A publicity stunt orchestrated by the Kremlin for Vladimir Putin this week backfired within just a few hours of its broadcast. The Russian leader had the starring role in a brief audio clip described as a phone conversation between Putin and a top commander on the battlefield in Ukraine.

MOSCOW, Aug 5 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday named Denis Lyamin to head Russia's Unmanned Systems Forces, a newly established branch of the military that will be responsible for drone warfare.

Boris Nadezhdin, who criticized the Ukraine war and tried to challenge President Vladimir Putin in the 2024 election, was one of the few high-profile Putin critics still living in Russia.

Russia last mobilized hundreds of thousands of soldiers for the war in Ukraine nearly four years ago, triggering rare protests.

On Aug. 7, Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) announced that it, in cooperation with the Ministry of Internal Affairs, shut down nine unregistered crypto exchanges operating from Moscow’s business district for allegedly converting money stolen through scams into crypto and sending it to accounts controlled by Ukrainian coordinators.

President Vladimir Putin signed Russia's first law giving comprehensive rules to crypto exchanges, custodians, brokers, and mining. Only firms on a state registry may run exchanges after July 1, 2027,

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