan Boshirov The man who traveled to the UK with a passport in the name of Ruslan Boshirov is a GRU colonel. Bellingcat and The Insider claim to have found out his real name: Hero of Russia Anatoly Vladimirovich Chepiga. This is stated in the new, third part of the investigation of journalists.

Pyotr Verzilov may be discharged from the Berlin Chariite clinic today, where he is under medical supervision due to poisoning. This was announced on Twitter by Pussy Riot member Nadezhda Tolokonnikova. According to her, the publisher of "Mediazona" is in order. She later clarified that the discharge could be postponed. On September 11, Verzilov was taken to the intensive care unit of the Barushins Moscow Hospital after losing his speech, vision, and ability to move.

Left Front activist Sergei Udaltsov organized a series of single-person pickets against the pension reform near the State Duma building. They turned into a spontaneous rally. According to the activist on his Twitter account, about 500 protesters have now gathered near the building, they were joined by deputies from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation and A Just Russia, as well as members of trade unions and public organizations. No arrests have yet been reported.

Alexander Zhilin resigns as head of the Astrakhan region. Acting Governor will be Deputy Head of the Federal Customs Service Sergei Morozov. This was reported by the press service of the Kremlin. The site says that Alexander Zhilin, who has led the region since December 2004, asked the president to transfer him to another job. Sergey Morozov, whom Putin offered to head the region, worked as an assistant to the defense minister before the FCS.

Head of Kabardino-Balkaria Yuri Kokov resigns. Vladimir Putin offered the post to his namesake Kazbek Kokov. This was reported by the press service of the Kremlin. During a working meeting with Kazbek Kokov, Putin said that the head of the KBR asked to be transferred to work in Moscow "due to a number of circumstances, including family ones." The President invited Kokov to become the interim head of the region.

In Ingushetia, the entrance to the city of Magas was blocked, and a convoy with units of the Russian Guard was brought in. Residents protest against the transfer of part of the Ingush lands to Chechnya. The Dozhd TV channel reports that the road to the city is blocked with concrete blocks, the Internet is turned off in Magas and Nazran, and it works intermittently in other cities of the republic.

The pension reform passed the second reading in the State Duma. It was adopted subject to presidential amendments. According to RBC, the bill was supported by 326 deputies, 59 opposed, one abstained. According to the document, from 2019 Russia will begin to gradually raise the retirement age to 60 for women and to 65 for men.

The Ministry of Culture uses the age rating of films to support Russian cinema. In this way, the department can deliberately reduce the audience of foreign films in distribution. This is the conclusion reached by experts from the analytical company Nevafilm Research, as reported by Vedomosti. According to their data, in 2014, children over 12 years old could still watch every fourth foreign-made film.

The Central Bank saw signs of a financial pyramid in the activities of the Cashbury group of companies. The department appealed to the Prosecutor General's Office and the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to Interfax, Cashbury is positioned as an investment platform, offering its clients a return on their contributions of up to 550% per year. Funds for it are attracted not only in rubles, but also in cryptocurrency.

A criminal case against Ziyavudin and Magomed Magomedov was opened because they handed over compromising evidence to the French authorities on Senator Suleiman Kerimov, the Dozhd TV channel reports. Sources of Dozhd reported that there was a conflict between the Magomedovs (GK Summa) and Senator Kerimov, which began over the issue of control over the port of Makhachkala.

The Moscow Arbitration Court declared Bank Yugra bankrupt. The "Deposit Insurance Agency" was appointed bankruptcy trustee. According to Interfax , the court opened bankruptcy proceedings against this bank for one year and terminated the powers of the provisional administration. Petitions for an examination and the reclamation of some documents from the Central Bank were rejected.

The heads of Chechnya and Ingushetia, Ramzan Kadyrov and Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, fixed the borders of the regions. This agreement was opposed by residents of Ingushetia. According to Interfax, under the agreement, the republics exchanged non-residential territories in the Malgobek region of Ingushetia and the Nadterechny region of Chechnya. On the eve of the administration of the Sunzhensky district of Ingushetia, a protest was held against the transfer of land to Chechnya.

The State Duma approved amendments to raise the retirement age for women to 60. They were approved in the second reading. According to TASS, the deputies voted for the document unanimously. We are talking about amendments to the pension reform, proposed by the president against the backdrop of public outcry. The original version of the reform proposed raising the retirement age to 65 for men and 63 for women. The amendments raise the retirement age for women to 60.

Moscow refused to accept an Israeli delegation led by the prime minister after the Il-20 crash in Syria. The politicians of this country were going to come to Russia to discuss the incident with the plane. This is written by the Israeli edition of Haaretz, citing its own sources.

The deputy of the People's Assembly of Dagestan and the brother of the former head of the republic Ramazan Abdulatipov Radzhab was detained. He is suspected of participating in a criminal community. It is reported by RBC with reference to the RF IC. In the near future, Radjab Abdulatipov will be charged. According to the department, members of the community to which he was a member established disability for bribes.