Grass and several private houses caught fire in the city of Proletarsk in the Rostov region, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reports . To the east of the city is an oil depot where a fire started on the night of August 18 due to an attack by Ukrainian drones. According to eyewitness footage published by Privet-Rostov.ru and “This is Rostov,” the grass is burning next to the railroad in the north of the city, in Kolpakova Lane in the Khundushka area.

Today, the Ministry of Justice removed three organizations from the register of “foreign agents” that, after receiving the status, liquidated their legal entities and ceased operations. These are the Siberian publication "Taiga-info", the Anglo-American School in Moscow, where the children of Western diplomats studied, and the organization "Ecodefense! Women's Council" of the Kaliningrad ecologist Alexandra Koroleva. "Ecodefense! Women's Council" has been on the register since 2014.

The 1st Western District Military Court sentenced 22-year-old Komi resident Nikita Igushev, accused of treason, to 15 years in prison. This was reported by the press service of the St. Petersburg courts. The young man must spend the first two and a half years of his sentence in prison, and the rest of his term in a maximum security penal colony.

Test voting was held in Moscow on the eve of the next September elections. As a Mediazona correspondent found out, now at the polling stations not only are paper ballots not offered, but passports are not checked either. This makes it possible to vote using someone else's document. This possibility was enshrined on July 4 in the new “Procedure for Remote Electronic Voting” .

The Armavir City Court of Krasnodar Krai sentenced five participants in the riots at the Makhachkala airport to up to nine years in a general regime penal colony. This was reported by the court's press service. Anvarbek Atayev, Islam Ibragimov and Salik Ramazanov were sentenced to six years and four months in prison. Magomed Omaraskhabov was sentenced to six and a half years in prison, and Rabadan Radzhabov to nine.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation for the Novosibirsk Region is investigating a criminal case regarding the suicide of 17-year-old sambo wrestler Ksenia Cheponova, who moved to Gorno-Altaisk two years ago to study at the Olympic Reserve Sports College.

FSB officers detained Novosibirsk activist Yuri Izmailov after a search. This was reported by OVD-Info, citing his acquaintance. According to her, the security forces hit the man's head on the floor twice. After that, Izmailov felt ill, started bleeding and had an epileptic seizure. A criminal case has been opened against the activist for participation in a terrorist organization (Part 2 of Article 205.5 of the Criminal Code). He is accused of intending to join the "Russian Volunteer Corps".

Ruslan Dosaev in "Nikola-Lenivts" on August 14, 2024. Photo: Personal page on Instagram After the completion of one of the largest festivals of electronic music in Russia, the bartender and DJ Ruslan Dosaev died. Several people beat him - among them was a guard who had previously worked at the festival. The DJs were tied with a cable and, judging by the published video, strangled with a knee. Mediazona talked with the immediate witness of Dosaev’s death and says what is known about this.

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow in absentia arrested the producer of the Utube Live Yutub-channel Nina Volokhonskaya in a criminal case on participation in the “extremist community” (part 282.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported on the court website. On August 16, Volokhonskaya was included in the list of “terrorists and extremists”, which is conducting Rosfinmonitoring.

The Yeisk City Court of Krasnodar Krai partially satisfied three claims against the structure of the Ministry of Defense from families affected by the crash of the Su-34 aircraft on a multi-story building. This is reported by Kommersant. The Bondarenko, Bulychev and Kuzmyak families were awarded between 236 and 935 thousand rubles as compensation for the cost of destroyed property: furniture, cars and household appliances.