Former managing director of Yandex Tigran Khudaverdyan filed a lawsuit with the European Court in Luxembourg to lift the sanctions against him. This is stated in the official journal of the EU. Khudaverdyan went to court on July 7.

Russia is considering Vladislav Klyushin, the creator of the Katyusha media and social network monitoring system used by the Russian authorities, as a candidate for exchange with the United States. about this Bloomberg was told by sources familiar with the progress of the negotiations. US Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the end of July proposed to Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to exchange and.

The UK has authorized the provision of aircraft insurance and reinsurance services for counterparties associated with Russia, according to the website of the country's Department of International Trade. Changes were made to the general license on sanctions against Russia. They relate to “certain aviation products and technologies,” including gas turbine engines and components for them. The relaxations affect only civil aviation and do not apply to military goods.

Officers of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Central District of St. Petersburg detained two suspects in an attack on a black man. about this without citing sources. writes Fontanka According to the publication, eyewitnesses called the police late in the evening of July 31, Navy Day, and reported that two men had beaten a passerby near house No. 8 on 1st Sovetskaya Street. A St. Petersburg woman who saw the attack told Megapolis that the men shouted: “You are an American!

Ekaterra , which owns the Lipton, Saito and Brooke Bond brands, will leave the Russian market. Representatives of the tea company reported this to Interfax. Business in Russia, which due to “the current situation cannot be developed sustainably,” Ekaterra is going to completely wind down by the end of 2022, shortly after which sales in the country will cease, the report says. The company has a tea-packing factory, Unilever Rus, in St. Petersburg.

Roskomnadzor blocked the New Tab media. This was reported in the publication’s telegram channel. The website of the project about life in Russian regions after the start of the war in Ukraine was launched two months ago. The editors received a notification from the regulator today, August 1. The reason for the blocking of the RKN was an interview with a deputy of the Supreme Khural in Tyva - Eres Kara-Sal recorded a video message to Vladimir Putin and Sergei Shoigu demanding to stop the war.

The Leninsky District Court of Kursk sentenced the former publisher of MK Chernozemye Denis Shaikin to two years in a general regime colony in the case of extortion (clause “d” of Part 2 of Article 163 of the Criminal Code). this . reports Shaikin himself The court also ruled that the journalist must pay 100 thousand rubles in compensation for moral damage in favor of the victim. The case against Shaikin was opened in September 2020.

The Foreign Ministry has banned 39 British politicians, journalists and businessmen from entering Russia, as reported on the ministry’s website. The sanctions included former British Prime Minister David Cameron, Labor Party leader Keir Starmer, British Foreign Office spokeswoman Helen Bauer-Easton, Sky News head John Riley, Times columnist David Aaronovitch, Guardian editor Dan Sabbagh, head of the BBC news service -si" Jonathan Munro and others.

The Prosecutor General's Office recognized the British foundation Calvert 22 , which promotes contemporary artists from Russia, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. This is stated on the department's website.

KFOR soldiers on a blocked road near the city of Zubin Stream, August 1, 2022. Photo: Armend Nimani / AFP / East News On Monday night, on August 1, ethnic Serbs living in the north of Kosovo blocked the roads. They protested against the new rules that obliged the owners of Serbian passports to use temporary documents in the territory of a partially recognized state, as well as re -register cars with Serbian numbers for Kosovo numbers.

The united chain of cinemas “Cinema Park” and “Formula Kino” has canceled the screening of “film products” - a mixture of Russian cinema and films from studios that have left Russia. Interfax about this . told Network CEO Alexey Vasyasin According to Vasyasin, the board of directors decided to cancel the action, as it considers copyright infringement unacceptable.

Deputies have introduced a bill to the State Duma banning citizens from adopting and being guardians of children from Russia. The text of the draft was published on the website of the Lower House. The amendments were introduced by five deputies: Leonid Slutsky and actor Boris Chernyshov from the LDPR, communist Nina Ostanina, Yana Lantratova from A Just Russia and Boris Chernyshov from New People.

The military prosecutor's office of the Ryazan garrison recognized the stamp on the military ID of private Zakhar Kukarenko, who refused to go to fight in Ukraine, as illegal. this on his telegram channel Human rights activist Maxim Grebenyuk reported . The military commissar of unit No. 41450, where Kukarenko served, received a presentation. The court accepted the private’s claim to invalidate the stamp, which states: “Prone to betrayal, lies and deception.

“VKontakte”, at the request of the Prosecutor General’s Office, blocked a public page about literature “Tea Party in Cheshire” in Russia due to posts against the war in Ukraine. OVD-Info about this . told One of the community administrators In a notification, the managers of the public page, which has 324 thousand subscribers, were informed that materials “discrediting” the Russian army were found on the page. ” .

The lawyer of the former governor of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergei Furgal, Mikhail Karapetyan, spoke about the ban on correspondence and calls to his client. This was reported by MK with reference to the text of the appeal. Karapetyan said that he had repeatedly asked Judge Gennady Tsoi to allow Furgal to make calls and visits with relatives, but his requests were rejected.