The Ukrainian authorities do not intend to punish residents of the regions of the country occupied by Russia for the mere fact of obtaining a Russian passport, unless they are convicted of collaborationism, said Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Reintegration of the Temporarily Occupied Territories of Ukraine Irina Vereshchuk. The minister stressed that criminal liability is provided only for collaborationism and cooperation with the aggressor.

Olga Romanova, head of the “Rus Sitting” fund for helping convicts, said that in the Mordovian colony No. 4 (Udarny village), prisoners are forced to write a statement with the words “I ask you to withdraw 500 rubles from my personal account in favor of the DPR.” She clarified that 500 rubles for those who are serving time is “a lot of money”: “for someone it’s half a monthly salary, and for someone it’s all.” “I began to look at what they wrote about this zone.

At the end of 2020, a face recognition system was launched in the Moscow metro, and later the rest of the city's video surveillance cameras were connected to it. The capabilities of the system allow you to find a suspect by signs and track the movements of a particular person. The authorities use it not only to catch thieves and hooligans in hot pursuit, but also to detain opposition activists during protests. The BBC Russian Service found out what algorithms this system uses.

Human rights activist, member of the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia and founder of the "Committee against Torture" Igor Kalyapin gave details of the attack that happened in his house in the village of Donskoye, Nizhny Novgorod region. According to the human rights activist, on the evening of August 24, his neighbor invited him to celebrate his 40th birthday.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that on August 24, on the Independence Day of Ukraine, the Russian military launched rocket attacks on the village of Chaplino in the Dnipropetrovsk region. As the deputy head of the office of the President of Ukraine Kyrylo Timoshenko specified, during the day the rocket hit a private house, and later the strikes were made on the railway station. 22 people died.

A human rights activist, a member of the Human Rights Council under the President of Russia and the founder of the Committee against Torture, Igor Kalyapin, was attacked by a man. This happened in Kalyapin's own house in the Nizhny Novgorod region, the attacker introduced himself as a policeman. It is reported that they tried to cut Kalyapin's face and strangle him. The attacker was arrested, his motives are established by law enforcement officers.

The topic of visas does not want to give up. Every day in Europe there is a new one who wants to get rid of the presence of Russians once and for all, and in Russia and in exile for one such person - a dozen or two mourners who reproach Europe for betraying their own values ​​or with a wise look reflecting on how harmful they are to Europe itself similar ideas. I will say right away: I also think that they are harmful, but then we will talk about something else.

A candidate for municipal deputies in the Khamovniki district and press secretary of Yulia Galyamina, Nikolai Kasyan, was arrested for five days because of a post with reference to the investigation “He is not Dimon to you” by the team of Alexei Navalny. Kasyan said that he published the link to the investigation more than five years ago, and according to the case file, the post was discovered by a woman born in 1937.

On Wednesday, a rally of Russian emigrants against the war in Ukraine took place in Yerevan. It was agreed with the local authorities. However, the police did not allow the march through the city and detained some of the rally participants. On August 24, the Independence Day of Ukraine and exactly six months after the start of the war, Russian emigrants held anti-war actions in many cities around the world.

In the first half of 2022, the Russians sent about 145 thousand complaints - this is 25% more than for the same period last year, Roskomnadzor said. 63 thousand appeals concerned the topic of “prohibited materials” and “fakes on the conduct of a special military operation in Ukraine”. Most complaints were received in March. Source: Roskomnadzor “Most often, citizens turned to Roskomnadzor with a request to remove links to resources with pro -Ukrainian propaganda,” the agency said in a statement.

Russian President Vladimir Putin increased the regular number of Russian armed forces from 1.9 million to 2.04 million. The number of military personnel will be 1.1 million, the rest will be civilian personnel. The decree will enter into force in January next year. The reason for the increase in the army is unknown.

On Thursday, the Zaporizhia NPP for the first time in its history was completely disconnected from power supply, and the largest cities in the Russian-occupied territories of the Zaporozhye and Kherson regions of Ukraine were left without electricity. Light disappeared in Kherson, Melitopol, Energodar, Berdyansk, New Kakhovka. Due to the shutdown of pumping stations, water supply was partially cut off. There were also interruptions in mobile communications.

About my departure from Russia Why should I leave? <...> I am attached to this land, I was born and raised here, I will not move a millimeter. Why am I suddenly running away? I love my country, I understand all the risks, but I cannot leave here, if only because it will be an escape. In an interview on August 16, 2022 About the war in Donbass No arguments are accepted about the Donbass - until we got there in boots, no one died there at all.

US financial conglomerate Citigroup has announced that it will begin phasing out customer service operations at Citibank this quarter. “As part of the curtailment of operations, Citi will also continue to actively sell some of its retail business portfolios in Russia,” the conglomerate’s website says. The reduction will affect approximately 2.3 thousand employees and 15 branches, and the winding down of the business will cost $170 million.

Sociologist Svetlana Stephenson on why Russians are in denial about the war The war in Ukraine has been going on for five months now—and all the while, the debate continues about how real and credible the massive support for the invasion shown by Russian opinion polls actually is.