The consequences of shelling of the Donetsk region Source: Donetsk Regional Military Administration In the city of Gulyaipol of the Zaporizhzhya region, one peaceful resident died from shelling. In the Donetsk region, four people were injured as a result of Russian shelling, residential buildings and civil infrastructure facilities were damaged. In the Cherkasy region, due to the consequences of the attacks of UAVs, a civilian resident of peace was injured .

A court in Nizhny Novgorod terminated proceedings in the case of “LGBT propaganda” against New Book M LLC, a legal entity that owns the Chitai-Gorod chain of stores, due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, reports News NN . Earlier, Mediazona found a file for this case on the court’s website, but it was not reported why exactly the bookstore chain was subject to a report.

Human rights organizations The Sphere Foundation and Civil Control have launched monitoring of trials in cases of “LGBT propaganda” and are calling for volunteers to join the project. The current version of Article 6.21 of the administrative code prohibiting LGBTQ+ “propaganda” among people of all ages came into force in December 2022, expanding legislation that prohibited it among minors.

The Basmanny Court of Moscow sentenced the bookmaker company Fonbet TV, which owns the TNT Music television channel, to a fine of one million rubles for “demonstration of LGBT people,” the channel “Caution, News” reports , citing a correspondent in the courtroom. The reason for the lawsuit was the absence of an age limit marking on the video Summer Really Hurt Us by the performer ALMA, which, in particular, captured a kiss between two girls.

The State Duma of Russia in the third reading adopted a bill that allows the constituent entities of the Russian Federation to independently determine methods of combating stray animals. There is no list of prohibited methods. Thus, the regions receive complete freedom of action regarding stray animals, including shooting and euthanasia.

At least six protesters were killed by police in Kenya during protests against a new finance law. Police, on condition of anonymity, confirmed to AFP the deaths in the cities of Mlolongo, Kitengela and Emali. “There was a clash with police deployed to quell the riots and some […] were shot dead in the process,” said one police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity.

On July 10, Kabul authorities demolished a makeshift camp for internally displaced persons, where people forced to flee their homes flocked from all over Afghanistan, the said Norwegian Refugee Council . Two children, four and fifteen years old, died during the evacuation. After the demolition of the camp, 280 families were left homeless. The camp was demolished in one day, and the urgent evacuation of residents was associated with the risk of injury.

The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that it “completes” the acceptance of military equipment and weapons from PMC Wagner. The fact that the Russian army was taking away weapons from PMC Wagner became known on June 27, the third day after the collapse of the military mutiny of the PMC led by Yevgeny Prigozhin.

Anarchist political prisoner Azat Miftakhov was placed in a punishment cell for three days, his support group reported. The reason for sending him to a punishment cell was the refusal to write an explanatory note regarding the “violation” that the prisoner committed - a discrepancy with the inventory of items in the bag. Miftakhov, at that time a graduate student at the Faculty of Mechanics and Mathematics of Moscow State University, was detained in early February 2019.

At the beginning of July, the ban on deep-sea mining expired - now mining companies can apply to develop deposits on the bottom of seas and oceans. Some areas of the seabed contain reserves of manganese, iron, lead, nickel, copper, cobalt, zinc and rare earth metals. Environmental groups, the fishing industry and some governments say this could lead to irreversible destruction of marine ecosystems and are proposing a moratorium or ban on deep-sea fishing entirely.

On July 12, the Bishkek City Court in Kyrgyzstan overturned the district court's decision to close Radio Azattyk (the Kyrgyz division of Radio Liberty) based on the claim of the Ministry of Culture, approving a settlement agreement between the parties, reports . Azattyk On October 26, 2022, the Ministry of Culture of Kyrgyzstan blocked the websites of Radio Azattyk, and on November 16, the country’s parliament suspended the journalist’s accreditation of the publication.