The Ozon, Ozon Fresh, Ozon Seller, Ozon Job, and Ozon Travel apps have disappeared from Google Play, Android’s app store. It is not known why the apps were removed. The Ozon Bank app was previously removed from Google Play. The bank is under European Union sanctions. For now, the apps are still available for download on Apple’s App Store and Huawei’s AppGallery, according to the independent Russian broadcaster TV Rain .

Getty Images Vladimir Putin gathered his military commanders for a briefing in late 2025 and set a goal for 2026: “the collapse of NATO and the EU from within,” The New York Times reported, citing officials from two countries familiar with the details of the meeting. Moldova is central to those plans, according to the newspaper’s sources. Western intelligence officials say the Kremlin’s top priority is subjugating Ukraine, followed by taking control of Moldova.

Investigators in Moscow searched PlanetaMed, Vasily Generalov’s clinic, as part of a criminal investigation into fraud and negligent infliction of grievous bodily harm. Russia’s Investigative Committee in Moscow announced the searches but did not name the clinic, saying only that it was on Varshavskoye Shosse. Child psychiatrist Stepan Krasnoshchekov, who has exposed Generalov’s “treatment” methods, says the clinic is PlanetaMed.

Valentyn Ogirenko / Reuters / Scanpix / LETAWheat being loaded at a farm in Ukraine’s Zhytomyr region, August 7, 2026 Moscow has not received a formal proposal for a moratorium on Black Sea strikes, Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova said on Friday. A day earlier, Reuters reported that Kyiv had used an intermediary to deliver a proposal to Moscow for a mutual halt to strikes on civilian targets in the Black Sea.

The Samara Regional Court has stripped Mikhail Matveyev, an incumbent deputy from Russia’s Communist Party (KPRF), of his registration as a candidate for the State Duma, the lower house of Russia’s parliament. The lawsuit was filed by Anna Sarantseva, a Party of Pensioners candidate running against Matveyev in the single-mandate district. She said his campaign materials used photographs — including some of his own — without permission from the copyright holders.

The criminal case against Vladislav Balgrabsky, a 30-year-old who fought in the war, has reached the 2nd Western District Military Court, the independent Russian outlet Mediazona reported. He is charged with voluntarily surrendering to the enemy, desertion, and treason.

Приложения Ozon, Ozon Fresh, Ozon Seller, Ozon Job и Ozon Travel пропали из Google Play — магазина приложений для Android-устройств. Причины удаления приложений неизвестны. Ранее из Google Play удалили приложение Ozon Банка, который попал под санкции Евросоюза. В Apple App Store и Huawei App Gallery на данный момент приложения доступны для скачивания, отмечает «Дождь».

Бывший профессор социологии Кембриджского университета Джейсон Ардей был найден мертвым на юге Лондона, сообщает BBC News. Полиция Лондона сообщила, что 41-летнего мужчину без признаков жизни нашли вечером 14 августа в доме в лондонском районе Баттерси. Приехавшие на место врачи констатировали его смерть. «В данный момент его смерть рассматривается как неожиданная, но не подозрительная», — заявили в полиции.

School camps and municipal children’s centers across Russia are reporting in large numbers that they took children to see The Last Warrior: Kolobok . Verstka , an independent Russian news outlet, found more than 20 such posts on social media in recent days. The posts describe how the institutions organized trips to movie theaters for the children, and they include photos from the screenings. Verstka said the posts “actively praise” the film and that the wording in some of them is similar.

Google’s Gemini AI has stopped working for some users in Russia, according to complaints on the Downdetector website. Kod.ru, a Russian tech outlet, flagged the outage. Gemini was already unreachable from Russian IP addresses, but the disruption has now spread to users accessing it via a VPN. The outage coincided with the release of Gemini 3.7 Flash, a new version of the AI model.

Starlink will not remove Poland from the European region of its satellite communications network. Janusz Cieszyński, a former Polish digital affairs minister, was the first to report the reversal. Poland’s current digital affairs minister, Krzysztof Gawkowski, and Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski later confirmed the report. In a post on X , Sikorski thanked Elon Musk, who owns Starlink, for acknowledging that Poland is part of the European Union.

Консорциум инвесторов, куда входит основатель Amazon Джефф Безос, купил миноритарную долю английского футбольного клуба «Ливерпуль». Как сообщили на сайте клуба, американская компания Fenway Sports Group (FSG) заключила соглашение с компанией 1892 Holdings. Холдинг возглавляет британско-индийский бизнесмен Амит Бхатия, Безос — ведущий инвестор компании. По данным источников Bloomberg, бизнесмены купили примерно 30% акций «Ливерпуля».

The U.S. administration has circulated a questionnaire among NATO allies to gauge their support for President Donald Trump’s foreign policy, Bloomberg reported on August 14. The document, obtained by the news agency, asks each country whether it: Has publicly voiced support for U.S. foreign policy Has banned U.S.

В Москве следователи пришли с обыском в клинику «ПланетаМед» Василия Генералова в рамках уголовного дела о мошенничестве и причинении тяжкого вреда здоровью по неосторожности. Об обысках сообщила пресс-служба Следственного комитета по Москве. Название клиники в публикации не упоминается. Сообщается лишь, что это клиника на Варшавском шоссе. Детский психиатр Степан Краснощеков, разоблачивший методы «лечения» Генералова, утверждает , что речь идет именно о «ПланетаМед».

Poland has detained a suspect in a plot to assassinate Ukrainian rapper Albert Vasyliev, known as Kyivstoner, the Polish radio station RMF FM reported , citing sources. The suspect is a native of the Donbas, the station said. Polish security services believe Russian intelligence ordered him to kill the musician. Prime Minister Donald Tusk announced on August 13 that Polish authorities had detained a Russian citizen, recruited by Russian intelligence, on suspicion of plotting a killing.