Yandex.Music removed the first episode of the New Wave podcast about life in exile from journalists Alexander Polivanov and Ilya Krasilshchik, the former head of the Yandex.Lavka service. Representatives of the platform, in a letter to the authors of the podcast, explained the decision with claims from Roskomnadzor. The department referred to the request of the Prosecutor General's Office dated June 30.

Former Austrian Foreign Minister Karin Kneissl emigrated from the country. about this on WhatsApp She told correspondent a Washington Post , who asked her for comment on another issue. Kneissl wrote that she left Austria because of “death threats” and no longer “gives interviews.” She did not provide any other details. After the outbreak of the war in Ukraine, Kneissl, who headed the Austrian Foreign Ministry in 2017-2019, resigned from the board of directors of Rosneft.

The Tagansky District Court of Moscow rejected Meduza's claim due to the blocking of the publication's website after the outbreak of the war in Ukraine. about this . spoke Lawyer Sergei Badamshin The Meduza website was blocked on March 4, citing the request of the Prosecutor General's Office as the reason.

stores Re:Store began selling Apple equipment that was imported into Russia without the permission of the copyright holder. RIA Novosti was informed about this by the company Inventive Retail Group , which manages Re:Store . “The Re: Store chain of stores is doing everything possible to provide a full range of products that customers are accustomed to seeing in stores,” Inventive Retail Group said . Company representatives added that first of all we are talking about the iPhone and MacBook .

Illustration: Boris Khmelny / Mediazona Ministry of Defence is persistently offering Russians short-term contracts with the army to go to Ukraine. These ‘volunteers’ are often sent to the front without any training at all, and casualties among this group of soldiers have been growing fastest of all lately. What exactly is going on?

In the Moscow region, Zalim Kerefov, vice-rector of the Russian Customs Academy (RTA), was detained on suspicion of drug trafficking. this to Interfax reported An informed source about the arrest of an RTA employee . also writes .

Omsk resident Zakhar Zakurdaev with a third disability group said that he was beaten by police because of the cover of his passport with the coat of arms of Ukraine. This was reported by the human rights project “Omsk Civil Association”. On March 15, Zakurdaev underwent a medical examination at the Clinical Dermatovenerologic Dispensary.

In the city of Klintsy, Bryansk region, security forces are looking for three unknown persons who attacked a military unit. Telegram channels Baza and Mash , as well as the Bryanskaya Street website, write about this . The publications report that on July 5 at approximately 4:15 am, residents heard machine gun fire near the thermal power plant, and local public pages published a video with traces similar to blood near the station.

Yandex has opened a representative office in Belgrade, as follows from the state register of enterprises in Serbia. attention to this . drew The BBC Russian Service The representative office under the name “Yandex.Technologies Belgrade” was officially registered in early June. According to the publication’s sources in the company, some Yandex employees moved to Serbia “privately” when Russia started the war with Ukraine, after which the corporation rented a “huge office” for them in Belgrade.

The State Duma adopted in the third reading a bill on granting the status of combatants to civilian specialists who were sent to the war in Ukraine. The document was published in the database of the lower house of parliament. By the third reading, the text of the bill still does not indicate which specialists are being discussed.

The State Duma approved in the first reading a bill on “special economic measures” for “counterterrorism and other operations” outside Russia, according to the website of the lower house of parliament. Among the proposed measures are “temporary reactivation of mobilization capacities and facilities”, “disposal of material assets of the state reserve”, as well as work at night, weekends and holidays and a ban on providing annual paid leave in “certain organizations”.

President of the People's Republic of China Xi Jinping refused to visit Russia at the invitation of President Vladimir Putin. This was reported by the Japanese newspaper Yomiuri , citing diplomatic sources in Beijing. According to interlocutors, on June 15, Putin congratulated Jinping on his 69th birthday and invited him to Russia. The Chinese president responded that it would be difficult to visit Russia in the near future due to the coronavirus.

Employees of St. Petersburg enterprises that are part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) are offered to go to war in Ukraine as volunteers from PMCs or contract soldiers of the Ministry of Defense. about this . The Moscow Times told Four workers According to one of them, employees of the Admiralty Shipyards are offered a service with a salary of 300 thousand rubles per month.

Relatives of the scientist Dmitry Kolker, who died in a pre-trial detention center, will have to transport the body of the doctor of sciences from Moscow to Novosibirsk at their own expense. about this The scientist’s son Maxim told the New York Times . “He said in an interview that the family would have to return Kolker’s body from Moscow at their own expense,” writes the NYT .

Avito asked not to adopt a law limiting the share of foreigners in classifieds services. The company's letter to the State Duma published by Baza , Avito confirmed the authenticity of vc.ru. was The company believes that the bill introduces “excessive, overly vague and disproportionate to the level of public importance” regulation. Avito points out unclear wording in the amendments and notes that they may also apply to marketplaces, application stores and hotel booking services.