Mordovia

US citizen Paul Whelan, sentenced in Russia to 16 years of strict regime for espionage, said about "limitless" corruption in the Mordovian colony No. 17, where he is serving a sentence. He demanded that the Russian security officials investigate the situation.

On the territory of the Mordovian State Natural Reserve "Zapovednaya Mordovia" there are two centers of natural fires on 10 and 120 hectares. In Nizhny Novgorod Pervomaisk, the area of active combustion was 2 hectares.

In Sheremetyevo, the youngest son of the head of the Republic of Mordovia and the Samara region, Nikolay Merkushin, Alexey Merkushin (pictured), who was also the vice-governor of Mordovia, was detained in a bribery case. Later, the fact of detention was confirmed by State Duma deputy Alexander Khinshtein.