Top news for the weekend of August 26–27 – Kommersant
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The State Duma will introduced a bill according to which deviators can be deprived of acquired citizenship. The document was prepared by Mikhail Matveev, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Regional Policy and Local Self-Government. The bill is scheduled to be introduced to the lower house of parliament next week.
Yandex co-founder Arkady Volozh sent official request to the EU authorities with a request to remove him from the sanctions list, reports the Financial Times, citing sources. The EU imposed sanctions on Mr. Volozh on June 3, 2022.
To the unified state exam in history in 2024 entered assignments related to the military operation in Ukraine and the regions annexed to the Russian Federation. In particular, in task No. 5, you need to establish a correspondence between events and their participants. Among the events is a military operation in Ukraine, among the participants is the commander of the artillery rocket division of the people’s militia of the DPR, Olga Kachura, who died in 2022 under shelling. In task No. 2, you need to arrange historical events in chronological order, including the signing of agreements on the admission of the DPR, LPR, Zaporozhye and Kherson regions into Russia.
Aged 89 August 26 died directed by Gleb Panfilov. Ceremony farewell with director and screenwriter Gleb Panfilov will be held on August 30. The location has not yet been determined. Mr. Panfilov will be buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Crypto exchange Binance from August 26 introduced restrictions for Russians to trade in any currency, except for the ruble, through the Binance P2P service (peer-to-peer, “from person to person”). The measure applies to customers who have passed the verification of “Know Your Customer” (Know Your Customer, KYC) in Russia.
Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Valery Zaluzhny in mid-August spent secret meeting with two senior NATO military personnel on the Polish-Ukrainian border, The Guardian reported. The aim of the five-hour meeting, which was attended by NATO Commander-in-Chief Christopher Cavoli and British Chief of Defense Staff Anthony Radakin, was to reset Ukraine’s military strategy.
On August 27, an Osprey military helicopter crashed off the coast of Australia, carrying 20 US Marines. Three military died.
In Paris from September 1st banned rental of electric scooters. The decision was made following the results of a city referendum on the use of electric scooters. 89% of Parisians voted for the ban. Thus, Paris will become the first European city where the ban on the rental of electric scooters is in effect.
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