Residents of Riga on the evening of August 23 came to Victory Park, where the demolition of the monument to Soviet soldiers, the liberators of Riga, began. About 50 people gathered at the police fence set up near the monument, after calling on social networks to defend the monument during the day. Some people came with flowers. The police called on the crowd to disperse. Around 22:00, according to Delfi , people began to sing "Katyusha", after which the police detained two people.

In 2022, two-thirds of Europe was affected by drought, according to a report ( .pdf ) by the European Drought Observatory, which is overseen by the European Commission. According to the authors of the report, 47% of the territory of Europe is in crisis warning conditions, with a clear deficit of soil moisture, and another 17% is in a state of alarm, in which vegetation and crops suffer.

1adat The moderator of the Opposition Telegram channel 1adat Salman Tepsurkaev, who criticized the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov, was killed, said Olga Sadovskaya, lawyer of the “team against torture”. She stated this in Yetuyub show "Tell Gordeeva." “There is a case in which we did not save a person. He was killed. The case of Salman Tepsurkaev, according to which a decision was recently made by the European Court of Human Rights. We know that he died, ”Sadovskaya said in an interview.

Twitter's former chief security officer, Pater Zatko, told CNN that in 2021, CTO Parag Agrawal, who later took over the company, offered to accede to Russia's demand to "ground" the company. According to Zatko, this decision could have led to comprehensive censorship on the platform or surveillance of the social network. Although Agrawal's offer was rejected, the former security chief believes the incident was a worrying sign of how far Twitter is willing to go in pursuit of growth.

With prices and unemployment on the rise, Meduza’s sources say Kremlin officials fear Russians are in for a rude awakening this fall Yuri Kochetkov / EPA / Scanpix / LETA The Putin administration is bracing itself for an anticipated rise in popular discontent in Russia, as prices continue to go up and factories shut down, informed sources told Meduza.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that negotiations with Russia “there can be no question”, since the Russian authorities are ready to wage war, not dialogue. He said this at a press conference following the results of the Crimean Platform forum, answering the question of the journalist Al Arabiya. Zelensky called Russian allegations that Ukraine does not want peace. He noted that the war is “exclusively in Ukraine”, where “exclusively citizens of Ukraine is killed”.

On August 23, the press service of the Lefortovo Court of Moscow reported that Igor Kondratsky, accused under an article on high treason, had his arrest extended. The persecution of this man has not been previously reported. According to an Interfax source, Kondratsky was arrested about two months ago.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that the Ukrainian authorities are not responsible for the murder of journalist Daria Dugina, daughter of philosopher Alexander Dugin. “It is definitely not our responsibility. This is not a citizen of our country, she does not interest us. And it was not on the territory of Ukraine,” Zelensky said at a press conference following the results of the Crimean Platform forum. Daria Dugina died on August 20 during a car explosion in the Moscow region.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. To withstand sanctions, the government seems to be going to introduce elements of a planned economy. It sounds not very optimistic. What will be the effect? The Ministry of Industry and Trade plans to launch a new model of import substitution in industry by autumn, RBC writes with reference to sources. It involves the transfer of a number of sectors to work in the "quasi -alcohol" mode. The main goal is to guarantee enterprises sustainable demand.

On August 23, the website of the Department for Family and Childhood Affairs of Krasnodar published an article entitled “Kids from Mariupol are looking for new families,” which claimed that more than a thousand children from the Ukrainian Mariupol were adopted in Russia. After some time, the article disappeared from the website, but was preserved in the caches of Yandex and Google .

On August 23, the auction for the sale of the yacht "Axiom" by Russian businessman Dmitry Pumpyansky ended. It is reported by Bloomberg. Axiom became the first yacht to be sold due to the fact that its owner fell under international sanctions after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. A total of 63 bids were made at the auction. For what amount and to whom exactly the yacht was sold is still unknown.

Ints Kalnins / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta in the Riga Victory Park on August 23 began the demolition of the Soviet monument to Riga liberators. The work will be occupied more than one day - the city authorities warned that the movement near the park would be blocked, probably until September 12. The decision to dismantle the monument, which was discussed for many years , was made in May 2022. This was preceded by events associated with the laying of flowers on the monument on May 9.

Former editors of the Russian-language Internet encyclopedia "Wikipedia" created "Runiversalis" - the domestic analogue of "Wikipedia". The encyclopedia looks like Wikipedia. In the article about "Runiversalis" on "Wikipedia" it is said that "the resource is developed on the wiki engine and uses the resources of the foundation "Wikimedia" " (already after writing this note the article was removed from "Wikipedia").

Some of them try to run abroad (even through the occupied territories). Others are ready to protest Wojciech Grzedzinski / The Washington Post / Getty Images Ship in the port of Odessa. July 29, 2022 Since the beginning of a full -scale war, Ukrainians from 18 to 60 years old are actually prohibited from traveling abroad. Employees of foreign firms and enterprises, truckers and sailors fell under the restriction.

Roman Pilipey / EPA / Scanpix / Leta in Ukraine on August 23, the championship of the country's football championship 2022/2023. In the first match of the season, which was held in Kyiv, the Donetsk Shakhtar and Kharkov Metalist met, the game ended with a score of 0: 0. Because of the war, the championship matches are held without spectators-only teams and officials are allowed to the stadium.