Russia has terminated the agreement with Japan on a simplified visit to the Southern Kuril Islands. The corresponding resolution is posted on the official Internet portal of legal information. The termination of the agreement from 1999 will affect Japanese citizens and their families who lived in the past on the islands of Kunashir, Iturup or other islands of the Malaya Kuril ridge belonging to the Sakhalin Region of the Russian Federation. These islands in 1946 became part of the USSR.

Ivan Safronov was sentenced to 22 years in a maximum security colony Ivan Safronov. Photo: EPA-EFE/Yuri Kochetkov The Moscow City Court sentenced the ex-journalist of Kommersant, an adviser to the head of Roscosmos Ivan Safronov by 22 years in a strict regime colony in the case of Gosizmen.

Russia and Iran have agreed to introduce a visa-free regime for tourist groups from January 1, 2023. It is reported by RIA Novosti. “Based on what was previously agreed by the governments of Iran and Russia, from January 1, 2023, citizens of these states will not need a group visa if they are going to travel to one of the countries in tourist groups of 5 to 50 people for a period of 15 days” , — said in the Ministry of Culture and Tourism of Iran.

The Carnegie Moscow Center, which represented the American Carnegie Endowment for International Peace in Russia, has ceased its work. This was reported in the telegram channel Carnegie Politika. The Fund clarified that it had complied with the order of the Russian Ministry of Justice dated April 8, 2022, and stressed that it would continue to publish analytics about Russia, Ukraine and neighboring countries.

An interview with Leonid Volkov - about the partisan struggle, Navalny in the ShISO, municipal elections and bonfires of the Armed Forces Leonid Volkov. Photo: Jörg Carstensen / Getty images On the last day of August, the associates of Alexei Navalny announced that in 2022, Smart Voting would work in the municipal elections in Moscow.

The Ukrainian state-owned company Energoatom reported that the Zaporozhye NPP was completely disconnected from the Ukrainian energy system for the second time in the history of the plant. This is stated in the statement of the company, published in the telegram channel. “Today, September 5, 2022, as a result of a fire caused by shelling, the 330 kV ZATES-Ferrosplavnaya power line was disconnected, that is, the last line that connected the ZAES/ZATES node with the energy system of Ukraine!

The European Commission signed an agreement with Ukraine for the allocation of assistance in the amount of 500 million euros. This was announced by the Prime Minister of Ukraine Denys Shmygal. During a press conference, European Commission spokesman Eric Mamer said that EU funds will be used to finance housing and education for internally displaced persons and repatriates, as well as to develop the Ukrainian agricultural sector.

Belarusian public figures received real terms for discussing a hypothetical conspiracy in the Internet conference Alexander Lukashenko. Photo: EPA-EFE / Shamil Zhumatov / Pool In Minsk, a sentence was announced on one of the most high -profile cases of recent times - a conspiracy case to seize power. The two defendants were given 10 years, 11, two “random fellow travelers” - 2.5 years each. “New newspaper.

A court in Moscow has sentenced Ivan Safronov, a former Kommersant columnist and advisor to the head of Roscosmos, Russia’s space agency, to 22 years in maximum-security prison over high treason charges, a newsperson for Novaya Gazeta Europe reports from the courthouse. The trial was closed to the press and the general public. The court only announced the punishment for Safronov, and left their statement of reasons undisclosed.

The Moscow City Court sentenced the ex-journalist of Kommersant and the adviser to the head of Roscosmos Ivan Safronov by 22 years in a strict regime colony in the case of Gosizmen (Article 275 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), a correspondent from the courtroom specially for the New Newspaper. Europe". The proceedings in the case were closed.

A court in Belarus has sentenced Yuri Zenkovich, a lawyer, political scientist Alexander Feduta, and Grigory Kostusev, leader of the BPF party, to prison terms for “plotting a coup”, Sputnik Belarus reports . Zenkovich will spend 11 years in prison while the other two will spend 10 years. Zenkovich was also accused of “creating an extremist organisation”, “calling for a coup” and “inciting hatred”, Mediazona Belarus says .

Chief editor TJournal Sergey Star - On the closure of the publication, emigration and the possibility of resuming the work of independent media in Russia Sergey Star. Photo: Facebook The editors of the TJournal on August 22 announced the termination of the publication from September 10. As a reason, she called financial problems: in particular, the company “Committee” owning TJ since the beginning of the war in Ukraine has lost a significant part of the advertising revenue.

The Minsk Regional Court sentenced lawyer Yury Zenkovich, political scientist Alexander Feduta and leader of the Belarusian Popular Front party (BPF) Grigory Kostusev to terms of up to 11 years in prison in the case of conspiracy to seize power by unconstitutional means (part 1 of article 357 of the Criminal Code of the Republic of Belarus ). It is reported by Sputnik Belarus.

Russia’s Foreign Ministry has banned 25 US nationals from entering the country, the full list being published on the ministry’s website. “The hostile actions US authorities are performing against Russia destroy bilateral connections and fuel tensions between us. Such actions will trigger backlash in the future, too,” reads the ministry’s statement.

The Russian Foreign Ministry, as a response to US sanctions, put 25 American citizens on the "stop list". The full list is published on the agency's website. “The hostile actions of the American authorities, which continue to follow a Russophobic course, destroying bilateral ties and escalating confrontation between Russia and the United States, will continue to receive a decisive rebuff,” the Russian Foreign Ministry said in a statement.