Art: Mari Msukanidze / Mediazona In the summer of 2021, the @donate bot emerged in Telegram messaging app, allowing channel owners to easily collect donations from readers. Many channel owners gradually adopted it. A year later, after the war in Ukraine had begun, Telegram started offering Premium accounts, but it was impossible to pay for them from Russia due to sanctions, so @PremiumBot emerged, allowing to bypass the restrictions.

Deputy Mayor of Bucha Mikhailina Skorik-Szkarovska said at a press conference following the identification of the bodies of local residents that 458 people have died in the city since the beginning of the war, reports . Suspilne Noviny According to Skorik-Shkarovskaya, 419 people were killed during the Russian army's offensive on Bucha, including 12 city residents under the age of 21. 116 bodies were found in a mass grave near the Church of St.

The Tverskoy District Court changed the measure of restraint for musician and photographer Grigory Mumrikov, who was arrested in May, to house arrest. This was reported in the telegram channel “Freedom for Grisha Mumrikov.” Mumrikov was sent to a pre-trial detention center on May 24 as a suspect in attempted hooliganism committed by a group of people motivated by ideological hatred (Part 3 of Article 30; Part 2 of Article 213 of the Criminal Code).

The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Jehovah's Witnesses Alexander Serebryakov and Yuri Temirbulatov to six and a half years probation in the case of an extremist organization. This was reported on the website of Jehovah's Witnesses in Russia. The prosecutor requested six and a half years in a general regime colony for the believers.

Photo: Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters. Collage: Mediazone In the Zaporizhzhya region, a referendum on “reunification” is being prepared, Western microcircuits were found in Russian missiles, a new blow has been inflicted on the Antonov bridge, which has not yet opened after shelling.

The data of participants in the Tele2 loyalty program has become publicly available , reports the Telegram channel “Information Leaks”. A representative of the operator told TASS that the company began an internal investigation into the leak. According to the Telegram channel, more than seven and a half million lines with the full name, telephone numbers and gender of Tele2 clients were leaked.

The head of the Donetsk Republic, Denis Pushilin, confirmed that the cells, photographs of which were previously published by Deputy Mayor of Mariupol Pyotr Andryushchenko, are intended for the upcoming “tribunal” of the Azov military. An excerpt from an interview with the head of the DPR to Russia 24 was published by Andryushchenko. “I can definitely confirm that preparations for the tribunal are being carried out exactly as we announced, exactly as we plan.

warehouse The fire at the Ozon in the Istra district of the Moscow region was completely extinguished five days after the fire broke out. this with reference to the main department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. reports RIA Novosti As the department clarified , today at 18:00 work began to eliminate the consequences of the fire. The fire started on August 3 and was reported around 1 p.m. Half an hour earlier, warehouse employees were evacuated.

The Center for Strategic Communications, created by the Ministry of Culture of Ukraine to combat fake news, accused Amnesty International of using testimonies from people from Russian filtration camps and prisons for their report on violations by the Ukrainian military. The center, citing unnamed sources, claims that “most of the materials for the report” were provided by people who were in Russian-controlled territories.

The Vesti program on the Rossiya-1 channel showed an excerpt from Nikita Mikhalkov’s Besogon TV program, where the director talks about the death of prisoner Konstantin Tulinov, who went to war with Ukraine from a colony. attention to this . drew The Agency Mikhalkov claims that in the spring of 2022, the convicted Tulinov “submitted a petition” to be sent to the front.

Illustration: Sam Green / The Atavist Magazine At the very end of the Cold War, Rainer Uctag contributed to the formation of a neo -Nazi movement in Germany, which causes problems today, decades later. And he was an agent of the KGB - and worked for Vladimir Putin. With the permission of The ATAVIST, Mediazona, publishes a translation of a large historical and political investigation about how Putin studied a real policy in Germany in practice.

The Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow fined ex-editor of Channel One Marina Ovsyannikova 40 thousand rubles for an anti-war post. She herself spoke about this on Facebook. The protocol on the article on “discrediting” the army (Article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) was drawn up because of Ovsyannikova’s post of June 12, which began with the words “I am ashamed of my country.” “I was shocked when I learned that over 30 million Russians live without central sewerage.

The Central District Court of Kaliningrad sentenced activist Vadim Khairullin to a year in a general regime colony under the “Dada” article on repeated violations of the rules of rallies (212.1 of the Criminal Code). The press service of the court reported this. 50-year-old Khairullin was found guilty of going to a rally in support of oppositionist Alexei Navalny on April 21, 2021, although he had a year under administrative law for public actions (20.2 of the Administrative Code).

The weapons the Russian army is using in its war with Ukraine—including the Kh-101 cruise missiles and Iskander missiles—are critically dependent on Western electronics, the equivalent of which Russia cannot produce itself. Some components for such weapons could have been sent to Russia after the introduction of sanctions in 2014.

The 1st Eastern District Military Court of Kuzbass sentenced Sanatjon Khaldarov and Mukhamajon Niyazov to 11 and 13 years in prison in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. This was reported on the court’s website; drew attention to the verdict. the SOVA human rights center Both were found guilty under the article on participation in the activities of a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code).