Mikhail Gorbachev, president of the Soviet Union, Nobel Peace Prize winner and co-founder of Novaya Gazeta, passed away on 30 August, state-owned news agency RIA Novosti reports citing Moscow’s Central Clinical Hospital. Photo: Novaya Gazeta Gorbachev passed away at 91 years of age. According to Russian government news agency TASS, Gorbachev will be buried at Moscow’s Novodevichy Cemetery next to his late wife Raisa.

The President of the USSR, co -founder of Novaya Gazeta, the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize, Mikhail Gorbachev, died, writes RIA Novosti with reference to the Central Design Code. Photo: "New Gazeta" “Tonight after a serious and long illness, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev died,” they said there. He was 91 years old. TASS writes that Gorbachev will be buried at the Novodevichy cemetery in Moscow next to his wife Raisa.

The Finnish railway operator VR Group has written off all Allegro trains that traveled between St. Petersburg and Helsinki. This is stated in the company's financial report. The total cost of the trains was 45.4 million euros. “VR Group has decided to stop freight transportation in the eastern direction until the end of the year. Allegro passenger traffic was suspended in March.

In Germany, searches were conducted at the offices of the German chemical company Riol Chemie and the enterprise of its employees RR Rhein Reserve. learned about this OCCRP * and a number of German media . The companies were suspected of exporting toxic substances to Russia that could be used as raw materials, including for the production of the Novichok neurotoxin. Riol Chimie is believed to have shipped over 30 toxic chemicals without a special permit over 3.5 years.

The Moscow City Court decided to liquidate the organization of human rights activist Lev Ponomarev "Hot Line". This was reported by the telegram channel "Peace, progress, human rights". Lawyer Sergei Andropov said that the court's decision would be appealed. Defender Valery Shukhardin noted that there were no grounds for liquidating the Hot Line. The formal reason was the violation of the territoriality of the organization's activities.

"Baltic states", "in Ukraine" and "Belarus": now it is Moveton. And “sanctions”, “rashist” and “Putinoid” are new words. How the war changed the Russian language Photo: EPA-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov In the Russian media of the country, the Baltic states is often called "Baltic states", Belarus - "Belarus", and Moldova - "Moldova". All Prochrevsky media write “in Ukraine”, and not “in Ukraine”. But what about right? Why are there different names in the same language?

The Petrozavodsk city court has imposed a ban on certain actions to a resident of the city, Ruben Poghosyan, who is charged with spreading fake news about the actions of the Russian army. This is reported by the project "Network freedoms". Poghosyan was restricted from using the Internet and other means of communication, and was also forbidden to communicate with other participants in the criminal case except for the investigation and defense, go to public events and leave Petrozavodsk.

The Koptevsky District Court of Moscow arrested former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev in absentia in the case of "fakes" about the Russian army (clause "d" part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This is reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the court. What prompted the initiation of a criminal case is not reported.

The Governor of the Kursk Region Roman Starovoi said that the two border villages of the Glushkovsky district of the Kursk region were subjected to mortar shelling from Ukraine. As the official said in his telegram channel, a livestock complex was found under fire in Elizabeth, more than 20 animals were killed. In total, six private households were injured in Elizabeth, mainly roofs and windows received damage, and added old -time. There are no victims among the civilians.

The monologue of Alma Mustafich, who survived the massacre in Srebrenitsa, is about mass murders in Bosnia and the war in Ukraine A woman at the burial site of the victims of mass reprisals against Bosnian Muslims in Srebrenitsa, July 11, 2021. Photo: Elman Omic / Anadolu Agency / Getty images From the author With Alma, Mustafich brought us, one might say, accident.

The Zheleznovodsk city court sentenced 12 police officers to 1.5 years of suspended imprisonment, who lined up between the National Guard and protesters during a rally on March 27, 2019 in Magas. This was reported by the telegram channel "Full PC 2.0". The policemen were found guilty of failure to comply with the order (part 2 of article 286.1 of the Criminal Code). The prosecution asked for 2.5 years in a general regime colony for them.

Finnish customs officers have begun to withdraw cash euros from Russians returning to Russia. It is reported by "Fontanka". According to the publication, cases of cash withdrawal are described by participants in telegram chats about crossing the Russian-Finnish border. Fontanka also managed to personally communicate with a man who found himself in such a situation. Petersburg resident Yuri, Fontanka's interlocutor, was returning from Vaalimaa to Torfyanovka by car last week.

In Slavyansk (Donetsk region of Ukraine) on August 29, the Russian military fired at the base of the evacuation detachment of the Red Cross from the receiver artillery. This was announced by the commander of the quick response of the Red Cross Society of Ukraine Taras Loggins on his Facebook page. According to him, four shells exploded at the base, the building was destroyed, three cars were damaged. None of the volunteers were injured.

The Lida District Court of Belarus has recognized the social networks of the fictitious state of Veishnoria as “extremist materials”, the reports . Human Rights Center “Viasna” Veishnoria's YouTube channel, her pages on VKontakte, Facebook, Instagram, Tiktok and Odnoklassniki have been declared extremist. In addition, the court listed the channel and chat of the fictitious state in the telegram. "Mediazone.

Politics Alexei Navalny, who is serving his sentence in correctional colony No. 6 in Melehovo, Vladimir Region, was placed in a punishment cell (SHIZO) for the third time. This was reported on the politician's Instagram. “On Sunday evening they let me out, and on Monday afternoon they closed me again and, in general, they don’t hide that I won’t get out of this hole any further,” Navalny said. The first time he was sent to the isolation ward for three days, the second time for five.