The minimum payment for new contract soldiers may soon increase to 800 thousand rubles On the morning of July 31, Putin signed a decree that will raise the federal payment for joining the Russian army from 195,000 to 400,000 rubles. Although the measure is in place until the end of this year, there is no indication that it will not be extended.

Deputies immediately adopted in all readings a bill synchronizing the processes of obtaining acquired Russian citizenship and registering a citizen for military service, TASS reports . It is necessary to register for military service before taking the oath of citizenship of the Russian Federation. Failure to comply with this requirement will be grounds for deprivation of citizenship.

The prisoner of war driver of the Azov regiment Alexander Ishchenko died in the Rostov-on-Don pre-trial detention center, the correspondents of the Mediazone and TASS from the court of the Azov fighters report. Alexander Ishchenkophoto: Alexander Astakhov / "Mediazona" The jailers have not yet provided the southern district military court in the death of Ishchenko, the date and causes of death are unknown.

Important Stories drew attention to the fact that on July 30, Putin issued several decrees, the text of which was not published on the legal information disclosure portal. This usually happens with decrees signed secretly. We are talking about documents with numbers from 636 to 642 inclusive. These could be decrees on pardoning political prisoners who have been transferred from Russian colonies in an unknown direction in the last few days.

On the afternoon of July 31, the Ljubljana District Court sentenced a married couple, Artem and Anna Dultsev, to one year and seven months in prison for espionage in favor of Russia. This was reported by the Slovenian TV channel N1. Slovenia is deporting the Russians because they have already spent that time behind bars during the trial. According to journalists, the Dultsevs' sentence was part of a major prisoner exchange deal.

In the conflict over the merger of online retailer Wildberries with outdoor advertising operator group Russ Outdoor, the key question is: who is Ramzan Kadyrov (and rapper Timati, who joined him this week) fighting against? Important Stories studied the Russ Outdoor group to understand who is behind it and who could have convinced Putin to approve the deal, which Kadyrov called a “raider takeover” and promised to cancel.

On the morning of July 31, Hamas announced the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh, head of the organization's politburo. Israel launched a missile strike on the house where Haniyeh was staying during a visit to Tehran for the inauguration of Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian. Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has promised "harsh punishment" for Israel, Al Jazeera reports .

The retreat of the Russian military from Kherson in the fall of 2022 was separately remembered by looting . They plundered museums, took out the remains of one of the founders of the city of Prince Grigory Potemkin, and also stole animals from the Kherson zoo. The video, on which the owner of the Crimean Taigan Zoo Oleg Zubkov, is enough raccoons in the Kherson zoo by the tails and throws into carrying, the entire Internet flew around.