In Nepal, 16-year-old Anita Chand died due to the practice of chhaupadi, which is banned in the country, writes The Guardian. Chhaupadi is a tradition based on the belief that women and girls are unclean and untouchable during menstruation. They are kicked out of their homes and forced to live in special stone huts without windows. According to the publication, Chand was sleeping in such a hut when she was bitten by a snake, after which she died.

Google began blocking Google Workspace corporate services (corporate mail, documents, disk and others) to Russian companies that were subject to American sanctions. about this , citing sources in two large IT companies. writes The Kommersant newspaper According to them, blocking of Google Workspace services began on the night of August 10. The publication’s interlocutors did not specify which companies lost access to services, saying only that they are under American sanctions.

For the first time since 1976, Russia sent the Luna-25 interplanetary automatic station to the Moon. The launch of the Soyuz-2.1b launch vehicle took place on the night of August 11 from the Vostochny Cosmodrome in the Amur Region. According to the head of Roscosmos, Yuri Borisov, on August 21 the station will make a soft landing in the southern polar region of the Moon north of the Boguslavsky crater. After that, she will collect scientific data. The main task is to find ice.

Russian army lieutenant Ivan Korolev illegally entered Lithuania and asked for political asylum there. This was reported by the BBC Russian Service with reference to Korolev himself. According to the publication, he was able to get to Vilnius, where he was detained at the bus station by operatives of the Lithuanian border service. After his arrest, he was returned to the border checkpoint, where he spent the next day and contacted a correspondent of the BBC Russian Service.

Journalists from Mediazona and the BBC Russian Service managed to establish the names of 30,003 Russian soldiers who died in the war in Ukraine. Employees of these publications, together with a team of volunteers using open sources, have been collecting data on the losses of the Russian army since the beginning of the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

In Sergiev Posad, rescuers completed clearing the rubble at the explosion site. about this with reference to emergency services . writes TASS According to the agency, it was possible to establish the whereabouts of four people who were on the list of missing people after the explosion. However, the fate of eight more people remains unknown. from the explosion in Sergiev Posad In total, 84 people were injured . According to the Ministry of Health, 15 of them remain in hospitals.

The FSB conducts tough interrogations at the border. Even housewives with children suffer from them Random interrogations when crossing the Russian border have become routine. However, if previously the security forces invited journalists, activists and other “undesirable persons in the Russian state” to a conversation, now this is increasingly happening with ordinary citizens, often even those who are not interested in politics.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that one drone flew over the city. He was shot down by air defense forces. “No one was injured when the debris fell in the Karamyshevskaya embankment area. There is no serious damage. Emergency services are working on the spot,” Sobyanin wrote in his Telegram channel. Earlier, RIA Novosti, citing eyewitnesses, reported an explosion in the Karamyshevskaya embankment area in the north-west of the capital.

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Street artist Philip Kozlov, known under the pseudonym Philippenzo, was arrested for the second time in a row. The court sentenced him to 15 days under the article of disobedience to a police officer. This was reported by Sota with reference to activists who came to support the artist. Philippenzo told them that he was taken to court and assigned a new arrest two days before the expiration of the previous one. According to him, the court considered his case in the absence of a lawyer.

Students of universities and colleges who participated in the war in Ukraine will be able to transfer to a free form of education. The corresponding resolution was approved by the Russian government. this , citing the press service of the Cabinet of Ministers. reports The Interfax agency They noted that veterans of the invasion of Ukraine will be able to transfer to free training even if there are no vacant budget places.

Alexei Navalny published the first statement after a new verdict in an “extremist” case - he was sentenced to 19 years in a special regime colony. The politician called this post a “confession” about the fear and hatred that he needs to overcome. Navalny compares his term to how dissident and later Israeli politician Natan Sharansky served in the USSR in the 1980s.

In annexed Crimea, three animators who danced to Verka Serduchka were first forced to sing the song “Vladimir Putin is a great fellow,” then fined under an administrative article for “discrediting” the Russian army, and then fired. According to security forces, on August 8, in the Almond Grove water park in Alushta, three girls danced to the song of Verka Serduchka. After that they were detained by the police.

Oximiron released a new clip of the League of Dangerous Internet. He is dedicated to Russian musicians who go “bow” to the head of the League of Safe Internet organization Ekaterina Mizulina. In the song, Oximiron mentions the rapper Scally Milano , who, after a conflict with Mizulina, publicly apologized to her and deleted several of his songs. The clip, as Paper Kartuli noted , starred in Georgia - in particular, in the Grail bar in Tbilisi.

The Second Western District Military Court will consider a criminal case of violation of combat duty rules due to shelling of a military unit in the Belgorod region. about this . writes Kommersant Lieutenant Colonel Anatoly Bondarev and Major Dmitry Dmitrakov are accused of not preventing the Ukrainian Armed Forces from shelling their unit in the Belgorod region, including an ammunition depot.