The Czech Republic will offer the EU countries to completely abolish the simplified procedure for issuing Schengen visas to citizens of the Russian Federation and Belarus. It is reported by Bloomberg with reference to the Czech Foreign Minister Jan Lipavsky. The proposal will be considered at an informal meeting of EU foreign ministers in Prague next week.

The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry invited Apostolic Nuncio Visvaldas Kulbokas because of Pope Francis's words about Daria Dugina, who died on August 20. The ministry expressed disappointment with the pontiff's words, which "unfairly equate the aggressor and the victim." “Pope Francis’ decision to mention in the context of the Russian-Ukrainian war the death of a Russian citizen on Russian territory, to which Ukraine has no relation, is incomprehensible,” the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry also stated.

Dmytro Smolienko / Ukrinform / ZUMA Press / Scanpix / LETA A residential building damaged during the strike on Chaplyne. August 24, 2022. Russian missile attacks on the town of Chaplyne, Dnipropetrovsk region, killed more than two dozen people on Ukraine’s Independence Day, Ukrainian officials reported on Thursday, August 25.

Roskomnadzor said that in the first six months of 2022, citizens sent 63,500 complaints to the department about "illegal information", which is twice as many as in the same period last year. Complaints related, according to a press release, "including fakes about a special military operation in Ukraine." Roskomnadzor did not specify what percentage of requests were related to materials about the war.

Ukraine’s mine-laden forests and fields through the eyes of sappers In April, the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs declared Ukraine one of the most mine-contaminated countries in the world. According to an estimate from the country’s State Emergency Service, mines and other explosives may contaminate up to half of the country’s territory.

The Kyiv City Council has renamed 95 streets, alleys and squares whose names were, from the point of view of the city authorities, associated "with Russia and the Soviet past." This was announced by Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko. The mayor gave several examples, including renaming Marshal Malinovsky Street to Heroes of the Azov Regiment Street, Tulskaya Square to UPA Heroes Square, and Piterskaya Street to Londonskaya Street.

OVD-Info breaks down the six months of unprecedented repressions that turned Russia into a dictatorship It’s now been six months since Vladimir Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine and internal crackdown that has effectively turned Russia into a dictatorship.

The Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church has decided to reschedule the Council of Bishops once again. The event has been postponed indefinitely. As explained in the ROC, the reason for the postponement was that "the international situation continues to make it difficult for many members of the Council to arrive in Moscow." The Cathedral of Bishops has been moved for the second time.

The Russian military has used cluster munitions hundreds of times during the war in Ukraine, according to the annual Cluster Munition Monitor report prepared by the Cluster Munition Coalition, an international initiative to combat this type of weapons. The attacks killed at least 215 people and injured 474. Only civilian casualties are known. As of July 1, human rights activists have recorded Russia's use of cluster munitions in at least ten of Ukraine's 24 regions.

Employees of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, captured by the Russian military, told The Telegraph about torture and detention Alexander Ermochenko / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Russian soldier near the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant. August 4, 2022 The Telegraph newspaper spoke with former and existing employees of the Zaporizhzhya nuclear power plant, which Russian troops occupied at the beginning of the war.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The security forces in Russia collect dossiers on unreliable - and they do it secretly in relation to those people who do not violate anything. Who (most likely) is already in the database? Over the past few years, Russia has significantly expanded the police control system for politically motivated surveillance.

In Riga on August 25, the ongoing three days of work to dismantle the monument to the Soviet soldiers ended. The latter was demolished by the dominant of the sculptural ensemble-a 79-meter stele. In anticipation of the demolition of the authorities refused to resolve protests against the demolition of the monument; The country's Foreign Ministry separately threatened the expulsion of foreigners who are convicted of “unauthorized actions” at the monument.

The St. Petersburg Pobeda Foundation, through which the city administration allegedly finances the restoration of Mariupol, has identified more than 20 socially significant buildings for the destroyed city, which should be commissioned within the next months.

Roskomnadzor blocked the news aggregator The True Story , created by the former head of the Yandex.News project Lev Gershenzon. The blocking, according to information from the department's website , was made at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office. Gershenzon announced the launch of the project three days ago, on August 22.

A Yekaterinburg court placed former mayor and outspoken opposition politician Evgeny Roizman under a “ban on certain activities" at his arraignment hearing on Thursday, according to local media . The politician was arrested earlier this week on felony charges of discrediting the Russian army.