Russian authorities have sent 140 million euros in cash and samples of Western weapons seized in Ukraine to Iran in exchange for a shipment of drones, a security source told Sky News. According to the source, on the morning of August 20, a Russian plane arrived at Tehran airport, on which money was delivered, as well as the British NLAW anti-tank missile, the American Javelin anti-tank missile system and the Stinger anti-aircraft missile system.

Teenagers with HIV tell their stories According to the Federal AIDS Center, at the end of 2021, 1.1 million people with confirmed HIV live in Russia. About 10 thousand of them, according to the Ministry of Health, are children. "Cold" talked with several teenagers about how a positive status affects their life In order not to miss the main materials of the "cold", subscribe to our Instagram and telegram .

In Voronezh, due to sanctions, the only crematorium in the Chernozem region, located on the territory of the South-Western cemetery, stopped working. The Voronezh Funeral Home explained that due to Western sanctions, it is not possible to purchase components that are needed to repair a Czech-made cremation oven . Russian specialists, together with representatives of the Czech company Tabo CS, are trying to fix the furnace, but it is not known how long the work will last.

For an action with the Bloody Fountain, security officials pursued activists as dangerous criminals, but they managed to escape from the country. That's how it was Three activists stained the water of the Moscow fountain "Music of Glory" in red - it was an anti -war action, held on August 24, 2022. In the evening of the same day, the police were already following one of the activists near her house, and the next day she detained her husband and another activist.

Two days before the war, Julia Galyamin, along with his associates, created the feminist opposition movement in Russia. We talked with her about why it is now needed Over the past eight months, according to the ATS-Info, more than 16 thousand people have been detained for an anti-war position, and it became possible to attract the attention of the security forces even a manicure in blue-yellow colors. Despite this, it is still possible to engage in politics in Russia.

Servicemen and their relatives say that near Luhansk, mobilized people are sent to the front line without commanders, an action plan, provisions and communications. The Russian service of the BBC cites the testimonies of the mobilized themselves and their relatives. According to the publication, in the Makiivka region of the Lugansk region, the mobilized are sent to the front line at night, and in the morning their positions are shelled by the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

The executive secretary of the Union of Committees of Soldiers' Mothers, Valentina Melnikova, said that she was approached by the mother of a resident of the Omsk region, who was mobilized at the end of September and included, along with other mobilized, in the Wagner PMC. According to the mother, her son's military ID was not marked with mobilization - this allowed him to include a resident of the Omsk region in the PMC.

46-year-old Dmitry Zakharov, 46-year-old Duma deputy of the Novouralsk city district from United Russia, was mobilized for the war in Ukraine. He was a deputy for only a month - he was re-elected on September 11, 2022. Zakharov received the summons on October 20, and went to the training camp the next day. That now with the deputy - in a thought do not know. He left behind a wife and two children at home.

According to the British Ministry of Defense, the Russian military began to build defensive structures around Mariupol. British intelligence's daily review of the war in Ukraine states that the line of defense is being built from concrete pyramidal anti-tank blocks called "dragon's teeth". According to the British military, they are produced by two Russian factories.

Critic Alexei Kiselev-about how the Russian theater changed due to military censorship Officials and cultural figures loyal to the state declare the “abolition of Russian culture” abroad, although it is there that dozens of Russian theater directors, actors and playwrights are now forced to work there. Inside the country, directors are fired for an anti -war position and prohibit performances.

The US Treasury and State Department have privately asked the largest US banks, including JPMorgan and Citigroup, not to refuse cooperation with "certain strategic Russian companies." Bloomberg writes about this, citing sources. In particular, officials are asking for “basic services,” such as money transfers and conversion into dollars, to those companies that are not directly sanctioned. These are, for example, Gazprom, Uralkali and PhosAgro.

An immersive musical performance about the war in Ukraine "Polite People" was shown at the Kaluga Regional Philharmonic. The production began with the fact that the actors in the form of the Armed Forces of Ukraine “took hostage” the audience and pretended to shoot one of them behind the scenes. All actors either had combat experience in the past, or were recently in Ukraine. They fired from the chilled weapons.

Relatives of those mobilized from the Voronezh region recorded a video message in which they demanded that the authorities find out where their loved ones are and return them home. Voronezh residents recorded a video near military unit No. 91711 in the city of Boguchar, from where, on October 5, the mobilized, according to relatives, were taken to Valuiki, Belgorod Region. After that, the families were not told where their loved ones were.

The security forces came to the apartment of the nationalist and one of the organizers of the "Russian Marches" Dmitry Demushkin early Tuesday morning. He wrote about this in his telegram channel. Later, this information was confirmed to RBC by Demushkin's lawyer Oleg Kolesnikov. “At 6:30 they conducted a search, confiscated the phone, interrogated until they detained it, a matter of time. Associated with journalistic activities,” Kolesnikov said.

On the night of August 24-25, the apartment of activist Anna Vyalkina, who organized a rally with a “bloody fountain” in Moscow, was searched. After that, the security forces detained her husband and took her to the Kuzminki police station. She herself told Kholod about this (the editors have the audio recording). At the department, the husband was forced to call Vialkina and find out where she was.