The Insider News August 6, 2024 Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris has announced her vice presidential running mate, Minnesota Governor Tim Walz. As Americanist Alexandra Filippenko told The Insider, Walz was the first person in this election campaign to say, “They’re plain weird,” referring to Donald Trump and his vice presidential candidate, J.D. Vance: "Using the word weird instead of strange has become a meme. Every Democratic politician is using it now.

During the attack on the Kursk region, the Ukrainian Armed Forces managed to capture Russian conscripts, reports "Beware, News". This was confirmed to the Telegram channel by relatives of one of them, Maksim H. Previously, Ukrainian channels published videos in which two young men said that they were Russian conscripts and that they had been captured. In the morning, Kursk Region Governor Alexey Smirnov reported massive shelling of the border town of Sudzha.

According to Russian customs databases, a Hungarian company owned by a Lithuanian resident supplied Russia with high-precision thread grinding machines manufactured in Italy at a plant of the German corporation EMAG. The export of such equipment to Russia from the EU is prohibited. The machines were brought in via Turkey.

Estonian citizen Svetlana Burtseva, who collaborated with Russian propaganda outlets Sputnik and Baltnews, has been charged with treason and sanctions violation by the country's Prosecutor General's Office, ERR reports . She was placed under arrest on March 1, and her trial will begin on November 1. According to the prosecution, Burtseva, who received Estonian citizenship through naturalization in 1994, has been cooperating with the propaganda media holding Rossiya Segodnya since 2017.

The official cause of death of 39-year-old pianist of the Birobidzhan Philharmonic Pavel Kushnir was named as "dilated cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure." This was found out by the publication "Mediazona." Kushnir died on July 28 in the pretrial detention center No. 1 of Birobidzhan, where he was placed on charges of public calls for terrorism on the Internet (part 2 of article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) for anti-war videos published on YouTube.

The Last Generation is a climate change activist group that is mainly active in Germany, Austria, Italy and Poland. The movement's activists throw paint on the main landmarks of European cities, stick themselves to highways, and block airports. Earlier, the police conducted a series of searches of the movement's activists, but it is very difficult to destroy an organization with a horizontal structure consisting of many autonomous groups.

Former coordinator of Navalny's headquarters in Ufa, Liliya Chanysheva, who was released from a Russian prison as part of a prisoner exchange, has published her first post on freedom. The Insider publishes it in full: "Hello! This is Liliya Chanysheva. How glad I am to be free with you! All these 2 years and 9 months you defended me and fought for my release, covered the case, wrote me letters, sent parcels and made packages - in general, worried and supported as much as you could.

OPINION 6 August 2024 Vadim Dubnov Radio Liberty observer, Echo of the Caucasus correspondent In the month after the June 23 terror attacks in Derbent and Makhachkala, Russia’s Dagestan region outlawed wearing the niqab in public, Sergokala District head Magomed Omarov was expelled from the United Russia party and taken into police custody, and head of Dagestan Sergey Melikov said that the republic was proud of its residents who perished at the hands of the terrorists.

The Insider News August 6, 2024 Former UFC champion Khabib Nurmagomedov ignored persistent requests from the leadership of the Presidential Administration to support the invasion of Ukraine, Proekt reports , citing a source. In particular, Nurmagomedov received personal calls from the head of the Presidential Administration Anton Vaino and his first deputy Sergei Kiriyenko , but Nurmagomedov ignored their offer to speak out in support of the war.

Photo: Souvik Banerjee / Unsplash A U.S. court has found Google guilty of violating antitrust laws. Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the company had become a monopoly in both Internet search and Internet advertising, at least in the U.S., by paying other tech giants like Apple, Samsung, Verizon, and others to do so. The court's opinion , published on Monday, is aimed only at confirming the fact that Google is breaking the law. It will be followed by a new round of hearings against the corporation.

The Kremlin website published a list of instructions from Vladimir Putin following the State Council meeting held on May 29. According to one of them, it was proposed to involve participants of the "SVO" (war with Ukraine) in the military-patriotic education of children and youth.

The Moscow City Court upheld the measure of restraint in the form of detention for Perm photographer Grigory Skvortsov, who was detained in November 2023 in St. Petersburg. He was charged with treason, but even his relatives did not know for a long time what exactly he was charged with.

The host of the program "Vremya" Ekaterina Andreeva prefaced Pavel Krasnov's story about the Olympics in Paris with the following tirade: "The Paris Olympics are breaking records. But more often than not, not sporting ones, but scandalously absurd ones. The opening ceremony is like a black mass. The escape of athletes from the Olympic Village. And the first guys in the Village - obvious transgenders - beat women in the ring. A pedophile was even found who was admitted to the Games.

The 235th Garrison Military Court arrested the Deputy General Director of Tekstilnaya Torgovaya Kompaniya LLC, retired Colonel Vladimir Demchik. According to the Investigative Committee of Russia, he is involved in a case of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale (Part 6, Article 290 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The crime with which Demchik is accused was committed when he held the position of the Head of the Clothing Department of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

Vladimir Putin has embarked on a new round of nuclear blackmail, only this time the threatening statements are accompanied by actions focused squarely on Europe.