Russian cinemas cannot show films in IMAX format, despite the fact that they have the necessary equipment for this, as this requires permission from the Canadian company IMAX. “Technically, a projector can show any film. Another issue is that it is impossible to show a film in IMAX format without IMAX permission.

Moscow deputy Konstantin Yankauskas said that a protocol was drawn up against him under the article on “discrediting” the Russian army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) because of a post on Vkontakte with the Pope’s prayer for peace and an end to the war in Ukraine. A court hearing has been scheduled for August 26. “I don’t really understand what to say in court. How can a prayer for peace and life discredit someone?

The authorities of Tomsk reported that they plan to use church bells to alert about emergencies. According to i. O. Mayor Mikhail Ratner, this option is being prepared in case "there is no electricity in the city." The use of bells instead of sirens is agreed with the Tomsk diocese. This practice has not been reported before.

What Ponomarev did in Russia Ilya Ponomarev joined the Communist Party in 2002. There he was director of the information technology center of the Central Committee of the Party for two years, and soon became director of the Center for New Politics.

The five-deck 72-meter Axioma yacht, which belongs to Russian entrepreneur Dmitry Pumpyansky, was put up for auction in Gibraltar. Pumpyansky fell under the sanctions of the European Union and Great Britain after Russia's invasion of Ukraine. At the auction, which lasted one day, 63 rates were electronically made. Information about potential buyers is not disclosed. Source: Marine Traffic This is the first public auction of confiscated due to asset sanctions.

Yevgeny Khamin, the organizer of the Chernozem rock festival in Voronezh, at which the Splin group performed in support of the musicians who left Russia, is ready to bear "moral and other" responsibility for the statement of soloist Alexander Vasiliev. “The Governor demanded that he did everything possible for the ideological and actual safety of the festival. I gave guarantees where the "artists" gave them to me.

Russian theologian and blogger Andrey Kuraev, suspended by the Russian Orthodox Church, said that he was fined on charges of “discrediting” the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for a post in LiveJournal. The judge of the Nikulinsky District Court of Moscow, Mikhail Maksimov, found the clergyman guilty and fined him 30,000 rubles. Kuraev was fined on the denunciation of Sergei Chichin.

The RT channel released an interview with people whom journalists called the father, mother and cousin of Ukrainian Natalia Vovk, suspected of killing Daria Dugina. Vovk's mother (the name is not given - Approx. "Cold") said that she did not know where her daughter was. She also confirmed that the Mini Cooper car, which, according to the FSB, was used during the murder of Dugina, belongs to Natalya Vovk. The mother said that she served in the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Together with a team of independent journalists, media consultants, producers, editors and promotion specialists, Mediazona launched the Masterskaya project, which will help develop independent media. The project website says that we are talking about different types of support: material, non-material and strategic. Authors of existing public and political projects can become participants of the project. It can be niche media on any social network, YouTube channel or podcast.

Yandex will first change its main page, and also sell VK its services “News” and “Zen”. In exchange, the Russian IT giant will receive from the VK service Delivery Club. It is expected that the parties will complete the transaction within a few months. According to the plans, “News” and “Zen” will move to a separate Dzen.ru media portal - it will belong to VK. At the same time, the search line from Yandex will appear. The search engine will change the main page - Yandex will be Ya.ru.

A Politico publication claims that the United States could supply Ukraine with more weapons as military aid than previously reported by the White House. The authors of the material cite the words of a senior Pentagon official, whose name was not released: on August 19, he said that the United States did not advertise information about the supply of high-speed anti-radar missiles (HARM) to Ukraine. They are used for targeting radar systems.

In relation to the eight leading YouTube channel of the team of Alexei Navalny, “Popular Policy”, criminal cases have been instituted under an article on “fakes” about the Russian army (207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was announced by the press secretary of Navalny Kira Yarmysh with reference to the lawyer for their intended purpose.

In Moscow, at the Ostankino television center, a farewell is being held for Daria Dugina, who was killed on August 20. The ceremony, which could only be reached by passing three security checkpoints, was attended by Russian politicians and representatives of the state media, who gave speeches.

Police in St. Petersburg detained four people: a member of the Yav art group Alexander Voronin, his assistant Nikolai Stekolnikov, ZDF journalist Roman Schell and cameraman Stanislav. The artists were going to create Goolag graffiti on Staro-Petergofsky Prospekt, but did not have time to complete it - the police took them away at the stage of working with the stencil. Now Voronin and Stekolnikov are charged with petty hooliganism.

In August, Russian and Ukrainian media reported that in Russia they released a children's sports uniform with military-patriotic symbols. The line was called Je Suis Donbass ("I am Donbass). One of the participants in that photo shoot Angelina Ratnovskaya told the Cold that the collection was actually created back in 2015, and the children on parts of the extended pictures are now over 20 years old.