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In Moscow, employees of the Investigative Committee on Friday night detained the municipal deputy of the Tver district from the Yabloko party Ketevan Kharaidze, who in May reported the intention to run for the State Duma. About this writes "OVD-info" with reference to the head of her election headquarters to Ekaterina Uspenskaya.

Along with mortality from coronavirus infection in Russia, tens of thousands of deaths, officially not related to the Covid-19, calculated the "mediazon" based on the data of Rosstat. In 2020, pneumonia mortality increased by 140% compared to the previous year. The mortality of "old age" increased by 20% and by 10% - from diseases of the circulatory organs. An increase in the number of deaths for these reasons, according to the authors of the study, in reality may be associated with coronavirus.

Voting in the State Duma elections will last three days - from 17 to September 19. The decision on this was made by the Central Election Commission.

Ramzan Kadyrov and his official wife Medny (archive photo) The Arbitration Court of Chechnya returned the lawsuit of the state television channel "Grozny" to the publication "project" on copyright violations due to the video about the wives of the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov. The publication itself reported about the lawsuit, the case card is on the court’s website.

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The Ministry of Agriculture and Russian Railways discuss the launch of the so -called charter trains in order to import foreign migrants to Russia for the needs of the agro -industrial complex, Kommersant writes . The issue of organizing labor transportation from other countries was discussed at a meeting in the ministry, a source said.

Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin radically reviewed his own assessments of the number of residents of the Russian capital, which have immunity from coronavirus. According to Sobyanin, in connection with the spread of the so -called Indian strain (aka Delta’s version), you can "count" population immunity and evaluate it not at 60 percent, but at 25. According to the mayor, to protect against the new strain, a person must have twice as many antibodies.

Mateusz Moravetsky Polish ministers and deputies were subjected to large -scale cyberataka from Russia. The Prime Minister Mateusz Moravetsky made such accusations against the Kremlin, citing information from counterintelligence, internal security agency and allies. It is reported by Cyberdefens24. In turn, Deputy Prime Minister Yaroslav Kacinsky expressed confidence that the purpose of the opponents was to destabilize Poland.

Dmitry Firtash The Council of National Security and Defense (National Security and Defense Council) of Ukraine imposed sanctions against Dmitry Firtash, Pavel Fuchs and Mikhail Silkov for participating in the supply of raw materials for Russian military enterprises. Director General of Rostec Corporation Sergei Chemezov also fell under the restrictive measures of Kyiv. This was stated in his telegram channel President Vladimir Zelensky.

The European Union lifted the restrictions on trips for US citizens who have completed a full course of vaccination against Covid-19, Bloomberg reports . Together with America, Albania, Hong Kong, Lebanon, Macau, North Macedonia, Serbia and Taiwan were added to the "White List". Residents of all these countries will be able to enter the EU after receiving vaccinations.

Hawker 900xp Evgenia Prigozhin at Pulkovo Airport The aircraft of the St. Petersburg entrepreneur Evgeny Prigozhin, included in the sanctions lists of the United States and the European Union, was found in the parking lot in Berlin. He arrived there for service after the entry of sanctions. The business jet was purchased for a dummy company and registered in San Marino, a dwarf state in Europe, which does not even have its own airport.

The Tver court of Moscow arrested the head of the department of the Russian Academy of National Economy and the Public Administration of the President of Russia and the former deputy head of the Central Bank Konstantin Korishchenko, the press service of the court reports . Korishchenko was detained on the afternoon of June 18 as part of a criminal case of embezzlement of 3.2 billion rubles of investment bank.

Yalta June 18 In Yalta, a victim of floods caused by abundant rains became, according to official information, one person, Interfax said . In Yalta - the largest resort center of the southern coast of Crimea annexed by Russia - due to flooding of the streets, an emergency regime was announced as a result of the flood. The entrance to the city is closed. This was announced by the head of the Russian administration Yalta Yanin Pavlenko.