The International Olympic Committee (IOC) is likely to ban Russian athletes from participating in the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris, even under a neutral flag, IOC honorary member and ex-president of the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) Craig Reedy told The Times. Details. Qualifying competitions for the Olympics will begin in the next few weeks, and according to Reedy, it is "unlikely" that athletes from Russia and Belarus will be able to participate in them.

The American company Uber in 2015-2016 tried to find businessmen from Vladimir Putin's entourage in Russia who would help her do business in the country. Through such connections, the company wanted, in particular, to achieve a change in the taxi bill and even paid hundreds of thousands of dollars for this. This is evidenced by the leak of 124 thousand documents of the company, which was at the disposal of The Guardian. Details.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree conferring the honorary title "Guards" to two more brigades - the 17th Army Aviation Brigade and the 2nd Separate Order of Zhukov Special Forces Brigade. The first brigade is believed to have been fighting in Ukraine since 2014, while the second brigade has been involved in sorties from Belarus. More.

About 150 military men who served under contract in Ukraine wrote letters of resignation and returned home. Before that, they were kept in a closed camp for several days, threatened with criminal cases, according to the Free Buryatia Foundation. Details: According to the fund, the military returned to Buryatia on Saturday, July 9th.

Frame from the video of the Ministry of Defense Since June, the Russian military can be seen on the video of the rewards of the Generals of the Red Chevrons with the letter “O” and the Russian flag in the form of the letter “L”. This is the symbolism of the so-called “Brave” group, about which they have been written in military telegram channels since April, and at the end of June they began to mention on the websites of the Russian state media. "Agency" says what is known about this group.

Russia took an "operational pause" to regroup its troops, but did not stop launching missile strikes on the territory of Ukraine. Mykolaiv and Kherson regions suffer from shelling, and in Chasov Yar, Donetsk region, a rocket hit a residential five-story building. Russia took a break to regroup.

On July 10, the Vesti Nedeli program showed a story about the preparation of volunteers before being sent to Ukraine at the Special Forces University in Gudermes. During the plot, phones were displayed on the screen several times, by which you can sign up. Details. The plot tells that people from all over Russia go to Gudermes.