of Cheboksary released two local residents from punishment in the case of damage to the installation with the letter Z. Judicial precinct No. 7 of the Leninsky District Court This was reported by the regional department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs; the case file is available on the court’s website. Nikolai Mikhailov and Andrei Fedorov were given court fines of 20 thousand rubles each.

Russia and Türkiye have agreed to partially pay for gas in rubles. this with reference to Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Novak. reports Interfax Presidents Vladimir Putin and Recem Erdogan reached an agreement during four-hour talks in Sochi. As a result, a joint statement was published on the Kremlin website , but it does not say anything about gas supplies. “We are gradually switching to payment in national currency; part of the supplies will already be paid in Russian rubles.

Point of temporary placement of refugees in the village of Bezhymenaya, DPR. Photo: Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS On August 1, the State Duma submitted a bill on the ban on adoption and guardianship for citizens of “unfriendly countries”. Perhaps he will affect not only Russian orphans, but also hundreds of thousands of children who were taken to Russia from Ukraine during the war: it seems that in the event of adoption of amendments, Ukrainians will not be able to adopt them.

Bulgaria has stopped issuing tourist visas to Russians. This was reported by the Association of Tour Operators. Visas for property owners were also banned. Bulgaria made this decision in response to Russia declaring 14 diplomats persona non grata. Russia, in turn, did this after expelling 70 Russian diplomats whom Bulgaria suspected of espionage.

The Investigative Committee is investigating three criminal cases due to the leak of Yandex.Food user data. This was reported by Network Freedom with reference to the response of State Duma deputy Mikhail Romanov. Based on the leak, a criminal case was opened on violation of privacy (Part 1 of Article 137 of the Criminal Code), unlawful access to computer information (Part 3 of Article 272 of the Criminal Code) and the use of malicious programs (Part 2 of Article 273 of the Criminal Code).

Illustration: Maria Granatkina / Mediazona Two entrepreneurs from Pskov in northwestern Russia set out to deliver humanitarian aid to the Kharkiv region in Ukraine. Immediately after crossing the border, the two men went missing. Their wives are desperately trying to employ the help of Russian authorities in searching for their husbands. Mediazona reports on how patriotic ambition may put one in the fast lane to the frightful unknown.

In St. Petersburg, the Ministry of Internal Affairs resumed the investigation into the criminal case of the explosion of a smoke bomb during a meeting of deputies on the porch of the Smolninskoye municipality in August 2021. This follows from the response of the department’s main department for the region to a request from municipal deputy Nikita Yuferev. The case was initiated under paragraph “a” of part 1 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code (hooliganism).

The Volzhsky City Court of the Volgograd Region ordered activist Vyacheslav Koshelev to undergo compulsory treatment in a psychiatric hospital in a case of violence against a security officer. This was announced by the head of the human rights group Agora, Pavel Chikov.

Ministry of Justice lawyer Nikolai Kolpakov was fired due to critical statements about the authorities on social networks and “strongly negative” edits to an article about the war in the Ukrainian Wikipedia, written under a pseudonym. this He reported to the human rights project Roskomsvoboda and confirmed it in a conversation with Mediazona. According to Kolpakov, he has been editing Wikipedia since 2006, where there are “groupings” of editors with different political views.

The Latvian Embassy in Russia will not issue visas of all types for Russians for an indefinite period. This is stated on the Twitter account of the diplomatic mission. “The Latvian Embassy in Russia has indefinitely suspended the acceptance of visa applications for citizens of the Russian Federation, except for [visas] to attend the funeral of a close relative,” the publication said. The Latvian Foreign Ministry announced the suspension of the issuance of Latvian tourist visas on February 24.

The investigator for the Admiralteysky District of St. Petersburg dropped the case of a false report of mining (Part 2 of Article 207 of the Criminal Code) against femme activist Lelya Nordik. This follows from a copy of the resolution published by the head of Agora, Pavel Chikov.

Russian military personnel in the territory of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, May 1, 2022. Photo: AP On August 3, the director of the IAEA Rafael Grossy called on Moscow and Kyiv to allow experts to the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which has been occupied by Russian troops for several months. According to him, the battles continuing near her threaten to turn into a disaster.

Novosibirsk scientist and Director of the Institute of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics of the SB RAS Alexander Shiplyuk was arrested in the case of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code) and sent to the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. This was reported by Kommersant and TASS with reference to the scientific director of the institute, Vasily Fomin.

The Russian Foreign Ministry declared 14 more employees of Bulgarian diplomatic missions persona non grata. This is reported on the department's website. The ministry explained this decision as a response to the expulsion of 70 Russian diplomats from Bulgaria, whom the country's authorities suspected of espionage.

A resident of Uglegorsk, Sakhalin Region, Lyudmila Anikeeva, who threw a moldy shoe at Mayor Dmitry Tsukanov, was given a new two-room apartment. this in his telegram channel . announced Governor Valery Limarenko, who attended the meeting with residents, “I saw that the local administration does not hear people and does not solve their problems. This especially concerns the critical issue of relocation from emergency housing.