Petersburg poet Glory Malakhov said that he was hospitalized against his will in the psychiatric hospital of the village of Ulyanovka, Leningrad Region, where he spent 21 days. This was reported in the press release of the human rights project team against torture. According to Malakhov, on July 14, he got on the train "St. Petersburg-Moscow", however, when he started, for his personal reasons he decided to go down. He turned to the conductor, and she said that he could do it at the next stop.

Vostok, a “DPR” battalion, reports in its Telegram channel that after capturing Urozhaine , Ukrainian troops have set out toward Oktiabrske (renamed to Kermenchyk in 2016). The capture of this settlement will allow the Ukrainians to solve the problem of Novodonetske to the north without attacking it head-on. Images of FAB-500 aerial bomb strikes on Urozhaine and the neighboring settlement of Staromaiorske have surfaced in Russian pro-war sources.

Читать на русском языке Russian law enforcement officers searched the homes of Sergei Trutnev, a lawyer for the Memorial international human rights organization, and journalist Oksana Asaulenko in Perm, as reported in a post on Memorial's official Telegram channel.

POLITICS Shuttered Peninsula. How Storm Shadow missiles and kamikaze sea drones are cutting off Crimea from Russia Veaceslav Epureanu 17 August 2023 Amid the ongoing Ukrainian counteroffensive, spanning more than two months, a narrative of higher significance unfolds beyond the battles in the Zaporizhzhia and Donetsk regions and along the left bank of the Dnieper River.

The line for drinking water fell under fire on June 27, 2022. According to the head of the Lugansk Regional Military Administration, Sergei Gaidai, then 8 people were killed. It is not surprising that in a small city the journalists who were there came to the place of the tragedy in a matter of minutes. And to understand where the shells flew from - from the part of Russian or Ukrainian positions - it was not difficult on the spot.

News At the Army 2023 forum they showed Gzhel tanks, a temple on wheels and fake “screenshots” of correspondence with war participants - photo August 17, 2023 On August 20, the Army-2023 military-technical forum ends in Patriot Park in Moscow. According to official statements, its goal was to demonstrate the developments of the Russian and foreign military-industrial complex, as well as to establish international interaction between Russia and other countries.

It appears that a similar strategy is currently being implemented regarding Crimea, albeit adjusted for scale and the fact that the peninsula is not only, and not primarily, a colossal military target but also a home to 2 million people, along with industrial and tourist infrastructure.

On August 2, Russian customs officers detained an employee of the American University at the Moscow airport in the Moscow airport. He is accused of trying to illegally introduce more than $ 100 thousand to Russia, Baza reports . We are talking about the 71-year-old Akif Ibragimov. He passed through the green corridor after arrival. Cash dollars that he did not declare were found in his personal things.

In the special economic zone (SEZ) Alabuga in Tatarstan, it is planned to produce 6 thousand drones of the Shakud type by the summer of 2025, writes The Washington Post with reference to documents at the disposal of the editorial office as a result of the leak. As follows from the data obtained, despite delays related to the lack of imported electronic components, Moscow is advancing to its goal to create its own version of the Iranian shock drone “Shakud-136”.

The FSB announced the detention of two citizens of Ukraine suspected of "espionage" in the occupied territories. The first message refers to the 54-year-old man who was seized in the Kherson region. It is alleged that he was the commander of the Teroboron detachment of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces and collected information about the locations of the units of the Russian army. The second detainee is a resident of the Lugansk region.

Society A painful request. What the Russians began to look for in Google and Yandex after a full -scale invasion Dada Lindell August 17, 2023 While hundred -custody of Russia became useless and not reflecting real data, an analysis of the statistics of requests in Yandex and Google was an important tool for public moods.

Domestic and foreign airlines that operate flights between Russia and other countries may encounter difficulties in organizing flights in the autumn of 2023 due to the country's disconnection from the SITA Swiss company. This was reported by RBC with reference to sources in airlines. The SITA channel, or Aviation Swift, is the most common tool in world civil aviation to exchange information, including between airlines and airports. He has more than 2.5 thousand customers in 200 countries.

Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow gave the detained coordinator of Voice to Vladimir Egorov 15 days of administrative arrest under the article on disobedience to the police, Mediazone reports . Such a decision was made on the basis of the protocol, which was drawn up by employees of the law enforcement agencies that conducted him today. It notes that Yegorov allegedly did not obey the requirements, and also repelled the police and physically opposed him.

The interplanetary station "Luna-25" took the first pictures of the reverse side of the moon. According to Roscosmos, for this, television cameras of the STS-L complex were used, RIA Novosti reports . The southern polar crater Zeeman fell into the picture. Scientists are especially interested in this object due to the height of the shaft surrounding it, which reaches 8 km above the surface relatively even bottom.

The United States imposed sanctions against the FSB officers Alexei Alexandrov, Konstantin Kudryavtsev, Ivan Osipov and Vladimir Panyaev, who appeared in the investment of The Insider about the poisoning of Alexei Navalny. This was reported on the website of the Department of American Treasury. The statement of the State Department states that these persons are included in the list of Magnitsky’s act.