Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has died after a two-year battle with cancer, Alphabet CEO Sander Pichai announced. She was 56. Wojcicki's son, Marco Troper, also died in February. "She is uniquely connected to the history of Google, and it's hard to imagine a world without her," Pichai wrote. "She was an incredible person, leader, and friend who had a profound impact on the world, and I am one of countless Googlers who are better people for having known her. She will be greatly missed.

The head of the Sergiev Posad district, Dmitry Akulov, and the head of the local MFC, Yulia Kaminskaya, have been detained in a corruption case, the Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Russia for the Moscow Region reported on its Telegram channel. According to the investigation, the official systematically received bribes from Kaminskaya for five years — about 15 million rubles in total.

The application of the Russian video hosting Rutube, which the Russian authorities call an alternative to YouTube, has disappeared from the AppStore. “This was a consequence of sanctions imposed by the American company, which made it difficult for users to access our services via the mobile application,” the service said in a message on its Telegram channel. Rutube promised to "make every effort to ensure the return of the application" to the AppStore.

The development of the Bolshe-Tokmakskoye deposit in the Russian-occupied territories of the Zaporizhia region of Ukraine will provide the country with manganese raw materials, on the import of which it depends, Dmitry Oleynik, adviser to the head of Rosnedra, told RIA Novosti. "If we talk about plans, first of all I would like to mention the Bolshe-Tokmakskoye manganese ore deposit, the reserves of which exceed 1.7 billion tons.

Conscripts who were in the Kursk region during the Ukrainian offensive remain in their positions, writes the Agency, citing a source in one of the organizations providing legal assistance to Russian soldiers (for security reasons, the Agency is not naming the source). According to the source, conscripts in the region were declared a combat unit.

The Insider News August 10, 2024 The Ministry of Emergency Situations announced that more than 76 thousand people have been evacuated from the areas of Kursk Oblast bordering Ukraine. This is more than the entire population of the territories of the region where fighting is taking place, and more than half the population of all border areas. According to the population estimate from Rosstat, as of January 1, 2023, there were 110,720 people in the six border areas .

A criminal case under the article "Hooliganism" (Article 213 of the Criminal Code) has been opened against two men who beat up 87-year-old pensioner Dmitry Grinchiy for allegedly calling the Wagner PMC mercenaries murderers and then handing him over to the police, the state agency RIA Novosti reports . Earlier it became known that Grinchiy was riding a bus past a makeshift memorial to Wagner PMC fighters. Two passengers heard him allegedly call Wagner fighters murderers.

Z-channels reported that Russia lost a Ka-52 helicopter during the Russian Armed Forces operation to repel an attack by the Ukrainian Armed Forces on the Kursk region; from their words it follows that the crew was killed. Fighterbomber writes that the Alligator was hit point-blank by a MANPADS . "See you soon, brothers. Look after the living," echoes Ka-52 helicopter pilot and Z-blogger Alexey Voevoda (Telegram channel "Voevoda Veschat").

Photo: Kurskie Izvestia More than 16 thousand people have decided to move from the Kursk region bordering Ukraine. That's how many applications have been received, Kursk Mayor Igor Kutsak reported . According to him, the authorities are providing assistance to everyone who arrived in Kursk for temporary accommodation. "Every day the flow of people arriving at temporary accommodation points is growing, we are quickly accommodating people, we are trying to support everyone, we are helping.

The Israeli army said it had struck the Al-Tabin school in the Gaza Strip. The IDF said the building housed a command center for the Palestinian Hamas movement, where attacks on Israel were planned. According to Qatari television channel Al Jazeera and Al-Mayadeen television channel, at least 100 people were killed and dozens were injured. Iran has threatened Israel with war since the assassination of Hamas Politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran on July 31.

Algerian boxer Iman Khelif, who was the subject of a gender scandal at the Paris Olympics, won the gold medal in the 66 kg weight category. In the final fight, she defeated Chinese Yang Liu. "I am a woman like any other. I was born a woman and lived as a woman, but there are enemies of success, and they cannot digest my success," the athlete said after the tournament.

Books Mikhail Krutikhin 10 August 2024 The creation of puppet "people's republics" with the aim of "annexing" them to Russia - Abkhazia, South Ossetia and the "LDNR" - is not Putin's invention.

In addition, the Russian Armed Forces were able to consolidate their positions on the outskirts of Toretsk (until 2016, Dzerzhinsk ) and created a threat of encirclement in the New York area (in 1951–2021, Novgorodskoye ), as a result of which Ukrainian units had to retreat . In New York itself, Russian troops marked themselves with a “flag-raid” on a school building, but soon the Ukrainian Armed Forces successfully counterattacked in this area, recapturing the lost positions.

Arrested in Cyprus, 33-year-old Artur Petrov, a citizen of Germany and Russia, was extradited to the United States, the US Department of Justice reports . He is accused of supplying microelectronics to Russia in circumvention of sanctions for use in military purposes. Petrov was arrested on August 26, 2023 in Cyprus at the request of the United States. The Russian Consulate General in New York received notification of Petrov's extradition, Consul General Alexander Zakharov told TASS.