President Vladimir Putin claims that Russian troops did not attack the Amstor shopping center in Kremenchug. His words are broadcast by the Mayak radio station. “We have every opportunity to determine where everything is, and with modern long-range precision weapons, we achieve these goals,” he assured. When the center was shelled, were killed 18 people .

The Moscow Department of Culture has replaced the artistic director and director of the Gogol Center, TASS reports citing the department's press service. Former artistic director Kirill Serebrennikov wrote about the “murder” of the theater. Instead of the current artistic director Alexei Agranovich and director Alexei Kabeshev, Anton Yakovlev and Alexander Bocharnikov were appointed. The management was also changed at the School of Modern Play and Sovremennik.

The management of St. Petersburg State University fired Tatyana Tairova-Yakovleva, professor of the Department of History of the CIS and director of the Center for the Study of the History of Ukraine. A letter from the administration was published by Regnum confirmed this information to Fontanka and 78.ru. , Yakovleva The document states that the university stopped cooperating with Tairova on June 15.

The Supreme Court of Russia for the third time postponed the hearing on the claim of the Prosecutor General's Office to recognize the Azov battalion as a terrorist organization, reports with reference to the court's press service. Interfax The meeting, which was supposed to be held behind closed doors, was postponed to August 2. At first it was planned to be held on May 26, then postponed to June 29. The court's press service did not specify the reasons for the postponement.

Lawyer Dmitry Talents by the Moscow City Court, October 4, 2021. Photo: Ivan Vodopyanov / Kommersant On Tuesday, Dmitry Talentov, President of the Law Chamber of Udmurtia, was detained on Tuesday. He barely managed to report through social networks that he was chained into handcuffs and taken to the Investigative Committee in the Udmurt Republic. In the evening of the same day, the lawyer was transferred to Moscow.

The Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow sent the president of the Udmurtia Bar Association and the lawyer of journalist Ivan Safronov, Dmitry Talantov, to pre-trial detention in the case of “fake news” about the army because of an anti-war post on Facebook, reports . a Mediazona correspondent The lawyer is charged with Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code. He faces up to ten years in prison.

The Nyandoma District Court of the Arkhangelsk Region fined the former deputy of the Kargopol City Duma and activist Shies Radik Adnobaev 31 thousand rubles because of a photo with a poster “We are against war” and the comment “Glory to Ukraine! Glory to heroes!" on VKontakte. He told Mediazona about this.

Syria has decided to recognize the independence of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. This was reported by the SANA agency with reference to the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Thus, Syria became the second UN member state after Russia to make such a decision. Before this, the independence of the DPR and LPR was recognized only by Abkhazia and South Ossetia.

The author of the exposition “Mariupol - the battle for the Russian world” in Pushkin and the head of the Leningrad Volunteer organization, German Vladimirov, told the LEN TV 24 website that the Deputy Head of the Administration of the Pushkinsky District of St.

NATO has decided to invite Sweden and Finland to join and sign protocols on the accession of these countries to the alliance, according to the declaration of the summit in Madrid, published on the organization’s website. The statement says that the accession of Finland and Sweden to NATO will secure these countries and the Euro-Atlantic space as a whole. The alliance emphasized that it adheres to an “open door” policy.

The military investigative department of the Investigative Committee for the Volgograd garrison opened a case due to the death of 21-year-old conscript Daniil Radsky. This is stated in the response of the FSB department for long-range and military transport aviation associations to a request from RBC.

The Rostov newspaper "Peasant" ceased to go out on paper due to military censorship. The statement of the head of the publishing house of the same name by Irina Samokhina was published on his website. Samokhina explained that in recent years, amendments that limit the work of the media, “connected newspapers on hand and foot”, but after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, laws became truly “harsh”.

At a meeting of the Rostov Regional Court, the prosecutor requested 11 years in prison for 40-year-old opera singer Vadim Cheldiev. publications about this . OsNova His lawyer Batraz Kulchiev told Cheldiev, who lived in St.

The State Duma adopted in the third and final reading a bill that simplifies the criteria for obtaining the status of a “foreign agent.” This is stated on the website of the lower house of parliament. According to the amendments, the Ministry of Justice will create a unified register of “foreign agents”, and will also maintain a unified register of people “affiliated” with them.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, in a conversation with the German television channel ZDF , said that President Vladimir Putin would not have started the war if he were a woman. “If Putin were a woman, which he obviously is not, I really don’t think he would have started this crazy macho war, invasion [of Ukraine] and violence in the way that he did,” the Prime Minister told reporters. What Putin is doing in Ukraine is “the perfect example of toxic masculinity,” Johnson said.