Six members of the Presidential Human Rights Council wrote an open letter to the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Igor Krasnov. In it, they ask to explain on what legal basis the prisoners of Russian colonies are sent from there to the war in Ukraine. The appeal was published on the website of the Human Rights Council of St. Petersburg. It was signed by Alexander Verkhovsky, Natalia Evdokimova, Igor Kalyapin, Eva Merkacheva, Vladimir Ryakhovsky and Nikolai Svanidze.

In order not to miss such stories from "Cold", subscribe to our instagram and telegram . Found stickers, rejoiced On Sunday evening, August 7, electricity went out in the apartment of Vitaly Gotra and his wife Natalya (she asked not to give her last name) in Volgograd. Some voices were heard from the hallway at the entrance. Natalya opened the door to check the electrical panel, but did not have time: security forces burst into the apartment.

Iranian police used tear gas to disperse spontaneous protests that began after the death of a 22-year-old girl detained by the vice police, reports Al Jazeera. The reason for the detention of Mahsa Amini was the “improperly worn” hijab. Shortly after the arrest, the girl died at the police station. According to the official version, the cause of death was heart problems, however, according to eyewitnesses, the police severely beat the detainee.

The authorities of the Russian-occupied Zaporozhye region of Ukraine have published a video showing the process of expulsion of an “unreliable” citizen to the territory of Ukraine. In the video, you can see a masked man with a nationalist chevron on his sleeve and a Russian tricolor on a baseball cap, who is reading a piece of paper to a middle-aged man.

Can I get a residence permit? How do Russians relate to the country? How much money do you need to move? According to the National Administration for Tourism, from March to July 2022 about 350 thousand Russians entered Georgia. They already managed to buy more than four thousand apartments in the country and register six and a half thousand enterprises.

No, "Kholod" hasn't gone crazy. We're just telling you what conspiracy theories Russian officials believe in Last week, Putin's deputy plenipotentiary representative in the Far East, Grigory Kuranov, told students that the Anglo-Saxons want to reduce the planet's population to a "golden billion" with the help of a virus that will cause infertility. In fact, this is a well-known conspiracy theory from the 1990s, invented by Soviet publicist Anatoly Tsikunov.

The body of a man with signs of torture was found during the ongoing exhumation of bodies at a mass grave site in the Ukrainian Izyum, writes the Ukrainian edition of Grati. Hundreds of graves, many of which are unmarked, were discovered shortly after the city was liberated by the Ukrainian military. As representatives of the Ukrainian authorities stated earlier, among those buried there are victims of Russian bombing and shelling, as well as Ukrainians executed by Russian invaders.

Belgorod police released Kirill Ponomarev, a correspondent for The Moscow Times. He was fined 500 rubles under an administrative article on "petty hooliganism." This was reported in the telegram channel of the publication. Ponomarev was detained the day before in Belgorod, where he was preparing a report on refugees stationed in suburban Sosnovka.

Relatives of politician Leonid Gozman, who was arrested for the second time in a row for identifying the USSR and Nazi Germany, are forbidden to transfer dietary food to the special detention center, which he must adhere to as directed by doctors. The politician's daughter Olga Gozman told Kholod about this. According to her, Leonid Gozman, suffering from cholelithiasis, was forced to turn to doctors with complaints of acute pain shortly before his first arrest on August 30.