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Tuesday, July 5, 2022
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Major recent events from Meduza’s News Feed
- 👮 Police allegedly beat up disabled man in Omsk for supporting Ukraine
- 🪖 Ukrainian leaders spar over movement freedoms for soldiers
- 🪖 Latvia will reinstate compulsory military service
- 🕯️ Academic colleagues demand justice for treason-accused scientist who died in prison
- 📱 More Russian stores utilize parallel imports to keep selling Apple products
- ⚖️ State Duma moves ahead with expanded felony liability for war-related crimes
- 🔍 Fourth Gazprom-connected executive found dead
- 🏭 Volkswagen cuts ties to GAZ Group in Nizhny Novgorod
- 🎖️ Combat veteran status will open up to more civilians
- 👮 Federal agents raid home and office of St. Petersburg’s traffic police chief
- 🪖 Lawmakers move forward with stiffer requirements on defense work
- 🛡️ All that’s left now for Finland and Sweden is NATO ratification
- 🕊️ Moscow denies invitation rejection by Beijing
- 🛒 Russians overwhelm IKEA’s website for company’s final sale ever
- 🏕️ Russia models new youth program on Soviet past
- ✉️ WNBA basketball star Brittney Griner appeals to Biden on July 4
- ⚖️ LNR begins its own mercenary trials
- 👨👩👦 Conservatives will make it harder to remove children from abusive homes
Feature stories
- 🚆 The guerrilla war on Belarus’s railways
- 🗳️ How Russia’s ruling part is supposed to talk about the war
- 🚧 Picking up the pieces in Belgorod
For months, Belarusian activists have been damaging railroads to hinder Russia’s army. Now they could face the death penalty. (9-min read)
In May 2022, Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko signed a law making any attempt to commit a terrorist attack punishable by death — and terrorism is exactly the charge being brought against a number of Belarusians who stand accused of damaging the country’s railroads. Belarus's "railroad war" began before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, when the Russian and Belarusian armies began conducting joint exercises; since then, there have been dozens of attacks. At Meduza’s request, Belarusian journalist Anya Perova reports on Belarus’s railroad guerrilla fighters.
Meduza and 7×7 report on the aftermath of deadly blasts in Russia’s border city of Belgorod (8-min read)
Around 3:00 a.m. on Sunday, July 3, residents of Belgorod were woken by the sound of explosions. The Russian authorities accused Kyiv of launching missiles at the border city — and not for the first time. In April, Russia leveled accusations against Ukraine after a Rosneft oil depot in Belgorod went up in flames. And in May, Belgorod Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov reported two deaths allegedly caused by shelling from Ukrainian territory — one in the village of Solokhi and another in Zhuravlyovka. The explosions on Sunday night damaged dozens of apartment buildings and private homes, killing at least five people and wounding four others. In this joint dispatch, Meduza and Russian news outlet 7x7 report on how Belgorod residents are picking up the pieces after the deadly blasts.
How United Russia is instructing its candidates to talk about the war against Ukraine (9-min read)
The Moscow branch of United Russia, the country’s ruling party, has prepared a set of “recommendations for covering the special operation” for candidates planning on running on the party’s ticket in the September municipal elections. Meduza has obtained a copy of the document’s text. Pyotr Tolstoy, the head of United Russia’s Moscow branch, told Meduza that the party didn’t prepare the document or anything like it — but its authenticity was confirmed by a source from the party and by another source close to the party’s leadership.
Yours, Meduza