The Southern District Military Court sentenced Oleg Vazhdaev to six years of strict regime for setting fire to a military registration and enlistment office in Krasnodar after the announcement of mobilization. The anti-war activist will spend two years in prison, reports OVD-Info. Vazhdaev was found guilty of committing a “terrorist attack” .

In Chelyabinsk, the police and cooperation of the military enlistment offices held an anti -migrant raid in the Chinese market against men who recently received Russian citizenship. The security forces were handed to seven men, three of them were taken to the military registration and enlistment office. Last week, similar raids were held in St. Petersburg , the Belgorod region , Cheboksary and Novocheboksarsk .

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 .

The Ministry of Justice of Belarus liquidated the largest animal protection organization SaveUs, which was involved in helping homeless animals. The organization's accounts are now frozen. “It is impossible to understand who interfered with an organization that saves thousands of animals,” the organization commented. SaveUs helped animal rights activists raise funds for the treatment of homeless animals.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced blogger and politician Maxim Katz in absentia to eight years in prison in a “fake” case. about the Russian army, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom. Katz was also banned from administering websites for four years. The politician himself lives abroad. The prosecution requested ten years in prison for Maxim Katz.

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The Federal Cabinet of the German Minister of Germany announced the support of plans to facilitate the procedure for changing the gender marker and the name in the documents for transgender and non -warar people. The legislative initiative is called the "Law on Self -Determination". The bill should still be approved by the German parliament. Its adoption will allow translucks to change the gender marker in the registry office without providing any additional documents.

The FSB detained a resident of Pskov on suspicion of attempting to set fire to a relay cabinet at the Pskov-Tovarny station. Mediazona drew attention to the message from security forces in Pskov publications. According to the FSB, on August 2, a man tried to open a relay cabinet in order to set it on fire and thereby disrupt the transport of goods for the Russian army. At that moment, he was detained by security forces, the FSB reports.

Brazil's Supreme Court has ruled that homophobic hate speech is now on the same legal level as racism and can be punished by imprisonment. The judges made this decision on Tuesday, August 22.

More than nine thousand emperor penguin chicks are likely to have died at the end of 2022 due to record low icing in Antarctica, according to a new study from the British Antarctic Survey. Scientists call this event “unprecedented.” Researchers say four of the five emperor penguin colonies in the Bellingshausen Sea disappeared due to melting ice before the penguin offspring could grow water-repellent plumage.

Vladimir Putin indirectly confirmed the death of Yevgeny Prigozhin after the collapse of his business jet in the Tver region. Putin said this at a meeting with the “acting head of the DPR” Denis Pushilin. Vladimir Putin indirectly confirmed the death of Prigozhin According to Putin, he had known Prigozhin since the 90s. He also called the chapter “Wagner PMC” “a man of complex fate”. The president spoke about Prigozhin only in the past tense.

The Russian state pursues more than 65 eco-active_k for their anti-war position in administrative and criminal cases, calculated the Ecological and Crisis group. Two people were sentenced to real terms, eight more are waiting for sentences. The initiative drew attention to the fact that the most cases of pressure were recorded in regions where eco -active is well developed. “Eco -active is one of the factors in increasing the politicization of fellow citizens,” the initiative comments .

In Russian-occupied Bakhchisaray, searches took place at the homes of relatives of political prisoners and Crimean Solidarity activists, the movement reports. According to the wife of one of the detainees, Eldar Yakubov, Aisha Yakubova, the security forces who came with the search cited an article of the criminal code - “organization or participation in the activities of a terrorist organization” . Two tablets and a phone were confiscated from the Yakubovs.

A coalition of human rights organizations in Kazakhstan demanded that the possibility of shutdowns—blocking and slowing down access to the Internet—be removed from the country’s legislation. Internet shutdowns, according to human rights activists, violate human rights and freedoms and contribute to their violations.

In Semey (Kazakhstan), a court imposed suspended sentences on two police officers in the case of torture of a detainee who died in a detention center. They did not admit their guilt. The court found Alisher Kanakynov and Ersultan Agzamov guilty of torture Zhandos Zhotabaev, detained during the January 2022 protests, and sentenced them to four years probation. Also, the convicted must pay a total of 4.5 million tenge (9.7 thousand dollars) in favor of the victims.