On September 1, Russians will be able to start paying with digital rubles. That is the day Federal Law No. 248-FZ, passed last year, takes effect. This is a completely new instrument, and it works differently from the cashless payment methods people are used to. The Central Bank calls it a new — digital — form of Russian currency, added to the two that already exist: cash, in the form of banknotes and coins, and cashless money, in the form of funds in bank accounts.

A law enforcement source told the Russian state news agency TASS that Moscow’s Tverskoy Court has ordered the pretrial detention of the son of Anna Kameneva, an associate professor at Moscow State University’s Higher School of State Audit. He has been charged with murdering his mother. News of Kameneva’s death emerged on August 26. Her body was found with a cut to her neck at a house in Zhukovka, a village outside Moscow, the newspaper Izvestia said.

Тверской суд Москвы арестовал сына доцента Высшей школы государственного аудита МГУ Анны Каменевой, сообщил агентству ТАСС источник в правоохранительных органах. Ему предъявлены обвинения в убийстве матери. О смерти Каменевой стало известно 26 августа. Ее тело с резаной раной шеи обнаружили в доме в подмосковной деревне Жуковка, писали «Известия». На месте преступления также нашли травматический пистолет и гильзы. Позже смерть Каменевой подтвердили в пресс-службе МГУ.

U.S. President Donald Trump said he isn’t worried about a possible Russian attack on a NATO country. “I am not concerned … at all. There is no problem,” he told Axios in a phone interview. During the interview, Trump was asked about CIA Director John Ratcliffe’s covert trip to Moscow on August 25.

The U.S. military is facing a “beyond critical” shortage of Patriot missiles in Europe, a U.S. defense official in Europe and a NATO official told The Associated Press on condition of anonymity. The shortage, they said, stems largely from the war in the Middle East. The shortfall is raising concerns about how vulnerable NATO countries would be to a potential Russian attack. A U.S.

Russian-speaking hackers from Aur0ra, a new ransomware group, used the AI coding assistant built into Cursor — a code editor that Elon Musk’s SpaceX recently bought — to break into seven companies around the world, according to Reuters, citing a report by the cybersecurity firm Gambit Security. The hackers gave themselves away by accidentally leaving one of their servers unsecured.

Exports of Russian and Kazakh oil through Novorossiysk plummeted in August compared with July, the Russian business daily Kommersant said , citing a review by the independent pricing agency Argus. Shipments of Russian oil to India fell 4.4-fold to 516,000 metric tons, and shipments to China dropped threefold to 94,000 metric tons. No oil was shipped from Novorossiysk to Turkey or Egypt in August, after both had received shipments in July.

The Kamerton Prize — named for Anna Politkovskaya, a slain journalist for the independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta — was awarded in Moscow for the 14th time.

Президент США Дональд Трамп заявил, что не волнуется из-за потенциальной атаки России на одну из стран НАТО. «Меня это совсем не беспокоит. Никакой проблемы нет», — заявил он в телефонном интервью изданию Axios. В ходе беседы журналисты затронули тему недавней поездки в Россию директора ЦРУ Джона Рэтклиффа. Он посетил Москву с неанонсированным визитом 25 августа.

Residents of the Penza region are “increasingly standing up for lawbreakers” and preventing police officers from detaining them, the Interior Ministry’s regional department said. These incidents come amid local reports of raids, abductions, and the forced deployment of men to fight in Ukraine.

Армия США испытывает «сверхкритическую» нехватку ракет для систем Patriot в Европе, рассказали Associated Press источники в Пентагоне и НАТО на условиях анонимности. По их словам, дефицит в значительной степени вызван войной на Ближнем Востоке. Из-за нехватки ракет возникают опасения по поводу уязвимости стран НАТО перед потенциальным нападением со стороны России.

Alexander Nemenov / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Alexander Chachava, an investor and Ozon’s largest shareholder, bought his stake in the company with money from entities controlled by Gennady Timchenko , a billionaire and friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin, according to an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation. The group was founded by the late opposition leader Alexey Navalny. Ozon is Russia’s second-largest online marketplace.

Anatoly Maltsev / EPA / Scanpix / LETA An iStories correspondent took a job at Voevoda, one of the major companies in a private recruitment market that has flourished since Russia began paying people to bring recruits into the army. Voevoda’s business works like multi-level marketing, and its enlisters (known as “recruiters”) can earn millions of rubles if they’re good at the job. Meduza summarizes the key findings of the iStories investigation. Voevoda was founded in 2014 by Vidadi Bayramov.

Authorities in Vladimir have filed administrative charges against the editorial staff of local news outlet Zebra TV over publishing the governor’s message about a Ukrainian drone attack. The charges stem from a news article headlined “A drone strike caused an overnight fire in a Vladimir high-rise,” in which the author summarized a post by Vladimir Governor Alexander Avdeev.

В Москве в 14-й раз вручили премию «Камертон» имени погибшей журналистки «Новой газеты» Анны Политковской. В этом году ее лауреатами стали: издание The Bell — в номинации «За эталонную точность в эпоху хаоса»; издание «Верстка» — «За тексты, которые станут историей»; музыкант Борис Гребенщиков — в номинации «Сказавшему за всех». Особый приз — камертон с надписью «За спасение жизней» — присудили Джону Коулу, спецпосланнику президента США Дональда Трампа.