The Promtekhnologiya company, which produces Orsis T-5000 rifles, responded to the publication in the channel of oppositionist Ilya Yashin. It claimed that the rifles were being supplied to Russian security forces, the military and mercenaries of the Wagner PMC. In its statement, the company claims that it produces only hunting and sporting weapons. After the release of the press release, the Ministry of Defense TV channel showed a story about military snipers who use Orsis T-5000 rifles.

After the introduction of US sanctions against Alfa Group shareholders Petr Aven, Mikhail Fridman, German Khan and Alexey Kuzmichev, 26 Russian billionaires found themselves under American restrictions , the Agency calculated. In total, according to the Forbes Real Time rating, there are now 105 people in Russia with a fortune of more than a billion dollars. At the same time, some businessmen who are associated with Vladimir Putin’s inner circle continue to remain exempt from sanctions.

In the Kherson region, at least in one place, the mobilized were on the front edge of the defense, the video that was at the disposal of the "agency", and the words of the wife of one of the military from this video, testify. On Wednesday, in the area of ​​the village of Cossack Lageri, the APU detachment managed to break through the first line of Russian defense, on which there were mobilized and take several people. Details.

The decision on American sanctions against the co-owners of Alfa Group Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, German Khan and Alexey Kuzmichev was probably Washington’s reaction to the anti-war statement of Yandex co-founder Arkady Volozh, suggested Timothy Ash, an economist and Russia analyst at the Chatham House think tank . . Details . The US Treasury Department is pushing representatives of the Russian elite to speak out against Vladimir Putin, Ash believes.

Images from the Planet satellite show that the epicenter of the explosion on the territory of the Zagorsk Optical-Mechanical Plant (ZOMZ) in Sergiev Posad was not in the building rented by the pyrotechnic company Piro-Ross, but in a neighboring building, writes a Radio Liberty journalist . Mark Krutov. This casts doubt on the authorities' version that the explosion occurred in a pyrotechnics warehouse. Details .

Russia's oil revenues in July rose to the highest level since November, according to data from the International Energy Agency (IEA), a report cited by Bloomberg. The reason for the increase is that the price of Russian oil exceeded the price ceiling set by the G7 countries in December. Details . The price of Russian oil (excluding insurance and delivery costs) exceeded the $60 per barrel ceiling in July.

The Russian authorities spent at least 12.6 billion rubles to launch the Luna-25 spacecraft on the moon, which took place on Friday night. The agency calculated using the data of the public procurement site. The New York Times associated the lunar program of Russia with the desire of Vladimir Putin to improve the image of the country in the eyes of non -Western countries. Details .