The Ozon, Ozon Fresh, Ozon Seller, Ozon Job, and Ozon Travel apps have disappeared from Google Play, Android’s app store. It is not known why the apps were removed. The Ozon Bank app was previously removed from Google Play. The bank is under European Union sanctions. For now, the apps are still available for download on Apple’s App Store and Huawei’s AppGallery, according to the independent Russian broadcaster TV Rain .

Getty Images Vladimir Putin gathered his military commanders for a briefing in late 2025 and set a goal for 2026: “the collapse of NATO and the EU from within,” The New York Times reported, citing officials from two countries familiar with the details of the meeting. Moldova is central to those plans, according to the newspaper’s sources. Western intelligence officials say the Kremlin’s top priority is subjugating Ukraine, followed by taking control of Moldova.

Investigators in Moscow searched PlanetaMed, Vasily Generalov’s clinic, as part of a criminal investigation into fraud and negligent infliction of grievous bodily harm. Russia’s Investigative Committee in Moscow announced the searches but did not name the clinic, saying only that it was on Varshavskoye Shosse. Child psychiatrist Stepan Krasnoshchekov, who has exposed Generalov’s “treatment” methods, says the clinic is PlanetaMed.

Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Wheat being loaded at a farm in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, August 7, 2026 Moscow has not received a formal proposal for a moratorium on Black Sea strikes, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Friday. A day earlier, Reuters reported that Kyiv had used an intermediary to deliver a proposal to Moscow for a mutual halt to strikes on civilian targets in the Black Sea.

The Samara Regional Court has stripped Mikhail Matveyev, an incumbent deputy from Russia’s Communist Party (KPRF), of his registration as a candidate for the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament. The lawsuit was filed by Anna Sarantseva, a Party of Pensioners candidate running against Matveyev in the single-mandate district. She said his campaign materials used photographs — including some of his own — without permission from the copyright holders.

The criminal case against Vladislav Balgrabsky, a 30-year-old who fought in the war, has reached the 2nd Western District Military Court, the independent Russian outlet Mediazona reported. He is charged with voluntarily surrendering to the enemy, desertion, and treason.

The Ozon, Ozon Fresh, Ozon Seller, Ozon Job and Ozon Travel applications have disappeared from Google Play, the application store for Android devices. The reasons for deleting applications are unknown. Earlier, the Ozon Bank application, which fell under EU sanctions, was removed from Google Play. Applications are currently available for download in the Apple App Store and Huawei App Gallery, Dozhd notes.

Former Cambridge University sociology professor Jason Arday was found dead in south London, BBC News reports. London police said a 41-year-old man was found unresponsive on the evening of August 14 at a house in London's Battersea. Doctors who arrived at the scene pronounced him dead. “At this time, his death is being treated as unexpected but not suspicious,” police said.

School camps and municipal children’s centers across Russia are reporting in large numbers that they took children to see The Last Warrior: Kolobok . Verstka , an independent Russian news outlet, found more than 20 such posts on social media in recent days. The posts describe how the institutions organized trips to movie theaters for the children, and they include photos from the screenings. Verstka said the posts “actively praise” the film and that the wording in some of them is similar.

Google’s Gemini AI has stopped working for some users in Russia, according to complaints on the Downdetector website. Kod.ru, a Russian tech outlet, flagged the outage. Gemini was already unreachable from Russian IP addresses, but the disruption has now spread to users accessing it via a VPN. The outage coincided with the release of Gemini 3.7 Flash, a new version of the AI model.

Starlink will not remove Poland from the European region of its satellite communications network. Janusz Cieszyński, a former Polish digital affairs minister, was the first to report the reversal. Poland’s current digital affairs minister, Krzysztof Gawkowski, and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski later confirmed the report. In a post on X , Sikorski thanked Elon Musk, who owns Starlink, for acknowledging that Poland is part of the European Union.

A consortium of investors, including Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, has bought a minority stake in the English football club Liverpool. As reported on the club's website, the American company Fenway Sports Group (FSG) has entered into an agreement with 1892 Holdings. The holding is headed by British-Indian businessman Amit Bhatia, Bezos is the company's leading investor. According to Bloomberg sources, businessmen bought approximately 30% of Liverpool shares.

The U.S. administration has circulated a questionnaire among NATO allies to gauge their support for President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, Bloomberg reported on August 14. The document, obtained by the news agency, asks each country whether it: Has publicly voiced support for U.S. foreign policy Has banned U.S.

In Moscow, investigators came to search the PlanetMed clinic of Vasily Generalov as part of a criminal case of fraud and causing grievous bodily harm by negligence. The searches were reported by the press service of the Investigative Committee for Moscow. The name of the clinic is not mentioned in the publication. It is only reported that this is a clinic on Varshavskoye Highway.

Poland has detained a suspect in a plot to assassinate Ukrainian rapper Albert Vasyliev, known as Kyivstoner, the Polish radio station RMF FM reported , citing sources. The suspect is a native of the Donbas, the station said. Polish security services believe Russian intelligence ordered him to kill the musician. Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on August 13 that Polish authorities had detained a Russian citizen, recruited by Russian intelligence, on suspicion of plotting a killing.