Moscow's authorities say a couple that brought their 1-year-old son to a protest and gave him to a third party put the boy in danger and caused him "physical and moral damage."

In a statement, the Moscow Prosecutor's Office also implied that the father, Dmitry Prokazov, should not have been at the protest at all, as he does not have the right to vote in the city's elections due to his temporary registration status there.

Police detained over 1,300 protesters at the rally that the couple attended on July 27. The baby's status was not immediately clear.

https://www.rferl.org/a/moscow-prosecutor-s-office-wants-to-remove-parental-rights-from-protesting-couple/30095224.html

Ukrainian oligarch Ihor Kolomoyskiy, who has ties to the new Ukrainian President, says the two chat via WhatsApp sometimes but don't discuss anything important. He denied financially supporting Zelenskiy's campaign but said the President did have a contract with his 1+1 television channel, which he called "the only help" Zelenskiy got from him.

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukrainian-oligarch-kolomoyskiy-says-in-interview-he-plans-on-being-a-nuisance-to-many/30097688.html

Attorney Marcus Cohen told RFE/RL he paid nearly $70,000 of his own money to a Washington lobbying firm for work on behalf of then-presidential candidate Volodymyr Zelenskiy, whom he met in Kyiv but says never asked him to do it.

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukraine-zelenskiy-cohen-lobbyist-washington/30100141.html

Last month, it was a deadly fire on a secretive Russian surveillance sub. This week, it was an explosion at a White Sea missile test site. In both cases, the information released by civilian and military authorities has been less than persuasive.

https://www.rferl.org/a/radiation-rocket-fuel-nyonoksa-white-sea-explosion-russia/30101978.html

Iran is set to allow women to attend men's soccer matches, lifting a decades-long ban following pressure from FIFA. But women will still not be given completely free access to stadiums, with Iranian officials saying there would be separate entrances and seating areas.

https://www.rferl.org/a/iran-fifa-demands-allow-women-into-soccer-stadiums/30104333.html

John F. Kennedy and Ronald Reagan were unable to stop Kremlin energy pipelines to Europe. Under Donald Trump, can the United States stop Nord Stream 2?

https://www.rferl.org/a/us-efforts-stop-russia-pipelines-will-nord-stream-2-be-different/30107938.html

What blew up last week and caused a spike in radiation in northern Russia? Donald Trump and the U.S. intelligence community believe it was likely to have been a nuclear-powered cruise missile. But the case is far from closed.

https://www.rferl.org/a/russian-nuclear-accident-nyonoksa-arkhangelsk/30111691.html

Take iodine? Close the windows? Can you eat fish? Berries? Mushrooms? Lack of information worries some and angers others after mysterious blast in Russia's Far North.

https://www.rferl.org/a/information-vacuum-around-north-russia-blast-riles-locals/30113448.html

The Kremlin aims to offset Russia’s declining population with measures that include bringing in up to 10 million Russian-speaking migrants in the coming years.

Kyiv fears Gazprom will completely stop gas transit through Ukraine next year when the Nord Stream 2 pipeline network goes online.

The replacement fuel would come from Romania via Ukraine's shared border with Moldova.

There is just one problem: that alternative gas pipeline would cross Transdniester, Moldova's pro-Russian breakaway region..

https://www.rferl.org/a/kyiv-pursues-additional-reverse-gas-flows-in-preparation-for-potential-russian-gas-transit-cutoff/30118706.html

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How the fluke of a lifetime got one photographer into the air on the day when over a million Estonians, Latvians and Lithuanians formed a 675-kilometer human chain:


https://www.rferl.org/a/how-a-photographer-captured-the-1989-baltic-way-protest-from-above/30119472.html

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Macron's statements during the meeting with Putin got lost in translation in the Russian version:

"Yellow Vests were able to take part in the elections" became "Yellow Vests were unable to take part in the European elections," among other things.

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-kremlin-macron-translation-criticism/30123615.html

80 years ago today, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union changed Europe's borders in secret.

Not all Russians are much aware of the Molotov-Ribbentrop pact though: https://www.rferl.org/a/molotov-ribbentrop-what-do-russians-know-of-key-wwii-pact/30123950.html

Put your paws together for the 48 canine astronauts in celebration of today's International Dog Day! (Yep, that's a thing. Put it in your calendar).

"The presence of decay products like barium and strontium is coming from a nuclear chain reaction. It is proof that it was a nuclear reactor that exploded." bit.ly/2HpHLQX

🛡️ Two important updates on political games over arms deals and military business:

Ukrainian defense company Motor Sich, the world’s largest producer of helicopter and airplane engines, will be sold – but to whom?

At stake for Ukraine are billions of dollars of investment from China, thousands of jobs, and eventual NATO membership.

Washington does not want to see it sold to China.

https://www.rferl.org/a/ukrainian-aircraft-motor-sich-u-s--china-rivalry/30132082.html

Russia and Turkey are exploring the possibility of another deal that could cause further tensions with Ankara’s NATO allies.

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan visited Russia’s MAKS-2019 air show and reportedly expressed interest in buying the Russian Sukhoi Su-57 stealth fighter jets and Su-35 aircraft.

https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-turkey-discuss-sale-of-stealth-fighter-su-35-jet/30133297.html

RFE/RL uncovered rare photos of an anti-Soviet propaganda exhibition held in Nazi-occupied Prague.

https://www.rferl.org/a/nazi-exhibition-in-occupied-prague-paints-grotesque-image-of-life-under-bolshevism/30132846.html

Soviet scientists didn't want to wait tens of thousands of years to keep foxes as pets. So they decided to speed up the evolutionary process.

For some, the first day of school is a horrific anniversary: 15 years ago, Chechen militants took over a thousand teachers, students and their relatives hostage in a school in Beslan, a town in North Ossetia, Russia.

The tragedy, lasting for days, reached a tipping point when Russian security forces stormed the building. In the battle, 330 hostages died, including 186 children.

And some victims are still waiting for “a worthy investigation.”

https://www.rferl.org/a/beslan-fifteen-years-on/30139504.html