A bill prohibiting labor migrants from bringing their family members to Russia has been submitted to the State Duma for consideration. This is reported by RIA Novosti, which has reviewed the document.

Hurricane Debbie washed up large quantities of cocaine worth more than $1.6 million on Florida beaches, CNN reported , citing local authorities. It is noted that the first batch was discovered by a "concerned citizen" on the island of Islamorada in the Florida Keys. According to the US Border Service, the total weight of the packages of cocaine was more than 30 kilograms, and their value on the black market could be more than one million dollars.

British multimillionaire Mike Lynch, 12 guests and the crew of his superyacht Bayesian have been shipwrecked off the coast of Sicily, local TV channel Tg24 reported . Six people, including the businessman, are missing, one died, the remaining 15 were rescued, rescuers told the channel. Among the missing are four Britons, two Americans and a Canadian, Italian fire and rescue service spokesman Luca Cari told reporters.

Yaroslavl businessman, chairman of the board of directors of the Yaroslavsky Broiler poultry farm Elman Azizov dressed up as a pharaoh and rode in a chariot pulled by the company's employees. Photos from the celebration were distributed on social networks. "This is what the birthday of the manager of the Yaroslavsky Broiler looks like today.

Since the beginning of 2024, Miami Technics, a company registered in Florida, has delivered two batches of Timken bearings for DHС-8-400 passenger aircraft to Russia, The Insider reports , citing Russian customs data. According to the publication, Albert Poghosyan is listed as the company's director. The Insider claims that, according to public records in Palm Beach County, Florida, he was born in Armenia in 1986, when the country was part of the Soviet Union.

Peace talks with Ukraine are impossible now, they would be "inopportune", said Russian presidential aide Yuri Ushakov in an interview with the Shot Telegram channel. "Given this adventure, we will not talk," the presidential aide said. From the logic of the conversation, it can be understood that the conversation was about the Ukrainian Armed Forces' invasion of the Kursk region that began on August 6.

There is a shortage of obstetricians, obstetrician-gynecologists and neonatologists in state medical institutions. In total, there is a shortage of 8.5 to 11.5 thousand specialists. This is reported by RBC. The Russian Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists spoke about the shortage of medical workers during the conference of the National Medical Chamber (NMP).

The party of war is watching how the Armed Forces of Ukraine advanced deep into Russia, and is looking for meaning and "image of victory" The 908th day of a full-scale war in Ukraine is going on.

The period of the super full moon has begun on Earth, the peak of which will be a phenomenon known as the “Sturgeon Moon” – a combination of a super moon and a “Blue Moon,” writes RBC. The Moon is expected to be closest to Earth on August 19 at 21:26 Moscow time. This will be the first of four supermoons this year, the publication notes . During this period, the full Moon appears 14% larger and 30% brighter than usual.

Ukrainian soldiers deliver food and medicine to Russians living in Sudzha in the Kursk region. They are forced to hide in bomb shelters and drink water from tanks. The American publication The Washington Post writes about the life of Russians in the territories controlled by the Ukrainian Armed Forces. The newspaper's journalists arrived in Sudzha accompanied by Ukrainian soldiers and talked to local residents.

The number of underground abortions is growing in Derbent after the closure of the only mini-abortion clinic at the Central City Hospital. The abortion clinic employees told about this in an interview with the publication Argumenty i Fakty Dagestan. Doctors believe that women should have the right to an anonymous abortion without medical indications.

In the Kyzylorda region of Kazakhstan, the principal, class teacher and other employees of school-lyceum No. 7, where a 16-year-old girl studied, who was kept as a slave by her classmates for six months and forced into sex work, were fired. This was reported by the press service of the regional administration.

Alexey Podnebesny, who positions himself as a "sex blogger without sex" and the leader of the "Russian incel movement", was detained by the police. He himself reported this on his Telegram channel. Earlier, the head of the Safe Internet League, Ekaterina Mizulina, accused him of promoting pedophilia and promised to contact the Investigative Committee in connection with a video in which Podnebesny kisses and holds the breast of a 15-year-old girl.

In the village of Glushkovo in the Kursk region, two men in uniform robbed a mobile phone store. Video from surveillance cameras was posted on the Telegram channel "Typical Kursk" on Sunday evening. Journalists from "Agency" identified one of the looters as a serviceman from a Chechen unit. In the video, the men enter the salon through a broken window, clean out the display cases and take out boxes of goods. The robbers take turns trying to knock down the door to the next room, but they fail.

People who share “traditional spiritual and moral values” will be able to obtain permission to live in Russia without having to go through mandatory procedures, for example, without taking a language test. Vladimir Putin signed a decree on this. Benefits for obtaining a temporary residence permit, according to the text of the document, will become "humanitarian support" for people who do not accept the policies of their home countries.