In the Tver region, all pregnant women who contact the antenatal clinic will be given a letter from Metropolitan Ambrose of Tver and Kashin.

CORRUPTION 17 October 2024 Ilya Dimov was a man without a public biography — until now. The owner of one of Gazprom's largest contractors and a figure listed among Forbes Magazine’s rankings of Russia’s top earnershad long remained out of the public eye.

Novaya Gazeta confirmed the detention of Leonid Gozman’s wife, Marina Egorova, a professor at the Faculty of Psychology at Moscow State University, which was reported earlier today by the propaganda TV channel RT. According to the newspaper, the 72-year-old woman was placed under house arrest on October 4 on charges of “smuggling cultural property as part of an organized crime group.” She returned to Russia because of her work at the university.

Ilya Dimov was a man without a public biography — until now. The owner of one of Gazprom's largest contractors and a figure listed among Forbes Magazine’s rankings of Russia’s top earnershad long remained out of the public eye. But an investigation by The Insider has revealed that Dimov, the formal owner of Stroiproektservice, is closely connected to oligarch and long-time Putin confidante Gennady Timchenko, and he also enjoys close ties with the family of Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller.

Sberbank bought online schools “Netology” (additional and vocational education) and “Foxford” (school education), Kommersant writes , citing three sources in the online education market. According to them, the deal was closed and is estimated at 4–6 billion rubles. As market participants say, projects may lose a significant part of their autonomy and will be fully included in the corporate structure of Sber.

Cover photo: The Moskovsky Prospect oil tanker photographed in the Western Scheldt in the Netherlands in 2019. Source: scheepvaartwest.be The UK government has imposed sanctions on 18 Russian oil tankers and four liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers, according to an announcement made by the country’s Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO) earlier today. The action amounts to “the largest package of sanctions to date against Putin’s shadow fleet,” as per the FCDO’s press release.

Yandex Market began delivering cargo using robotic trucks as part of tests, TASS reports , citing a company press release. The first such vehicle was recently delivered from Moscow to Tula along the M-4 Don highway. The Marketplace plans to make such flights regular. For now they only take place during the day, but night transportation in both directions will soon begin.

Individuals featured in journalistic investigations are actively trying to “cleanse” Google search results of compromising information. In their efforts, they rely on the U.S. Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA). As the independent publication Proekt discovered , PR representatives of Russian oligarchs and high-ranking officials file complaints to Google on behalf of the authors of the “offending” articles.

The military court of appeal in the Moscow region changed the period of stay in a colony for PR specialist and author of the Telegram channel “Hussar Bravado” Yaroslav Shirshikov from two to five years, Vecherniye Vedomosti reports. The court recognized the motive of political hostility as an aggravating circumstance.

The news The Insider October 17, 2024 The Kazakhstan Football Federation twisted the head coach of the national team, Russian Stanislav Cherchesov at 738,400 tenge ($ 1.5 thousand) for a joke about the Kazakh language, TASS reports . The Ministry of Sports of Kazakhstan demanded an explanatory work with the coach. The dissatisfaction of the authorities was caused by the incident that occurred on October 13 at a press conference after a match in the League of Nations.

The former head of the Main Directorate of Internal Security of the Security Service of Ukraine, Andrei Naumov, was again found guilty of money laundering in Serbia. He was sentenced to one year in prison, as well as deportation from Serbia for five years - the time served will not be included in the above-mentioned measure, so he will be deported after that. Naumov was also ordered to pay a fine of 200 thousand dinars (€1,700).

Several Russian doctors have had their apartments searched by law enforcement officers — most likely in connection with their support of murdered opposition leader Alexei Navalny, who was killed in a remote Russian prison this past February.

In Tomsk, memorial pillars with the names of those repressed were demolished, despite numerous requests from relatives and flash mobs of local residents who supported the preservation of these signs. The publication “NeMoskva Speaks” writes about this. According to local residents, the pillars disappeared on the evening of October 16, although the day before they were still in place, this fact was confirmed by the publication’s correspondent.

Former Samara official Denis Leontovich, who had to resign after the denunciation of State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein, left Russia due to threats and spoke out against the war. The publication 7x7 drew attention to this. 23-year-old Leontovich was an employee of the Agency for the Implementation of Youth Policy of the Samara Region. He announced his departure on social networks on October 3. “For six months now I have been forced to build my life from scratch in other countries and cities.

Marina Egorova, the wife of public and political figure Leonid Gozman, convicted in absentia by a Russian court, was sent under house arrest, the propaganda TV channel RT claims , citing sources in the Moscow City Court. A criminal case is allegedly being investigated against Egorova under the article on smuggling of cultural property as part of an organized group. RT reports that she allegedly took many valuable items and antiques from Russia to Italy, where Gozman lives.