On July 19, in the telegram channel, Yana Ksenzhepolsky, Tver activist and ex-member of the Vesna movement, which is now in a pre-trial detention center under the investigation in the new case of Vesna, there was a message that an employee of an unnamed power structure tried to recruit him. Ksenzhepolsky suggests that it could be an employee of the investigating authorities or FSIN.

Trials are underway in France for participants in recent protests against police violence, TASS reports citing French Justice Minister Eric Dupont-Moretti. 742 people were sentenced to imprisonment, with the average average prison term being 8.2 months. In total, 1,278 court decisions have been made so far, of which 95% are guilty. Protests against police violence took place in France in late June and early July.

The command of PMC Wagner released all mercenaries - former prisoners, Important Stories found out. Currently, about 400 militants are in Anapa hotels awaiting pardon, the publication claims. According to the journalist’s interlocutor, a representative of PMC Wagner, they will no longer recruit prisoners from Russian colonies. Those who have not yet completed their contract with PMC Wagner will stay in Anapa until it ends.

On January 25, 2024, Doxa was recognized as an “unwanted organization”. If you are in Russia or plan to return to it, you can not replace our materials on social networks, refer to them and publish quotes. Read more about what is possible and impossible, read in the cards . In Iran, actress Afsan Bayegan was sentenced to two years in prison for coming to the film screening without a hijab and with her hair loose. The verdict was passed on July 19. In public, Bayegan often wore a hat.

In the Kirovsky district of the occupied Crimea, not far from the village of Krinichka, a training ground is on, according to the head of the occupation administration Sergey Aksyonov. The Telegram channel "Crimean Wind" published a video of an eyewitness and transmitted reports of "three arrivals" in the ammunition warehouse. Explosions at the training ground, according to the Baza telegram channel, began at about 4:30 in the morning.

On the afternoon of July 18 in Volgograd, a group of unknown people attacked a municipal animal control point, posing as volunteers. 7x7 drew attention to blogger Alexey Ulyanov’s post with a story about what happened. Ulyanov accused the police of inaction. Employees of the point, which was attacked by about 10-15 people, called the police, but the security forces who arrived did not detain anyone.

by shelling In the Kharkov region, one person was killed , and two more civilians were wounded. In the Donetsk region, at least ten civilians were injured as a result of Russian shelling. The shelling of Odessa and the Odessa region continues for the second day. There, over the past 24 hours, they have injured at least six people, including one child. The target of the Russian missiles, according to the local administration, was port infrastructure, including grain and oil terminals.

The activist Irina Belacheu was detained at Yerevan airport. In Russia, a criminal case has been opened on it, and since 2016 a woman lived in Ukraine in the status of political refugees. Now Belaceu has been released, reports Avtozak Live with reference to the daughter of activist Hannah Nikolayenko. Nikolayenko told the journalist_k that she was traveling to rest in Georgia, but she was not allowed into the country.

A rocket attack on the port of Chernomorsk in the Odessa region destroyed 60 thousand tons of grain and damaged a significant part of the port's export infrastructure, said the Minister of Agrarian Policy of Ukraine Nikolai Solsky. According to him, restoration of the port will take at least a year.

Due to climate change, much of the Northern Hemisphere has experienced abnormal heat since the beginning of summer. It caused severe forest fires. In Greece, dozens of houses were destroyed by flames, hundreds of people were forced to flee. Firefighters are trying to keep the flames away from oil refineries on the seashore. In Switzerland, more than 200 people had to be evacuated due to forest fires. The fire covered 100 hectares of forest.

The FSB announced the detention of a man in Kazan on suspicion of preparing to set fire to military equipment, reports , citing the department’s press service.

Since the beginning of 2023, Russian military courts have received 2,076 cases against military personnel, Mediazona calculated. This is more than in the entire previous year. On average, courts issue one hundred sentences a week. Since March, the Russian state has begun to persecute mobilized soldiers more often than contract soldiers, journalists note. In most cases, military personnel are persecuted for unauthorized abandonment of a part .

Putin will not go to the BRICS summit in South Africa, according to the website of the country's President Cyril Ramaphosa. “By mutual agreement, Vladimir Putin will not participate in the Summit, but the Russian Federation will be represented by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov,” the statement said. On July 18, it became known that Ramaphosa had applied to the International Criminal Court in The Hague for advice on Article 97 of the Rome Statute, Reuters reports .