St. Petersburg investigators have opened a criminal case on insulting the feelings of believers because of an inscription at an Orthodox church. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg. The department reported that on July 30, an inscription "offensive to the feelings of believers" was found on the arch of the building adjacent to the church, spray-painted. On August 2, security forces detained the suspect, a 22-year-old St. Petersburg resident.

Prosecutor Daniil Mandrygin demanded that the punishment for spouses Anastasia Dyudyaeva and Aleksandr Dotsenko, convicted in the case of calls for terrorism because of napkins with the words "Putinyak to the gallows," was increased. This was reported by the human rights project "Support for political prisoners. Memorial" with reference to lawyer Sergei Podolsky. In his appeal, Mandrygin demands that the couple be sentenced to four years in a general regime penal colony.

At least six Russian soldiers were captured during fighting in the Kursk region. This is evidenced by a video taken from a drone, the Telegram channel "Pepel" reports . Two of the prisoners are conscripts, writes "Important Stories". Videos of two captured Russian servicemen are published by Ukrainian media and Telegram channels, including UNIAN. In the recordings, the young men give their names - Danil Kolesnikov and Maksim Khyamelyainen.

Perm photographer Grigory Skvortsov, who was arrested in Moscow on charges of treason, wrote in a letter from a pretrial detention center that a criminal case was opened against him because of a publicly available book about Soviet bunkers. Skvortsov's letter is cited by the human rights project "First Department".

Screenshot from the Kurgan Regional Philharmonic’s YouTube channel Pianist Pavel Kushnir died after a dry hunger strike in a detention center in Birobidzhan, a remote town near the Chinese border that serves as the capital of Russia’s Jewish Autonomous Region. A week after his death, neither the Federal Penitentiary Service nor the prosecutor’s office has commented officially on the incident.

The Russian Defense Ministry reported that 11 tanks and 20 armored vehicles of the Ukrainian Armed Forces took part in the morning battles in the Kursk region. The department sent reserve troops to the area of ​​the clashes. As stated in the Defense Ministry’s report, at around 8:00 a.m., 300 people from the 2nd Mechanized Brigade of the Ukrainian Armed Forces attacked the Russian border.

The St. Petersburg City Court sentenced Alexei Efimenko to seven years of imprisonment in a maximum security penal colony in a case of espionage (Article 276 of the Criminal Code), the joint press service of city courts reported . The press service clarified to Mediazona that Efimenko is a citizen of Ukraine. The details of the case against him are unknown; it was heard behind closed doors, like all other espionage cases.

Three people were killed and 18 more were injured as a result of shelling of the Kursk region from Ukraine, the acting governor of the region, Alexey Smirnov, reported on the Telegram channel. One resident of the city of Sudzha died. In the village of Nekhaevka in the Rylsky district, a minibus driver died as a result of a drone attack. Another bus driver died in the village of Komarovka.

Russia has begun supplying Iran with advanced radar and air defense equipment, the New York Times claims , citing two Iranian officials, one of whom serves in the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The New York Times sources called it part of the preparation for an attack on Israel. According to the newspaper, Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ordered a direct strike on Israel in response to the assassination of Hamas Politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh.

On the morning of August 6, the Russian army launched an Iskander missile strike on the Shevchenkivskyi district of Kharkov, reported the head of the regional administration, Oleg Sinegubov. According to Sinegubov, doctors provided assistance to at least five injured local residents. Two women were hospitalized for surgery, the rest were sent for outpatient treatment. According to the head of the Kharkiv regional administration, a clinic, cars and other civilian infrastructure were damaged.

The 235th Garrison Military Court sent the former head of the Defense Ministry's clothing department, Vladimir Demchik, to pretrial detention, the Investigative Committee reported . Demchik, who held the position until April 2018, was accused of receiving a bribe from a supplier under government contracts (Part 6 of Article 290 of the Criminal Code).

The largest telecom operators have received notifications about the slowdown of video playback speeds on YouTube in Russia to 128 kilobits per second on home Internet. A source in the telecommunications market told Meduza about this. The fact that Moscow has effectively introduced a limit of 128 kilobits per second for YouTube was written about on August 1 by an information security specialist under the pseudonym ValdikSS.

Former head of Alexei Navalny's headquarters in Ufa, Liliya Chanysheva, wrote her first post after being released as part of a prisoner exchange between Russia and the West. "For all these two years and nine months, you have defended me and fought for my release, covered the case, wrote me letters, sent me parcels and sent packages - in general, you worried and supported me in any way you could. I am immensely grateful to you all for this and for being there," Chanysheva said.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow has issued an in absentia verdict in the case of military "fakes" to journalist Dmitry Kolezev, former editor-in-chief of Republic and founder of the Yekaterinburg publication It's my City . As reported by the Network Freedoms project, he was sentenced in absentia to seven years and six months in prison.

Against the 53-year-old Kaliningrad nurse and activist Elena Nikolaenkova opened a criminal case due to a message in Telegram with the mention of the “Russian Volunteer Corps” (RDK). About this "North. The realities ” said her acquaintance. On the night of August 2, Nikolayenkova was searched on the night of August 2, she was detained in the case of justification of terrorism (part 2 of Article 205 of the Criminal Code). The same Sotavision was reported by human rights activist Vadim Khairullin.