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[Rusvesna] Belarusian Sergei Savelyev, who allegedly submitted videos of torture in Russian prisons for publication on the Internet, asked for political asylum in France, AFP claims after a conversation with Savelyev.
Earlier, a video about sexual assault and torture of convicts appeared on YouTube.
The Telegram channel Gulagu.net explained that these footage recorded at least four episodes of violence and torture, torture and humiliation of prisoners, which, according to the report, took place in the Regional Tuberculosis Hospital (OTB) No. 1 of the Federal Penitentiary Service in the Saratov region.
The UK opened a number of cases on sexual violence and abuse of power.
Agence France-Presse does not provide evidence that Saveliev specifically collected and transferred these frames for publication, referring only to his words. The agency uses the general wording "the man who leaked the video" in relation to him.
The former prisoner, a 31-year-old Belarusian, quotes from a conversation with which are quoted by "France-Presse", arrived in France through Turkey and Tunisia, since Friday he has been at the Paris Roissy-Charles de Gaulle airport in the waiting area for asylum seekers.
According to the agency, Savelyev was serving a sentence in a Saratov colony in a drug trafficking case. The agency writes that Saveliev, under the guise of servicing computers, quietly downloaded video files from prisons throughout Russia.
Savelyev said that shortly before his release in February 2021, he managed to hide the media on which the data was registered near the release from prison.
Earlier, the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation said that the department had begun checking in the institutions of the penitentiary system of the Saratov region for the observance of the rights of convicts.
The Federal Penitentiary Service announced the dismissal of the head of OTB No. 1, three more employees of the regional department of the department, and also sent documents for the dismissal of the head of the Federal Penitentiary Service of Russia for the Saratov Region, Colonel of the Internal Service Alexei Fedotov.
The press secretary of the Russian president Dmitry Peskov said that the Kremlin knows about the video of the rape of a prisoner in the Saratov region, the FSIN is dealing with this, if the authenticity of the materials is confirmed, this will become a pretext for a serious investigation.
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[NewsFront] Employees of the Security Service of Ukraine help the Ukrainian Armed Forces to cover up crimes. We are talking about the curator of the SBU, who concealed the facts of violations for bribes.
Press officer of the People's Militia of the LPR Alexander Mazeikin sid that the commander of one of the brigades paid a monthly "tribute" for keeping information about numerous violations undisclosed.
For the Ukrainian 30th Brigade, the curator from the SBU, Yuri Udovichenkov is responsible. The head of the unit paid him to ensure that the monthly reports did not indicate theft of ammunition from warehouses and the absence of military personnel.
"According to the information we have, Udovichenko receives from the brigade brigade Zinevich a specified amount of money on a monthly basis, which allows him to hide the facts of crimes committed in the brigade from the military prosecutor’s office and the military service of law and order," Mazeikin said. Also handy for concealing organized crime activities on the Ukrainian side.
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[KavkazUzel] A court in Rostov-on-Don today sentenced Chechen resident Magomed Dakaev to 5.5 years in prison, finding him guilty of transferring money to terrorists in Syria.
According to the investigation, the 33-year-old native of Urus-Martan, Magomed Dakaev, was accused of facilitating terrorist activities (part 1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code of Russia), the punishment for which provides for from five to fifteen years in prison.
"It was established that at the beginning of June 2014, the defendant, while in the Chechen Republic, handed over 2,000 rubles to a fellow villager for transfer to their mutual acquaintance who was in the Syrian Arab Republic in an illegal armed formation.
In the same year, the defendant provided 7,000 rubles to other persons for their departure, to the territory of the SAR to participate in the [illegal armed formation]," an employee of the press service of the Southern District Military Court told the "Caucasian Knot" correspondent.
In court, Dakaev pleaded guilty in part. He was found guilty and sentenced to five years and six months in a general regime colony. The verdict has not entered into legal force and can be appealed by the parties in the Military Court of Appeal, the press service said.
"Caucasian Knot" has not yet received any comments from Magomed Dakaev and his representatives regarding the verdict of the court .
The "Caucasian Knot" also wrote that on August 3 it became known that a Chechen resident, Mohamadkhan Abdulvahabov, was sentenced by a court to six years in prison, having been found guilty of transferring money to a friend for a trip to Syria.
In 2014 his target could have been any number of jihadi groups allied with Al Qaeda or what was becoming ISIS.
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[REGNUM] The area of the village of Vesyoloye (DPR) came under fire from the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the evening of October 19, according to the Joint Center for Control and Coordination of the Ceasefire.
In the area of the village, Ukrainian militants opened fire from a 120mm mortar. The attack began at 1730 hrs Moscow time, the militants fired nine mines.
Ten minutes later, in the area of the village of Panteleymonovka in the DPR, the Armed Forces of Ukraine opened fire from automatic grenade launchers: 13 total were fired.
We add that on the morning of October 19, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the area of the village of Spartak in the DPR. Ukrainian militants fired 12 120mm mines across the DPR.
A DNI fighter commented on the situation at the front, according to one of the activists of Russian Spring Alexander Matyushina (call sign" Varyag "), units of the People's Militia DNI should be more actively respond to attacks and provocations by the APU..
According to Ukraina.ru, a former militia soldier told how in his opinion, should deal with the Ukrainian militants who bombard the houses of peaceful citizens of the People's Republic on a daily basis.
"When I was a commander of a company that was in positions, in response to a sniper's shot, the area from which he fired, was "combed" with mortars or, in extreme cases by the heavier guns.
"All this humanism towards those who destroy our people and our cities and towns should be discarded. We shoot only after our citizens and relatives have been killed, our houses have been destroyed. But we need to shoot so that this does not happen," Matyushin noted, adding that not being able to defeat the Donetsk people morally, Ukraine seeks to destroy them physically for the eighth year. They in fact have been carrying out genocide of the local population.
As previously reported, the new commander-in-chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Valery Zaluzhny, during a closed meeting with bloggers and activists, spoke about the cancellation of the order on the need to coordinate with the higher leadership when opening fire on the positions of the People's Militia and the cities of the People's Republics.
After that, many experts came to the conclusion that in this way an aggravation may occur at the front, which will lead to the resumption of large-scale hostilities and even the involvement of the Russian Federation in the conflict." No, it won't and both sides know it.
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[REGNUM] Russian agricultural producers harvested 115.4 million tons of grain as of October 19, 2021, the press service of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture reported.
"As of October 19, domestic farmers harvested 115.4 million tons of grain from an area of 43.3 million hectares," the message says.
The share of wheat in the total harvest was 70 percent (77.3 million tons), barley - 16 percent (18.6 million) and corn for grain - about 7 percent (million tons). Other crops include sunflower, rapeseed and soybeans.
In addition, Russia has grown the sugar beet crop: 27.1 million tons, 5.4 million tons of potatoes, as well as 3.7 million tons of outdoor vegetables. Indicators by type of crops are generally in line with or ahead of last year's level.
As Rosstat specified in February, the grain harvest in Russia at the end of 2020 amounted to 133.465 million tons.
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[KP] The President approved the list of instructions following the meeting on the socio-economic development of the Far East.
The government is charged with the following.
- Until November 1, find additional money in the budget for subsidies for air transportation in the region for beneficiaries and permanent residents of the Far East. Provide the Far East with the availability of air transportation by introducing special tariffs and reducing the time for booking air tickets.
By 2025, to supply at least 45 new Russian aircraft for the needs of a single Far Eastern airline.
And on Sakhalin to organize the production of jet fuel, to which to connect Gazprom.
- By December 15, develop a proposal on a "zero rate" value added tax "when performing maintenance and repair of sea vessels and vessels of mixed navigation (river-sea), fishing ships."
- Until November 3, ensure "the inclusion of medical organizations of the state health system in the Far East in the program of medical rehabilitation of citizens", including those who have undergone covid.
- Until November 1, consider the issue of providing families in the Far East with a one-time payment of 1 million rubles for the birth of a third child or subsequent children. Subject to the registration of the child in the registry offices of the Far East. And the direction of payment (1 million rubles) for the purchase of housing in the Far East or payment for its construction.
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