Businessman Oleg Deripaska filed a defamation claim against the founder of the Sitting Rus' Foundation, Olga Romanova, who said in an interview on the YouTube channel “This is Ossetian” that the billionaire owns two private military companies. this reports The Bell . The journalists clarified that the lawsuit, filed on July 13 in the Tagansky District Court of Moscow, was also filed against the founder of The Bell , who hosts the channel “Eto Ossetinskaya,” Elizaveta Osetinskaya.

Vladimir Putin signed a law providing for fines of up to 300 thousand rubles for failure to comply with the requirements of the Ministry of Justice to eliminate violations of the law on “foreign agents.” The document was published on the official Internet portal of legal acts. Changes were made to Article 19.5 of the Administrative Code.

Vadim Ostanin. Photo: Navalny's team The Central District Court of Barnaul sentenced the ex-coordinator of the headquarters of Navalny Vadim Ostanin to nine years in a general regime colony. The 46-year-old activist was found guilty that he “continued extremist activity” after the prohibition of headquarters-although he quit long before. The defense claims that the investigation did not even try to prove the opposite. "Mediazona" says that it is known about Ostanin and his case.

The Second Western District Military Court sentenced Vyborg resident Eldar Voskresensky to 13 years in prison in the case of attempted terrorism by attempting to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office (part 3 of article 30; paragraph “a” of part 2 of article 205 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the press service of the court.

Underage students of the Alabuga Polytech College in Yelabuga, Tatarstan, are en masse involved in assembling Shahed drones and are punished for refusing to work. This is stated in a joint investigation by the publication “Protocol” and the YouTube channel “RZVRT” . According to journalists, assembling several hundred college students aged 15-17 years are engaged in drones in the Alabuga special economic zone. For this, students receive 30-40 thousand per month.

President Vladimir Putin signed a law that prohibits operations related to transgender transition. The document is published on the website of legal acts. It comes into force today.

In the city of Kovrov, Vladimir Region, a criminal case was opened against a factory worker for fraud using official position (Part 3 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code). According to the FSB , the man took 50 parts from a defense enterprise to repair military equipment. Security officials claim that these were “structural elements.” However, from the photograph shown by the department, it is impossible to understand what these details are.

The Novorossiysk Garrison Military Court sentenced mobilized Alexander Shupletsov to six years in prison in the case of unauthorized abandonment of a military unit (Part 5 of Article 337 of the Criminal Code). Information about this “Caucasus. Realities” was found on the court’s website . The decision was made on July 4.

A participant in the war in Ukraine escaped from a military hospital in Rostov-on-Don, told source 161.RU. a law enforcement According to the telegram channel “What's in Rostov?”, the man is armed with a fragmentation grenade. The escapee was wounded in the arm and possibly shell-shocked. The police put him on the wanted list. RostovGazeta.ru, without specifying a source , reports that the man’s name is Alexander Kaluzhskikh, he is 44 years old and from the Kursk region.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation published an investigation about Maria Kitaeva, a former adviser to Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. Investigators gained access to “[Kitaeva’s] complete mail archive for 17 years” and learned about her trips to Europe and other expenses. 39-year-old Kitayeva began working in 2007 on state television - the Zvezda channel of the Ministry of Defense and VGTRK.

President Vladimir Putin signed the law on digital rubles; the document was published on the website of legal acts. Now in Russia there are two forms of the ruble - cash and non-cash. The digital ruble will become its third form. As explains the Central Bank , special wallets will be created for digital rubles. These wallets will be opened on the Central Bank platform. All transactions with digital rubles will be carried out through this platform.

The fine for failure to appear at the military registration and enlistment office without a good reason after receiving a summons can be increased not to 50 thousand rubles, but to 30. This follows from the text of the amendments published on the State Duma website. Last week, the legislation committee of the lower house of parliament approved an increase in fines for failure to appear at the military registration and enlistment office.

Three senators from the occupied regions withdrew their signatures on the bill, which proposes to deprive Russians of the citizenship received at birth. This was reported on the State Duma website. The bill has only one initiator left - senator from the annexed Crimea Sergei Tsekov. Representatives of the annexed Sevastopol Ekaterina Altabaeva and Sergei Kolbin, as well as a representative of the self-proclaimed LPR Olga Bas, withdrew their signatures.

living in Georgia The Insider journalist Marfa Smirnova, a former Dozhd presenter , spoke on Instagram about receiving anonymous threats and surveillance of relatives remaining in Russia. After Dozhd’s work was suspended in March 2022 due to pressure from the Russian authorities, Smirnova moved to The Insider and made news releases for the publication’s YouTube channel. In the spring of 2023, she wrote a report from Kherson, liberated by Ukraine.

Mathematician Azat Miftakhov, sentenced to six years in prison in the case of a broken window in the United Russia office, was transferred to a detachment with strict detention conditions. This was reported by the authors of the telegram channel in his support. On July 19, the anarchist was placed in a punishment cell for 7 days due to the fact that he had been lying down during the day while serving a previous sentence in a punishment cell.