Novaya Gazeta journalist Elena Milashina suggests that the attack on her and lawyer Alexander Nemov in Grozny is connected with their search for former employee of the Republican National Guard Yasin Khalidov. about this She wrote in the article “Chechen Edward Snowden” on the Novaya Gazeta website. In the spring, Yasin Khalidov tried to leave Russia after he told the opposition Chechen telegram channel 1ADAT information about the methods of work of security forces in the republic.

On the libertarian Mikhail Svetov , a former member of the “What? Where? When?" Rovshan Askerov and lawyer Ilya Novikov drew up protocols on violation of the activities of a “foreign agent”. Mediazona found information about this in the database of Moscow courts. According to the case files, Svetov, Askerov and Novikov did not provide the Ministry of Justice with reports on their activities (Part 2 of Article 19.34 of the Administrative Code).

A man detonated a grenade near Moscow City, telegram channels Mash , Baza and 112 report . According to Mash and 112, he also had a pistol with him. Baza writes that the man had a conflict with the owner of one of the cars parked near Moscow City, after which he threw a grenade into the car’s interior and then ran away. The shock wave knocked out her windows. 112 calls the grenade a training one. According to the telegram channel, the driver was not injured.

The 2nd Western District Military Court in Moscow sentenced Russian Railways landscaper Ivan Yepikhin, who was detained in the spring because of anti-war leaflets, to three years in prison. OVD-Info about this A representative of the court told . The man was also banned from administering websites for a year. As wrote ASTRA , security forces detained Epikhin in March in the village of Tovarkovo, Kaluga Region.

Yekaterina Mikryukova. Photo: personal archive ‘She should go to trial for defamation [of the Russian army]!’, ‘You’re fucked’, ‘Arrogant cunt!’ — These are only some of the hostile messages that 26 year old Muscovite Ekaterina Mikryukova received. Just last week she was working at a clinic and trying to make a military dormitory into a cosy home, and only a few days passed before she had to hastily leave the country.

Ukrainian Sergei Okrushko, arrested on suspicion of sabotage at an oil refinery in Samara (Article 281 of the Criminal Code), was beaten in a pre-trial detention center. the Solidarity Zone project about this Lawyer Zakhar Lebedev told . Lebedev became Okrushko's lawyer on August 1. Today, August 3, the defense attorney visited the man and learned that he had refused his services.

The Government Commission on Legislative Activities approved a draft on criminal liability for evading conscription for military mobilization, sources in the Cabinet of Ministers told Vedomosti. about this TASS writes with reference to the text of a positive review. We are talking about the initiative of the head of the State Duma Committee on Defense Andrei Kartapolov, who proposed introducing a separate punishment for evasion of service during mobilization and martial law.

In the Kamensk-Uralsky Sverdlovsk region, two men attacked a 18-year-old girl Victoria, her mother Irina told KU66 . This happened on August 1 near the Elephant fountain. Irina claims that the attackers - “shouted to the whole yard”, that they participated in “Svo”. “Everything hit the cameras. They did not like appearance, they say, she looks like a Jewish and blue hair, ”said the girl’s mother.

The director of the Ural Vecherniye Vedomosti newspaper, Guzel Aitkulova, was summoned to the police to draw up a report on “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code). this The publication itself reported . Vecherniye Vedomosti added that the security forces found a number of publications that, according to their version, “discredit” the Russian military. Aitkulova needs to come to the police department on August 9.

In July 2023, President Vladimir Putin signed a record number of secret decrees - 62% of the presidential documents were not published. This is evidenced by the calculations of "Mediazons" on the serial numbers of the presidential decrees. All decrees of the President are numbered in order from the beginning of the year. If any number in the published documents is not found, then it was assigned to a secret decree.

The Prosecutor General's Office declared the Wilfried Martens Center for European Studies an "undesirable organization." this .

Photo: Justin Yau / Sipa Usa / Reuters Kherson's rescue services work the whole war. Even during the occupation, firefighters remained in the city: they refused to take fuel from Russians, but thanks to volunteers they had the opportunity to go on fires. Now they are fighting with the consequences of shelling of Russian artillery - and themselves become their victims.

In the village of Achkasovo, Voskresensky district, near Moscow, a battery production workshop caught fire, seven people were evacuated. this to RIA Novosti . reported Sources in emergency services Later, data about the fire in the Voskresensk area was confirmed by the Ministry of Emergency Situations. “The fire area has increased to 400 square meters. The roof collapsed. According to preliminary information, there were no casualties.

The Dutch coffee and tea producer JDE Peet's will stop selling goods under foreign brands in Russia by the end of the year, according to their report for the first half of the year ( .pdf ). attention to it drew Reuters . JDE Peet's owns brands such as Jacobs , Tassimo, L'Or , Carte Noire and Douwe Egberts - in Russia they sold coffee under them, including instant, ground and capsules. A complete list of products available in Russia is on the manufacturer’s website ( .pdf ).

The magistrate of Moscow court district No. 422 fined the Wikimedia Foundation, which supports Wikipedia, 3 million rubles. Mediazona was informed about this by the press service of the Tagansky District Court. The Foundation was found guilty of failure to remove prohibited information (Part 2 of Article 13.41 of the Administrative Code).