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The Russian Foreign Ministry expanded the black list of British citizens. It included, in particular, 14 BBC journalists, Telegraph and Guardian, Minister of Culture, Deputy Minister of Defense and prosecutor of the International Criminal Court. In total, 54 British citizens were added to the list.

The State Duma deputy Ramzan Kadyrov Adam Delimkhanov said that “deputies of the State Duma, senators of the Russian Federation from the Chechen Republic” and he personally supported the son of the head of Chechnya, who was accused of beating Nikita Zhuravel, who burned the Qur'an. The chairman of the Chechnya parliament Magomed Daudov made the same position. According to Delimkhanov, Kadyrov Jr.

Sentenced in the case of "discredit" by the army of Alexei Moskalev was placed in a schizo with correctional colony No. 6 of Novomoskovsk, Tula region. This was reported in the Telegram channel "Freedom to Masha Moskaleva!": “We began to find out why we canceled our order, which we made for Alexei. They phoned the operator who replied that they could not deliver the order to the prisoner because he is in a schizo. ” The reason because of which Moskalev got into the schizo is unknown.

The co-chair of the Voice movement on Friday was arrested by the Basmanny District Court of Moscow in the criminal case of the activities of an unwanted organization (part 3 of article 284.1 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), the press service of the court told The Insider. The broadcast from the courtroom led the Mediazona. The decision to arrest was made by judge Natalia Dudar. Melkonian denies involvement in illegal activities.

In Russia, against the Chechen human rights activist Abubakar Yangulbaev, who is already on the federal wanted list on charges of extremism, opened a criminal case under the article on “calls for terrorism” (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of Russia).

The court in Manchester found the guilty nurse Lucy Letbi in the murder of seven newborns, the BBC reports . Letbi was also found guilty of attempted murder of six babies. She introduced the children with a syringe, overfeed them and poisoned with insulin. Moreover, she killed some newborn from several attempts. A total of Poybi brought 22 charges. The Manchester court must pronounce the sentence on August 21 at 10 a.m.

The Ostankino court arrested a 30-year-old Strimmersh, known under the nickname Yokobovich (real name-Anna Bazhutova) for Fakes against the Russian army, writes “Caution, News”. It is reported that the girl spent in July a stream on the Twitch platform, on which she read out the memories of the inhabitants of Buchi, called for the murder of Russian soldiers who were guilty of the death of Ukrainian civilians.

Canada imposed sanctions against three Moscow courts for violating the rights of opposition. Under the sanctions, the Moscow city, hamical and basmanny courts of the capital fell. This was reported on the website of the Government of Canada.

The GRU recruits Ukrainian refugees in Poland and forces them to fulfill special instructions, writes The Washington Post with reference to employees of Ukrainian, American and Polish intelligence services. The detention of members of such a “spy network”, whose participants were recruited through announcements in emigrant Telegram channels, became known in March.

News In the Belgorod region, police forcibly delivered migrants to the military enlistment office August 18, 2023 In the Belgorod region, the police took nine migrants with Russian citizenship to the military registration and enlistment office to register them, 7x7 reports . It is reported that the police will continue "preventive measures." Similar raids this week have already been held in Chuvashia and St. Petersburg.

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The Ministry of Justice of Russia recognized as “foreign agents”: writer Linor Goralik, political scientist Andrei Piontkovsky, Kalmyk opposition activist Vladimir Dovdanov, writer Tatyana Sotnikova, human rights activist Sergei Krivenko, economist Andrei Illarionov, Activist of the Free Yakutia Foundation Sarylgan Kondakov. The department said that the above opposed the "special military operation" in Ukraine.

Ukrainian troops have “made progress” south of Urozhaine on the Vremevsky Bulge , reports Andriy Kovalev, spokesman for the General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). As per the Ukrainian open-source intelligence (OSINT) project DeepState , the Russians attempted another counterattack toward the settlement they abandoned two days ago but failed. Russian pro-war channel WarGonzo recounts the advances of Ukrainian troops in the vicinity of Robotyne and Verbove south of Orikhiv .

News In the Moscow-City area, the drone fell again. His fragments were found in the area of ​​"Expocenter" August 18, 2023 At night, residents of Moscow reported the sounds of explosions. Later, the mayor of the city, Sergei Sobyanin, said: "Tonight, while trying to fly to Moscow, the drone was destroyed." According to Sobyanin, the fragments of the UAV fell in the “Expocenter” zone, the building did not apply significant destruction. There are no preliminary victims.