The U.S. Department of Justice has confirmed the arrest of five people in connection with the ketamine overdose that killed American actor Matthew Perry, the department said Thursday. The five people charged in the case include two doctors. They include Jasvin Sangha (the "Ketamine Queen") of North Hollywood and Dr. Salvador Plassencia (Dr. P) of Santa Monica.

The news The Insider August 16, 2024 On August 16, the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation introduced to the register of foreign agents of the Telegram channels “Brief important”, “Brief”, “Negogar”, as well as “Siren”. In addition, journalist Renat Davletgildeev, as well as the founder and president of the Zenden Group holding, Andrei Pavlov, was included in the foreign register of “Ino -Agents”.

POLITICS 16 August 2024 For more than a week, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) have held control over a sizable section of Russia’s Kursk Region — and have gradually expanded the zone of hostilities. Estimates suggest Ukrainian forces have seized between 500 and 1,100 square kilometers (193 to 425 square miles) of territory, capturing hundreds of Russian prisoners in the process.

On August 14, the UN Human Rights Committee ordered the Russian authorities to provide political prisoner Igor Baryshnikov with proper medical care, provide immediate medical assistance, and "ensure the inviolability of his life and psyche." This was reported by OVD-Info, citing the political prisoner's lawyer, Maria Bontsler. "Russia has a responsibility to treat and preserve Baryshnikov's life while his case is being investigated. We'll see how they respond," Bontzler said.

Podolsk resident Mikhail Rylov was sentenced to six and a half years in prison for preparing to commit treason, Mediazona reports . The court also fined him 400,000 rubles. It is unknown what caused the case to be opened; trials under articles on treason are being held behind closed doors. As Mediazona points out, in October last year, the Dorogomilovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced Mikhail Rylov to 12 days of administrative arrest on charges of petty hooliganism.

The news The Insider August 16, 2024 This week, the People’s Bank of the PRC published data from which it followed that the country for the first time in 19 years recorded reduction of loans to the real sector of the economy. In addition, the crisis overtook the market of convertible bonds . According to Bloomberg, local sales of convertible bonds decreased by 79% compared to last year - to 15.6 billion yuan. This is the lowest level since 2016.

Military unit No. 12721 in Klintsy, Bryansk Oblast, whose conscripts were on the border of Kursk Oblast during the breakthrough of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, confirmed that dozens of soldiers were captured by the Ukrainian side. This was reported by the publication Verstka, which managed to talk to the unit's senior lieutenant Alexey Chernov, who is responsible for the search for missing soldiers. He did not specify the number of prisoners, nor how many of them could be conscripts.

Massive power outages occurred in Primorye, affecting Vladivostok and several other cities. As reported by Sibir.Realii, interruptions in mobile communications were recorded against the background of power outages in several areas of Vladivostok. It is also reported that problems have arisen with ATMs and traffic lights, and commuter trains have stopped running. All medical institutions in Primorye have been switched to backup power sources, the regional Health Ministry noted .

Ukrainian OSINT project DeepState geolocated a video filmed by Russian soldiers at the Kolotilovka checkpoint in the Belgorod region. In this video, a soldier from the 155th Marine Brigade threatens Ukrainian soldiers operating in the Kursk region and shows the head of a Ukrainian soldier impaled on a stake. DeepState recalls that on August 12, the Ukrainian Armed Forces unsuccessfully attempted to break through this checkpoint.

Earlier it became known that the social network VKontakte, at the request of the Prosecutor General's Office , blocked the group "Sudzha - Search for People" created on August 13.

Federal Bureau of Investigation agents conducted a search at the Patria estate, which belongs to American political scientist and Channel One host Dmitry Simes. This is reported by Rappahannock News. The searches took place in Huntley, Rappahannock County, Virginia, and were sanctioned by the court, according to the FBI. According to neighbors, on Tuesday, August 13, FBI agents came to the estate and removed items from there. They appeared there the next day.

Books The Insider 16 August 2024 Today, the publishing house Freedom Letters has published a book of the first Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev in the history of the Russian Federation “Firebird. Who has betrayed Russian democracy. ” Kozyrev’s memoirs are an attempt to figure out why Russia -2024 is so different from the one that Russian reformers were going to build in the nineties, and how Russia and the West missed a chance to democratic reconstruction of the post -Soviet world.

Polish President Andrzej Duda has signed a law simplifying the rules for the use of weapons by security forces, including when guarding the border. This was reported by the head of the presidential chancery, Malgorzata Paprocka.

Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a decree pardoning 30 convicts. Local media (BelTA, PUL N3) write that the list includes political prisoners. Among those pardoned are 14 women and 16 men. Some of them have serious illnesses, and there are also people of retirement age among them. The names are not disclosed.

The authors of the eighth-grade textbook on Armenian history will soon make changes to the chapter entitled “The forced annexation of Eastern Armenia to Russia,” TASS reports , citing the press service of the Armenian Ministry of Education, Science, Culture and Sports. Earlier, this chapter was criticized by the Russian Foreign Ministry, which saw an attempt to revise the results of the Russo-Persian War of 1826-1828, which ended with the signing of the Turkmanchay Peace Treaty.