The authorities of the Republic of South Africa (South Africa) asked Russia that its delegation at the BRICS summit in August should be headed not by Vladimir Putin, but by Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. South African Vice President Paul Mashatile told local newspaper the Mail & Guardian that Russia rejected the request.

An investigator from Chechnya interrogated Novaya Gazeta columnist Elena Milashina in the case of her beating in Grozny. this . reports Team Against Torture The press service of the human rights project Mediazone clarified that the interrogation took place in the editorial office of Novaya Gazeta in Moscow. Team Against Torture lawyer Georgy Ivanov also took part in it. Milashina told the investigator that the attackers threatened to kill her if she came to Chechnya again.

Russian Vadim Konoshchenko, accused of purchasing military technologies for Russia in circumvention of sanctions, was extradited from Estonia to the United States. this . reports The US Department of Justice In December 2022 , it became known that Konoshchenok was accused in a criminal case of conspiracy related to the purchase of military technologies and dual-use goods for Russia in circumvention of sanctions.

The Penza District Court awarded compensation of 20 thousand rubles to the ambulance driver Maxim Moiseev, who was prosecuted in the case of evading mobilization. This was reported by the human rights project “Military Lawyers”.

Police in Moscow detained the administrator of the Kremlin Laundress telegram channel, Mikhail Polyakov. This was reported by RBC and the telegram channel “ 112 ” with reference to their sources. According to preliminary information, Polyakov is suspected of extortion (Article 163 of the Criminal Code) from politicians and businessmen.

The former chairman of the Rostov Regional Court, Elena Zolotareva, who is under house arrest, was hospitalized after a suicide attempt, the publication and Bloknot-Rostov report, citing their sources. “The patient’s condition is extremely serious. Even if her life is saved, the woman may remain a “vegetable.” do everything in their power,” the source told 1rnd.ru.

The Simonovsky District Court of Moscow sentenced queer blogger Hilmi Forks (Oleinika) to 12 days of arrest because of a fight in a cafe of the Vkusno i Tochka chain. This was reported by lawyer Konstantin Erokhin. The fight took place on July 8 in a cafe located in the “House-Ship” on Bolshaya Tulskaya Street. a minute and a half video of the conflict on his channel .

A criminal case was opened against a surgeon from Izhevsk, Olga Avdeeva, because of an inscription on the building of a local theater. The woman herself told OVD-Info about this. Avdeeva is accused of repeatedly “discrediting” the Russian army (Part 1 of Article 280.3 of the Criminal Code); as a preventive measure, she was given a written undertaking not to leave.

The Moskovsky District Court of Nizhny Novgorod sent local resident Alexei Volsky under house arrest. This was reported by OVD-Info with reference to lawyer Kristina Tyurina. Volsky is accused in the case of “fake news” about the army (Part 1 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). Despite the fact that he is a group II disabled person, the investigation asked to place him in a pre-trial detention center. The grounds for criminal prosecution were publications on VKontakte.

Journalist Karen Shainyan was added to the “list of terrorists and extremists” maintained by Rosfinmonitoring. This was brought to attention by a telegram channel that monitors changes in the registry. Suspects and defendants under “extremist” and “terrorist” charges are included in the list of Rosfinmonitoring, and their Russian accounts are blocked. People considered involved in terrorism have an asterisk on the register.

Roskomnadzor drew up a second protocol for the online cinema ivi due to the lack of 18+ markings on films that show the relationships of LGBT characters. He was admitted to the Ostankino District Court of Moscow, discovered . Mediazona What prompted the new protocol is still unknown. Yesterday ivi was fined one million rubles under the same article due to age restrictions for the film “Perfect Strangers” by Paolo Genovese (Part 2 of Article 6.21.2 of the Administrative Code).

In the closed city of Novouralsk, Sverdlovsk region, a container exploded at the Ural Electrochemical Plant, part of Rosatom. this Representatives of the plant reported . According to the press service, at the plant “a cylinder [1 cubic meter in volume] with depleted uranium hexafluoride,” a byproduct of uranium enrichment for nuclear power plants, depressurized.

The Kominternovsky District Court of Voronezh fined Sergei Krivonos, a minister of the local Orthodox Church, 30 thousand rubles for talking about the war in Ukraine. This was reported by SOTAvision . Krivonos was found guilty of “discrediting” the army (Part 1 of Article 20.3.3 of the Administrative Code).

Since the beginning of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, more than 5 100 Russians have received the status of a disabled person due to military injury. This follows from the data published on the website of the Federal Register of Disabled; Attention to them was drawn by the Mediazon. The growth rate of the number of people with military disability continues to set historical records.

Russian Ivan Koval, whose car was seized by German customs as part of the sanctions, in a conversation with Fontanka and Deutche Welle , said that the German authorities would return the car to him in the near future. “Just an hour ago, the lawyer literally received a letter from the Hamburg customs office that the Hamburg prosecutor’s office had issued an order to return the car. There is no justification.