The Belarusian publication "Our Niva" is fined that the security forces shot the legist Natalya Lubnovskaya during protests. As the editor -in -chief of the publication Yegor Martinovich said , the shooting was called “an accident at work”, which the management of the publication was supposed to prevent. Also, according to the Belarusian authorities, the publication had to conduct its own investigation within three days and report what happened to the corresponding instances.

Oil prices fall by 5-6% amid concern about the resumption of production in the east of Libya, which can create an excessive offer. This is evidenced by trading data. The cost of November Brent oil futures by 19:00 Moscow time was $ 41.02 per barrel, which is $ 2.13 lower than the closing price of the previous session. The price of the October futures for the WTI brand by this time decreased by $ 2.4 - to $ 38.71 per barrel. Earlier, the Libyan oil company National Oil Corp.

“Important stories” gained access to the documents of the US Ministry of Finance to combat financial crimes - Fincen ... Presidential adviser Valentin Yumashev - son -in -law of the first president of Russia Boris Yeltsin, according to Fincen files, received $ 6 million from Epion Holdings Limited from the British Virginsky Islands. She belongs to the Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov. According to the documents, the money was transferred by agreement on services from 2006 to 2008.

The earthquake of magnitude 5.9 occurred in the area of ​​Lake Baikal. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the European Mediterranean Seismological Center. The underground shocks were recorded at 18:04 in time UTC (21.04 Moscow time). The epicenter was located 31 km northwest of the city of Slyudyanka and 83 km southwest of Irkutsk. The hearth lay at a depth of two kilometers. Local residents also reported the second wave of smaller magnitude.

Russia resumed air traffic with Belarus, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. The order was signed by Mikhail Mishustin. Earlier, air traffic was restored with the UK, Turkey, Switzerland and Tanzania. Recall that Russia, in connection with Pandemia, has stopped regular and charter air traffic with other countries from March 27.

The head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed to check reports on the fraud of lawyer Elman Pashayev with an apartment in Moscow. It is reported by TASS.

During the trading on the Moscow Exchange, the euro rose to 90.07 rubles. The mark above 90 rubles is overcome for the first time from September 8. At the beginning of the day, the dollar grew by 0.37 rubles and exceeded 76 rubles. In a conversation with The Insider, Economic expert Yang Markinsky said that uncertainty in financial markets will remain before the US elections.

“On September 18, in Geneva, at the insistence of a group of Western states, urgent debates of the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) on the situation in Belarus were held. Roughly violating the procedural norms and rules, the chairman of the HRC E. Tikhi-Fisslberger (Austria) demonstrated a video message from the former presidential candidate of Belarus S. Tikhanovskaya. We strongly condemn such actions, incompatible with the neutral status of the chairmanship in the collective bodies of the UN.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus has published official statistics on the detainees on the previous actions the day before. In total, 442 people were detained (of which 266 in Minsk). 330 remain in insulators until a court decision. On the eve of the cities of Belarus, "marches of solidarity" were held. In Minsk, protesters reached the Palace of Independence - the residence of Alexander Lukashenko. The media estimated the number of protesters at 70 thousand.

Opinions Even smarter. Lev Schlosberg about why strategic voting outside the moral framework is not a success, but a dead end 21 September 2020 Lev Schlosberg Deputy of the Pskov Regional Assembly from the Yabloko faction, historian In the September elections in the Russian regions, Smart Voting allowed some opposition candidates to win.

A bill has been submitted to the State Duma, allowing the regional authorities to accept their own programs for the demolition and reconstruction of any housing - not only emergency. About this writes "Kommersant". The document allows the subjects of the Russian Federation to independently carry out renovation by analogy with Moscow. It is noted that certain norms of the bill are taken from Moscow practice.

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The founder of the Corruption Foundation, Alexei Navalny, demanded that the Russian investigating authorities return his clothes in which he was hospitalized in the Omsk hospital and on which there could be traces of an poisonous substance. “It took exactly a month from how they tried to kill me with a fighting poisonous substance.

The vice-governor of the Bryansk region, Alexander Rezunov, leaves his post after a fatal accident involving his son. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the representative of the regional government. “In evidence that I definitely will not influence the situation - let law enforcement agencies carry out all the work under the law - I made a decision for myself. I'm resigning. My deepest condolences to the family of the deceased. Please forgive.

“The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office in a request sent on September 14 to the Ministry of Justice of the Federal Republic of Germany asks about the possibility of conducting a survey of Alexei Navalny, who is located in the Berlin clinic“ Sharit ”...“ To inform A.A. Navalny and report whether it is possible to participate in investigative actions. In the absence of contraindications, I ask you to conduct a survey of A.A.