Detention (illustrative photo) Law enforcement officers, including the FSB, economic police and special regiment of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, detained a 74-year-old resident of Vyborg, suspected of financing extremism due to donations to the Anti-Corruption Foundation. This was reported by the Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region.

President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky inspects air defense units armed with new missile launchers (photo from 2023) A bipartisan coalition in the US Senate is promoting a package of large-scale sanctions against Russia and Iran. Lawmakers from both parties say the document will send an important signal of U.S. resolve to confront authoritarian powers.

We look at what the new appointments in the Russian military leadership mean in the “Facing the Event” program with military expert Nikolai Mitrokhin and political analyst Sergei Shelin.

In the first half of 2026, passenger traffic on flights between Moscow and St. Petersburg decreased by 18% to 1.6 million people. Kommersant writes about this with reference to sources in the industry. As the newspaper notes, passenger traffic on flights between Moscow and St. Petersburg is falling six times more than in the country as a whole. One of the reasons is the frequent closure of airports due to attacks by Ukrainian drones. Back in December 2025, St.

Marco Rubio On August 6, the United States imposed sanctions against five legal entities and eight individuals associated with the purchase of weapons abroad for the Ministry of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Cuba and the intelligence services of this country. State Department head Marco Rubio announced the sanctions. According to him, "the Cuban communist regime is a state sponsor of terrorism" that undermines US security and works closely with its adversaries such as China, Russia and Iran.

Novorossiysk Sea carriers operating on the Turkey-Novorossiysk route have begun to introduce surcharges for military risks, Kommersant writes about this with reference to the companies themselves. The Alpha Shipping line has set a surcharge of $1,000 per TEU (equivalent to a 20-foot container) in the direction of Novorossiysk and $500 in the opposite direction, Marmed Container Services – $1,000 in both directions, M-Line – $750 per TEU for all cargo traveling through the Black Sea.

Mineralnye Vody Airport, Stavropol Territory The European Union has adopted the 21st package of sanctions against Russia for the war in Ukraine: new measures are aimed at banks, oil traders, the “shadow fleet” and Russia’s energy income.

Southern District Military Court The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced Tajik citizen Abdumadzhid Dzhonikulov to eight years in prison in the case of preparing to participate in the Islamic State terrorist group. According to the prosecution, he was preparing to leave for Syria, but never crossed the border. The position of the convicted person and the arguments of his defense are unknown.

Illustrative photo After daily attacks by Ukrainian drones on Russian regions, dozens of photographs and videos of the consequences of the attacks appear on social networks and instant messengers. The authorities and security forces have been trying for several years to establish a monopoly on informing residents about drone strikes. In at least 60 regions of the Russian Federation, including all subjects of the Volga Federal District, there are bans on the dissemination of attack footage.

Illustrative photo A 36-year-old resident of the Shpakovsky district of the Stavropol Territory is accused of financing an “undesirable organization.” According to investigators, he allegedly made two money transfers to her. The organization itself is not named in the message from the regional prosecutor's office. The position of the accused and his defense is unknown.

Operation of PDPS in hard-to-reach areas. Photobank of the Federal Aviation Forestry Service How the environment becomes a victim of military and economic goals This week in Russia turned out to be like something out of a disaster movie, only without special effects, everything is happening for real. Beyond the Urals the taiga is burning, in Tyumen and the Moscow region the rivers are littered with dead fish, and in the Russian part of the Black Sea oil products are spilling.

How the environment becomes a victim of military and economic goals

This week in Russia turned out to be like something out of a disaster movie, only without special effects, everything is happening for real. Beyond the Urals the taiga is burning, in Tyumen and the Moscow region the rivers are littered with dead fish, and in the Russian part of the Black Sea oil products are spilling

At least 77 conscripts died in the border zone in the Kursk region during the invasion of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2024, “Important Stories” and “Vestk” found out . More than 30 more people remain missing. Journalists believe that over time they will also be recognized as dead. Missing people continue to be recognized as dead even now - the last known case occurred in May 2026.

Soon after the explosion Among those killed in the explosion that occurred on August 1 in the Moscow restaurant Balzi Rossi was Major General Valery Plokhotnyuk, the VChK-OGPU telegram channel claims without citing a source. The channel published a photograph of the grave in which the general was allegedly buried on August 5 at the Troekurovsky cemetery. Mediazona, citing state registers, confirmed that they contain a record of Plohotnyuk’s death on August 1.