Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia and Poland announced their intention to introduce restrictions on entry and issuance of visas for citizens of the Russian Federation. The joint statement of the countries is published on the website of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Memory of Mikhail Gorbachev On August 30, the President of the USSR, co -founder of Novaya Gazeta, the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize of the 1990 Mikhail Gorbachev, hired. Kirill Martynov, editor -in -chief of Novaya Gazeta. Europe ”recalls the“ only leader of the country who has survived the test of power. ”

The occupied Khersonshchina is prepared for the beginning of the school year under the muzzle of the machine gun Photo: EPA-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov “All the children who enroll in school were promised to give out 10 thousand rubles in the first half of September,” says Irina G., a resident of the Kherson region. - It’s worthwhile to sell the homeland inexpensively ... I will not lead my children, but I will not condemn those who go to the “Russian” schools.

Olga Musafirova visited Odesa to find out the survival strategy of the city from which Ukraine’s grain is exported to different parts of the world Odesa. Photo: George Ivanchenko / exclusively for Novaya Gazeta. Europe Grain means port, port means city. This sentence encapsulates the role of grain flows in Odesa’s history, starting from the times when the city was still named Khadjibey.

Why are mass protests raging in Baghdad, who are Sadrists and how people go under bullets for Shiite Imam Photo: Scott Nelson / Getty images On August 29, the Charismatic Shiite Imam Muktad al-Sadr stated that he was leaving the political life of Iraq. In response to this, hundreds of his supporters advanced into a specially protected “green zone” of Baghdad, where, in particular, government institutions and foreign diplomatic enterprises are located, including the US Embassy.

The EU countries have agreed to suspend the 2007 visa facilitation deal with Russia, Josep Borrell, EU’s High Representative for Common Foreign and Security Policy confirmed during a press conference in Prague after a meeting with foreign ministries of the Union countries. Borrell said the agreement will significantly reduce the number of visas issued by EU member states, making the process “longer and more difficult”. There will, however, be no complete ban for Russian nationals.

The Supreme Court of Belarus has recognized the BYPOL initiative, an association of former security officials who quit law enforcement after the 2020 protests, as a terrorist organization. This is reported by the Prosecutor General's Office of Belarus.

The main premieres of Venice-2022 The poster of the film "Winter in Fire: the struggle of Ukraine for freedom." Source: kinopoisk.ru The Venetian festival competes with Cannes for the place of the main show of artistic cinema in the world. But it seems that the Mostra intends, engaged in cinema art, to respond to political challenges of fiery 2022. What is interesting for the coming film festival?

Alexander Khinshtein, the chairman of the State Duma’s Committee on Information Policy, has offered Russia’s government to evaluate his bill on “LGBT and paedophilia propaganda” which involves fines of up to 200,000 rubles (€3,400). Corporate entities will face up to 4,000,000 rubles (€67,000) in fines or suspension of all activities up to 90 days; foreign nationals will be arrested for 15 days and then deported.

The Supreme Representative of the European Union, Josep Borrel, confirmed that the EU countries agreed on the suspension of the agreement with Russia on a simplified visa regime. He stated this at a press conference after the meeting of the EU countries in Prague.

A court in Ufa has penalised activists Liliya Chanysheva, Olga Komleva and Ilgam Yanberdin 147,000 rubles (€2,500) for “extra work by the police officers” during the pro-Navalny rallies which took place in January 2021. Komleva alone was fined 120,592 rubles in favour of the police officers who worked at the rally on 31 January; additionally, all three activists were ordered to pay a total of 27,367 rubles for the 23 January rally.

Alexey Navalny, Russia’s opposition leader who is currently in prison, has reacted to the death of Mikhail Gorbachev, calling him “one of the few leaders who did not use power for personal profit and enrichment,” as per Navalny’s Telegram channel. “Prison radio reported the death of Mikhail Gorbachev. It was under his rule that the last political prisoners were released in the USSR.

The European Union will suspend the visa facilitation agreement with Russia, but will not impose a complete ban on tourist visas. This was announced by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Hungary, Peter Szijjarto. According to him, according to Reuters , Hungary, along with some other countries at the meeting of EU ministers in Prague, opposed a complete ban on issuing visas to Russians.

A court in Brest, Belarus, has sentenced Andrey Maslov, a first year college student, to 30 months in prison for “intending to partake in an armed conflict in another country,” as per Brest Spring. The prosecutor requested a 3-year sentence. Maslov said in court that his priority was humanitarian work and stated that he would never use a weapon should he be offered to do so. He was, however, content with joining the Ukrainian army for humanitarian service.

The leadership of the RANEPA hides elite real estate in France. We found the undeclared housing of two vice -rectors and one dean Illustration: Sasha Rogova (doxa) Russian higher education is in a difficult position. However, this does not prevent the rector of universities and their relatives from leading a luxurious lifestyle. We checked the rectors and vice-rectors of more than 90 Moscow state universities and institutions to find out if any of them owns undeclared real estate in France.