The Lithuanian Seimas has decided to close two checkpoints on the border with Belarus - "in response to possible threats from Wagner mercenaries." From August 18, it will be possible to cross the border at one of the four remaining checkpoints. The State Border Committee of Belarus stated that the Lithuanian authorities want to reduce cargo turnover in this way, as well as prevent Lithuanian tourists from traveling to Belarus.

In two days, St. Petersburg police detained more than a hundred migrants with Russian citizenship in order to register them with the military registration and enlistment office, TASS reports, citing the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region. The police conducted a raid at the Sofia vegetable warehouse for two days. A criminal case was opened against one foreigner due to allegedly forged documents.

In Chuvashia, the FSB, together with the Military Commissariat of the Republic, conducted a raid on migrants who had recently received citizenship and had not registered with the military. The number of detainees in Cheboksary and Novocheboksarsk is unknown. Today, a similar raid took place in St. Petersburg, during which the police brought more than a hundred migrants with Russian citizenship to the military registration and enlistment office for registration.

Since April 15, 2023, almost three and a half million Sudanese residents have been forced to flee their homes due to a paramilitary conflict between the country's army and the Wagner-linked SBR . . This was reported in a report by the Displacement Monitoring Center (DTM). Most of those who fled their homes lived in the capital, Khartoum, while more than 2.5 million of its residents ended up in other regions or abroad.

The Prosecutor General's Office recognized the activities of the association "For a Free Russia", registered in Poland, as "undesirable".

In Moscow, the Savyolovsky court fined VimpelCom one million rubles under the article on “LGBT demonstrations” . The reason for the prosecution was the lack of an “18+” label for the film “Little Italy” in the Beeline online cinema, which belongs to VimpelCom. In July, VimpelCom was fined one million rubles under the same article for showing “Perfect Strangers” and “The Barber of England” without the required labeling.

The Eastern District Military Court sentenced a resident of Krasnoyarsk Andrei Petrauskas to ten years in prison for the arson of the military enlistment office. He was found guilty of the “terrorist act”. Petrauskas set fire to the military enlistment office of the Soviet and central regions of Krasnoyarsk on October 3, 2022. Four days later he was detained.

Myanmar authorities arrest about 150 Rohingya Muslims , allegedly suspected of trying to leave for Malaysia. 127 men and 18 women were detained in the coastal MON state. “The detainees are under investigation for violating immigration laws,” said a representative of the military junta that seized power in the country. In predominantly Buddhist Myanmar, authorities restrict the rights of the Muslim population. They are prohibited from voting in elections and from obtaining local citizenship.

During the counterattack, the Armed Forces of Ukraine liberated the village of Reveren in the Donetsk region, according to the deputy Minister of Defense of Ukraine Anna Maryar. The productive is 80 kilometers from the occupied Mariupol. Five kilometers from the village is an important transport and logistic knot - the village of Starolinovka. On Tuesday, that Russia is receding from the fruitful, they wrote the wire blogger.

Over the past day, Dv_e Mirny_e, a resident of_nitsa died due to Russian shelling, at least ten more were injured. The Russian armed forces fired at the Odessa, Lviv, Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporizhzhya , Kharkov , Sumy , Nikolaev , Dnipropetrovsk regions of Ukraine. On Wednesday night, Russia attacked one of the ports in the Odessa region. Angars with grain and agricultural equipment were destroyed.

In Novosibirsk, a criminal case was opened against 18-year-old transgender girl Mira Lushchaeva for “calls for extremism” on the Internet . The reason for the persecution was Lushchaeva’s anti-war telegram channel, SOTA reported. Now the girl is under recognizance not to leave the place. She was also included in the list of “extremist and terrorist”. On August 2, a search was carried out in the apartment of Mira Lushchaeva and her girlfriend, after which both were taken away for interrogation.

On August 15, the weather station at Qeshm Deirstan International Airport in southern Iran recorded a record air temperature of 81 degrees Celsius, reports the National Weather Service Weather Observation Center. Dew point reached 36 degrees, which became a world record, says extreme weather researcher Colin McCarthy. “These are intolerable conditions for human life,” comments McCarthy. Over the past few days, surface water temperatures in the Persian Gulf have risen to 36.4 degrees.

The Czech authorities included in the sanctions list the head of the Tactical Missile Arms holding, Boris Obnosov, as well as his daughter Olga Zorikova and son-in-law Rostislav Zorikov. Earlier, Alexei Navalny’s team found real estate in the Czech Republic for the family of a Russian oligarch. Tactical Missile Armament is one of the largest arms manufacturers in Russia.