The banker and laureate of the Nobel Prize of the World Muhammad UNUS will head the Provisional Government of Bangladesh, said the Associated Press, spokesman for President of the country, John Abedin. Yunus was chosen by the chief adviser of the Provisional Government during the meeting of President Bangladesh Mohammad Shakhabuddin with representatives of the Students against Discrimination, which organized large -scale protests in the country.

A photographer from Perm Grigory Skvortsov was accused of treason due to a public book about Soviet bunkers. He told about this in a letter to the human rights activists of the first department. Skvortsov specializes in architectural shooting and collaborates with the AD HOC agency, which works with the largest developers of Perm, federal media and private customers.

The Russian authorities have notified the country’s major telecom operators that YouTube playback speeds on many Internet connections are being throttled to 128 kbps — fast enough for normal audio listening but insufficient for streaming videos at resolutions above 240p (which is 12 times below high definition). This information was reported to Meduza by a source in Russia’s telecommunications market.

The leader of the Palestinian movement of Hamas in the Gaza Sector Yahya Sinvar was elected to the post of head of the Politburo of a terrorist organization, the Hamas said in a statement. Israeli authorities believe that Yahya Sryvar was one of the main organizers of the Hamas terrorist attack on Israel on October 7. They officially said in the IDF that they intend to kill Synvar.

POW lists published by Ukraine include dozens of Russian soldiers Moscow declared dead or missing AP / Scanpix / LETA Many of the Russian soldiers whose names appeared on POW lists published by Ukraine in March 2024 had already been declared dead by the Russian military and “buried” by their families, according to new reporting from iStories.

See the trailer for a new documentary about Soviet sexologist Igor Kon — and support Meduza to watch the film early “Why I Swam Upstream” is a new documentary from the Berlin-based film studio Narra and the independent journalists’ cooperative Bereg about the Soviet and Russian sociologist, psychologist, and philosopher Igor Kon.

"They scored on us - they will die like that" Ukrainian telegram channels published a video with the Russian military, which, the Armed Forces, were captured during battles on the border of the Kursk region. On the records - interrogations of three men who are represented by military personnel of the Russian Federation.

The first big interview with Vladimir Kara-Murza is at large-about expulsion and torture Evgeny Feldman / "Medusa" Vladimir Kara-Murza the day after the exchange gives a press conference in Bonn along with politicians Andrei Pivovarov and Ilya Yashin. August 2, 2024 The Russian politician, historian and journalist Vladimir Kara-Murza spent two and a half years in prison.

By the evening of August 6, the United States came close to China thanks to gold medals in surfing and throwing disk. The UK, who also took two gold in a day, returned to the first five of the medal offset, overtaking South Korea. The data in the table are shown at 19:30 Moscow time. Photo on the cover: Ben Thouard / Sipa / Scanpix / Leta

Update. In the telegram channel, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation deleted part of the statement of the department, including the retreat and losses of the Ukrainian military, who tried to break through to the Kursk region. The message, which was discussed about this, was edited . But his first version was preserved in reposts . At the same time, Russian agencies have not yet changed the news about the retreat of the Ukrainian detachment with reference to the Ministry of Defense.

Moscow says fighting ongoing as troops repel Ukrainian incursion into Russia’s Kursk region Kursk region administration The aftermath of shelling in Sudzha, Russia. August 6, 2024. Read the latest updates on the situation here . On Tuesday morning, Russian pro-war social media groups and Telegram channels from Russia’s Kursk region began reporting that clashes had broken out in several areas along the Russian-Ukrainian border.

The State Prosecutor's Office of Estonia accused Svetlana Burtseva, who collaborated with the Russian media group “Russia Today,” ERR reports. According to the department, 57-year-old Burtseva received Estonian citizenship by naturalization in 1994. Since 2017, she worked for Estonian Internet publications included in the Russia Today media group.

In the village of Komarovka, Kursk district on the afternoon of August 6, as a result of the attack of the Ukrainian drone, the driver of the car died, the acting governor of the region Alexei Smirnov said. This is the third message about the death of a civilian resident in the Kursk region over the past day. Earlier, Smirnov reported that in the village of Nechaevka, the driver of the minibus died during the attack of the drone.

This is how this movie was made NEON At the end of July, “The Collector of Souls” (“Longlegs”), one of the most discussed horror films of this year, was released in Russia. The independent film company Neon conducted such a successful marketing campaign in the United States that the film about a maniac with Nicolas Cage surpassed their Oscar-winning “Parasite” by Bong Joon Ho in box office receipts.

How reverence for Stalin stopped being a fringe view among Russian politicians Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Scanpix / LETA A Russian Communist Party supporter carries a portrait of Joseph Stalin in Moscow as she leaves a ceremony marking the 70th anniversary of the Soviet leader’s death. March 5, 2023. Russian politicians are increasingly speaking about Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin not as a tyrant or orchestrator of mass repressions but as a charismatic leader and a strong statesman.