In Moscow, detained activist Olga Kuzmina, who tied herself to a tree in Babushkinsky Park at a height of about 20 meters. It is reported by "OVD-Info". Kuzmina was on the tree since the morning of August 9, thus opposing the construction of a house in Yantarny Proyezd as part of a renovation program. According to her, the building is being built in violation of building codes and worsens the quality of life in neighboring houses, said .

Friends of blogger Tatyana Nikonova, who died in May 2021, launched a new project in the field of sex education in her memory. This was reported in the telegram channel of Tatyana Nikonova. The project is a community "Seksprosvet 18+" on the platform "Yandex.Q". It was created in July 2021. It currently has over 7,000 subscribers. The community was created by Nikonova's friend, psychotherapist Ekaterina Sigitova and Nikonova's former manager Tatyana Deryabina.

The UK, U.S., and Canada imposed new economic sanctions against Alexander Lukashenko’s regime on Monday, August 9, to mark the one year anniversary of the “fraudulent election in Belarus.” The UK government’s package of sanctions includes restrictions on potash fertilizers, petroleum products, goods used in cigarette manufacturing, and dual-use goods and technologies that could be used to carry out internal repressions.

Russia has closed entry to a number of British representatives "who are closely involved in anti-Russian activities," the Russian Foreign Ministry said. The ministry did not name these people. The entry ban was a response to personal sanctions that the UK imposed in December 2020 and April 2021 on a number of Russians, including the speaker of the Chechen parliament, Magomed Daudov.

After the accident, two more patients died Olga Smolskaya / TASS In North Ossetia, 11 patients of the hospital died due to the malfunction of oxygen . The accident occurred on August 9 at the Republican Clinical Emergency Hospital in Vladikavkaz. In the intensive care unit of the medical institution there were 71 people, including 13 - on the invasive system of ventilation of the lungs. It was originally reported that nine people died due to the breakdown of the oxygen provision system.

Lukashenko holds a press conference on the anniversary of Belarus’s contested presidential vote Nikolai Petrov / BELTA / TASS / Scanpix / LETA On August 9, the anniversary of Belarus’s contested presidential election, Alexander Lukashenko held a press conference that lasted for more than eight hours.

Tower Bridge in London has been closed to traffic due to a technical fault, London police reported on Twitter. As the BBC writes , on the afternoon of August 9, Tower Bridge was raised to allow the ship to pass and could not be lowered back. The City of London Corporation , which manages Tower Bridge, said the cause of the failure was not yet known. The bridge is currently undergoing repair work. According to bridge caretakers, it could take several hours, the British channel ITV reports .

Meduza looks back on how Lukashenko’s regime crushed the opposition movement Dmitry Lovetsky / AP / Scanpix / LETA August 9th marks the one year anniversary of the presidential election that sparked a mass opposition movement in Belarus. Since last summer, Alexander Lukashenko’s regime has been carrying out a campaign of repression that has wiped out street protests, forced opposition leaders to flee the country, and all but destroyed the country’s independent media.

In Vladikavkaz, nine people died due to a rupture of an oxygen supply pipe in a hospital, RBC reports citing the Ministry of Health of North Ossetia. There was a breakthrough in the oxygen pipe, the breakdown was quickly detected, all services are working to eliminate it. Unfortunately, nine patients have died so far. They were in critical condition in the intensive care unit on a ventilator.

We summarized his speech in one paragraph. The year was not easy, but we will not kneel. The presidential elections were held in conditions of total transparency. I had no time for the election campaign: I had to save people from Covid . There was no sign of peaceful protests after the elections. At the peak, 46,700 people took part in the protests. I would have deployed the army if the protesters had crossed the red line. The West unleashed the massacre.

As the protests that began a year ago, Belarus changed. Can a strain of Covid, from which the vaccines will not appear. Athletes began to appreciate their health above titles Good evening, This message (material) was created and (or) widespread by a foreign media that performs the functions of a foreign agent, and (or) a Russian legal entity that performs the functions of a foreign agent This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about important news of the day.

Alexander Lukashenko asked Russia to provide a new loan through the Eurasian Development Bank. The loan is needed to restore the economy after the pandemic - due to the fact that the IMF had previously refused to give funds to Minsk, Lukashenka said. If the Russians would help us additionally through the Eurasian Bank, <…> they would be grateful. Exclusively due to the pandemic.

The UN published a 1300-page report on global warming-here are its conclusions Alexey Seaparer / Shutterstock The intergovernmental group of climate change experts (MGEIK) submitted a report on the influence of human activity on the environment with forecasts, as the climate will change in the future. The publication with a volume of 1300 pages was the first part of the sixth evaluative MGEIK report to generalize the conclusions of which are expected in 2022.

The UK government introduces new economic sanctions against the current authorities of Belarus. Information about this is posted on the website of the British government. The sanctions include trade restrictions on potash fertilizers, petroleum products, products for the tobacco industry, and dual-use goods and technologies that can be used for repression in Belarus.

Netflix streaming service released the trailer for the animated film on the Witcher universe with the subtitle of the Wolf Nightmare. This is the prequel of the series with Henry Cavill. Trailer in Russian Netflix Russia In English Netflix In the center of the plot is a young witcher Vesemir, who, after many years, will become a mentor of Geralt.