George Shanidze On September 20, Georgian President Salome Zurabishvili signed a decree on the pardon of one of the participants in the shares against the law on "foreign agents" Georgy Shanidze. It is reported by "Echo of the Caucasus." On September 16, the court in Tbilisi sentenced Shanidze to four years in prison for damage to the video surveillance camera near the Georgian parliament building and the illegal cultivation of marijuana. The second charge was added during the trial.

The National Security and Defense Council forbade the use of Telegram messenger on official devices to officials, military, employees of the security and defense sector and critical infrastructure operators. The decision was made with the aim of minimizing threats, the National Security and Defense Council said. The exception will be made only by employees whose work is connected using this messenger.

The research project "Chronicles" and the exploreer group Extreme Scan conducted a survey among Russians on their attitude to war in Ukraine. He was dedicated to a two year since the beginning of mobilization in Russia. It is reported that in a telephone survey, which was conducted from September 10 to 17, 800 respondents over 18 years old took part. The sample was random.

Ursula von der Layen Information digest "Freedom time", September 20 Information digest "Freedom time", September 20 The results of the visit of the head of the European Commission Ursula von der Lyaine in Kyiv: “Now we are sure that we can provide Ukraine very quickly. It will be provided with receipts from frozen Russian assets”; Discussion of the new Russian “professional standard for writers”: “This resembles the situation of the trial of Joseph Brodsky.

Israeli strike at the object in the village in the south of Lebanon, September 19, 2024 The Israeli army stated that on the night of September 20, she struck the 180 launchers, ready to strike at Israel, in the south of Lebanon.

The number of Russian troops killed in the war in Ukraine exceeded 70 thousand. This was stated by the "Mediazon" and the Russian BBC service, which are conducting the calculation of losses. Researchers clarify that these are only those dead whose names were established by open sources, and the real number of losses can be much higher. More than half of all those killed until February 2022 were not related to the army. About 20 percent of all killed are volunteers.

Why was the threats of sanctions not enough to prevent the invasion of Ukraine? What sanctions can be destructive to the Kremlin? Our guests: Researcher of the European Council on International Relations Agat Demara and a professor of the University of California in Berkeley Yuri Gorodnichenko.

In Germany, historians discovered the previously unknown play by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. A musical library of Leipzig was found. Presumably, it was created in the late 1760s, when Mozart was from 10 to 13 years old. The work, which is called Serenate EX C , will be first executed on September 21 at the Leipzig Opera Theater. The serenade for the string trio lasts about twelve minutes and consists of seven miniature parts.

A new wave of mobilization in Russia is inevitable, writes the American newspaper The Wall Street Journal with reference to its sources. It is claimed that the Ministry of Defense presses on Vladimir Putin, insisting that in order to compensate for losses at the front, it is necessary to attract additional forces. How Putin reacts and what military experts think - we will tell in our news release.

Members of the RDK and a flag with their emblem in the Belgorod region, May 2023 The military court received a case against five members of the Russian Volunteer Corps (RDK), fighting on the side of Ukraine. Kommersant found out about this. The case involves the commander of the RDK Denisa Kapustin (Nikitin), actor Kirill Kanakhin, Alexander Galanov, Alexey Ogurtsov and Anton Zyryanov. All of them will be tried in absentia, since they are in Ukraine.

Comedy Club Soon after the death of Alexander Maslyakov, Russia is again discussing the fate of television humor: the Comedy Club project closes on TNT. And although “closing” is very likely to restart under a new brand, for many commentators this is an occasion to say that sharp jokes in Putin’s Russia are less and less appropriate. Comedy Club closes. A comedic show has been released weekly since 2005. On September 20, the final issue will be released, according to Garik Kharlamov.

SAS aircraft aircraft Scandinavian Airlines (SAS) on Friday, September 20, issued an application for an incident with a mouse on an airplane flying from the capital of Norway Oslo to Malag in Spain. The pilots were forced to make an urgent landing in Copenhagen. According to the BBC, the change in the route was carried out according to the standard procedure, since the mouse posed a threat to flight safety. This was announced by AFP AFP representative Oststin Schmidt.

Vladislav Bakalchuk In the case of a shooting from the Wildberries office, thirty people were arrested in the center of Moscow - several days were given a few for disobedience to the police, three more were released, it is still unknown about the rest. The company's minority - Vladislav Bakalchuk - was also released by withdrawing the charges. “I am at home. I'm in shock,” Bakalchuk wrote late in the evening of September 20.

The Russian government has developed a list of countries in which, according to the Russian authorities, residents "are imposed by destructive attitudes that contradict Russian spiritual and moral values." On Friday, the document was signed by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. In the list of 47 states, almost all of them used to be ranked in Russia for the so -called unfriendly.