Vladimir Putin signed a law allowing the court to deprive foreign owners of the right to repurchase their assets. The document was published on the Kremlin website. We are talking about companies that left the Russian market after the start of the big war between Russia and Ukraine. As Forbes explained , many transactions for the sale of foreign assets to Russian entrepreneurs during this period of time contained a buyback clause.

What is known about this On August 4, one of the popular VPN services, Amnezia, reported a new attack by the Russian authorities on means of bypassing blocks, including several other VPN services and hosting providers. The post notes that it continues for at least several days. Amnezia representatives do not provide details about the new wave of blockings. Friends, over the past two days we have seen many reports of mass blocking of other VPNs.

The reason for the recent temporary removal of Telegram from the App Store was the actions of an extortionist, said Pavel Durov. According to the founder of Telegram, moderators usually quickly remove all illegal content. However, in this case, the attacker edited an old message in one of the group chats. Thus, its participants were unable to notice it and report it in a timely manner.

As short as possible EPA / Scanpix / LETA Smoke from fires at Wildberries warehouses in Utkina Zavod and Shushary in the vicinity of St. Petersburg. July 24, 2026 The beginning of the "influence operation" On June 25, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky announced that Kiev was launching a 40-day “influence operation” on Russia. The SBU was named as responsible for its implementation.

The Belgorod District Court sentenced the founder of the Yastreb PMC, Alexey Marushchenko, to 18 years in prison. This was reported by a correspondent of the telegram channel “Caution, News”. Marushchenko was found guilty of organizing a murder, kidnapping, illegal weapons trafficking, extortion, fraud and abuse of power. The prosecution requested 20 years in prison for him. The founder of the Yastreb PMC was detained in the Kursk region in 2025.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a law titled “On Temporary Restrictive Measures Against Individuals Located Outside the Russian Federation Who Are Evading Punishment.” It takes effect immediately, upon official publication. The law applies to people who left Russia and were convicted in absentia under any article of the Criminal Code, or under “political” statutes of the Administrative Offenses Code.

The Cabinet of Ministers of Latvia held a closed meeting at which the issue of completely stopping the work of the Paternieki checkpoint, the only checkpoint on the Latvian-Belarusian border, was discussed. As a result, they decided to abandon this idea, report LSM and Delfi . The Ministry of Internal Affairs proposed closing Paternieki, citing the increased flow of illegal migration from Belarus.

Vasily Generalov’s personal archive Vasily Generalov ‘treats’ children with autism using ‘parasite expulsion’ and camel urine Vasily Generalov, a neurologist, is the founder and chief physician of PlanetaMed, a Moscow clinic that specializes in neurological disorders and claims to “cure” autism. Generalov has described his own work this way: “Everyone understands that if I say something, it’s true.

Russian insurers have effectively stopped covering war and terrorism risks for cargo ships in the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea, the Russian business news outlet RBC reported, citing sources in the country’s shipping and insurance industries. Russia’s Defense Ministry issued a navigational warning in July covering July 12 to July 18, citing threats from Ukraine of attacks and terrorist acts in the two seas.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed the law “On temporary restrictive measures against persons located outside the Russian Federation and evading punishment.” It comes into force after official publication, that is, immediately. This law is directed against people who left Russia and who were convicted in absentia under any article of the Criminal Code or “political” articles of the Code of Administrative Offenses.

A Moscow arbitration court has declared Kvant LLC — the legal entity behind the television-manufacturing Kvant group of companies — bankrupt, the Russian business daily Kommersant reported, citing court records. A division of the DNS group filed the bankruptcy petition in June 2025, citing a debt of 654.6 million rubles. Twenty-four more creditors have since joined the case, including a division of Yandex, Alice Lab LLC.

It seems that the general himself is alive, but his daughter was injured, and his son-in-law could have died Alexander Chaiko. Maxim Blinov / RIA Novosti / Sputnik / Profimedia On August 1, an explosion occurred at the Italian restaurant Balzi Rossi in Moscow. The National Anti-Terrorism Committee said that an improvised explosive device, which an unknown woman was trying to bring into the restaurant, exploded.

The Minsk City Court sentenced musician Sergei Mikhalok in absentia to four years in a general regime colony, reports the Belarusian human rights organization Viasna. The leader of the Lyapis Trubetskoy group was found guilty of insulting Alexander Lukashenko (Part 1 of Article 368 of the Criminal Code of Belarus) and inciting social hatred (Part 1 of Article 130 of the Criminal Code of Belarus). A criminal case against Mikhalok was opened in May 2026.

Tomsk native Alexander Lunev was detained on August 3 in a criminal case for financing extremist activities. A court in Tomsk sent him under arrest on August 4, reports Vtomske.ru. Lunev is accused of making seven transfers to Alexei Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation for a total of seven thousand rubles. The transfers have been made since August 2021, that is, after FBK was declared an extremist organization in Russia.

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