Shops "Birch" What happened in the USSR: Free circulation of currency was prohibited, therefore, in 1961, for foreign citizens and Soviet foreign workers, they created the Beryozka chain of stores, where you could purchase goods for "check rubles" (check rubles at different times cost from one and a half to two Soviet rubles). What is returned: in Moscow and St. Petersburg will appear Duty-free shops for diplomats, consuls, employees of international organizations and their families .

In the educational programs in the exact sciences, a specialist will be introduced instead of a bachelor's degree. Innovations will become part of the new Russian education system, which is being developed instead of Bologna, said the rector of Moscow State University Viktor Sadovnichy at a meeting dedicated to the 2022 admission campaign. “Our general line is specialty. The bachelor's degree will be preserved in cases where it is dictated by some conditions, ”Sadovnichiy said.

The US Department of Defense believes that Russia has lost between 70,000 and 80,000 people killed and wounded since the start of a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, US Deputy Secretary of Defense Colin Kahl told reporters. He noted that these are very significant losses, especially considering that Russia "has failed to achieve any of the goals set by Vladimir Putin." Kahl also believes that the morale of the Ukrainian troops is much higher than that of the Russian ones.

In Crimea, residents of the village of Novofedorovka reported explosions in the area of ​​the Russian air base "Saki". Novofedorovka is located 20 kilometers from Evpatoria. Oleg Kryuchkov, adviser to the head of Crimea, confirmed to RIA Novosti the explosions at the airfield near Novofedorovka. “I ask everyone to wait for official messages and not to produce versions,” the adviser said. Telegram channel Mash reports that there have been at least four explosions. There are two victims.

Agents from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) raided former US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Florida on August 8. CNN reports, citing sources, that the search warrant was issued in a case of improper handling of documents of the White House administration, including classified ones. During the search, several boxes of papers were seized.

Kyiv is not involved in the explosions at the Saki airfield in Novofedorovka in Crimea, adviser to the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Mikhail Podolyak said on the air of Dozhd. He believes that anything could be the cause of the explosions: the detonation of ammunition, the partisan movement, and the negligent attitude of the military. “The demilitarization of the Russian Federation is an integral part of ensuring global security.

February 25: "You start to believe us" To all the citizens [of Russia] who come out to protest, I want to say: we see you. This means that you heard us. This means you start to trust us. Fight for us, fight against the war. From Zelensky's appeal . February 26: "Thank you to thousands of worthy Russians whose conscience is loud" I want to be heard in Russia. Everything.

Ecologists tried to clear the territory of the reserve in Kamchatka. They were sent to the colony In mid-July, the court in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsk sentenced several employees of the Kronotsky Reserve: from three and a half to five years in the colony. A sentence in the colony in the case of the theft of more than 450 million rubles, which the state allocated for the cleaning of the reserve, will not perform the work, and scientific employees of the reserve and the deputy for financial support.

Representatives of the self-proclaimed DPR are negotiating with the DPRK to attract builders from this country for "mutually beneficial" cooperation, the head of the DPR, Denis Pushilin, said on the air of Solovyov Live. According to Pushilin, “taking into account the grandiose construction that has now unfolded,” negotiations are underway for builders, including from North Korea, “to come in teams” to work on the restoration of the DPR.

The Russian Soyuz-2.1b carrier rocket, which launched on August 9 from the Baikonur Cosmodrome, launched the Khayyam Iranian Earth remote sensing satellite into orbit. 16 small Russian satellites were delivered into orbit as a passing load. Khayyam should significantly expand Iran's ability to conduct intelligence in the Middle East.

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas called for an end to the issuance of tourist Schengen visas to Russians. The day before, Finnish Prime Minister Sanna Marin made the same call. President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky, in turn, called on Western countries not to issue all types of visas to Russians, regardless of their political position. Now citizens of the Russian Federation can still apply for a tourist visa to most EU countries, the UK and the USA.

Ismail Isaev from Chechnya, who made a camming out and accused of complicity with terrorism, is held in the penalty area (schizo) IK-11 in the Krasnodar Territory in the village of Akhtarsky. He is there for 19 days. He was placed in a schizo for an indefinite period and without explanation. Isaev told the “crisis group of SK SOS” that earlier, July 21, he was placed in a penalty for 15 days, saying that this is “normal” under his article.

Citizens in the Russian Federation in the reserve are called to the military registration and enlistment offices and forcibly sent to military training camps in the Belgorod region. It is known about at least a dozen residents of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad region, who have already been taken to the exercises. They are forced to load shells and repair equipment for the war in Ukraine.

The operational group of Ukrainian troops "Kakhovka" received 50 Turkish Kirpi armored personnel carriers. They were distributed between two brigades of marines. In the future, another 150 such machines are expected to be delivered. Kirpi is an armored personnel carrier manufactured by the Turkish company BMC. Weighing over 19 tons, it can carry a payload of 1,775 kilograms or 13 people, providing a high degree of protection against mines and small arms.