Evening Medusa

June 29. Oleg Navalny was released

Oleg Navalny, the brother of the politician Alexei Navalny, was released this morning after three and a half years spent in the colony. The Navalny brothers at the end of 2014 were found guilty of the Yves Rocher case: according to investigators, Oleg Navalny, holding a leading post in the Russian Post, convinced the company to conclude an obviously unprofitable agreement.

Near the colony in the Oryol region, Oleg Navalny was met by a wife, brother and numerous journalists .

Other news of the day

The court returned to General of the FSB Feoktistovtwo million dollars from the Ulyukaev case. With this money in the bag, Ulyukaev was detained in 2016 when leaving Rosneft's office. Feoktistov, who was interrogated in a closed mode in court, said that the “private investor” gave him money for the investigative experiment.

United Russia does not know how to justify the increase in retirement age. As Vedomosti found out, at a closed party meeting, members of the regional branches said that they did not understand how to explain the need for reform to the population in the field. Representatives of those regions where the elections should soon be unhappy were dissatisfied with the reform.

Trump plans to conclude a deal with Putin in Syria. It is assumed that Syrian troops with the help of Russia will take control of the territory near the border with Jordan, and in exchange for this, the rebels who support the United States will freely leave the region. There will be created a “alienation zone” that blocks the transfer of forces supported by Iran - this is the key part of Trump's plan.

Sentsov’s hunger strike

Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, convicted of charges of terrorism, is starving for the 47th day. The day before, the Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova came to his colony. She said that Sentsov’s health status is “relatively satisfactory”.

What is happening in the world

European leaders met in Brussels and for ten hours tried to agree on what to do with migrants. As a result, they more or less succeeded, but it is impossible to confidently say that the agreements will work-because in fact they do not oblige anyone to anything .

In Mexico, two days later national elections will be held - the president, members of the parliament and regional politicians will choose. During the election campaign, which began in September 2017, more than 135 politicians were killed in the country - and murders continue every day .

If Russia beat Spain ...

The Russian team-for the first time in its history-plays in the playoffs of the World Cup. In the 1/8 finals on Sunday, she will play with Spain. The chances of victory are not very great, but suddenly! Now is the time to promise something if Russia still passes further and beat the Spaniards. Act !

And also

• The Lipetsk governor wrote on Twitter that the departure of the German national team with the World Cup is the revenge of the souls of people killed in world wars. And then he deleted the message and wrote that he was “on Twitter” someone piled up with envy of the productive cooperation of the region with Germany.
• In the city of Kungur in the Perm Territory, residents forced to pay utilities for the rain. Paradoxically, this requirement of public utilities turned out to be quite legal .
• Gorillaz was released by a new album. He is absolutely enchanting, listen to him right now !

Grigory Levchenko