The Central District Court of Khabarovsk ruled on several participants in the rallies in support of Sergei Furgal. One person was arrested, two more were fined. According to OVD-Info, Nikolai Vasilevsky, a resident of Khabarovsk, was sentenced to 15 days of arrest. Under the article on participation in an uncoordinated action. The police detained him on August 10 near his house. The court also fined activists Andrei Dudenok and Indigam (surname not reported).

How was the second night of protests in Belarus On the second day after the presidential elections in Belarus, protesters in large cities of the republic again took to the streets. They built barricades and more actively clashed with the security forces. It was reported that activists were throwing either fireworks or Molotov cocktails at riot police - there is no exact confirmation of this information, but it is known for certain that a person died during the conflicts.

How the situation is unfolding in Belarus We continue to follow the events in Belarus and worry. But also analyze, where without it. Putin also looks and analyzes and shakes his mustache. And we need to draw conclusions. The likelihood that such events are coming to us is extremely high. So here is a series of my, scattered and not claiming to be complete, observations. The monolithic nature of the security forces.

The media write that it was recorded before she left the country A video message from Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, in which she called on her supporters not to go to protests, was recorded before she left for Lithuania on August 10. Journalists found out where this could happen. The fact that the video message was recorded the day before publication was reported by a Mediazona source close to Svetlana Tikhanovskaya.

Russian authorities have located the whereabouts of Meduza journalist Maxim Solopov. This was stated by the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Alexander Khinshtein. He said that Solopov was in Belarus. Khinshtein did not voice details, noting only that he was "disturbed by this information, writes " Interfax . Also, the authorities were able to establish the whereabouts of Russian photojournalist Ilya Pitalev, who disappeared in Belarus.

The only candidate for the presidency of Belarus from the opposition, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, left the republic. Now she is in Lithuania. Tikhanovskaya's confidant, Olga Kovalkova , told the TUT.BY portal that the departure was organized by the Belarusian authorities, and this helped to release the head of her headquarters, Maria Moroz, who was detained before the elections. “Svetlana had no choice. It is important that she is free and alive. They left together with Maria Moroz.

Meduza special correspondent Maxim Solopov has been released. He was handed over to the staff of the Russian embassy in Belarus. The consul met with Solopov. In the near future, he will be taken to the Russian border, reports Meduza . There was no communication with the journalist for more than 40 hours. Today, his wife filed a missing person report with the Moscow police. Also, the whereabouts of photojournalist Ilya Pikalev was not known until tonight.

Correspondent of the portal Znak.com, working in Minsk, Nikita Telizhenko does not get in touch for more than 20 hours. When the editors contacted him for the last time, he was on Nemiga Street, where the protest rally was to begin. The editors report that the journalist's phone was unavailable until the middle of the night, now it is on, but no one answers the calls.

Russia was the first in the world to register a vaccine against coronavirus. Previously, pharmaceutical companies were urged not to rush, as the drug did not pass all the necessary tests. The fact that Russia registered the drug from the Center. Gamaleya, said Vladimir Putin at a meeting with members of the government. He expressed the hope that the mass release will be established in the near future, and noted that one of his daughters was vaccinated against the infection.

The European Union does not consider the presidential elections in Belarus to be either free or fair. Now the EU is studying the possibility of imposing sanctions against the security forces responsible for the violence. This is stated in a statement by EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrell, reports TASS . The document was agreed with the foreign ministers of all 27 EU countries.

Seven more criminal cases were initiated against the creator of the public “Police Ombudsman” Vladimir Vorontsov. Now he is a defendant in a total of 14 cases. It is reported by TASS with reference to Vorontsov's lawyer Sergei Tyulenev. He said that six new cases against his client were opened under the article on insulting a representative of the authorities. The reason was the publication in the social network "VKontakte". In another case, Vorontsov is suspected of making pornography.