In Moscow, searches were carried out at the home of Lev Speransky, a journalist for Moskovsky Komsomolets. He said that he is a witness in an extortion case initiated in 2018. The equipment was confiscated from Speransky, he was interrogated as a witness and released. The Telegram channel Mash also published a photo in which the editorial office of Moskovsky Komsomolets was allegedly being searched, but this was denied by the publication.

Omsk archaeologist Yevgeny Kruglov, against whom a criminal case has been initiated under the article on “fakes” about the Russian army (part 1 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), was assigned a comprehensive stationary examination, his lawyer Andrey Ognev said. Now Kruglov is in the Clinical Psychiatric Hospital named after N.N. Solodnikov. The archaeologist was sent there today, August 16, his lawyer said. The criminal case against Kruglov became known at the end of July.

An atelier has appeared in Belarus that sews work clothes for prisoners to order. “Our clothes will be accepted 100%,” the studio’s website says, “Our experience is individual tailoring of clothes according to your measurements, taking into account the requirements for transfer.” It takes 10 days to make clothes, in the atelier you can order a prisoner's summer suit and other clothes, as well as hats, gloves, bed linen and food bags, according to individual measurements.

Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said that the country will reduce the issuance of tourist visas to Russian citizens. Priority in obtaining visas will be given to those who want to visit Finland for family reasons, study or work. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to approve these measures today. Haavisto also said that Greece, Italy and Spain now issue most of the Schengen visas to Russian citizens. These visas allow Russians to travel through Finland to the rest of Europe.

Former Meduza programmer Boris Goryachev launched resources (website and telegram channel stop24.day) dedicated to the all-Russian action of disobedience on August 24, the day when six months have passed since the beginning of the invasion of Ukraine. The purpose of the event is to show those “for whom what is happening is the norm” that “on this day, something goes wrong.” To participate in the event, Russians need only stay at home that day, not use delivery services and not go to work.

The Gomel regional court sentenced Anna Pyshnik, a resident of Mozyr, bordering Ukraine, to three years in a penal colony. She was found guilty of “assisting extremist activity” (Part 2 of Article 361-4 of the Criminal Code of Belarus) because of a video with Russian military helicopters. Pyshnik was detained on March 22 and sent to a pre-trial detention center in Gomel.

The Boris Nemtsov Foundation has launched a master's program in Russian Studies. It is launched on the basis of the Faculty of Philosophy of Charles University in Prague, the language of the program is Russian. According to the founder of the foundation, Zhanna Nemtsova, the program is also supported by the Faculty of Social Sciences, which expands the range of economic and sociological disciplines that students will be offered.

In Crimea, several explosions occurred at a military aviation base in the village of Gvardeyskoye. Military and law enforcement agencies are checking the version of a possible drone attack on an ammunition depot. There are no official comments about what is happening yet. Earlier, in the village of Maiskoye, Dzhankoy district of Crimea, an ammunition depot detonated and a fire started at the Dzhankoy electrical substation.

Psychiatrist Dmitry Isaev helped thousands of transgender people make a transition in Russia. For this he was poisoned and fired In May 2022, a 65-year-old psychiatrist-sexologist Dmitry Isaev died in St. Petersburg.

The editorial office of Novaya rasskaz-gazeta reported that a report was drawn up against the publication under the article on “discrediting” the Russian army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of three texts: about Tolstoyism, imperial ideology and international relations after the start of the war in Ukraine. “None of the materials mentions the war with Ukraine, the RF Armed Forces, the National Guard and the FSB,” Novaya Gazeta writes. Europe".

In the village of Maiskoye in the north of Crimea, 20 kilometers from the city of Dzhankoy, an explosion and a fire occurred. Photos and videos of the incident appeared on Telegram channels. According to RIA Novosti, the fire occurred at a transformer substation in Dzhankoy. At the same time, TASS refers to the administration of the Maiskoye settlement and reports that ammunition detonation occurred. The Ministry of Defense confirms this. Residents of the village are evacuated.

The candidate for municipal deputies in the Tverskoy district from the Yabloko party, Maria Volokh, was deprived of the opportunity to participate in the elections. The election commission received an extract from the Ministry of Internal Affairs that Volokh has a valid residence permit in the Netherlands, although it expired back in 2016. Volokh was not allowed to get acquainted with the materials of the case before the meeting of the commission, so she did not have time to provide evidence.

The Soviet District Court of Ufa fined the leader of the DDT group Yuri Shevchuk for 50 thousand rubles under an administrative article on the "discredit" of the Russian army.

Served in the FSB, wrote fairy tales, is accused of murder - who is the person who regularly appears in the news A photograph of a man resembling one of the former leaders of the people's militia of the self-proclaimed DPR, Igor Strelkov, went viral on social networks, only without a mustache. The man in the photo allegedly tried to get to the front in the Kherson region using a fake passport, but he was detained.