The head of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, Valery Fadeev, called the alternative report of Memorial and Ecodefense for the UN regarding human rights violations in Russia “discrediting” human rights activities. this . reports Kommersant “There is content, and there is form. Reports of this quality discredit human rights activities.

The Sergiev Posad court of the Moscow region arrested the technical director of the Piro-Ross company Sergei Chankaev in the case of an explosion at a plant in Sergiev Posad, TASS reports . The investigation believes that the explosion on the territory of the plant in Sergiev Posad was the result of a violation of safety regulations.

Students of universities and colleges who participated in the war in Ukraine will be able to transfer to a free form of education, regardless of the availability or absence of such places. this with reference to the resolution of the Government of the Russian Federation. reports Interfax “The rules imply the possibility of transferring vacancies from one specialty, area of ​​training or enlarged group of professions to another.

The Higher School of Economics was published by an anonymous monologue of a student who was injured in the war and gathering there again. "Novyevropa" calculated who this student Maxim Gul. Photo: VKontakte On August 10, an anonymous monologue on behalf of a third -year student of the program “Oriental Studies and Africanism”, who volunteered for war and was injured there, was published on the website of the Higher School of Economics.

Lieutenant of the Russian Armed Forces Ivan Korolev illegally crossed the Lithuanian border and requested political asylum. This was reported by the BBC Russian Service. In his own words, the military man took part in the war in Ukraine, but was not on its territory, engaged in “providing Russian troops with ammunition.” “On August 3, I decided to leave the Russian Federation due to the fact that I did not want to take part in the bloody war that my state unleashed.

The Russian army really wants to capture the Ukrainian Kupyansk and threw great forces there. But even with such an onslaught, the occupation of the city is impossible - at least now The ruins of a two -story building destroyed by a missile blow. Kupyansk, Kharkov region, Ukraine.

An eight-year-old boy was killed in a Russian missile strike in Western Ukraine, the governor of the Ivano-Frankivsk region Svitlana Onyshchuk said on Friday. According to her, the boy had been outside during the strike and received multiple shrapnel wounds. He was subsequently hospitalised in a critical condition. “For over two hours, our doctors fought for his life, but unfortunately, without success,” she wrote in a Telegram post.

At least 30,003 Russian servicemen have been killed since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on 24 February 2022, journalists from the BBC Russian Service and independent Russian media outlet Mediazona have concluded after using open source data to make their calculations. Around 1,300 new names, including four officers, were added to the confirmed deaths tally by the journalists in the last two weeks .

The Lyubertsy District Court of the Moscow Region for the second time in a row arrested for 15 days the artist Philippenzo (Philip Kozlov), the author of Graffiti "Pouring" and "Zinc our". This was reported on the court website. According to his acquaintances Sotavision, on August 10, Kozlov was taken to court, inviting the “disobedience” of the police: supposedly the artist refused to provide his passport. The lawyer was not present at the meeting, writes OVD-info.

The state really wants the Russians to have children more actively. Almost no one is asking the Russians themselves. And we asked - those who do not want or cannot give birth Illustration: Alisa Krasnikova, especially for Novaya Gazeta Europe “The sooner she gives birth, the better for the health of the woman herself,” said the head of the Ministry of Health Mikhail Murashko recently.

The US Treasury Department has imposed sanctions against Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven, German Khan and Alexey Kuzmichev, the founders of Alfa Group, which owns the Russian Alfa Bank. This is reported on the department's website. In addition, the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) came under sanctions. All of them are included in the SDN list, which means the most stringent restrictions. Fridman and Aven left Russia after the start of the war in Ukraine.

They were later made to apologise and sing song praising Vladimir Putin A Crimean court fined three women 15,000 rubles (€138) for “discrediting” the Russian army, the Interior Ministry announced on Friday. The incident took place in a water park in the city of Alushta on 8 August. The ministry said in a statement that the three women, who work as children’s entertainers in the water park, were “publicly dancing” to a song “with an unacceptable meaning” by a Ukrainian artist.

The war in Ukraine is spreading to Russia’s schools: the curriculum will now cover the ‘special military operation’ whether parents like it or not Illustration: Anastasia Kszysztof Starting from 1 September, Russian schoolchildren will be taught using a new curriculum that will see the return of basic military training and the introduction of new textbooks for both history and social studies.

Since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine began on February 24, 2022, at least 30,003 Russian military personnel have died. to this conclusion after analyzing data from open sources. came Journalists from the BBC Russian Service and Mediazona Since the last count two weeks ago, some 1,300 new names have been added to the death toll, including four officers with the rank of lieutenant colonel and above.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced his decision to fire the heads of the country’s regional draft offices on Telegram on Friday. Explaining his decision, Zelensky said that only “the people who know for certain what war is and why cynicism and bribe-taking during war is high treason should be managing this system”.