Trans people in Russia will lose the right to drive cars. "Gender identity disorders" and "transsexualism" were included in the new list of restrictions and contraindications for obtaining a driver's license, developed by the Ministry of Health. The document, published on the legal information portal, was noticed by the publication "Medvestnik". Medvestnik calls some medical contraindications for obtaining a driver's license "obvious." These include epilepsy, blindness, and mental retardation.

In Voronezh, the regional court sentenced former Wagner PMC fighter Yaroslav Shekhovtsov to 16 years in a maximum security penal colony. The 26-year-old man, the TV channel TV Gubernia reported , was found guilty of murdering two fellow soldiers on June 24, 2023, during the armed rebellion of Yevgeny Prigozhin. The bodies of those killed were found in the vicinity of the village of Oskino in the Khokholsky district almost two weeks after the mutiny, on July 6, 2023.

In the US, FBI officers arrested two unemployed people, Russian Pavel Kublitsky and citizen Alexander Khodyrev, who led a luxurious lifestyle. This is reported by the newspaper Kommersant. According to the publication, American law enforcement believes that those arrested are the administrators of a large darknet forum. A wide range of illegal goods and services were sold there, from stolen credit card data to DDoS attacks and courses on criminal earnings.

The investigator in the case of former Kommersant employee Ivan Safronov, a year and three months before the verdict was handed down, accurately named the term the journalist would receive. A defendant in the same case, political scientist Dieter (Demuri) Voronin , told Agency about this. Voronin, a German-Russian citizen released in a recent prisoner exchange , spoke with Alexander Chaban, an employee of the first department of the FSB Investigative Department, in June 2021.

Kiev has asked Washington for permission to use American long-range ATACMS missiles to strike Russian airfields that Moscow is using to attack the Ukrainian Armed Forces group that has broken through to the Kursk region. This is reported by The Washington Post, citing an unnamed adviser to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. Ukrainian troops entered the territory of the Kursk region on August 6.

On the night of August 9, Lipetsk was subjected to a massive drone attack. This was reported by the local governor Igor Artamonov. "Air defense is working. Do not go near the windows. Take cover in a safe place," he wrote on his Telegram channel. According to him, at least six people were injured. A drone strike at a military airfield near Lipetsk caused a fire and multiple secondary detonations.

Even a short viewing of TikTok videos can worsen an eating disorder in women. Less than ten minutes of scrolling through the recommendations feed is enough to do this. This is the conclusion reached by scientists from the Australian Charles Sturt University. The study was published in the journal Plos One. Scientists have found that watching TikTok videos creates a negative image of women's bodies.

The famous American rapper Travis Scott was arrested in Paris. This is reported by the French newspaper Le Parisien. According to her, Scott was detained at about five o'clock in the morning at the premium hotel George V. The press release from the Paris police specified that the reason for the arrest was violence on the part of the musician against a hotel security guard who was trying to break up a fight between Scott and one of his bodyguards.

Russia was supposed to produce almost one thousand new civil aircraft by 2030, but now these plans will be revised. Auditors came to the conclusion that there is no "economically justified demand" for such a number of domestic aircraft in the country. This is reported by Kommersant, citing sources in the Russian aviation industry.

Roskomnadzor has requested information from telecom operators about the physical addresses of Google equipment, which the American corporation provided to Russian providers to improve the operation of their services. Kommersant reported on the sending of requests. The Telegram channel ZaTelekom posted a copy of the agency's request, sent through the Main Radio Frequency Center, which is directly subordinate to RKN.

Although others convinced me that a man should do this Despite the fact that now many gender norms and rules are changing, the proposal to marry is still “only for men”. However, some women are still ready to show the initiative - for example, on August 7, athlete Alice Fino made an offer to her boyfriend immediately after the finish at the Olympics. “Cold” talked with three women who also decided on this, about why they did this and how their future husbands and others reacted.

Kazakhstan's FlyArystan airline did not allow 12-year-old Zere Galiyeva to board the Astana-Uralsk flight, citing a lack of seats on the plane. The girl flew home alone the next day. Galiyeva's mother, Zhazira Musina, reported this on her Facebook page on August 8. On July 21, Zere was flying in transit from the United States to Uralsk via Astana with her twin sister Zaure in a group of children, accompanied by an employee of the Destination language school.

In Russia, they have started blocking the secure messenger Signal, writes the publication “Important Stories”. Users of the service “Sboy.rf” and Downradar are also complaining about the messenger malfunction. Reportedly, messages in the messenger are not received or sent when connected without using a VPN or enabling the "Bypass censorship" option.

Videos allegedly filmed by eyewitnesses in the Kursk region have spread online. According to the Telegram channels that published them, the footage shows the aftermath of a strike on a Russian military convoy in the Kursk region. In the video , filmed at night, about a dozen trucks used to transport people are burning. In another video , allegedly made at about six o'clock in the morning, there is no open fire, and dozens of human bodies are visible in the backs of charred vehicles.

The Russian economy is reaching its peak and is beginning to stagnate, moving into a recession. This is the conclusion reached by analysts interviewed by Bloomberg, who analyzed the latest available data on Russia. The main reason for the coming recession is a shortage in the market. Business and the military are forced to compete for limited labor resources. Economists expect a "last spurt of growth" for the Russian economy before a downturn.