The Stupino City Court of the Moscow Region sentenced the head of the Uzbek community "Vatandosh" Usman Baratov to 4 years in a general regime penal colony on charges of inciting hatred and enmity (Part 2 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This was reported by a SotaVision correspondent. A criminal case was opened against Baratov because of a post on Odnoklassniki. In December of last year, the man posted a picture of chickens and the caption: "No butter, no eggs!

The Insider News August 12, 2024 Google sent Russian users information about disabling Google AdSense accounts. A copy of the letter was published by the 3DNews portal. With the help of this service, website owners, as well as YouTube channels, received part of Google's advertising revenue from contextual advertising. For YouTubers from Russia, starting in 2022, this was the last remaining way to monetize content.

The Insider News August 12, 2024 Last weekend, mass protests took place in the Serbian capital Belgrade against the Serbian government's permission for the Anglo-Australian corporation Rio Tinto to mine lithium in the country. Both liberal and anti-Western Serbians took part in the protests.

Patients with cancer and diabetes in at least 68 regions of Russia cannot buy foreign prescription drugs in pharmacies. This is reported by Izvestia, citing the All-Russian Union of Patients. In particular, cancer drugs with the active ingredients ribociclib ( Risarg ), enazalutamide ( Xtandi ), olaparib ( Lynparza ), lorlatinib ( Lorviqua ), entrectinib ( Rozlitrek ) and cabozantinib ( Cabomethix ) have disappeared from retail sale. Only the last of these has Russian analogues.

Volodymyr Zelensky held a meeting of the Headquarters , where for the first time at the official level they directly reported on the actions of Ukrainian troops in the Kursk region. Until now, representatives of the Ukrainian authorities spoke about this operation in half-hints. In particular, the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine Oleksandr Syrsky stated that at the moment the Armed Forces of Ukraine control about a thousand square kilometers of the territory of the Kursk region.

POLITICS Erkin Damolla 12 August 2024 The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in northwest China has gained global notoriety due to numerous reports about its archipelago of re-education camps, facilities where hundreds of thousands of local residents have been incarcerated. Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other ethnic minorities were put there for having any connection whatsoever to Islam.

The Insider News August 12, 2024 Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky stated that "Russian occupiers started a fire on the territory of the Zaporizhzhya NPP ." At the same time, the Russian side (Rosatom) reports that "as a result of the attack by the Ukrainian armed forces, the cooling tower of the Zaporizhzhya NPP was seriously damaged." Zelensky's statement said radiation levels were within normal limits: "However, as long as Russian terrorists retain control over the nuclear power plant,

More than 2,000 residents of the Kursk region are in the territory controlled by the Ukrainian military, the acting governor of the region Alexey Smirnov reported to Vladimir Putin. Their fate is unknown. At the same time, Putin did not listen to the report on how far the Ukrainian Armed Forces had advanced in the region, interrupting Smirnov. — The situation in the region is complicated, today there are 28 settlements under enemy control.

Polezhaev is far from the first representative of regional authorities who, having been accused of a criminal offense, asked to go to the front. Most often, officials and deputies sentenced to long terms for bribery are sent to war. In February, it became known that former Yekaterinburg City Duma deputy Oleg Kinev had gone to war. In 2016, he was sentenced to 16 years in a maximum security penal colony for organizing the murder of a pensioner for her apartment in St. Petersburg.

Subscribers of more than 135 regional telecom operators are terminating contracts with the companies due to problems with YouTube and other Google services. As Kommersant writes , because of this , Rosteleset is asking the Ministry of Digital Development and Roskomnadzor to issue a single official announcement about the reasons for the slowdown in the services and their “uneven degradation” among different telecom companies.

RU More than 2,000 residents of Russia’s Kursk Region remain in areas controlled by Ukrainian forces, according to acting governor Alexei Smirnov's recent report to Vladimir Putin. Their fate remains unknown. During the briefing, Putin interrupted Smirnov when he began discussing the extent of the Ukrainian advance in the region. The following is an excerpt of the exchange: Smirnov: “The situation in the region is complicated. As of today, 28 settlements are under enemy control.

The Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR) in northwest China has gained global notoriety due to numerous reports about its archipelago of re-education camps, facilities where hundreds of thousands of local residents have been incarcerated. Uyghurs, Kazakhs, and other ethnic minorities were put there for having any connection whatsoever to Islam. In these camps, prisoners were forced to learn Mandarin Chinese, renounce their religion, praise the Communist Party, and engage in forced labor.

The Insider News August 12, 2024 The "governor" of Sevastopol, Mikhail Razvozhaev, announced that booms will be installed at the entrance to Balaklava Bay - floating barriers that serve to limit the spread of anything on the surface of the water. They can protect against unmanned surface vehicles.

In Volgograd, a military KAMAZ truck hit a man on a bicycle, who died as a result. According to V1.ru, eyewitnesses claim that the cyclist was hit in front of his children. The truck fled the scene of the accident. "His children said that their father was driving on a green light, and the truck flew through a red light at high speed," the publication quotes eyewitnesses as saying. According to V1.ru, the deceased is retro-bike restorer Sergei Tipailov.

Antifake "Irish journalist" who accused Zelensky of lying about the fire at Zaporizhzhya NPP turned out to be a professional Russian propagandist The Insider 12 August 2024 RIA Novosti, in an article titled “‘Wretched’: The West Accuses Zelensky of Lying After the Attack on Zaporizhzhya NPP,” writes: “The Kiev regime, led by Volodymyr Zelensky, is trying to convince the Western public that Russia is striking at the Zaporizhzhya NPP, which it itself controls,” Irish journalist Chey Bowes wrote on