Russian opposition leader and former State Duma deputy Ilya Ponomarev reported that he survived an assassination attempt. A Russian suicide drone exploded near his home near Kiev. "Today seems to be my second birthday. The fifth attack attempt was the most unconventional and the most successful, which was difficult to defend against. But screw them!" he wrote on his social networks, promising to provide details later.

Chechen leader Ramzan Kadyrov promised to shoot anyone who tells his daughter to take off her hijab. He said this at a meeting of the Chechen government. Kadyrov published a video fragment of the meeting on his Telegram channel. "Whoever tells my daughter to take off her hijab, I will kill him immediately. I will shoot him immediately, whoever it is. He is an enemy, my personal enemy, an enemy of Islam," said the head of Chechnya.

A ceremonial welcome was held at Vnukovo Airport for Russians released from prison in other countries as a result of a large-scale exchange that took place on August 1. A red carpet was rolled out for the arriving plane, along which soldiers of the presidential regiment in full dress uniform lined up, and the prisoners themselves were met by Vladimir Putin, his press secretary Dmitry Peskov, Defense Minister Andrei Belousov, FSB chief Alexander Bortnikov, and SVR chief Sergei Naryshkin.

Leonid Volkov said that Alexei Navalny was supposed to take part in a large-scale prisoner exchange. He reported this on the social network X. "Yes, this is the same exchange in which, as we hoped, Alexei Navalny was to be released in February of this year. But Putin decided to 'turn the board', decided that he would not give Navalny up for anything. And he killed him literally a couple of days before the exchange could take place," he wrote.

As part of the prisoner exchange between Russia, the US and Europe, the Russian side released 16 people. In exchange, Russia received eight prisoners from the US, Slovenia, Norway and Poland. This was reported by The Insider.

Architect Lanfranco Cirillo has been appointed Senior Vice President of Sberbank. He will head the Construction division. This was reported on the Sberbank website. As the bank's press service notes, the new block was created to systematically manage all of Sber's construction projects. The block's curator will be Deputy Chairman of the Board of Sberbank Stanislav Kuznetsov.

Russia will exchange convicted Russian opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza, who has been serving a 25-year prison sentence since 2023, Bloomberg reported , citing an unnamed European official. Kara-Murza has dual citizenship - Russian and British. In February 2024, The Guardian reported that the British Foreign Office refused to participate in the politician's exchange. 42-year-old opposition politician Vladimir Kara-Murza has been in prison since April 22, 2022.

As part of a large-scale exchange with Western countries, Russia has released American journalist for The Wall Street Journal Evan Gershkovich and former US Marine, as well as Canadian, Irish and British citizen Paul Whelan. This is reported by Bloomberg. According to the agency, both Americans are currently heading outside of Russia. It is not yet known who Gershkovich and Whelan were exchanged for. Both Americans were convicted of espionage at different times and sentenced to 16 years each.

18-year-old Moscow medical college student Ayshat Magomedova was kidnapped and taken to an unknown location by her relatives, the Telegram channel "Beware, News" reports . According to the Telegram channel, the girl came to study in Moscow, while her parents remained in Dagestan. In Moscow, she settled with her aunts. According to the human rights organization "Marem", their names are Uma and Patimat.

The "Safe Internet League" will file a lawsuit to protect the honor and dignity of blogger Artemy Lebedev and journalist Yuri Dud. The head of the organization, Ekaterina Mizulina, reported this on her Telegram channel.

Users from different regions of Russia are complaining en masse about interruptions in the operation of the YouTube video hosting service. For some, videos do not load at all, while for others, the site works very slowly. This is evidenced by data from the Brand Analytics service, which tracks failures in the operation of Internet resources. Information about problems with YouTube was confirmed by subscribers of the Telegram channel of journalist Alexander Plyushchev from St.

Italian athlete Angela Carini refused to continue the fight with Algerian Iman Khelif, who was disqualified from the World Championship last year due to a failed gender test, the Italian newspaper La Gazzetta dello Sport writes . The athletes met in the ring today in the 1/8 finals of the Olympic boxing tournament in the weight category up to 66 kilograms. As the publication notes, Carini called the fight "unfair" and left the ring at 46 seconds. "I went into the ring and did my duty as a boxer.

Vladimir Putin saved Alexei Navalny after his poisoning in Tomsk in 2020. Designer and popular blogger Artemy Lebedev said this in an interview with Yuri Dud. He explained that thanks to Vladimir Putin, Russia has a healthcare system that provided Navalny with timely medical care and saved his life. "Putin saved him. He created a healthcare system where your plane lands at a mined airport, where someone has already called, I don't know who, and said that you can't land.

In Russia, the conditions for buying and checking SIM cards were tightened The State Duma adopted amendments that will limit the purchase and use of SIM cards in Russia for its citizens and foreigners. The federal media claim that this will help fight terrorists , illegal migrants, scammers and fakes . However, experts doubt that this measure will affect the number of crimes. "Cold" explains what the essence of these amendments is and how they will affect the Russians.

A jury at the Elektrostal City Court in the Moscow Region found former RBC and Vedomosti journalist Oksana Goncharova guilty of the premeditated murder of the father of her two children, the Kommersant newspaper writes . During the trial, the defense insisted that Goncharova was defending herself and drew the court's attention to the fact that the journalist's partner had been beating her for years. The jury unanimously found Goncharova guilty.