Canada has lifted sanctions against Anatoly Chubais, the official government newspaper reported . The publication did not give specific reasons, saying only that the reasons were “reasonable.” Canada imposed sanctions on Chubais in June 2025 - he appeared on the FBK list of “Putin’s 50 friends.” In February 2026, it became known that a former Russian official had filed a lawsuit against the Canadian Foreign Ministry demanding that he be removed from the sanctions list.

The death toll as a result of the Russian strike on the village of Mila in the Kiev region has risen to 37, said the head of the region, Timur Tkachenko. Russian drones hit an ammunition depot, causing the detonation of shells, mines and drones stored there, Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky confirmed . The explosions damaged 130 nearby buildings.

As we predicted in July, the United States has made a new attempt to revive negotiations with Russia around Ukraine. According to media leaks at the end of the week, this was precisely the purpose of CIA chief John Ratcliffe's surprise visit to Moscow - but not the only one. EastNews @ John Ratcliffe Why did Ratcliffe come? On Tuesday, we looked at four probable reasons for John Ratcliffe's arrival in Moscow. By the end of the week, it turned out that only three of the four versions were true.

European officials have no information that would indicate Russia is preparing for a conventional attack on NATO or one of the Baltic states, Bloomberg reports , citing sources. In fact, they object to the idea that preventing a strike on the Baltics was the main purpose of CIA Director John Ratcliffe's visit to Moscow this week.

Ozon announced that it will begin to place and sell sellers' products directly from order pick-up points. Some of the more than 80 thousand pickup points will become storage and shipment points: the goods will be located at the point, from there they will go to the marketplace window and go to the buyer. The marketplace began transporting goods to pickup points in early August, when Wildberries warehouses were hit by drones, but then we were talking about a limited category of expensive goods.

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Today's withdrawal of Yabloko from the elections in the Sverdlovsk and Kaliningrad regions continued a series of almost identical decisions in the regions. After the Supreme Court canceled the registration of the party’s federal list for the State Duma elections, lawsuits began to be filed against it in the elections to regional legislative assemblies. Moreover, the complaints are copied almost verbatim .

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The Arbitration Court of St. Petersburg and the Leningrad Region accepted for consideration the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office against the co-owners of Petersburg Oil Terminal (PNT) JSC Elena Vasilyeva and her husband, co-founder of the company Sergei Vasiliev, Fontanka reports . Together they control the remaining 45% of the terminal's shares - the other 55% is already owned by the state.

Since early August, Ukrainian forces have struck Russian oil refineries at least 21 times, more than in any other month of the war, Bloomberg tallied based on public statements from both sides. A pause in the second half of July allowed the fuel market to breathe out, but the respite turned out to be short: queues returned even to Moscow and the Moscow region - the best fuel-supplied region of the country.

The government is forced to tighten control over the fuel market - regions, among other things, will be prescribed indicative prices, which will be punished for exceeding them. Part of the supplies will become economically unviable IADE-Michoko/Pixabay

The first complaints began to appear after midnight. According to Down Detector, from approximately 02:00 the Wikipedia website was almost completely inaccessible to Russian users. In total, 411 users reported problems since the beginning of the day. There was no global failure of the online encyclopedia, but the site opened with a VPN. By 10:00, access was restored. Roskomnadzor has not yet commented on the situation. The threat of blocking Wikipedia in Russia arose after the start of the war.

An investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) answered the question about at least one source of money for venture investor Alexander Chachava, who since 2022 has amassed stakes worth hundreds of billions of rubles in the largest Russian Internet companies - Ozon, Yandex and My.Games.

To attack an unnamed Belgian pharmaceutical company and several other companies, Russian-speaking hackers used Cursor, an AI assistant for writing code recently acquired by SpaceX, writes Reuters. The Aur0ra hacker group was caught by Israeli cybersecurity startup Gambit Security when the attackers misconfigured one of their servers with Internet access.

FBK (recognized as an extremist organization in Russia and liquidated) published an investigation into where the money came from to purchase the largest stake in Ozon. According to the fund, the funds came from the company of Vladimir Putin’s friend Gennady Timchenko. It was he who, according to FBK, provided a loan to venture investor Alexander Chachava, who was the buyer of this package.