Several people were injured as a result of the explosion that occurred at a military factory for the production of explosives in Bergerak in the south-west of France. It is reported by Reuters with reference to local authorities. The statement of the prefecture of the region Dordon says that eight people were injured, including one of them injured, “life -threatening”.

On August 2, Financial Times, citing a source, wrote that Chubais did not believe that he was poisoned by chemical weapons. On July 31, it became known that the ex-representative of Vladimir Putin in sustainable development in international organizations Anatoly Chubais was in intensive care with a diagnosis of Guinen-Barre syndrome.

The fact that Coca-Cola HBC (Coca-Cola Hellenic)-the Coca-Cola distributor in Russia-was left from Russia, reported in mid-June. In early May, the main operating director of The Coca-Cola Company James Quincy said that the company’s business in Russia “will completely disappear at some point” if the fighting in Ukraine is delayed.

AvtoVAZ offered the employees of its Izhevsk plant in 5–7 salaries, additional material support, as well as assistance in employment if they write a letter of resignation of their own free will. This was reported by Interfax in the press service of the company. Seven AvtoVAZ salaries will be paid to employees of pre -retirement age when reaching an early pension.

About 20 servicemen managed to get out of the Special Center in the Bryanka of the Lugansk region, where they were kept for refusing to participate in the war with Ukraine, but only two submitted applications to the Investigative Committee (SK) - the rest are afraid. This was told by The Insider Soldier, who managed to get out of the special center located in the basement for the "refuseniks".

Former Prosecutor General of Ukraine Irina Venediktova was appointed ambassador of Ukraine to Switzerland. This was announced by the people's deputy Yaroslav Zheleznyak. This information was also confirmed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleb. “Yes, I signed an idea for the appointment of Mrs. Venediktova as an ambassador to Switzerland,” he said in an interview with Ukrinform.

The rector of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (Shaninka) and the director of the Institute of Public Sciences of the RANEPA Sergey Zuev “pleaded guilty in particularly large fraud” and compensated for the damage of about 15 million rubles. This was stated by the investigator in the Tver court of Moscow, Interfax reports . He was also released from the pre -trial detention center under house arrest, the court chose such a preventive measure for two months.

On the evening of August 2, the Armed Forces of Ukraine shot down seven Russian missiles totaling $ 91 million, counted Forbes. In total, Russia produced eight cruise missiles like X-101 (X-555) from the Caspian Sea in the direction of the central, southern and western regions of Ukraine. Six of them were shot down by anti -aircraft missile troops, and one - an aircraft fighter of air forces. The cost of one such rocket is about $ 13 million.

The State Duma deputy from United Russia, Maria Butina, who had served in an American prison for six months, offered to put the parents of children who will use the VPN in case of YouTube blocking. She talked about this, answering a question on the air with Vladimir Solovyov on the Russia 1 channel. At first, the presenters discussed what would happen if you turn off YouTube, and whether children will more often read books because of this.

The TOEFL International English Exam will still be allowed to hand over to the Russians. About this "Mediazone" was told by Stefani Winters, a representative of the ETS organization conducting the exam. She stated that the words about the ban on the delivery of TOEFL for Russians were not interpreted. The warning was about the impossibility of conducting full -time testing in Russia, and not about examiners' citizenship.

In five districts of the Belgorod region located in the five -kilometer border zone, schools and kindergartens will be temporarily closed, on September 1, children will be forced to go to institutions in other areas. This was announced by the governor of the region Vyacheslav Gladkov in his Telegram channel.

Kadyrov, who received another award today, actively supports the war in Ukraine and all the statements of Vladimir Putin, commenting on their Telegram channel with 2.7 million subscribers.

The “most simple solution” in the conditions of the current energy crisis in Germany would be commissioned by the Northern Stream 2 gas pipeline, the former German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder said in an interview with SERN, returning from Russia. According to him, if the Nord Stream 2 is not launched, Europe will face huge consequences. This statement by Schrief is one of the conditions of Vladimir Putin, on which he will agree to end the war.

Russians who don't support the war don't have a lot of ways to help Ukrainians without ending up behind bars. One way is volunteering. When a flood of refugees entered the country, the government provided them with accommodation and food, but most of the everyday issues had to be solved by ordinary people – from providing clothes and jobs to refugees to helping refugees to leave the aggressor country.

A new lawsuit was filed against Alexei Navalny. The Telegram channel “We can explain” paid attention to this. It was filed by the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Smolensk Region to Simonovsky District Court on July 13 and is associated with the dispersal of rallies in 2019. The co -standers in the case are Ivan Zhdanov, Lyubov Sobol, Ilya Yashin, Vladimir Milov and Oleg Stepanov. “Probably, the statute of limitations, which is 3 years, is undergoing.