In Karelia, at the Sandarmokh memorial cemetery, people in Cossack uniforms and from the pro-government nationalist movement “Russian Community” tried to disrupt a rally in memory of the victims of Stalin’s repressions. This was reported by Sotavision and Paper. In Sandarmokh, on August 5, events are held annually to commemorate the victims of repression. This year, relatives of those executed, historians, social activists, and representatives of diplomatic missions came there.

Residents of the Dagestan city of Kaspiysk complained about untimely garbage collection in the city, writes the local publication Mirmol. According to them, container sites are overcrowded, residents are forced to store garbage next to the bins. The acting mayor of Kaspiysk, Arsen Sherifov, said that the reason for the “garbage collapse” is an acute shortage of equipment. In total, there are 22 garbage trucks operating in the city, which is not enough to serve Kaspiysk.

The Russian government has authorized until July 1, 2027 the production, import and release into circulation of motor gasoline of the environmental classes “Euro-2”, “Euro-3” and “Euro-4”. This was reported in the telegram channel of the Russian Ministry of Energy. “At gas stations, information about the environmental class of such fuel sold will be displayed. The information will be accessible and presented in a visual form.

He survived, but the driver of his car died “Turned by war” Vladimir Tkachuk at a meeting with Vladimir Putin In the Sverdlovsk region, in the village of Bolshoi Istok (about 25 kilometers from Yekaterinburg), on the evening of August 4, an attempt was made on the life of Vladimir Tkachuk, the general director of Uraldronzavod, which produces the FPV drones “Ghoul”, and the creator of the Z-channel “Turned in War” (more than 660 thousand subscribers).

An unnamed major general was buried at Moscow’s Troekurovskoye Cemetery, the anonymous Russian Telegram channel VChK-OGPU reported. The channel’s authors said he may have been a friend of Aerospace Forces Commander-in-Chief Alexander Chayko and died in the explosion at the Balzi Rossi restaurant. The funeral was held in secrecy, the channel wrote.

In Georgia on the evening of August 5, there was a large-scale power outage, Paper Kartuli and the About Georgia channel reported. Most of the country was left without electricity. The metro has stopped working in Tbilisi. Soon, local telegram channels reported that electricity had partially begun to be supplied in the capital. The authorities have not yet commented on the incident. Update.

Now he could be accused of corruption Vladimir Gerdo / TASS / Profimedia On September 15, the Russian Institute of Theater Arts (GITIS) was going to hold elections for the rector (they take place every five years). The only registered candidate was the man who had held this position for the last ten years - theater critic Grigory Zaslavsky. But on August 4, he unexpectedly left his post of his own free will. The next day, election day was postponed indefinitely - no earlier than November 1.

Isn't this dangerous for the Earth? The upper stage of a SpaceX rocket, which had been drifting in space for more than a year, crashed into the Moon on the morning of August 5th. The speed of the device was about 8.7 thousand kilometers per hour. The moment of impact occurred at approximately 9:35 am Moscow time. Scientists have yet to confirm the impact and obtain images of the resulting crater. The second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket crashed into the Moon.

In first place is United Russia, followed by Yabloko (with the slogan “For Peace and Freedom”) The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation held a draw, following which the places of political parties admitted to the State Duma elections on the ballot were determined. The first place on the list was taken by the United Russia party. Immediately behind it is Yabloko, the only party running that advocates ending the Russian-Ukrainian war.

The Chairman of A Just Russia, Sergei Mironov, asked the Prosecutor General’s Office and the Ministry of Justice to give a “legal assessment” of the activities of the Yabloko party, since it opposes the Russian-Ukrainian war. He wrote about this in his Telegram channel.

In the Babushkinsky district of Moscow, a 68-year-old woman set fire to an apartment when bailiffs came to her to evict her. The publication Msk1 writes about this. The fire occurred around 10 a.m. on August 5 on the second floor of a five-story building on Menzhinsky Street. According to NTV, the woman's name is Natalya Ivanova. In 2022, according to Msk1, she sold her two-room apartment for 9.5 million rubles, transferred the money to the scammers and did not move out of it.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin said that transferring the economy to a war footing would kill the country. He expressed this opinion in an interview with TASS General Director Andrey Kondrashov. We constantly hear talk about how we need to mobilize the entire economy, launch it into war, and so on. But the modern economy is built differently.

The funeral of an unnamed major general was held in Moscow at the Troyekurovskoye cemetery, reports the VChK-OGPU telegram channel. According to the authors of the project, this may be one of the friends of the commander-in-chief of the Aerospace Forces Alexander Chaiko, who died in the explosion at the Balzi Rossi restaurant. The funeral took place in secrecy, writes the telegram channel.

Alexander Kazakov / RIA Novosti / Sputnik / Profimedia Denis Lyamin (left) and Valery Solodchuk. August 5, 2026. On August 5, at a meeting with Defense Ministry leadership, Vladimir Putin announced several major changes in military command all at once. “We continue to improve the structure of the Defense Ministry in light of the needs and experience of the special military operation,” the president said, explaining the changes. Here’s who received new appointments.

Russia plans to station a missile unit made up of North Korean troops in the Voronezh region, according to Andrii Cherniak, a representative of Ukraine’s Main Intelligence Directorate, the Reuters news agency reported. The unit numbers about 90 people and will be folded into Russia’s 112th missile brigade, Cherniak said.