On the evening of August 4, Roskomnadzor blocked the websites of the publications Open Media and MBKh Media, which are associated with Mikhail Khodorkovsky. In both cases, they were added to the register of prohibited information by decision of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation.

Russia’s federal censor, RKN, has blocked the Russian investigative news outlets Open Media and MBK Media , adding their websites to the government’s blocklist. Spokespeople for Open Media say they received no advance warning that their website would be blocked in Russia.

Open Media reported that the publication’s website was blocked by most Russian providers as of the evening of August 4. Roskomnadzor added the publication's website to the "Register of domain names... containing calls for mass riots, extremist activities, participation in mass (public) events held in violation of the established procedure." The editorial staff did not receive any notifications from Roskomnadzor or the Prosecutor General's Office on this matter.

Belarusian athlete Kristina Timanovskaya, who was removed from the Olympics and forced to return to Belarus after being criticized by sports officials, came to Poland, which issued her a humanitarian visa. On the night of August 4, Timanovskaya flew out of Tokyo. Initially, she was supposed to go immediately to Poland, but at the last moment she changed to a plane to Vienna. From Austria, she went to Poland on another plane.

Bakaidov was included in Forbes rating "The most promising Russians under 30 years old" Page of Ivan Bakaidov in VKontakte The driver of a minibus in St. Petersburg refused to carry the 22-year-old programmer Ivan Bakaidov, who has cerebral paralysis. Bakaidov told VKontakte that on August 2, after classes on the picture, he decided to go home on a minibus. When he went to the stop, the downpour began.

The Murmansk Electoral Commission refused to register the former head of Alexei Navalny's headquarters in the region, Violetta Grudina, in the elections to the regional parliament. She herself reported this in Telegram. The reason for Grudina's removal from the elections was her connection with Navalny's headquarters. "Based on the Justice Ministry's paper on extremism, they waited until the end of the appeal in the Navalny headquarters case and started the hearing. Shameful," Grudina said.

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Prosecutors in the so-called “Sanitary Case” have asked for a one-year suspended sentence with a three-year probationary period for Oleg Navalny, MBK Media reported on August 4, citing his lawyer Nikos Paraskevov. The brother of jailed opposition politician Alexey Navalny, Oleg Navalny is among nine defendants in the case, who stand accused of inciting violations of pandemic restrictions in connection with a pro-Navalny rally that took place in Moscow on January 23.

For the past two months, musicians from around the world have joined Meduza’s summer music marathon , sharing video clips and special performances in support of our news outlet and independent media in Russia. This has been absolutely incredible — and we’re not done yet! Throughout the month of August we will continue to publish new songs specially recorded for Meduza’s readers. And we’re enormously grateful to the artists who are taking part, thank you!

The OSCE will not send observers to the parliamentary elections in Russia, which will be held in September. This is stated in the press release of the organization. The OSCE explained its decision by the restrictions imposed by the Russian authorities on the number of observers - Moscow was ready to receive no more than 50 people from the OSCE and ten people from the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly. The reason for such restrictions was the sanitary and epidemiological situation in the country.

At the Tokyo Olympics, the announcer introduced Ukrainians Marta Fedina and Anastasia Savchuk, who took third place, as athletes from the Russian Olympic Committee team at the awards ceremony for the winners in synchronized swimming duets.

The World Health Organization advocates a moratorium on revaccination. The corresponding statement was made by the head of WHO Tedros Ghebreyesus. Ghebreyesus stressed that back in May, WHO called for at least 10% of the population in every country in the world to be vaccinated by the end of September. However, while in some developed countries there are now almost 100 shots of vaccines per 100 people, in most poor countries this figure does not exceed 1.5 shots per 100 people.

A Moscow court has refused an appeal against the decision to designate Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (the FBK) as an “extremist organization” and ban its activities in Russia. On Wednesday, August 4, RIA Novosti reported that Moscow’s First General Jurisdiction Court of Appeal had refused to overturn the extremism ruling, which was handed down by the Moscow City Court on June 9.

The First Appellate Court of General Jurisdiction in Moscow has rejected an appeal against the decision to recognize the Anti-Corruption Foundation as an "extremist organization" and ban its activities, RIA Novosti reports. The decision has entered into legal force. Along with the FBK, the Moscow City Court on June 9 recognized other structures associated with Alexei Navalny as "extremist" — the Foundation for the Defense of Citizens' Rights and Navalny's headquarters .

Daniel Radcliffe was already playing a chatty corpse and a programmer, to whom pistols were nailed to his hands. But he does not stop there: in the series "Wonderworkers" the actor had to crash as the last time. In fact, it is still more ironic than it sounds! Radcliffe got the role of young reverend Ezekiel Brown. In the fourth episode of the third season, his character (modest and quiet) enters the saloon of the small city of Branchuoter. And then ... In general, see for yourself.