CORRUPTION The Party's gold. How United Russia misappropriates Russian Railways’ money under the guise of «donations» 15 October 2021 The Insider Last year United Russia collected a record amount of donations from legal entities, 4.8 billion rubles. The Insider learned that the party received about half of this money from major Russian Railways contractors, and that the railway companies often donated their entire profits to United Russia (UR).

The National Security Council of Ukraine approved new sanctions against 237 people who participated in the organization of the September elections to the State Duma of the Russian Federation in Crimea and Donbass, Ukrainian Pravda reports .

A resident of the city of Medvezhyegorsk in Karelia Ekaterina Muranov was excluded from the list of extremists and Rosfinmonitoring terrorists. In this register, she stayed for more than two years, which was due to which she was deprived of existence and could not even buy medicines to her sick child. On October 15, Muranova came from Rosfinmonitoring SMS. The report said that it was excluded from the list, and its accounts were unlocked.

Police officers, representatives of the capital’s city property and the bailiff came to the office of the human rights “Committee for Civil Rights”, said Eduard Rudyk, a member of the organization’s board. According to him, the property of the organization was seized, Interfax reports . Rudyk added that they were evicted from the premises due to debt. In a conversation with The Insider, he explained that the organization’s debt is more than 100 thousand rubles.

Since October 15, Face Pay service has been earned at all lines and stations of the Moscow metro. It will allow passengers to pay for travel using a person recognition system, said Maxim Liksutov, deputy mayor of Moscow on transport. This was reported on the website of the capital's city hall.

The Supreme Court of Crimea sentenced the 12 years of the colony of the maximum regime of a citizen of Ukraine accused of espionage. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the court. “The consideration of the criminal case was held closed, since the case materials contain information constituting a state secret,” the court said. The accused was found guilty under Art. 276 of the Criminal Code ("Spying"). The sentence has not yet entered into legal force.

Law enforcement agencies conduct searches at the Novosibirsk Institute of Laser Physics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences. It is reported by TASS. The local publication “Continent Siberia” writes that investigative actions are carried out as part of a criminal case against the director of the Institute Alexei Tychenchev. He is suspected of committing a crime under Part 1 of Art. 285 of the Criminal Code (abuse of authority).

The Swedish manufacturer of furniture and goods for the house of IKEA warned that the shortage of goods due to the crisis in supplies could last until August 2022. This was told by the CEO of Inter IKEA, the World Franchisor of Brand, John Abrahamson. The lack of transport containers and the loading of ports make it difficult for the logistics of retail trade around the world. According to Abrahamson, to cope with the situation, the company had to focus on the most popular goods.

The Russian businessman Said Gutseriev sold shares of the Belarusian Paritetbank to Russian entrepreneur Rasim Ismailov. This happened after the sanctions of the EU and Great Britain were imposed against the father of the banker - Mikhail Gutseriev. The buyer is only known that he created several microfinance companies, and, as The Insider found out, may be a relative of the Magnit Retail Member of the Russian retailer. Said Gutserieva owned 99.83% of the Paritetbank shares, writes Interfax.

At the leadership of the historical and educational society "International Memorial", the police requested documentation for almost 30 years of activity. In addition, the chairman of the board of the organization Yana Rachinsky was called to the department of economic security and counteracting corruption of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the CAO of Moscow.

Parents of the students of Moscow school No. 962 applied to the Investigative Committee with a complaint about the city hall’s decision to conduct express testing on coronavirus. It is reported by "Medusa". Since October 14, tests should be held in 10 Moscow schools, including in GBOU 962.

The Los Angeles court sentenced the American millionaire and real estate to Robert Derst on charges of the murder of his girlfriend Susan Berman in 2000, writes The New York Times. According to California laws, the perpetrators of murder under special circumstances can be condemned either to the death penalty or to a lifelong conclusion. The prosecutor's office of Los Angeles did not demand the execution of Derst because of the introduced moratorium on the death penalty, CNN notes .

Last year United Russia collected a record amount of donations from legal entities, 4.8 billion rubles. The Insider learned that the party received about half of this money from major Russian Railways contractors, and that the railway companies often donated their entire profits to United Russia (UR). Moreover, the list of donors includes a number of companies which, according to their own accounting records, simply could not afford to «donate» the sums indicated in the payment orders to UR.

The FSB forbade the journalist Ivan Safronov, who is in the Moscow Jail Lefortovo, send and receive letters. This was reported by the Russian BBC service with reference to the lawyer Dmitry Katchev. According to Katchev, an investigator of the FSB Alexander Chaban applied to the Lefortovo administration with a demand for this.

Recruit "Foreign Agents" was replenished with two media. The Ministry of Justice was included in the list of RS-Balt and Moskow Dijital Media, which own Rosbalt and Republic publications. Earlier, the Ministry of Justice included in the list of the Media “foreign agents” of the NPO to protect human rights and inform the population of Yakutia-our opinion, the investigative project Bellingcat and nine employees of the media.