Bloomberg News has fired its senior White House correspondent Jennifer Jacobs, who co-authored an embargoed article about Wall Street Journal correspondent Evan Gershkovich and former Marine Paul Whelan being released as part of a swap. The first to report the dismissal was Charlotte Klein of New York Magazine , citing a source, and later two sources confirmed it to Washington Post reporter Elahe Izadi, who specializes in media market news.

The wife of the mobilized soldier, Maria Andreeva, said in her Telegram channel that she was fired from her job due to her status as a “foreign agent.” In her publication, Andreeva shared a link to a post by politician Yulia Galyamina, in which she commented on an interview with designer and blogger Artemy Lebedev by journalist Yuri Dud.

An explosion occurred at the Avangard plant in Sterlitamak, killing three people. This was reported to RBC Ufa by the state corporation Rostec, which owns the enterprise. The explosion occurred in a workshop that was being prepared for demolition, Rostec said.

The son of a participant in the war in Ukraine, expelled from MIPT after the first session for poor academic performance, re-entered the Phystech School of Applied Mathematics and Informatics at the university under the same quota for children of war participants. Dmitry Zh. himself wrote about this in a Telegram channel, and Important Stories drew attention to this. Dmitry's blog is called "DimaShina vs. MIPT".

The Ministry of Justice added the international educational project Education First, the Assembly of the Peoples of the Caucasus, and the association of anti-war Russians in Poland Ostmost to the register of “undesirable” organizations. It is not known what exactly caused each case to be included on the list. According to the Ministry of Justice, the Prosecutor General's Office declared these organizations "undesirable" on July 16.

The Supreme Court of Kabardino-Balkaria sentenced a Ukrainian to 12 years in a maximum security penal colony on charges of espionage (Article 276 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the republic's prosecutor's office. The name of the accused is unknown. According to information from the court file, the verdict was issued on July 15. The court retired to the deliberation room on April 15, but for some reason the hearings were postponed several times.

The Prosecutor General's Office has declared the activities of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, named after the first Chancellor of Germany, "undesirable" in Russia.

Raiffeisenbank has suspended the possibility of opening new brokerage accounts for retail investors since July 26. This was reported by RBC with reference to the bank's press service. Raiffeisenbank said it was "forced to gradually reduce the volume of operations on the Russian market" due to the European Central Bank's (ECB) order to the RBI group. In April, the ECB outlined parameters for RBI to reduce business in Russia.

Dozens of pro-government activists came to the Sandarmokh memorial cemetery in Karelia, where mass shootings took place during the time of Joseph Stalin, on the Day of Remembrance of the Victims of the Great Terror. As From Karelia with freedom and Memorial write, they are preventing representatives of foreign embassies from remembering the repressed.

Rostov investigators of the Western Interregional Investigative Department for Transport have opened a criminal case on attempted terrorist attack (Part 3 of Article 30 and paragraph "a" of Part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code) due to arson on the railway. This was reported in the department's Telegram channel. According to the investigation, on July 31, two residents of the city of Azov, aged 17 and 20, set fire to a transformer substation on the railway section "Bataisk-Azov".

In Moscow, the director of the Patriot Park, Vyacheslav Akhmedov, was arrested in a fraud case (Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the Investigative Committee. As reported by a Mediazona correspondent, the 235th Garrison Military Court arrested Akhmedov on Saturday, August 3. He will remain in pretrial detention until at least September 21. Akhmedov is not listed as an active military serviceman.

The indictment was read out in the courtroom in the case of bodybuilder blogger Alexander Shpak, against whom a case was brought in absentia for disseminating "fakes" about the army. This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the Basmanny District Court of Moscow. The reason was a three-minute reel by Shpak on Instagram, which he filmed after the breakthrough of the Kakhovka hydroelectric power station on June 6, 2023.

The mother of pianist and anti-war activist Pavel Kushnir, Irina Levina, confirmed to Mediazona his death in pretrial detention center No. 1 in Birobidzhan as a result of a hunger strike. "The FSB investigator from Birobidzhan told me. July 28 of this year. From a hunger strike," she said. The details and official cause of her son's death are still unknown. According to Levina, the investigator said that they were trying to help her son. "They say they helped.

Lieutenant Colonel Irek Magasumov, who was found guilty in June of murdering an 18-year-old resident of Lugansk, has returned to the front. This was reported on Saturday, August 3, by the publications Tatar-inform and . Today, August 5, Magasumov's wife Anna confirmed to Business Online that her husband had returned to the war. In particular, the lieutenant colonel was captured in a video of a captured Ukrainian soldier being interrogated, which was published by the Telegram channel "Mad Dogs".

REN TV and Russia Today have published a video of the arrest of Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich and Marine Paul Whelan. RT calls the recordings its "exclusive", REN TV directly refers to the FSB. The video of Gershkovich shows the journalist talking to a man whose face is blurred in a restaurant, and then men in civilian clothes approach him. One of the men grabs Gershkovich by the head, after which he is handcuffed. The footage also shows the journalist lying on the floor.