Rutube has banned downloading the iOS application in all countries except Russia. This is stated in the video hosting telegram channel. “This decision was made so that Russian-speaking users of the service, most of whom live in the Russian Federation, could download the Rutube application on iPhone ,” the message says. Prior to this, the service had already limited the downloading of the application in the AppStore for all countries except Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan.

In Vsevolozhsk, Leningrad Region, an administrative protocol was drawn up against SOTA correspondent and editor of the telegram channel “PIATNITSA” Victoria Arefyeva about “discrediting” the Russian army. about this . She informed her colleagues Arefieva was detained on August 16 in a beauty salon and taken to city police station No. 128.

The editors of the magazine “New Story-Newspaper” (“NO”) drew up an administrative protocol on “discrediting” the Russian army, the publication reported . The reason for this was the text of Alexander Minkin, which cites the case materials under the same article about the “discrediting” of the military because of a poster with a quote from Leo Tolstoy, as well as the columns “The Empire must go brutal ” by Andrei Kolesnikov and “ Chronicles of the Arkanar squabble ” by Kirill Fokin.

Fire trucks in the Dzhankoy district of Crimea, August 16, 2022. Photo: Reuters After the explosions in the north of Crimea, an ammunition warehouse, an important transformer station and the railway - the Ministry of Defense - the Ministry of Defense unexpectedly did not write them off to careless handling of fire and accused the saboteurs. The FSB in the Kursk region, in turn, accused the saboteurs of the tramas of the power lines leading to the nuclear power plant.

The Omsk Garrison Military Court sentenced the defendants in the case of the collapse of a barracks and the death of 24 servicemen in 2015. this . reports Kommersant Colonel and commander of the Airborne Forces training center Oleg Ponomarev, who was accused of exceeding his official powers, was released from liability by the court due to the expiration of the statute of limitations.

Latvia’s ruling coalition “New Unity” has agreed that temporary residence permits for Russian citizens will be extended only in exceptional cases. about this . Delfi told Prime Minister Krisjanis Karins The politician did not specify what kind of exceptions he was talking about. According to Karins, the Latvian government will make a concrete decision on this issue in the coming weeks.

Moskovsky Komsomolets journalist Lev Speransky spoke about the search in his apartment. According to Speransky, several police officers came to see him, and only the investigators showed their IDs. “They are accused of libel and extortion, extortion of allegedly 50 thousand dollars,” the journalist said. He clarified that we are talking about a case initiated in 2018. The journalist claims that the incident is related to his professional activities.

Photo: Cyril Kuhamar / TASS The founder of the Rus Sitting Foundation Olga Romanova wrote on Facebook that relatives of prisoners began to turn to human rights defenders, who, allegedly, are recruited to the Wagner PMC and sent to Ukraine. Mediazona spoke with the coordinator of Rus Sitting Inna Bazhibina, who communicates with the loved ones close and reads their letters every day. - How do you learn about the recruitment of prisoners?

Finland will halve the number of visa applications from Russians. This as reported by channel . the Yle was announced by the head of the consular service department of the Finnish Foreign Ministry, Jussi Tanner, “On average, 500 applications will be accepted per day - compared to 1,000 now. Of [these] 500 [applications], 100 will be applications for visas for tourist purposes,” the channel recounts his words.

Swiss chocolate and confectionery manufacturer Lindt & Sprüngli announced its complete withdrawal from the Russian market. The company intends to support its employees in Russia, but how exactly is not specified. Lindt produces chocolate under the brands Swiss Classic, Excellence, Lindor, P&M, Caffarellino and others. After the Russian invasion of Ukraine began, the company closed its stores in Russia.

Smoke from the explosion on the territory of the temporary storage of ammunition of one of the military units in the area of ​​the village of Mayskoye. Photo: Sergey Malgavko / TASS In Crimea, the explosions again - exactly a week after the destruction of aircraft at the airfield in Saki. This time, the Russian Ministry of Defense connected explosions in the ammunition warehouse not with “violation of fire safety rules”, but with “sabotage”.

In the AppStore application store, the Follow and Invster Applications appeared . Their design coincides with Sberbank's mobile applications for the iPhones Sberbank Online and Sberinvestor , which were deleted in April due to US sanctions. The press service of the bank in the commentary of RBC recommended that customers use the fusion. Whether Sberbank has an attitude towards him, they did not say there.

The magistrate of precinct No. 422 of the Tagansky district of Moscow fined Telegram and Twitch 11 and two million rubles for failing to delete information about the war in Ukraine. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the court. Telegram was given two fines: four and seven million rubles. The first was for refusing to delete the “Look for Your Own” channel, where they publish data about Russian military personnel participating in battles in Ukraine.

Ukrainian saboteurs blew up power line supports that supply facilities in the Kursk region, including the local nuclear power plant. The FSB reported this, reports . RIA Novosti According to the FSB, the Ukrainians carried out the bombings three times - on August 4, 9 and 12. As a result, the “technological process of functioning of the nuclear power plant” was disrupted.

In the Krasnodar Territory, at the entrance to the prosecutor's office of the Gulkevichsky district, the former head of the district, Leonid Gutrits, shot himself. Photos from the scene were posted by telegram channels and “Tin of Krasnodar and the Region” . A suicide note was found on 65-year-old Gutritz, Gulkevichi News claims .