Soviet dissident Sergei Grigoryants told Mediazona that a car ran over him in the courtyard of his house. “There was a rather strange feeling that he was lying in wait for me. He was driving along a narrow driveway behind my back, saw me perfectly, didn’t honk and ran over my leg,” Grigoryants said. He clarified that this happened on the afternoon of July 5. The victim was taken away by ambulance; At the hospital they put a cast on my leg.

The Rostov Regional Court found former judge Dmitry Novikov guilty under several articles of the Criminal Code and released him from punishment due to the expiration of the statute of limitations for criminal prosecution, the said in a statement on the court’s website.

Investigators detained the head of the fire extinguishing service of the first detachment of the federal fire service of the Kemerovo region, Andrei Bursin, the Investigative Committee reports . Bursin was the first to arrive to extinguish the fire at the Winter Cherry shopping center in Kemerovo. He complained that no one met the firefighters - there were no security guards or administration on site, and it was impossible to know how many people remained in the building.

Spouses Sergei and Anastasia Polyakov were arrested in Omsk on charges of involvement in Jehovah's Witnesses banned in Russia, according to the organization's website. The arrest hearing took place on July 6. Before this, Sergei and Anastasia had not been in touch for two days; searches took place in their apartment, as well as in the apartment of at least four other Omsk residents. Security forces seized all electronic storage media and electronic devices.

A resident of the Kharkov region was detained on the border with Russia for an attempt to take out spare parts to aviation engines from Ukraine, the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) reports . The Ukrainian was detained on one of the checkpoints. Under him, military spare parts “hidden from customs inspection” were found, which, according to the SBU, are used in Russian military and passenger aviation.

Former Minister of Health of Dagestan Tanka Ibragimov was detained in Makhachkala, TASS writes , citing a source among the republic’s security forces. Ibragimov was detained in his own home during a search. The source added that he was suspected of stealing budget funds allocated for the purchase of medical equipment. Tanka Ibragimov served as Minister of Health of Dagestan from 2013 to February 2018. He then became interim, and in April he submitted his resignation.