What to expect from elections in Moscow, St. Petersburg and other regions This Sunday in Russia a single voting day. In Moscow, elections to the City Duma will be held - this is a formal climax of protests, which we followed all summer, and whose participants received 20.5 years of colonies for six this week. After the withdrawal of opposition candidates, the elections in Moscow turned into a test of the technology of “smart voting” by Alexei Navalny, and St.

In the elections, which will be held the day after tomorrow, on September 8, the authorities are trying to get a high turnout for the desired result. Meduza tells how public sector employees are forced to vote, and election commissions are preparing for stuffing and bribing observers. Mobilization of state employees. The government is actively mobilizing state employees to vote.

VTsIOM published a new open survey on confidence in the president: the rating has grown, but less than a third of Russians (30.6%) would still trust Vladimir Putin to solve important state issues. The low trust rating for an open question has been maintained since the spring: then the indicator fell to 30.5%, which was the lowest since 2006.

The scandal of the week is a public quarrel between Rosneft and Transneft, which reached the level of first persons. The reason is really serious - Igor Sechin and Nikolai Tokarev argued about whose PR man gives more disrespectful comments. The pretext was a conflict due to an accident at the Druzhba pipeline and the dispute about who should pay for the prevention of future incidents.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky signed a decree pardoning 12 Russians, according to Ukrainian lawyer Valentin Rybin. Who exactly is on this list is still unclear. The persons on the list “have already been delivered from places of serving their sentences and are at the collection point of persons who participate in the exchange,” Rybin said.

A man who freed Zimbabwe from colonial oppression, in order to ultimately lead the country to collapse, a hero who turned into a tyrant, an intellectual despot and a fallen angel-this is how Robert Mugabe recall the deceased ex-president of Zimbabwe. What happened. Running Zimbabwe for almost forty years - from 1980 to 2017 - Robert Mugaba died at the age of 95, the current president of the country Emmerson Mnngagva said today.

Volkswagen has offered assistance to owners of vintage Volkswagen Beetles and vans to convert them into electric cars, writes The Verge. To do this, a new battery pack and an electric motor from the e-UP electric city car will be “transplanted” into the cars. The work itself will be carried out by the German company eClassics, a partner of the concern. Who can apply for help and how much the work will cost has not yet been specified. Details.

The founder of the Rolf car dealership, Sergei Petrov, who was put on the international wanted list by the Russian authorities today, told RBC that he was not afraid of extradition to Russia. Details. “I am an Austrian citizen, and the republic does not extradite,” Petrov said. He added that Western countries simply have no reason to extradite him to Russia. “Moreover, here this (Petrov is accused of restructuring assets within the Rolf group. - The Bell) is not considered a crime.

Alexei Navalny found watches worth almost 20 million rubles from the acting governor of St. Petersburg, Alexander Beglov.

Today at 23:00 Moscow time, 23-year-old tennis player Daniil Medvedev will play in the semifinals of the opening championship of the United States. This is the first time in nine years, when the Russian athlete managed to get up so high in the table of this Bolshoi Slam tournament. Medvedev rival-Bulgarian Grigor Dimitrov-78th racket of the world, Daniil himself-already 4th. If Medvedev wins in US Open, then in one tournament it will work more than for a whole year.

Hundreds of hired fighters of "Putin's chef" Yevgeny Prigozhin as part of the Syrian Armed Forces plan to conduct a full-scale operation in northwestern Syria near the city of Idlib in a few weeks, Bloomberg writes , citing sources. If the operation is successful, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad will seriously strengthen his political positions. Read also Private army for the president: the story of the most delicate assignment of Yevgeny Prigozhin Details.

The Bank of Russia today reduced the key rate by 0.25 percentage points to 7% per annum, bringing it back to the 2014 level. This decision was expected by most analysts, the ruble almost did not react to it. The rate was reduced by 0.25 p.p. for the third time since the beginning of the summer. After the July decline, the regulator pointed to the risks of deflation in the face of weak demand.

The Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs has dropped charges of fraud on an especially large scale against former vice-president of Rosneft Anatoly Loktionov, writes RBC. The businessman was on the “Titov list” of Russian businessmen who left Russia due to criminal prosecution, but wanted to return to their homeland. Details.

The head of the Central Election Commission, Ella Pamfilova, was attacked in Moscow, according to the official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Volk. It is specified that her house in the Istra district of the Moscow region was attacked at night. During the attack on Pamfilova, the robber hit her with a stun gun several times. A criminal case has been initiated under Part 3 of Art.

The Ministry of Economic Development proposed eliminating expensive and unjustified inspections and increasing their transparency. This is the essence of the ministry’s bill on the “regulatory guillotine,” Vedomosti writes .