In the Kherson region, two people were killed and three more were wounded as a result of Russian shelling over the past 24 hours. In the Kharkov region, on August 20, Russia shelled the city of Kupyansk with artillery for a long time - 11 people were wounded there. Another person died from the shelling of Volchansk. In the village of Shirokoye, Zaporozhye region, an elderly man died from shelling, and another woman was injured.

appeared on the telegram channel of the Moscow Railway On the morning of August 21, a message about significant delays in the movement of trains in the Kiev direction due to the arson of a relay cabinet. The arson occurred between Solnechnaya and Peredelkino stations. Later the channel added that the cabinet had been repaired, but traffic had not yet been restored according to schedule. No arrests of the arsonists were reported.

In Mari El, the oldest human rights organization in the region, “Man and Law,” was liquidated, according to its Telegram channel. Since 1999, the team has been protecting the rights of civil activists, children, prisoners, and has handled cases of torture by security forces and brought them to the ECHR. In January 2023, the Ministry of Justice conducted an unscheduled 10-day inspection of the organization. At the same time, the department demanded that “Man and Law” be liquidated.

The administration of the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology has again announced a reform of the foreign language curriculum, within which all courses except English and Chinese are being cancelled, a graduate of the institute told DOXA. Now fourth-year students and master's students who have mastered English at level C1 will not be able to choose a second foreign language - they will have to learn Chinese.

Yandex agreed with the demand of the Kazakh Ministry of Digital Development and the Information Security Committee, reports the Nur.kz portal. Previously, the Kazakh authorities blocked access to this address for several hours, since, according to the country’s legislation, resource servers and .kz domains must be located on its territory.

A group of homophobes attacked Armenian queer activists who had gathered in memory of the transgender girl Adriana , who was killed the day before . “We were attacked. For an hour we stood at the spontaneous monument and grieved for our sister. At the end, a group of homophobes began throwing stones at us, and the police just looked on and did not take action. As far as I know, no one was hurt,” activist Kelly Hovhannisyan, who was present at the rally, told DOXA.

On August 20, Kyrgyz security forces detained Chechen activist Mansur Movlaev, reported human rights activist Tolekan Ismailova . The detention took place at Tamchy airport in the city of Issyk-Kul, then Movlaev was taken to Bishkek. He is now in a pre-trial detention center; on August 21, a trial will take place to select a preventive measure for him. Ismailova calls to prevent his extradition from Kyrgyzstan. In August 2022, Mansur Movlaev was kidnapped by Chechen security forces.

From March 2022 to June 2023, Saudi Arabian border guards killed at least several hundred Ethiopian refugees and migrants trying to enter the kingdom through Yemen. This is stated in a report by the international human rights organization Human Rights Watch. According to the organization, Ethiopians are fleeing the country due to militant conflict and poverty. About 750,000 Ethiopians live and work in Saudi Arabia.

In occupied Alushta, police officers broke into the house of the former head of the Muslim community, Ruslan Emirvaliev. They were allegedly looking for “Ukrainian saboteurs living under the guise of refugees.” This was reported by the publication “Grati”. “They broke into our house somewhere around 11 o’clock, just as we were all getting ready for Juma prayer . They ran in in a crowd, staged a “mask show” in balaclavas and with Kalash rifles,” Emirvaliev told Crimean Solidarity.

The Irkutsk Regional Court sentenced five employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service to real terms in the case of torture of prisoner Ondar Kezhik in the local pre-trial detention center-1. People of Baikal write about this with reference to the lawyer of one of the victims, Dmitry Dmitriev, and Mediazona drew attention to the case file . Ex-chief of operations Maxim Volf received five years in prison.

In Yerevan, a transgender woman, Adriana, was killed in her own apartment. epress.am writes about this with reference to human rights activist and founder of the Right Side NGO Lilit Martirosyan. After the murder, the apartment was set on fire. According to her, a week before the murder, Adriana spoke about persecution. According to the investigation, on August 20 at 16:55, the rescue service received a call about a fire in a house in the center of Yerevan.

The Moscow regional court fined transgender girl Katerina Myers 300 thousand rubles in the case of violation requirements for the protection of state secrets, Mediazona reports, citing her lawyer Konstantin Erokhin. According to the publication, Myers was tried for attempting to travel abroad in December 2022 - due to the access she had to state secrets during her service, she should not leave the country until 2026. The defendant admitted guilt and will not appeal the verdict.