The Soviet court of Vladivostok overturned the decision to assign the status of “foreign agent” to journalist Daniil Gubarev, writes Mediazona with reference to lawyer Sergei Valiulin. This is the first case of an individual successfully challenging the status of a “foreign agent.” Gubarev was added to the “foreign agent_k” register in March 2023. The Ministry of Justice motivated its decision by the fact that the journalist lives in Singapore and “distributes” materials from “foreign agents”.

At least two thousand Wagner PMC mercenaries have already arrived in Belarus, the OSINT project Belarusski Gayun has calculated. Investigators believe that there are up to 2.5 thousand mercenaries and at least 400 vehicles in the country. According to investigators, mercenaries began coming to Belarus along with military equipment on July 11. Today, investigators reported that arrived two more columns of PMC Wagner in the country today. In total they counted five columns.

The Ethics Commission of St. Petersburg State University considered the statements of first-year student and editor-in-chief of “Studen” Alexandra Zaitseva “incompatible” with the status of a university student. According to the student, she faces expulsion, she shared with Bamaga. Zaitseva condemned politically motivated expulsions from St. Petersburg State University in a publication by the student media “Studen” on June 24.

On July 18, a group of deputies, including the chairman of the Duma commission “to investigate the facts of interference of foreign states in the internal affairs of Russia” Vasily Piskarev, submitted draft amendments to the article to the State Duma on “calls to extremism,” which carries a penalty of a fine of up to 300 thousand rubles or up to five years in prison.

The military units of the "people's republics" of Donbass were tortured by civilians and Ukrainian soldiers during the occupation of Izum, writes The Guardian with reference to the investigation of the Center for Information Resilience. After the liberation of the city, the Ukrainian army in September 2022 discovered a mass burial of 447 people, including the remains of 22 Ukrainian military. On some bodies, traces of torture were found.

On July 18, the parliamentary Committee on Health Protection proposed that the State Duma consider in the second reading the amendment to the law “On psychiatric care and guarantees of the rights of citizens during its provision.” According to human rights activists and workers of charitable organizations, if the bill is adopted, reforming the system of psychoneurological boarding schools will be extremely difficult, as will the ability of charitable organizations to help their clients.

Animal rights activists in the Ryazan region reported mass poisoning of stray dogs, writes 7x7. According to the Ryazan city service for the control of stray animals, employees of the rural administration of the village of Turlatovo deliberately poisoned stray dogs. As animal rights activists say, dogs that ate the poison began vomiting blood. This happened in front of the children who loved to play with them. One of the dogs was later found dead in a trash can.

The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow sent queer activist Daniil Pagin under house arrest in the case of “calls to terrorism." This is reported by "Caution News". According to the telegram channel, the reason for the persecution of the activist was reposts on VK, which ones are unknown. At the moment, Pagin’s profile is frozen, notes OVD-Info. On July 14, Daniil was sent under house arrest. Previously, the activist was visited with searches.

The Prosecutor General's Office has declared the international environmental protection organization Wild Salmon Center, registered in the United States, “undesirable.” The department came to the conclusion that the organization, under the guise of “preserving Pacific salmon,” tried to create obstacles to “the economic development of Russia.” According to the Prosecutor General's Office, WSC's initiatives to create specially protected natural areas in the Sakhalin region and Khabarovsk Territory

The Judicial Collegium for Administrative Cases of the Third Cassation Court of General Jurisdiction confirmed the decision of the previous instance in the case of Pavel Mushumansky, who required passing the ACS during mobilization. In September 2022, when mobilization was announced, Pavel was already undergoing alternative civilian service. Despite this, on September 24 he received a summons.

Political prisoner Ivan Kudryashov stopped a hunger strike, which lasted 40 days. Today, an employee of the prosecutor's office came to Kudryashov with a request to stop the hunger strike. He promised to fulfill the requirements of the political prisoner - to provide him with vegan food and transfer parcels with vitamins. “Vanya looks very bad, it’s scary to look at him,” lawyer Maxim Kharchenko, who managed to visit Kudryashova today, told the Solidarity Zone.

Teachers of the Don State Technical University (Rostov-on-Don) publish in scientific journals works written by students for the Moscow State University Lomonosov Universiade, passing them off as their own research, said Andrey Rostovtsev, co-founder of Dissernet. According to the terms of the Universiade, explains Rostovtsev, the authorship of the texts is not indicated, and the works themselves are not published, so the contestants cannot hold DGTU teachers accountable.

Consequences of shelling in Odessa and Kharkov regions Source: local administrations In the Donetsk region, three people became victims of Russian shelling over the past 24 hours, and at least four were wounded. In the Zaporozhye region, a woman was killed as a result of an airstrike on the city of Orekhov. Five more people were injured. As a result of strikes in the Kherson region, three people were injured in one day.