Russian mobile operators have begun massively blocking WireGuard and OpenVPN VPN protocols. On August 7, there was a massive failure in access to these protocols, SecurityLab and the Escher II telegram channel report. As they write in SecurityLab, problems with access to the protocol are recorded among mobile operators - MTS, Beeline, Megafon, Tele2, Yota, Tinkoff Mobile and others. At the same time, stationary providers - for example, Rostelecom - currently have no problems with access.

The arrested leader of the Senegalese opposition party, Ousmane Sonko, was hospitalized after starting a hunger strike. He was hospitalized in a Dakar hospital, his comrades in the Patriots of Senegal for Work, Ethics and Fraternity (PASTEF) party said. In June, Sonko was sentenced in absentia to two years in prison, barring him from running for president in the 2024 elections. “Before his imprisonment, he was healthy and did not have any diseases,” the party statement said.

UK teaching unions have agreed to end their strike action in response to a 6.5% pay rise for education sector workers. Four unions accepted the deal - the National Education Union (NEU), the NASUWT, the National Association of Headteachers (NAHT) and the Association of School and College Headteachers. Thus, the teachers refused to continue protest actions in the fall of 2023.

In the coming days, the Stavropol Territory, the Kabardino-Balkarian Republic, North Ossetia, Ingushetia, Chechnya, the Tver Region, the Republic of Adygea, the Krasnodar Territory, the Republic of Kalmykia, the Rostov Region, the Volgograd Region and the Astrakhan Region will experience extreme heat, according to the Russian Hydrometeorological Center.

Apple returned the Meduza news podcast “What Happened” and the “Cold” podcast two days after deleting it . The company decided to return podcasts to the platform after widespread publicity in independent Russian-language media. Apple did not explain the reason for the removal and return of the podcasts.

A resident of a suburb of Ulan-Ude, arrested for “desecrating” a monument, was accused of preparing for sabotage. Tayga drew attention to this. The man, believed to be Sayan Zarikuev, was detained on July 26. According to investigators, he poured black paint on the monument to the hero of the USSR Sergei Oreshkov, who died in World War II. The man allegedly acted on assignment for remuneration “in foreign currency.” On July 28, Zarikuev was arrested. He is accused of "rehabilitation of Nazism" .

In the Primorsky Territory, a sailor from a commercial shipping company was detained for attempting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office. He was placed under house arrest. Sibir.Realii drew attention to this. According to investigators, a 52-year-old man tried to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office in the city of Nakhodka. The sailor allegedly approached the building on the night of August 2 and threw two Molotov cocktails in his direction.

Military courts in Irkutsk and Novosibirsk convicted two privates for allegedly failing to appear for duty without a valid reason. One soldier was sentenced to five years, and the other to five years and one month. Private Alexei Krivda, according to the prosecution, decided to “take a break from performing military service duties” and did not show up at the military unit by the appointed time. Krivda himself came to the military commandant’s office and declared his violation.

Deforestation in July 2023 in the Brazilian Amazon was 66% lower than in July 2022. About five hundred square kilometers of forest were cleared last month. Since a new administration led by President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva took power earlier this year, Brazil's government has begun punishing illegal land grabs, launched operations to crack down on illegal resource extraction, demarcated more indigenous lands and created more protected areas. .

In the city of Old Crimea, Crimean Tatar Asan Zekeryaev underwent two searches in one day, writes Crimean Solidarity. In the morning, Zekeryaev told his relatives that someone was knocking loudly on his door, and then they lost contact with him. Arriving family members did not find him in the apartment. Later it became known that security forces detained his children and wife Emine Zekeryaeva, who were visiting their parents in the village.

The fourth power in one hand The nineties - the time of free Russian media or not? Large historical material On January 25, 2024, Doxa was recognized as an “unwanted organization”. If you are in Russia or plan to return to it, you can not replace our materials on social networks, refer to them and publish quotes. Read more about what is possible and impossible, read in the cards . Russian journalism of the 90s, according to common opinion, existed in conditions of unique freedom.

An arrested schoolboy from St. Petersburg has a progressive liver disease, a political prisoner support group reports. This week Balazeikin was examined in one of the St. Petersburg hospitals. It showed that Balazeikin’s fibrosis is progressing liver. According to the political prisoner’s support group, before his arrest he had the first degree of fibrosis, and now doctors have diagnosed it as a second degree. Yegor Balazeikin has been in pre-trial detention since March of this year.

"You are actually alone behind bars" Ex-genus “The affairs of the“ new greatness ”” Vyacheslav Kryukov about provocateurs in opposition chats, life in the colony and recruiting prisoners to war On January 25, 2024, Doxa was recognized as an “unwanted organization”. If you are in Russia or plan to return to it, you can not replace our materials on social networks, refer to them and publish quotes. Read more about what is possible and impossible, read in the cards .

In Yakutia, 125 thousand hectares of forest and other natural areas are burning. Currently, 98 fires have been recorded in 13 districts in the region. The most tense situation is now in the Aldan, Olekminsky and Ust-Maisky districts, where 60 fires have been registered. Over the past 24 hours, seven outbreaks were extinguished on a total area of ​​5.4 thousand hectares.

On Monday night, Russia shelled Kherson. A fire started in a nine-story building, injuring nine residents and two firefighters. Due to a shell hitting one of the houses, a 59-year-old woman was killed, one man was wounded, and one woman was also injured, reports the head of the OVA, Alexander Prokudin. Fire in a nine-story building after shelling of Kherson.