Residents of Severodvinsk and Arkhangelsk bought up iodine in pharmacies after a liquid propellant propulsion system exploded at a military facility in the Arkhangelsk region, 29.ru reports. Journalists contacted 15 different pharmacies: in some of them they reported that iodine was not available, in others they spoke about the high demand for the product. After the explosion of a jet engine, the administration of Severodvinsk reported a short-term increase in the radiation background.

In 2018, 26,955 children with malignant oncological diseases were treated in Russian dispensaries. This is stated in the materials of Rosstat ( .xls ), citing data from the Russian Ministry of Health. This is a record figure since 2008, when Rosstat began keeping such statistics. For comparison: in 2008 there were 16.6 thousand children, in 2017 - 25.8 thousand.

How Russian security officials searched Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation, froze its assets, and fumbled numbers in the case against it Investigators have used a criminal money laundering case against Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK), one of Russia’s leading civic institutions, to freeze several bank accounts related to the group.

Major US banks handed over to US Congressional committees "thousands of pages of documents relating to Russians who may have done business with Trump, his family or companies." This is reported by The Wall Street Journal, citing sources. Information to Congress, in particular, was transferred to Bank of America, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, JPMorgan, Morgan Stanley and Wells Fargo.

The Moscow football club "Spartak" beat the Swiss "Thun" in the first match of the third qualifying round of the Europa League. The meeting, held in Thun, a suburb of Bern, ended with a score of 3:2, according to a tweet from the Moscow team. On August 15, Spartak and Thun will meet in a match in Moscow.

The organizers of the rally for free elections on Sakharov Avenue, approved by the Moscow authorities, were asked to appear at the Central Administrative District Department of Internal Affairs on August 9. This was reported by Dozhd, citing one of the organizers of the action, Elvira Vikhareva.

Although Russia’s State Duma is still on recess, the State Duma Council will reportedly hold an emergency hearing this month to discuss the possibility of foreign interference in Russian elections. Anonymous sources in the State Duma reportedly spoke with the newspaper Vedomosti about the hearing. The exact date of the reported hearing is not yet known. It may be scheduled when State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin returns to Moscow.

In August, the State Duma Council, despite the parliamentary recess, will hold an extraordinary meeting to discuss alleged foreign interference in the Russian elections. This is reported by Vedomosti, citing sources in parliament. The exact date of the meeting is not yet known. It will be determined after State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin returns to Moscow. Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov suggested holding a meeting on August 19.

On the evening of August 8, the broadcasting of federal TV channels was interrupted for several minutes due to the warning of the Ministry of Emergency Situations about the strengthening of the wind. This is reported by users of social networks . A Meduza correspondent saw such a warning on Channel One. A message appeared on the screen against a blue background, in which residents of Moscow and the Moscow region were urged to take shelter in capital buildings during a storm.

Update. The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan reported that the situation in Bishkek "is under the full control of police officers." Police are looking for protests. The Bishkek police used light -school grenades against people gathered in the central square of the city in protest against the detention of the former president of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev. This was reported by the publication 24.kg. The broadcast of what is happening is conducted by the April TV channel.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation's accounts have been frozen as part of a criminal case opened by the Investigative Committee on "money laundering." As Kira Yarmysh, the FBK's press secretary, reported on August 8, the foundation's account, the operating account of Alexei Navalny's regional headquarters, and the accounts of a number of employees have been frozen — those whom the Proekt publication wrote about in an article about the upcoming criminal case.

About a thousand people took to the central square of Bishkek after the detention of the former President of Kyrgyzstan Almazbek Atambayev, who is suspected of corruption, Interfax reports. Supporters of Almazbek Atambayev are gathering on Ala-Too Square, clarifies Radio Azattyk . On this square is the building of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Kyrgyzstan. About 100 internal affairs officers gathered on the Old Square, located 100-150 meters from the central square.

The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Chargé d'Affaires of the Federal Republic of Germany in Russia Beate Grzeski because of the messages of the Deutsche Welle television and radio company in social networks, where Muscovites were urged to participate in uncoordinated protests. The ministry believes that the publication Deutsche Welle tried to interfere in the internal affairs of Russia by publishing such appeals.

The Moscow City Hall allocated 13 million rubles for the organization of the Burgerfest and Shashlik Live festivals, which took place on July 27-28 and August 3-4, respectively, according to Open Media. The budgetary institution "Moscow Fairs", subordinated to the Department of Trade and Services of Moscow, agreed on the organization of festivals with the company "Install Profi". The co-owner and CEO of this company, Alexei Zotov, confirmed that it held events.

Ilya Yashin, a municipal deputy of the Moscow region of Krasnoselsky, was arrested under the article on repeated violation of the procedure for holding a rally (part 2 of article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) for organizing a rally on July 14 near the Moscow City Electoral Committee. Yashin was taken to the court session directly from the special detention center, where he served the previous two arrests for 10 days (their terms were counted in parallel).