According to the Viasna human rights center, Belarusian journalist and local historian Igor Khmar was detained on the street on August 2 for speaking Belarusian. The center was told about this by a man who was together with Khmar in the detention center on Akrestsin Street. “It should be noted that this is not an isolated case - in addition to Igor, there were (others - approx. Kholoda ) people on Akrestsina who were detained for speaking Belarusian on the street,” writes Vesna.

Kommersant journalist Ksenia Dementieva said that her Russian acquaintances who left Russia and left, in particular, for Kazakhstan, received notices about the need to pay a fine for currency transfers to each other from foreign cards. Earlier, they warned the Russian tax authorities that they had opened foreign currency accounts in foreign banks, as required by law.

How many Ukrainians flee to Russia and why According to UN estimates, more than 1.9 million Ukrainians left for Russia at the beginning of the war. Anonymous sources from power structures say that there were more than three million who left. Not all of these people have refugee status because few apply for it. According to the Ministry of Internal Affairs at the end of June, only 55.2 thousand Ukrainians received temporary asylum in Russia.

FBI agents during a search of former US President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach found 11 sets of classified documents, among which there are four sets classified as "top secret" and three as "confidential". The seized documents include files relating to Trump's decree to pardon his former adviser Roger Stone, as well as materials about French President Emmanuel Macron. According to Politico, the FBI is investigating Trump's possible violation of the espionage law.

In order not to miss the main materials of "Cold", subscribe to our instagram and telegram . What did Arestovich do before the Russian invasion of Ukraine In the past, Alexei Arestovich managed to change several professions. After high school, he began to graduate, but dropped out a few months later; went to play in the theater - he also quit to join the army.

Amnesty International representatives “categorically” deny that interviews of people from Russian filtration camps and prisons in the occupied territories were used in preparing a report on violations by the Ukrainian military. The organization said that the evidence was collected only in the territory controlled by Ukraine. The people interviewed gave evidence voluntarily, they were in a safe environment.

On August 15, in the self-proclaimed DPR, the trial of five foreigners - citizens of Great Britain, Sweden and Croatia - will begin. They fought on the side of Ukraine and were captured. The fighters are accused of mercenarism, "training in order to carry out terrorist activities" and an attempt to seize power. They will be tried under a criminal article, the process will be closed.

In Omsk, on the street of the 20th Party Congress, the wall of a five-story building No. 53 collapsed, which, according to a court decision, had to be repaired before the end of 2021. There were no casualties. The collapse area is 200 square meters. The Ministry of Emergency Situations warned that the house could collapse even more.

Oleg Kotenko, the Ukrainian Commissioner for Missing Persons under Special Circumstances, said that the bodies of 522 military men on the list of missing persons have been returned to Ukraine. According to him, Ukraine is working to collect all the bodies of the military. “Negotiations with Russia are being conducted through the International Red Cross. There is an exact figure of the bodies of our defenders that we took away, we managed to take 522 bodies.

On the afternoon of August 2, in Volgograd, plainclothes police officers severely beat 14-year-old Alexander Kostin and said he fell on his own. His eye was injured, his nose was broken, a craniocerebral injury was diagnosed, and multiple bruises to his face and body were recorded. The police did not offer medical assistance to Kostin. When he told Nina Kostina about the beating of his mother, she wrote a statement to the police.

Femactivist Daria Serenko - about how they opposed the war in Russia and why even the smallest action works Now anti -war resistance - in Russia and abroad - exists in thousands of variations. How are new people involved in it? Does the protest become more radical and what place the Russians who left in it occupy?

In Yekaterinburg, the police opened an administrative case about the incorrect use of the state symbols of the Russian Federation on the Drag-Klinin Bomb of Cybersisi ( Sergey Nechaev-approx. "Cold" ), which performed the Russian anthem with LGBT+ flag in the hands in the Gay Club "Fame". The artist faces a fine of up to three thousand rubles. Sergei Nechaev immediately after the speech said that he had performed a hymn to show his support to the state.

Russian children’s author Yulia Yakovleva talked to children in Russia for two months about their experiences of the war. Here is what she found Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has completely changed the reality for all Russians, even if some are pretending not to be affected. People who will have to deal with the consequences of this war are often those who are in no way responsible for it, even formally: children, including those who live in Russia now.