The New Development Bank (NDB), created by the BRICS member countries, has abandoned new investment projects in Russia due to sanctions. It is reported by Reuters with reference to the head of the bank, Dilma Rousseff.

Previously, military registration and enlistment offices used a typical summary agenda The Government of the Russian Federation approved the type of summons that will receive citizens to mobilize. The corresponding resolution was published on the officially portal of legal acts, Faridaily publication paid attention to it.

Irish singer Shineid O'Connor died at the age of 56, reports The Irish Times. The musical heritage of the singer includes 10 studio albums. Her most famous song - Nothing Compares 2 U - became the world number one single in 1990 according to Billboard Music Awards. After many years of depression in 2018, the singer announced the transition from Catholicism to Islam. Then she changed her name to Shuhada Davitt. January 8, 2022, one of the sons of the singer, 17-year-old Shane, committed suicide.

The State Duma found the bills before the vacation - on an increase in draft age, fines for violation of martial law and the formation of a positive attitude to work in children Photo: Boris Alekseev / Anadolu Agency / Getty Images State Duma deputies today adopted the last bills in this session and went on vacation until September 5. In total, in the final readings, they approved 500 laws, said Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin. A number of bills are associated with conscripts and mobilization.

Niger President Mohamed Bazum detained by his own presidential guards. It is reported by Reuters. According to the publication, the military from the presidential guard took control of all roads to the presidential palace and the national television agency. Jeune Afrique that Sources told President Bazum had previously considered firing the commander of the presidential guard, General Omar Tchiani. “The President and his family are in good health.

Podcast "What is new?" State Duma deputies before leaving for the “holidays” adopted several strict laws. In parallel in Russia, Boris Kagarlitsky and Igor Strelkov was arrested. The president at the same time kissed the icons on Valaam after shelling of the cathedral in Odessa. What is happening in Russian political life right now?

Putin relies on the isolation of Russia, the West - on the freezing of the conflict Photo: EPA-EFE / SERGEI ILNITSKY The other day, an article containing a “top secret” and, of course, purely accidentally leaked to the printing of the Bundeswehr about the causes of the failures of the Ukrainian troops in the offensive, appeared in the Bild newspaper. It turns out that the Ukrainians do not know how to fight.

PMC Wagner’s camp in Belarus has no less than 750 pieces of equipment, as per Radio Liberty Belarus that cites Planet Labs satellite imagery. A total of 754 objects that appear as vehicles are visible in the images.

There are at least 750 pieces of equipment in the Belarusian camp of Wagner PMC in the village of Tsel, Osipovichi district. This is reported by Radio Liberty Belarus with reference to satellite images from Planet Labs. According to the publication, 754 objects similar to vehicles can be seen in the frames. If among them there is heavy military equipment, then its quantity is minimal, the journalists noted.

A court in Russia’s Syktyvkar has sent Boris Kagarlitsky, a sociologist and political scientist, to a pretrial jail on ‘justifying terrorism’ charges, as per OVD-Info. Kagarlitsky is facing up to seven years in prison. The Komi region FSB department is in charge of the investigation. Boris Kagarlitsky / Facebook Kagarlitsky’s lawyer says his client was charged due to a post mentioning last year’s Crimea bridge explosion.

The court in Syktyvkar sent a sociologist and political scientist Boris Kagarlitsky in a pre -trial detention center for two months in the case of justification of terrorism. This was reported by the OVD-Info. Karelitsky is accused under Part 2 of Art. 205.2 Criminal Code. The punishment under this article provides for imprisonment for up to seven years. The Kagarlitsky case is investigated by the FSB of Russia in the Komi Republic, in this regard, he was previously transferred to Syktyvkar.

Vasyl Maliuk, the head of Ukraine’s Security Service, has confirmed the country’s involvement in the attack against the bridge connecting Russia and Crimea that happened in October 2022, RBC Ukraine cites the official. “[There were] many special operations. We may only discuss some of those after we win the war, and we won’t discuss some of those at all… We destroyed the Crimea bridge on 8 October 2022,” the media outlet quotes Maliuk.

The Insider found out Russian embassy had spy antennas in its roof Moldova has reported reducing the number of Russian diplomats in the country, as per its Foreign Ministry. “This decision is the result of numerous unfriendly acts against the Republic of Moldova unconnected with diplomacy mandates, as well as a response to attempts to destabilise the situation in our country,” the agency says in its press release.

A London court jury has acquitted actor Kevin Spacey of all nine sex crime charges against four men. It is reported by Reuters. The actor has been cleared of all nine charges, including sexual assault, coercion into non-consensual sexual acts and coercion into penetrative sexual acts. The jury deliberated for more than 12 hours before delivering its verdict, the BBC Russian Service writes. After the acquittal, the actor burst into tears.

The head of the SBU Vasily Malyuk for the first time officially confirmed Ukraine's involvement in the explosion on the Crimean bridge in October 2022. It is reported by RBC-Ukraine with reference to his statement. “A lot of different special operations. We will be able to talk about some of them after the victory, we won’t talk about some of them at all ... This is one of our implementations, namely: the destruction of the Crimean bridge on October 8 last year, ”Malyuk says.