In Yakutsk, the first court decision was made in Russia, which recognized illegal obligatory deduction of money from salaries to support participants in the war with Ukraine. The Yakutsk City Court considered the case of the deputy head of the FBU “Administration of the Lensky Water Path basin” Lyudmila Mitkinova, which the labor inspectorate punished for violations of labor legislation in connection with similar trials.

Economics Vadim Belkin 8 August 2025 Sanctions against Russia have become one of the factors of Trump’s tariff policy. Trump has already introduced 25 percent duties against India for the purchase of Russian oil and now threatens the growth of tariffs in China. If they are introduced, this will hit throughout the global trade and is fraught with the global economic crisis.

Russia was able to build only one aircraft from 15 planned over the past year, writes Reuters with reference to the data of the Swiss analytical company Ch-Aviation. In the pre -war year, the Russian aviation park was replenished with 52 aircraft, including Boeing and Airbus, but with the beginning of a full -scale invasion of Ukraine their imports to Russia were prohibited, and the production of their domestic aircraft was never established.

Pavel Lvov / IMAGO POLITICS Veaceslav Epureanu 8 August 2025 On the eve of the Day of the Russian Navy, news emerged the years-long efforts to overhaul the aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov were coming to a halt. The future of the only aircraft carrier in the Russian fleet now hangs in the balance — it will either be sold, or scrapped.

At Correctional Colony No. 11, a high-security prison in the town of Bor, Nizhny Novgorod Region, former officers of the FSB, GRU, FSO, police, and SVR are serving time. A former FSB counterintelligence officer who spent 12 years there told The Insider how to spot an SVR man among the inmates, why GRU officers get locked up so often for drugs, and what the “VIP barracks” — the one that once held Sergei Skripal — really looks like. Contents 1. Church and porridge with butter 2.

On the eve of the Day of the Russian Navy, news emerged the years-long efforts to overhaul the aircraft-carrying cruiser Admiral Kuznetsov were coming to a halt. The future of the only aircraft carrier in the Russian fleet now hangs in the balance — it will either be sold, or scrapped. The war in Ukraine has, on the whole, called into doubt the effectiveness of Russia’s naval forces, which have proven useless even in a theater of operations as limited as the Azov-Black Sea region.

Volunteers distribute food to the Palestinians in the gas sector (July 28, 2025) Society Alla Gavrilova 8 August 2025 Under the pressure of Western countries, Israel announced daily humanitarian pauses in gas in gas, an increase in humanitarian aid missed in the sector from the UN agencies, and also initiated the landing of food from aircraft.

Foreign firms put equipment in Russia for the production of all -terrain vehicles Burlak, to which the Russian Ministry of Defense showed interest, The Insider found out. According to Russian customs, in 2024, control and measuring equipment for the production of the German corporation Leuze Electronic GmbH & Co. was imported to Russia. KG with a total value of $ 400 thousand.

China stated the legality of Russian oil imports, responding to the threats of the United States about the introduction of new tariffs after Washington introduced secondary duties for goods from India for the purchase of energy resources from Moscow. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the PRC informed Bloomberg that for China it is legally and legitimate to conduct normal economic, trade and energy cooperation with all the countries of the world, including Russia.

According to Bloomberg, Russia at a reduced price began to offer Chinese customers oil Urals oil, which was originally intended for India. The latter began to refuse Russian oil after US President Donald Trump signed a decree on the introduction of 25 percent duties on Indian goods. Both private companies and state refineries became interested in cheaper oil, the agency writes. According to Bloomberg sources, we are talking about possible supplies assigned to October.

The Council of the European Union agreed to provide Ukraine with a new tranche of macrofinance support with a volume of more than 3.2 billion euros. The funds will be taken under the UKRaine Facility support fund, operating since March 2024. The funds are primarily aimed at strengthening the country's macro -financial stability and ensuring the work of state authorities.

From 2017 to 2022, Uber in the United States received 400 181 complaints about sexual attacks and “misconduct” - an average of eight minutes on average. The service publicly recognized only 12,522 serious cases (violent penetration, forced kisses, etc.), hiding about 97% of all appeals. About this writes The New York Times with reference to court documents in claims related to attacks.

Representatives of Armenia and Azerbaijan on Friday, August 8, will sign a peace agreement in Washington. About this on his social network, Truth Social was written by US President Donald Trump. The possible conclusion of a peace treaty between the two countries was known earlier, but Trump's post is the first official confirmation of this.

The Israeli Military-Political Cabinet approved the proposal of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the occupation of the city of Gaza, Axios writes with reference to a high-ranking Israeli official. It is expected that before the start of a new offensive operation, the IDF will issue orders for the evacuation of about a million Palestinians who are in gas and its environs, Israeli officials said.

At the end of July, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio accused the President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro of leadership of the drug cartel. He stated that Maduro was headed by the Los Sogoz Cartel (a drug -terrorist organization that established control over the country) and that charges of drug supplies to the United States were addressed to him.