Non-Moscow news for the night of August 20
🔹 The court seized the former head Krasnodar regional court Alexandra draft and his accomplices, assets worth approximately 13 billion rubles. This includes 87 properties (land plots, commercial buildings, offices, apartments), cash, and an agricultural enterprise. According to case materials, Chernov acquired the property through proxies and failed to declare it.
🔹 Pygmy hippopotamus Eva from the zoo Yekaterinburg was left without a mate due to sanctions that prevented the import of a male from abroad. A suitable candidate was found in Czech RepublicAs the director of the city zoo explained Svetlana PrilepinaIt is currently impossible to form a genetically correct pair in Russia. Furthermore, the pygmy hippopotamus is an endangered species with a population of approximately three thousand individuals.
🔹 In Mongolia A Russian nuclear physicist was detained Andrew Ozharovsky, who, at the invitation of local environmental activists, carried out radiation measurements at a uranium waste dump in the Gobi Desert and the Mardai region. "How the police found me is a great mystery. I was in a very remote area, climbing through mountains of radioactive waste. I can't see any other way than tracking my cell phone," Ozharovsky told People of Baikal. He wasn't charged or given any reason for his detention, but was taken "to the nearest border crossing where there's a migration service office."
🔹 Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Alexander Novak instructed the Federal Antimonopoly Service and the Ministry of Energy to analyze the reasons for the rise in gasoline prices and its shortage in Siberia and Far EastPlans call for extending the gasoline export ban, increasing standards for gasoline sales on the exchange, and introducing new pricing mechanisms. Companies must strictly adhere to fuel supply guidelines to ensure domestic demand, TASS reports.