Chu Kai-Pong, a 27-year-old Hong Kong resident who was arrested on the subway on June 12 for wearing a T-shirt with the slogan “Liberate Hong Kong. Revolution of our time" and a yellow mask with the letters FDNOL, pleaded guilty to "seditious acts with intent to incite." The slogan on the T-shirt Chu wore, the acronym FDNOL (Five demands, not one less) and the color yellow are symbols of the protests against the city's pro-Beijing policies that took place in Hong Kong in 2019.

For French prosecutors, holding Pavel Durov accountable was relatively straightforward, as he has been a French citizen since 2021 — a fact that came to light by chance through his own social media post. Apparently, Durov received French citizenship as a “distinguished foreigner” — an exceptional process, as noted by Le Monde , which investigated his citizenship story . Such decisions are often political, with the assumption that the applicant personally appeals to the president of the republic.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday raising the total size of Russia’s armed forces by 180,000 troops — a move that will bring the total number of active duty soldiers to 1.5 million. This marks Russia’s third expansion of its military ranks since the Kremlin launched the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in Feb. 2022. The document, published on Russia’s official legal portal, will take effect on Dec. 1.

In Krasnoyarsk, security forces conducted raids on local markets, as a result of which 520 people were detained, including 417 foreigners. This was reported by the Department of the Investigative Committee for the Krasnoyarsk Territory and the Republic of Khakassia. The detainees were forced to take a mouth swab to “check for involvement in crimes.” Among those detained were citizens of Uzbekistan, Azerbaijan, Tajikistan and Kyrgyzstan.

RU GPS signals in the waters near Gelendzhik, a town in southern Russia, have unexpectedly started being jammed at the entrance to Gelendzhik Bay. The disruption was first noticed due to unusual ship movements tracked by MarineTraffic, a website monitoring maritime routes via the AIS system. According to the site’s data, several ships began circling near the bay’s entrance — a pattern observed by open source intelligence (OSINT) analyst H. I. Sutton.

RusNews journalist and political prisoner Maria Ponomarenko went on a hunger strike at a court hearing in her case. This was reported in the RusNews Telegram channel. According to the publication, at the meeting Ponomarenko became hysterical due to the colony’s leadership falsifying reprimands, because of which she was sent to a punishment cell. According to her, she did not know about any of the seven penalties, and her signatures on the documents were forged.

The Leninsky Court of Yekaterinburg sentenced local resident Danil Fomin, who was convicted of murdering Ural Federal University graduate student from Gabon Francois Njelassili, to 8 years in prison. This was reported by It's My City. The prosecutor requested 11 years in prison for the defendant. In August 2023, graduate student Francois Njelassili from Gabon was killed in a fight near a Burger King cafe in the center of Yekaterinburg.

Antifacked Fake Dmitry Kiselev: Due to Germany’s refusal from cheap Russian gas, Volkswagen is forced to close factories The Insider 16 September 2024 The news about the closure of the Audi plant in Brussels inspired Dmitry Kiselev for such a comment in the "Vesti of the Week": “The Audi brand is part of the Volkswagen group. <...> Volkswagen is the national pride of Germany. More recently, the brand was advertised even personally by the German Chancellor Angela Merkel.

The independent non-profit medical organization Doctors Without Borders (Médecins Sans Frontières - MSF) announced the cessation of activities in Russia. This is stated on her website. “After 32 years of working in Russia, Doctors Without Borders was forced to stop its activities in the country,” reads a statement published on the MSF website.

The news The Insider September 16, 2024 In the first half of 2024 in Russia, the number of goods sent by rail, as can be seen from the report by Russian Railways, decreased. In January - August 2024, 35.7 million (or 3.7%) tons were shipped less than the same period last year. At the same time, only in August the fall amounted to 6% at once compared to August 2023, which became a record since June 2022.

The news The Insider September 16, 2024 Due to abundant precipitation in the Czech Republic, a large-scale flood occurred , which affected more than 250 settlements across the country, especially a difficult situation in Moravia and Silesia. Several hundred thousand people were left without water and electricity, many people were forced to evacuate.

The Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ministry of Defense of Ukraine announced the “liquidation” of Belgorod State Television and Radio Broadcasting Company correspondent Alexander Korobov. According to the department, his skull was “broken.” At the same time, the Belgorod publication “Fonar” reports, citing sources, that Korobov is alive and in the hospital. This is confirmed by the Baza Telegram channel. “The propagandist worked on the Russia 1 channel, headed by its Belgorod station.

Despite the relative lack of attention paid to them, the charges against Durov in France are significant. This is an unprecedented case involving the founder of a social network, and there are many doubts surrounding the accusations of Durov’s complicity in users’ abuse of the platform.

The news The Insider September 16, 2024 En In the water area of ​​Gelendzhik, right at the entrance to the Gelendzhik bay, GPS began to suddenly jerk . This has become noticeable in the strange behavior of ships on the Marinetraffic website, which tracks the sea routes thanks to the AIS system. Judging by the map, several ships began to “drive a round dance” - walking in a circle right at the entrance to the bay. Hi Sutton drew attention to this.

The news The Insider September 16, 2024 In today's report: The Ukrainian military is fixed in the village of Vesyol in the Glushkovsky district, thus creating a new bridgehead in the Kursk region In the Kursk direction, the group of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation fell into the operational environment in Kremenan east of the district center Korenevo Def Mon - Ukrainian forces either left or are preparing to leave a half -dried Ukrainian in the Pokrovsky direction In Donetsk they trade