The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said it carried out an airstrike on Beirut, the capital of Lebanon. The IDF says the target was a Lebanese Hezbollah commander responsible for a rocket attack on the Golan Heights town of Majdal Shams on July 27 that killed 12 people. The IDF said 11 children and teenagers were among the dead. Another 30 were injured. All were on a soccer field.

The Ufa prosecutor's office filed a report against a local resident because of an amateur video published on her personal VKontakte page in 2010. She herself told Verstka about this. The report was drawn up under the article on "LGBT propaganda" (part 3 of article 6.21 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). The published video from 14 years ago captured a kiss between a girl and her friend at a birthday party in the countryside.

The Kiev District Court of annexed Simferopol sentenced Maria Pukhovskaya to a year of suspended imprisonment in the case of damaging a ballot box. This was reported to Mediazona by the court's press service. Pukhovskaya was also given a two-year probationary period. She was found guilty of obstructing the work of election commissions by a group of persons (clause "b" of part 2 of article 141 of the Criminal Code).

A support group for 19-year-old Kevin Lik, convicted of treason, reported on the afternoon of July 30 that he had left the IK-14 penal colony in the village of Gorka-Muravyovskaya in the Arkhangelsk region. “Kevin’s mother received a response from a food delivery service to the FSIN institutions of the Arkhangelsk region about the absence of the young man in the said colony,” the support group’s Telegram channel says.

Alexander Lukashenko pardoned German citizen and employee of the German Red Cross Rico Krieger, who was sentenced to death, Pool of the First reported . Today, July 30, it became known that Krieger wrote a petition for pardon. In June, the Minsk Regional Court sentenced him to death.

In Florence, officers of the Italian Financial Guard have seized the 12th-century castle Torre del Gallo , which belongs to Russian businessman Alexey Fedorychev. This was reported by the newspaper Corriere della Sera , publishing footage of police officers from the scene. This was done at the request of the anti-corruption prosecutor's office of Ukraine. In total, Fedorychev's four real estate properties worth a total of 38 million euros and shares worth another 3 million were seized.

The State Duma has adopted a bill on cryptocurrency mining, according to the lower house’s website. It was introduced at the end of 2022. The bill defines mining and proposes the creation of a “register of mining infrastructure operators” and a “register of persons mining digital currency.” Miners who do not register there will be allowed to mine cryptocurrency as long as they “do not exceed energy consumption limits” set by the government.

The State Duma voted in the second and third readings for the bill banning trash streams, the lower house's website reports . Although “trash streams” are mentioned in the State Duma press release, the term is not used directly in the document.

The Moscow Region Military Court of Appeal has increased the prison term of Ruslan Zinin, who shot at a military commissar in Ust-Ilimsk, by one year to 20 years, the human rights project "Solidarity Zone" reports . The court agreed with the prosecutor's office's submission, which demanded that Zinin's punishment be toughened. 20 years of imprisonment is the term that the state prosecution initially requested in the debate before sentencing.

The State Duma adopted amendments in the second and third readings that will oblige bloggers and owners of Telegram channels with at least 10 thousand subscribers to transfer their data to Roskomnadzor. According to the draft, the authors of such blogs will be required to provide Roskomnadzor with “information that allows them to be identified,” not to repost bloggers who are not on the register, and not to publish information prohibited in Russia.

Representatives of the largest Russian-language fan fiction website, Ficbook, announced that they had made “all necessary changes” to ensure that the resource “complies with the laws” of Russia after the site was blocked. Ficbook’s message was published on its Telegram channel. "At the moment, we are waiting for the changes to be verified by RKN. Unfortunately, the verification time does not depend on us, and it may take some time," the project's appeal says.

The Lefortovo District Court of Moscow has arrested a man accused of treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code), Mediazona noted . The court's card file only mentions the man's last name and initials - Kray A.F. The details of the case are unknown; cases of treason are heard behind closed doors. The court's press service did not pick up the phone.

Politician Ilya Yashin, who is serving a sentence in a case involving military "fakes", has left penal colony No. 3 in the Smolensk region. This was reported by lawyer Tatyana Solomina. In December 2022, Ilya Yashin was sentenced to eight and a half years in prison in the case of military "fakes" (clause "d" of part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code).

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of Omsk sentenced local city council deputy Dmitry Petrenko in absentia to seven years in a general regime penal colony in the case of military "fakes". This was reported by the court's press service. Petrenko was found guilty of seven counts of disseminating "fakes" about the Russian army motivated by "political hatred" (paragraph "d" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code). The politician was also banned from administering websites for four years.

A resident of the Amur Region was sent to a pretrial detention facility in a criminal case on high treason (Article 275 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the regional FSB department. According to the agency, the Amur resident transferred money to the Armed Forces of Ukraine “to counteract” the Russian army.