Information digest "Time of Freedom", August 19 Information digest "Time of Freedom", August 19 The Ukrainian Armed Forces destroyed three bridges across the Seim River in the Kursk region; The commander of the Akhmat regiment, Alaudinov, is outraged by complaints about sending conscripts to the combat area near Kursk; Ukrainian journalist Yuriy Butusov burned materials on conscript draft dodgers in Sunja; The head of the military department of the Russian Orthodox Church believes that the Kursk

Medical protests in India, August 17, 2024 Thousands of Indian doctors have refused to stop protests that began after the rape and murder of a trainee in a hospital in Calcutta. The protesters demand safe working conditions for women and a prompt investigation into the criminal case, Reuters reports . Doctors across the country held protests and refused to see patients who did not require emergency care.

In Elektrostal, near Moscow, a court sentenced former Vedomosti and RBC journalist Oksana Goncharova to 7 years in prison on charges of premeditated murder of her common-law husband. She will also have to pay 2 million rubles to the parents of the deceased. Previously, Goncharova was found guilty , but deserving of leniency, by a jury.

Scene of a bomb explosion in Tel Aviv, Israel, August 18, 2024 Radical Palestinian groups Islamic Jihad and Hamas claimed responsibility for a bomb attack near a synagogue in Tel Aviv on Sunday evening. The Hamas group is designated as a terrorist group by the US and EU. According to police, the incident killed the man carrying the bomb and injured a passerby. Israeli authorities described the incident as a terrorist attack.

At least one fighter from Chechen units took part in the robbery of a mobile phone store in the village of Glushkovo, Kursk Region. The Agency found this out . The publication found photographs of the looter from a video published in the Typical Kursk telegram channel.

Presidents of the Czech Republic and Ukraine Petr Pavel and Vladimir Zelensky (photo archive) Ukraine’s accession to NATO should not be conditional on its complete control over its territory, President Petr Pavel said in an interview with Novinky and Pravo. He expects that Ukraine could negotiate peace with Russia in the coming years. The agreement could take into account that Russia will occupy part of Ukrainian territory for a long time.

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The Russian government promised to provide tax delay entrepreneurs from the regions of the Kursk Region border with Ukraine. The order was given by the chairman Mikhail Mishustin. Tax requirements will not be written off - subsequently they will need to be paid by installments, it follows from the announcement of the government. How much residents will affect the measure. The Russian authorities say that more than 120 thousand people have already become refugees from the border areas.

If the raid of the Ukrainian Defense Forces on the territory of the Kursk region of the Russian Federation had not happened, it would be worth describing in some dystopia to prove the ineffectiveness and rotting of Putin’s state. In this dystopia, anything could happen.

France in the Russian heart. The influence of French culture. Emigrants in France. In the Radio Radio Liberty, writer Arkady Vaxberg and French culture historian Vera Milchin. Author and presenter Victor Erofeev. For the first time on the air of July 17, 2004.

"Continents must take part in the hostilities, everyone should stand in one system, from small to great," said Akti Alaudinov, commander of the Akhmat special forces, responding to the calls of parents not to send their children to the fighting zone. He also said that all the Russian military who died in the war with Ukraine will "go to heaven." In the Kursk region, the Ukrainian military entered three more settlements.

In Rostov-on-Don, an unknown person attacked a lawyer who defends tortured military personnel from military units formed in the Russian-occupied territory of the Donetsk region. This happened immediately after ASTRA published an investigation into torture, some of the materials for which were provided by a lawyer. ASTRA's investigation into a torture cellar in an abandoned mine on the outskirts of Donetsk was released on Friday.

Victor Muchnik Historian and journalist in conversation with Sergei Medvedev Today our guest is Viktor Muchnik. The historian, journalist, editor-in-chief of the legendary Tomsk television company TV2 talks about the historical and cultural heritage of his native Tomsk, its role in Russian history, Russia’s colonization of Siberia and what it means to be a Siberian today. Tomsk and Novosibirsk – There are such paired cities in Russia: St.