The Central Military District Court in Yekaterinburg sentenced Perm resident Mikhail Sokolov to 11 years in prison in the case of arson of a military registration and enlistment office. The portal Properm.ru reports this. Mikhail will spend the first three years in a pre-trial detention center, the rest will be spent in a maximum security colony. As Mediazona noted, Sokolov’s case was considered in one meeting.

As a result of the strike of the Turkish drone on June 20, two civilian officials of the Kurdish Autonomous Administration of North and Eastern Syria (Rozhava), as well as the driver of the car in which they were traveling at the time of the attack, the Anha agency, were killed . The attack occurred on the road between the cities of El-Kamyshly al-Chikani. The co-chair of the canton of El Kamyshla Yusra Derevesh, her deputy Liman Shvesh and driver Firata Tuma died.

A northern Italian magistrate has published a list of 33 birth certificates for the children of lesbian couples, asking judges to remove the names of non-biological mothers from records entirely. Prosecutor Valeria Sanzari said during the trial that if higher court judges agree to exclude the partner from the certificate, her last name should also be excluded from the child's full name. The court will rule on the case later this year.

Palestinian gunmen on Tuesday June 20 killed four Israelis at a roadside restaurant and gas station near the settlement of Eli in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Hamas said the attack was in response to clashes in the city of Jenin on June 19, in which at least six Palestinians were killed. One child was among those killed in the attack in Ely, Reuters reported, citing local emergency services. At least four people were also injured.

Unknown persons blew up a railway near Feodosia in the occupied Crimea, writes “Baza” without citing sources. about the damage to the railway track, without specifying the reasons wrote The Russian-appointed “head” of the peninsula, Sergei Aksenov, . There were no casualties. The Ukrainian telegram channel “Nikolaevsky Vanek” published a video of an explosion, presumably on a railway. The road was blown up by partisans, the channel claims.

In the United States, District Judge James Moody ruled unconstitutional an Arkansas law passed in 2021 banning gender-affirming therapy for transgender young people, the Washington Post reports. This was the first law in the United States to prohibit gender-affirming care. The law also prohibited doctors from referring patients to other medical institutions to receive such therapy.

In Nizhny Novgorod, an administrative case was opened against the limited liability company “New Book M” for “LGBT propaganda among minors.” Mediazona drew attention to this. The organization, which is a legal entity of the “Read-Gorod” bookstores, is charged with Part 2 of Article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offences. It is unknown what caused the protocol to be drawn up.

The General Prosecutor's Office has declared the activities of the environmental organization World Wildlife Fund (WWF) “undesirable” in Russia. On March 10, 2023, WWF received the status of “foreign agent” due to a complaint from the head of the Russian Ecological Society, Rashid Ismailov.

Transgender woman politician and lawyer Yulia Aleshina announced her intention to run for governor of the Altai Territory from the Civil Initiative party. Julia spoke about this in an interview with Novaya Gazeta Europe. Yulia Aleshina telegram / alyoshina_julia Aleshina announced plans to participate in the elections against the background of the movement of a bill banning transgender transition, which the State Duma adopted in the first reading on June 14.

The FSB announced the detention of a resident of the Khabarovsk Territory on suspicion of transferring cryptocurrency to a fund supporting the Ukrainian Armed Forces. was allegedly opened against the man A case of treason .

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of “incitement to suicide through threats, cruel treatment or systematic humiliation of human dignity” of anti-war activist Anatoly Berezikov, who died in a special detention center in Rostov-on-Don. He put up leaflets for the Ukrainian project “I Want to Live,” which helps Russian soldiers surrender. The lawyer of the deceased, Irina Gak, believes that Berezikov could have died from torture.

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Russia have signed an agreement on the exchange of personal data of citizens, according to the website of the President of Kyrgyzstan Sadyr Japarov. The law ratifying the agreement was signed on June 21. According to the document, countries will transfer to each other data on citizens’ identity documents, citizenship, registration, real estate, criminal and administrative liability and other information.

On Wednesday, June 21, the French government issued a decree outlawing climate activist group Soulèvements de la Terre (SLT). Le Monde reports this. The government accuses the SLT of “inciting violence” at a number of recent demonstrations, including an activist clash near Sainte-Saline in western France. Then 5 thousand environmental activists, protesting against the construction of a giant irrigation reservoir, clashed with 3 thousand police officers.

Former Kommersant journalist and ex-adviser to the head of Roscosmos Ivan Safronov, who is serving a 22-year sentence in a Krasnoyarsk colony in a treason case, spent half of June in a punishment cell. Human rights activists from the First Department and RBC reported this with reference to his lawyer.

At least four people have been killed and 16 others injured in Russian shelling of Ukraine over the past 24 hours, regional authorities say. Kherson, Donetsk, Dnepropetrovsk, Zaporozhye, Nikolaev, Khmelnytsky, Kharkov and Sumy regions were shelled. In the Kherson region, two people were killed and eight more were injured under Russian shelling, the local military administration reports . Peaceful settlements in the region were shelled 72 times, and Kherson was hit 15 times.