The defendant in the Mayakovsky case, Artem Kamardin, reported problems with his physical and mental health that arose during his arrest. This was reported by SOTAvision. Before the Tverskoy District Court of Moscow, where his case was considered on the merits, Artem told about pain in his head, back and stomach. According to the poet, because of the pain he cannot concentrate on anything, and painkillers do not help.

On the night of July 14, unknown partisans set fire to a relay cabinet on the Obukhovo-Slavyanka railway section in St. Petersburg, Fontanka reports . The damaged equipment was found around 1 am. The telegram channel Shot, associated with the security forces, writes that the closet was completely burned out. There was a battery cabinet nearby, which was allegedly doused with a flammable liquid, but was not set on fire. Due to the arson, two electric trains and a train to Astrakhan were delayed.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation in the third and final bill banning transgender transition and changing the gender marker in documents.

On July 6 in Moscow, police took blogger Farkhodjon Umirzakov, an activist of the Uzbek opposition party “Hakikat, Tarakkiyot va Birdamlik” (“Justice, Development and Unity”) from his workplace, Radio Ozodlik reports . He was banned from entering Russia. On the same day, two more party activists were detained and are now being held in a deportation center.

In the capital of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic of Stepanakert, on July 14, a multi-thousandth rally began with a demand to unlock the Lachin corridor-the only road that connects the region with Armenia. It is reported by Armenpress. A rally in Stepanakert Re: Public of Artsakh The rally is attended by NKR leaders - President Araik Harutyunyan, State Minister Gurgen Nersisyan, Ombudsman Gegam Stepanyan and other officials.

In Tambov, the security forces came with a search of the ex-employee of the city headquarters of Alexei Navalny to Igor Slivin, the OVD-Info reports with reference to human rights activist Vladimir Zhilkin. Igor Slivin "OVD-info" It is still unknown in what case the investigative actions are taking place and which department holds them. In 2017–2018, Slivin was regularly detained due to activist activities, writes OVD-Info.

On June 14, were added to the list of “terrorists and extremists” of Rosfinmonitoring. Karen Shainyan and Bulat Barantayev Karen Shainyan is a journalist and blogger, a number of his projects were dedicated to the life of LGBTQ+ people in Russia: “Queerography”, “Queer Prosvet” and Straight Talk with Gay People. In 2022, he was declared a “foreign agent.” Bulat Barantaev is a Novosibirsk LGBTQ+ activist and entrepreneur.

On July 14, the State Duma adopted amendments to the law “On Military Duty and Military Service” in the second reading, raising the age limit for being in the reserve for soldiers, sailors, foremen, sergeants, warrant officers and midshipmen, TASS reports . The bill proposes extending the age limit for reservists in each category. Rank is a category for recording those liable for military service, which organizes the mobilization resource according to age.

At least three Ukrainian civilians have died as a result of Russian shelling over the past 24 hours, and at least 10 more have been injured. Russia shelled Donetsk, Kherson, Zaporozhye, Dnepropetrovsk, Nikolaev, Chernigov, Kharkov and Sumy regions. In the Donetsk region, one person was killed and four more were injured as a result of Russian shelling, said the head of the regional military administration (ROA) Pavel Kirilenko.

In 2022, more than 25 thousand Russians requested political asylum in European countries and the United States - this is three times more than in 2021, but less than in the record year of 2013, the To Be Precise project calculated . At the same time, more than seven thousand Russians applied for asylum in the United States, and almost 17 thousand in EU countries. In Europe, only a third of applicants from Russia receive a positive decision, while in the USA - 88%.

One person was killed and three were injured as a result of shelling of the village of Belaya Berezka in the Bryansk region, said the region’s governor, Alexander Bogomaz. Consequences of the shelling of the village of Belaya Berezka 7x7 The shelling of Belaya Berezka was previously reported by telegram channels Shot and Mash associated with the security forces. The channels claim that at least ten “arrivals” were recorded in the village. According to Bogomaz, a woman born in 1939 died.

Memorial recognized active anti-war arsonists Alexei Nuriev and Roman Nasryev as political prisoners. This is the first time since the beginning of the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine that those convicted of a radical form of protest are recognized as political prisoners.

In Hungary, the bookstore Lira Konyv was fined 12 million forints (about 32 thousand euros) for selling the graphic novel Heartstopper (“With a Sinking Heart”) about the relationship of two high school students, Sky News reports . Hungarian law requires that “LGBTQ+ literature” be sold in closed packaging, which was not done in this case.