In the case of theater director Evgenia Berkovich and screenwriter Svetlana Petriychuk, who are accused of justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code) because of the play “Finist Yasny Falcon,” a new examination was ordered. RBC about this Berkovich's lawyer Ksenia Karpinskaya told . Today, on the YouTube channel “Living Nail”, the editor-in-chief of “Novaya Gazeta” Dmitry Muratov also spoke about the appointment of a new examination .

Governor of the Khanty-Mansiysk Autonomous Okrug (KhMAO) Natalya Komarova declared a state of emergency in the region due to forest fires. this She reported on her Telegram channel. According to Komarova, there are 39 large forest fires and 5 landscape fires in the region. Their total area is more than 9.5 thousand hectares. The cause of the disaster is thunderstorm activity and precipitation deficiency.

In St. Petersburg, the police came to the bookstore “Foliage” to prevent a meeting with the former “Minister of Defense” of the self-proclaimed DPR Igor Strelkov (Girkin). This was reported in the store’s Telegram channel. The event is scheduled to take place on the evening of Sunday, July 9. The participants plan to discuss the rebellion of the founder of the Wagner PMC, Yevgeny Prigozhin.

About 500 athletes from Russia and Belarus will be able to take part in the Asian Games, which will take place this fall in the Chinese city of Hangzhou. According to the sports publication Inside the Games , the decision on this was made by the Asian Olympic Committee. Participation in the Asian Games will allow athletes to qualify for the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024.

The United States is negotiating with Russia to exchange Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkowitz. US National Security Adviser Jake Sullivan announced this on Friday, July 7, during a briefing, as quoted by the New York Times . “There were discussions, but they did not lead to understanding <…>. I can tell you that we have a commitment and a belief that we will do everything possible to bring him home,” Sullivan said.

Former State Duma candidate and associate professor at Moscow State University Mikhail Lobanov said that the university management is forcing him to resign. In his Telegram channel, the mathematician writes that Moscow State University rector Viktor Sadovnichy and “half of the vice-rectors” spend “almost all of their working time in countless conversations, meetings and consultations on the topic “how can we urgently fire Lobanov.” Otherwise, the university could allegedly suffer.

In Prague, a defendant in an investigation by the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Rostislav Zorikov, attacked a Viasna activist. a video of the attack on her Twitter Alexei Navalny's ally Maria Pevchikh posted . In May, the opposition released an investigation that stated that Zorikov, the son-in-law of Boris Obnosov, head of the Tactical Missiles defense holding under EU sanctions, owns a 140-meter penthouse in Prague worth about 95 million rubles.

The Yarnovosti publication, which has existed since 2010, announced that it would stop working due to recognition as a “foreign agent” in June. updating their website for two weeks Then the editors stopped ; publications continued to be published on their Telegram channel. “Purely theoretically, we could continue to issue labels as foreign agents, but none of the editorial staff wants this, so today we decided to suspend the activities of the media.