VGTRK "war correspondent" Yevgeny Poddubny, who was injured in a drone attack in the Kursk region, will continue treatment in Moscow. This was reported by the VGTRK-owned Vesti publication. It clarified that after the attack, the wounded propagandist was taken to the Kursk hospital, where he was given the necessary first aid, underwent tests, and was prescribed a course of further treatment.

They were held hostage by the family of peasants-bunters. How did they manage to save? What to do if the window is red terror, and you are a human rights activist? How to achieve the repressed Mensheviks receive programs, the Socialist -Revolutionaries - walks, and the Zionists went not to Siberia, but to Palestine? In the early years of Soviet power, the numerous victims of repression was helped by the political Red Cross (PKK) - an absolutely legal human rights organization.

The Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) continue to advance in the border areas of the Kursk region and have already occupied most of the city of Sudzha. Ukrainian troops are planning to advance deeper into Russia. Several pro-government Telegram channels and "war correspondents" are writing about the ongoing fighting on Russian territory.

Three concerts by American singer Taylor Swift in Vienna, scheduled for August 8, 9 and 10 at the Ernst Happel Stadium, have been cancelled due to security concerns after Austrian police arrested two suspects in the preparation of terrorist attacks. The announcement of the cancellation appeared on the Instagram account of the organizer, Barracuda Music.

The National Health Service (NHS) will pay for a "gene editing" procedure to treat a blood disorder that is inherited. The therapy costs about £1.6 million (over 176 million rubles) per patient, the BBC reports . The NHS offers this treatment to people diagnosed with beta thalassaemia. This is a condition that is usually caused by a mutation in the beta globin gene.

Analysts have named the lowest paid professions in Russia. The lowest salaries in the country are received by cleaners and teachers. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to data from the job search service Headhunter. The lowest paid Russian janitors. According to Headhunter, they earn about 32.6 thousand rubles a month, which is 2.3 times lower than the national average. Janitors (37.3 thousand rubles) and kindergarten teachers (40.5 thousand rubles) earn slightly more.

For the first time since 2022, the volume of deliveries of everyday goods ordered online is decreasing in Russia. The main reasons for the decrease are the shortage of order pickers and couriers. This is reported by the Kommersant newspaper, citing data from Infoline analysts. According to the newspaper, for the first time in two years, the market for online sales of everyday goods, the so-called e-grocery, showed a quarterly decline.

Many Russian tourists who were vacationing in Anapa cannot return home due to the lack of air and train tickets. This was reported by the Business FM radio station. According to her data, as of the evening of August 7, only two tickets in a compartment for August 8 and one seat in a reserved seat for the 23rd were still on sale. The next tickets available for purchase are only for trains departing in September.

The UN Human Rights Monitoring Mission in Ukraine is confident that almost all Ukrainian prisoners of war are tortured in Russian colonies. This was stated by the head of the mission, Danielle Bell, in an interview with the Dutch television channel NOS. The UN representative specified that the mission does not have direct access to Ukrainian prisoners in Russia; information has to be collected through interviews with Ukrainians who returned home after the exchange.

The Estonian government has introduced full customs control for those crossing the Russian-Estonian border through all existing checkpoints on August 8, the state broadcaster ERR reported . This means that now customs officers will check the luggage and the person of each citizen entering Estonia from Russia and vice versa. Passengers of buses and cars will have to get off and go through control, while customs officers check the transport and cargo there.

Ukrainian military personnel from the 14th separate regiment of unmanned aerial vehicles have published a video that allegedly shows the shelling and storming of the Russian border crossing “Sudzha”, as well as footage of border guards captured there. The credits claim that about 50 Russian soldiers surrendered.

The Internet argues about their gender and the right to participate in the Olympics. They are considered favorites in the struggle for gold At the Olympic Games on Tuesday evening, the semifinals of boxing competitions among welterweight women (up to 66 kilograms) were held, the judges were given to Algeria Iman Helif. Although female boxing is not very popular, Helif’s performance in Paris has become one of the main events of the Olympiad.

American astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, forced to live on the International Space Station (ISS) for the third month, may return to Earth in 2025. This is reported by Reuters, citing NASA representatives. Wilmore and Williams blasted off into space on June 5 and were expected to spend up to eight days there. They were the first humans to fly to the ISS aboard Boeing's Starliner spacecraft. The company has been under fire for safety concerns about its aircraft.

Members of Russia's largest ultra-right organization, the Russian Community, smashed fruit stalls in Yekaterinburg that were being sold by foreigners. The self-proclaimed "vigilantes" detained nine vendors and distributed their goods free of charge to passersby. This was reported by the 66.ru portal, citing its own correspondents from the scene. It is noted that members of the organization conducted a raid together with security forces, looking for illegal migrants.

Investigators were waiting for German citizen Rico Krieger, who was detained by the Belarusian authorities and sentenced to death, in his home country, Kevin Lik, a fellow countryman of the convicted man, told the Zerkalo publication. On August 1, Krieger and Lik took part in an exchange of political prisoners for spies and criminals. The German citizens first saw each other on the plane that was taking them from Russia to Turkey, but managed to talk after the exchange was over.