Vladimir Putin signed a law requiring bloggers and owners of Telegram channels with at least 10,000 subscribers to transfer their data to Roskomnadzor. The document was published on the legal acts portal. The document states that bloggers with the specified audience who have not reported themselves to Roskomnadzor are prohibited from posting advertisements and collecting donations, and other channels cannot repost their publications.

The parents of 18-year-old Ayshat Magomedova released her from Dagestan after they forcibly took the girl from Moscow to the republic, the human rights project Marem reports . According to human rights activists, on August 7, investigators took Magomedova to Makhachkala for a forensic medical examination, where they documented the beatings, and then brought her back to Kizilyurt to her relatives.

Evacuated residents from the town of Sudzha at a temporary accommodation centre, August 8, 2024. Photo: Vladimir Gerdo / TASS Residents of Sudzha, a small Russian town just 10 kilometres from the Ukrainian border, are fleeing for their lives as Ukrainian forces launch a major offensive in the area.

Vladimir Putin signed more than 50 laws, including documents banning smartphones at the front and expanding the powers of bailiffs. Putin also allowed any foreign organizations to be recognized as "undesirable" and banned trash streams. All laws are published on the legal acts portal. The law banning smartphones allows military personnel to be placed under "disciplinary arrest" without a military court ruling.

Evacuated from the city of Suzha residents at a temporary accommodation point on August 8, 2024. Photo: Vladimir Gerdo / TASS In the border regions of the Kursk region, battles between the forces of the Armed Forces and the Russian army have been going on for the third day. It did not work out to recapture the Ukrainian offensive during this time, the battles are also coming near Sudzhi - a city with five thousand inhabitants ten kilometers from the border.

The FSB has detained 18-year-old Vadim Tomilov, a resident of the city of Irbit in the Sverdlovsk region, in connection with a case of attempted participation in a terrorist organization. A source for Vecherniye Vedomosti reported that this happened back in the spring. The source told the publication that Tomilov planned to go to Ukraine and fight against Russia. According to information from the website of the Verkh-Isetsky District Court of Yekaterinburg, the young man was arrested on May 23.

Judge of the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow Albina Galimova approved the investigator's motion to close the trial of pensioner Konstantin Seleznev about military "fakes" (clause "d" of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom.

The Russian Federation of Electronic Sports has stopped holding tournaments for the game League of Legends because it contains LGBT characters. The head of the organization, Dmitry Smith, told RTVI about this. According to him, the American company Riot Games , which produces League of Legends, “pursues an aggressive policy in terms of promoting LGBT issues.” And this, Smith continues, is contrary to Russian laws.

A six-year-old boy and his 23-year-old brother were killed in a Russian airstrike in the Sumy region of Ukraine, the country's Interior Ministry reported . The Sumy regional administration specifies that the strike was carried out on the village of Mogritsa. The dead were in the courtyard of the school that was hit by the shell.

The Mariinsky City Court of the Kemerovo Region has sent investigator Oksana Knyazeva, who fatally hit a pensioner on the side of the road, to a pretrial detention center. This was reported by the court's press service. A criminal case was opened against Knyazeva for violating traffic rules while intoxicated, resulting in the death of a person (clause “a” of part 4 of article 264 of the Criminal Code).

The Southern District Military Court sentenced Ukrainian Nikolai Zabirko to five years and six months in a maximum security penal colony in the case of the attempted assassination of the former head of the occupation administration of Mariupol, Konstantin Ivaschenko. This was reported to Mediazona by the court's press service. The prosecution asked for a 13-year prison sentence .

Illustration: Maria Tolstova / Mediazone The Russian authorities carefully hide the real number of those who died in the war in Ukraine, but from the very beginning of a full -scale invasion of record pace and in a variety of ways, they are trying to perpetuate the memory of the “Heroes of Svo”. Memorial boards, monuments in cemeteries, mobile exhibitions, “Heroes of Heroes” - all this becomes an invaluable source for collecting data on Russian losses.

Russian YouTube users are reporting large-scale disruptions in the video hosting service. This is evidenced by data from the Downdetector and Sboy.rf services. For some, YouTube doesn't work even when using a VPN . "Sboi.rf" recorded that more than six thousand users complained about the problems on the morning of August 8. Commentators on the DTF platform note that videos do not load, including in the YouTube mobile app on Android .

Moscow Regional Court Judge Natalya Valikova sentenced Mikhail Baranov, a top manager at the Lukhovitsky Aviation Plant in the Moscow Region, to nine years, a Mediazona correspondent reports from the courtroom.

The Central District Military Court sentenced Rustam Fararitdinov, the brother of Bashkir activist and political emigrant Ruslan Gabbasov, to five and a half years in prison, Idel.Realii reports . The first two and a half years of the sentence will be spent in prison, the rest of the term - in a maximum security penal colony. Fararitdinov was found guilty of assisting terrorist activity (Part 1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code).