In mid-August, the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation sent an official ruling on Navalny's death, which stated that it was not of a criminal nature. The cause was said to be a "combined disease," and it allegedly occurred as a result of arrhythmia. This is how the Investigative Committee motivated the fact that a criminal case would not be opened. Alexei Navalny was killed on February 16. Only on February 24 was his body given to his mother, Lyudmila Navalnaya.

RU Russia’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) has once again released a video claiming to show Russian forces “striking a concentration of manpower and equipment” purportedly “in the border area of the Kursk Region.” However, the videos were actually recorded in the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions of Ukraine — far from the claimed locations.

The news The Insider September 3, 2024 Bloomberg announced the day before, referring to its own sources that Turkey filed an official application for the entry into the BRICS - the Union of leading economies of the developing world, including Russia, China and India. There have been no official comments from the Turkish authorities. Bloomberg sources said that the expansion of BRICS will probably be discussed at a summit in an organization that will be held in Kazan on October 22–24.

The SBU announced the detention of a group led by a former Verkhovna Rada deputy from the Party of Regions and consisting of three more people. It is alleged that she received instructions from the Department of Counterintelligence Operations of the FSB, engaged in sabotage and planned the murders of famous citizens of Ukraine, including TV presenter Dmitry Gordon. It is noted that each member of the group had his own role.

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Ukrainian citizen Alexander Lyubas to 20 years in prison. He was accused, among other things, of terrorism and illegally crossing the Russian border. According to the investigation, Lyubas served in the special forces of the GUR (Ukrainian military intelligence) and, as part of a group, on October 4, 2023, intended to land on the territory of the Chernomorsky district in Crimea in order to plant the Ukrainian flag there and record a video.

Small and medium-sized businesses in Russia began to look for loans on Avito and crowdfunding platforms due to the high cost of loan rates, Vedomosti reports . The publication cites Avito statistics, according to which the number of such advertisements in the first half of this year increased 3.5 times, to 25 thousand, compared to the same period in 2023, and their views doubled.

The Estonian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (EOC MP) appealed to the Tallinn Administrative Court its inclusion by the Estonian parliament in the list of “supporters of military aggression” due to its support for Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The Pyukhtitsa convent also did the same. Interfax reports this.

Chairman of the Verkhovna Rada Ruslan Stefanchuk reported that resignations had been received from the head of the Ministry of Strategic Industry Alexander Kamyshin, the head of the Ministry of Justice Denis Malyuska, the head of the Ministry of Ecology Ruslan Strelets and the head of the State Property Fund Vitaly Koval. “All applications will be considered at one of the next plenary meetings,” Stefanchuk said. “I wrote a letter of resignation from the post of minister,” Kamyshin said .

The Prosecutor's Office of Russia’s Yamalo-Nenets Autonomous Okrug — the region where opposition leader and political prisoner Alexei Navalny was serving his sentence at the time of his murder — has categorized the Investigative Committee’s decision not to initiate a criminal case over Navalny’s death as “unlawful.” Ivan Zhdanov, the director of Navalny's Anti-Corruption Foundation, published a copy of the document on his Telegram channel.

POLITICS 3 September 2024 In just a few weeks, the Armed Forces of Ukraine conquered significantly more territory in Russia’s Kursk Region — with minimal losses — than Russia managed to take in the Donetsk Region over the past year using merciless “meat grinder assaults” at the cost of colossal casualties. Ukraine's rapid progress is no accident.

Politics 3 September 2024 A month and a half ago, Trump’s victory in the elections seemed a foregone conclusion to many, and now, less than a week before the decisive debate, Kamal Harris is already ahead of Trump for polls both at the federal level and in the oscillating states.

Since the first months of its full-scale war with Ukraine, the Kremlin has been determining the scope of the war zone arbitrarily. The “special military operation” was initially intended to remain confined exclusively within the territory of Ukraine (excluding Crimea and the city of Sevastopol), while Ukrainian strikes on internationally recognized Russian territory were qualified by Moscow as terrorist acts.

The Moscow City Court sentenced Alexander Shiplyuk, director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, to 15 years in a maximum security penal colony for treason. According to media reports , 57-year-old Shiplyuk is accused of handing over classified documents in 2017 at a scientific conference in China. The scientist himself claims that the information he “handed over” is publicly available.

The Sevastopol City Court sentenced a local resident to 5 years and 3 months in prison on charges of transferring secret information to Ukraine, Interfax reports , citing the press service of the city prosecutor's office. According to investigators, from April to November 2023, the woman collected information about the movements of warships and aircraft and the locations of the Russian army in Sevastopol.

Chelyabinsk priest (rector of the Church of the Holy Martyr Peter of Krutitsky) Peter Ustinov was banned from serving for refusing to read a prayer "for the victory of Holy Russia." Ustinov reported this on his social networks.