Sergey Glazyev became the chief research fellow of the Faculty of Social Sciences and the Center for Stability and Risk Studies at the Higher School of Economics (HSE). His page appeared on the university's website. Glazyev was at various times a State Duma deputy, head of the economic security department in the Security Council, executive secretary of the Customs Union commission, minister of the Eurasian Economic Commission and Putin's adviser.

The 1st Western District Military Court of St. Petersburg sentenced artist Anastasia Dyudyaeva to 3.5 years in a penal colony, and her husband Alexander Dotsenko to 3 years in a penal colony in the case of leaflets with the words "Putinyak to the gallows." This was reported by a Mediazona correspondent from the courtroom. The time spent in the pre-trial detention facility was counted as one day for one day.

The Zamoskvoretsky District Court of Moscow has sent 63-year-old former State Duma deputy from the Liberal Democratic Party of Russia Sergei Abeltsev to pretrial detention; information about this appeared in a file on the website of the capital's courts. Abeltsev is suspected in a case of fraud on an especially large scale (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code). The amount in question is 10 million rubles, Kommersant and RIA Novosti write.

Photo: Dmitry Rogulin / TASS A year ago, the State Duma allowed the regions to decide for themselves how to control the number of homeless dogs, including "humanely kill them." The decision caused the protests of the zoo defenders, but this did not stop provincial officials: by mid -July 2024, the death of animals was legalized in 11 regions of the country.

Art: Boris Khmelny / Mediazona The Operational Search Bureau is one of the most secretive and enigmatic departments of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs. Mediazona talked to two of its former employees whose primary job was field surveillance. They carried passports under false names and were supposed to stick to their legends even with friends. Every day, they came to work in one of many secret offices around the city, which was masked as a non-existent business or institution.

State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Mikhail Matveyev said that three passersby hit him on the head with a stick in Samara. According to Matveyev, he was driving along 9th Prosek Street in the private sector on the northern outskirts of Samara and saw “three migrants” who were “harassing passersby.” The deputy filmed himself getting out of the car towards these men with sticks in his hands, shouting at them "Stop", and one of them hits the deputy on the head.

The Bogdanovich City Court of the Sverdlovsk Region partially satisfied the claim for protection of honor and dignity filed by the city mayor Oleg Neifeld against local resident Irina Kostyleva, who called him a "bandit." The court ordered the woman to pay the official 25 thousand rubles, writes E1.ru.

In the 1st Western District Military Court of St. Petersburg, the prosecutor's office asked to appoint the spouses Anastasia Dydyaeva and Alexander Dotsenko for four years in a general regime colony in the case of justification of terrorism (part 1 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the correspondent of "Mediazone" from the courtroom.

Russian troops attacked a multi-story residential building in the Central District of Kherson - a shell hit one of the apartments, reports the head of the city's military administration Roman Mrochko. According to him, no one was hurt in the house itself, but three people who were near the building at the time of the strike were injured. Among the injured were a mother and daughter.

The Ministry of Justice added the American think tank Carnegie Endowment for International Peace to the register of "undesirable organizations." The decision itself was made by the Prosecutor General's Office, but the agency did not publicly announce the ban. The Moscow Times, which the Prosecutor General's Office declared "undesirable" on July 10, was also included in the register.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court has completed the trial of the espionage case against Wall Street Journal journalist Evan Gershkovich. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the court's press service. There were only two hearings in the Gershkovich case - on June 26 and July 18. Both were held behind closed doors. The parties will begin their arguments tomorrow. According to It's My City , on July 19, the state prosecution will request a term for Gershkovich.

The Preobrazhensky District Court of Moscow banned the pages of four online stores on which toilet paper with the image of a thousand-ruble bill was sold. Attention to court decisions was drawn by the “layout”. Pages with souvenir toilet paper from the stores “Filkina Gramota”, “Startex”, “Glavchudo” and “Sima-Lend”, which are known to the flash mobs in support of Vladimir Putin, became prohibited to spread.

The Moscow Region Investigative Committee has opened a criminal case on a terrorist attack against a 20-year-old girl who set fire to a police car in Elektrougli. This was reported on the department's Telegram channel.

The police detained a woman who threw a burning bottle of gasoline into a building in Kostroma, where the station was located for military service under the contract. This was announced by the governor of the region Sergey Sitnikov. According to the official, the military quickly extinguished the fire. At the same time, the administration of the Kostroma region claims that "fires are not allowed." According to the authorities, the woman threw a bottle at the door of the building.

The Khamovnichesky District Court of Moscow sentenced US citizen, musician Michael Travis Leake, to 13 years in a maximum security penal colony in a drug case, the joint press service of the capital's courts reported .