Biden eventually called for court reform on June 29, 2024, after he had decided not to seek a second term. He described the current Supreme Court as “uncontrollable” and its decisions as extremist and eroding public trust. Biden was particularly critical of the decision granting presidents immunity from criminal prosecution — this despite the fact that he, as a soon-to-be former president, personally stood to benefit from it.

ECONOMICS TON of problems: Why a billion users couldn’t help Pavel Durov's Telegram turn a profit and how his arrest could threaten his business Mark Elesar 29 August 2024 Pavel Durov has been released under judicial supervision in France, but the billionaire founder of the Telegram messaging app still faces charges that could lead to years of imprisonment.

The policy of The Insider 29 August 2024 In just a few weeks of the Armed Forces in the Kursk region with minimal losses, they won significantly larger territory than everything that Russia managed to win in the Donetsk region over the past year at the cost of ruthless “meat assaults” with tremendous victims. And this is no accident.

History Importing hate. The Russian roots of Georgia's homophobia 29 August 2024 The Republic of Georgia is following Russia’s lead, taking steps to pass a bill that would ban “LGBT propaganda.” Encouraged by the homophobic rhetoric of the authorities in Tbilisi, anti-LGBT activists staged another attack in the port city of Batumi on August 2, targeting a drag show. As in Russia, many in Georgia consider the existence of an LGBT community to be a result of Western influence.

Antifacked Fake "Vesti": in the Kursk region, the absorptions burned the child alive and shot in the back of the elderly The Insider 29 August 2024 In the evening issue of Vesti, the plot of the correspondent of Elena Erofeeva was released on how the civilian population of the Kursk region suffers from Ukrainian invasion. There are a lot of absurdities in the plot: they showed, for example, a tractor driver, who for some reason working in the field in the body armor.

The Basmanny District Court has extended the arrest of five defendants in the Crocus City Hall terrorist attack case. The names of people who were not previously named among the defendants in this case have become known from a message on the Telegram channel of the Moscow courts of general jurisdiction: Shakhromjon Gadoev, Zubaydullo Ismailov, Mustakime Soliev, Umedjon Soliev, Hussein Khamidov.

About a week ago, it became known that stricter rules for receiving social assistance for refugees from Ukraine came into force in Hungary. This deprived those who did not come from regions of Ukraine “directly affected” by the war, the list of which is determined by the government, of the right to receive housing subsidies. The very next day after the introduction of the new rules, several dozen people found themselves on the street.

The seizure of the Sudzha gas metering station in the Kursk region by the Ukrainian military creates risks for countries dependent on Russian gas. In particular, this concerns Moldova and Transnistria. The country's Energy Minister Viktor Parlikov admitted in a conversation with the Moldova: Actualno publication that, given the situation in the Kursk region, the development of negative scenarios may accelerate, including in Transnistria.

An F-16 fighter jet crashed in Ukraine, weeks after the first American fighter jets arrived at the front. This was reported by The Wall Street Journal with reference to an unnamed American official. Initial reports indicate that the fighter was not shot down, although the incident occurred during a massive Russian missile attack, the official said. Most likely, the plane crash occurred as a result of pilot error.

Former Deputy Minister of Defense of Russia, retired Army General Pavel Popov, has been detained, TASS reports . Searches are being conducted at his place of residence and other addresses associated with him. The Investigative Committee reports that a criminal case has been opened against the general under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud on an especially large scale).

Democrat Kamala Harris leads Republican Donald Trump by 4 percentage points, 45% to 41%, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed . The gap was 1 percentage point in July, the agency said. The poll was conducted nationwide and included responses from 4,253 U.S. adults, including 3,562 registered voters. Independent candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who suspended his campaign on Aug. 23 while the poll was still being conducted, received the support of 6% of voters who took part in the survey.

SOCIETY “A month later my prosthesis fell apart”: Russia's war veterans are much worse off than Israel's — and somewhat worse off than Ukraine's Anna Trebnik 29 August 2024 The Russian Ministry of Defense has classified the number of its soldiers disabled during the “Special Military Operation” (SMO), but the count is all but certainly in the tens of thousands — and it continues to rise.

Mining production in January–July decreased slightly - by 0.5% compared to the same period in 2023, recent data from Rosstat showed. However, this may indirectly indicate negative dynamics in the production of key resources for the country - oil and gas. Official data on oil and gas are no longer published - this is a ban imposed by the government.

Former political prisoner Ivan Astashin has been placed on the international wanted list for a post about Zakhar Prilepin. This was reported by the First Department project. In May 2023, human rights activist Astashin wrote a post on his Telegram channel a few hours after Zakhar Prilepin's car was blown up in the Nizhny Novgorod region, killing the driver, Alexander Shubin, and wounding Prilepin himself.

On the night of August 26-27, heavy rains led to flooding in Sochi, Russia, affecting the city hospital and several residential buildings. Power lines were damaged by fallen trees. Just a few weeks earlier, from late July to early August, four dams burst in different regions of Russia. In the spring, the Urals and Siberia experienced weeks of flooding, while the south was hit by heat waves that caused widespread power outages.