The Latvian Seimas adopted in the first reading amendments to the immigration law, which give Russian citizens who have not passed the Latvian language exam a two-year deferment, according to the website of the Latvian parliament. According to the proposed amendments, such Russian citizens - former non-citizens or citizens of Latvia - will be able to obtain a temporary residence permit for two years.

The court in Boston (Massachusetts, USA) sentenced the Russian businessman Vladislav Klyushin to 9 years in prison, TASS reports with reference to the correspondent. Klyushin was accused of criminal conspiracy, as well as in fraud with securities involving electronic means. The prosecutor's office asked him to be sentenced to 14 years in prison. Investigators evaluated illegal income of Klyushin at $ 82.5 million.

He became the youngest accused under this article The Moscow City Court sentenced 21-year-old student from Astrakhan Gleb Verdiyan to six years in prison in a maximum security colony on charges of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), the court’s press reported . service He was also fined 200 thousand rubles. Verdiyan became the youngest publicly known defendant in treason cases.

Lukashenko found a “elegant” way to avenge Belarusians who escaped from his regime: all documents can now be changed only within the country. People are horrified Photo: Polsha24 Belarusians abroad will now not be able to change passports, make real estate transactions and receive a number of documents without personal presence in their country. The corresponding decrees come into force on September 7. Decree No.

Why do not ignore the Russian elections Photo: EPA-EFE / MAXIM SHIPENKOV Until the end of the week, the second election campaign during the war will end in Russia. The main result of the elections of the last year was the dizziness from success: ten days after the demonstration of the “convincing support of the presidential course” on September 21, 2022, Putin decided to declare the first mobilization in the country since the Second World War.

A court in Oryol sent an English language teacher, 36-year-old Ilya Startsev, suspected of financing FBK, to pre-trial detention, reports , citing his acquaintances. Sever.Realii The day before, Startsev was detained in Moscow, and since then there has been no contact with him. Friends learned about his arrest only on the morning of September 7. Other details of his arrest are unknown.

Armenia is to host joint military exercises with the United States army later this month, the country’s Defence Ministry announced on Wednesday. The Eagle Partner 2023 exercises will involve 85 US and 175 Armenian troops and will last from 11 to 20 September, a US military spokesperson said on Wednesday, Reuters reported.

The Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation has completed the development of the “I am in Russia” portal, which provides government services to residents of the occupied regions of Ukraine, said Dmitry Medvedev, chairman of United Russia. As clarified the party's press service to RBC, the creation of the portal was supervised by Dmitry Medvedev's 28-year-old son Ilya, who joined United Russia last year. He participated in a meeting on September 7 at party headquarters.

How successful will the “campaign” of the Ukrainian authorities be at one of the oligarchs of Igor Kolomoisky, on whose account the obvious merits in defense of the country from Russian aggression are obvious? Igor Kolomoisky in the building of the Shevchenkovsky court, Kyiv, September 2, 2023.

The United States will for the first time hand over assets expropriated from a sanctioned Russian oligarch to Ukraine, the State Department announced on Wednesday as Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Kyiv on an unannounced visit. A total of $5.4 million that was confiscated from Russian oligarch Konstantin Malofeyev is to be transferred to Ukraine for veteran reintegration and rehabilitation.

The Tver Regional Court sentenced Sergei Kabanov to 12.5 years in prison on charges of high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), reports Mediazona , citing the case file on the court’s website and Kabanov’s father. The verdict was announced on July 3.

In the Belgorod region, elections to the Council of Deputies of the Shebekino urban district and to the Zemstvo Assembly of the Zhigailovsky rural settlement were postponed. about this TASS writes with reference to a statement by the head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova.

Two high-ranking Russian military officers responsible for Moscow’s air defence have been charged with bribery, state news agency TASS and Russian newspaper Kommersant reported on Thursday. Major General Konstantin Ogienko was arrested in July on suspicion of soliciting 500,000 rubles (€4,800) from the manager of a charity for signing a plot of land near Moscow controlled by the Defence Ministry over to her, according to TASS.

Novaya-Europe's roundup The drone crash aftermath in Rostov / Bloknot Rostov It’s day 561 of the war in Ukraine. One person has been injured in a Russian drone strike on Ukraine’s Odesa region, while the Russian authorities reported downing drones over three Russian regions. Mikhail Afanasyev, a journalist from the Siberian region of Khakassia, has been sentenced to five-and-a-half years in prison for reporting on National Guardsmen who refused deployment to the war in Ukraine.

The “Supreme Court” of the self-proclaimed DPR sentenced the driver of the National Guard of Ukraine Konstantin Sychak to 26 years in a maximum security colony. This was reported by the Investigative Committee. Photo: accused Konstantin Sychak/SK Konstantin Sychak served as a sanitar driver of the medical center of the operational appointment of the 21st separate brigade of the National Guard.