The Investigative Committee closed the criminal case against a Petersburger who escaped from quarantine in March 2020, where he was sent after returning from abroad. This was reported to Fontanka by lawyer Nodar Bokolishvili. “No corpus delicti was found in the actions of [my] client. For the entire period of the investigation, one investigative action was carried out with us - interrogation as an accused, ”Bokolishvili said.

The Temple of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation in Patriot Park near Moscow was opened to everyone a day earlier than planned due to the large number of parishioners. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the Ministry of Defense. It was assumed that the temple would be opened for parishioners and visitors on June 25 after the Victory Parade on June 24.

The German car manufacturer Audi has terminated its advertising contract with Russian television host Ksenia Sobchak, following an Instagram post that the company considered racist, the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reported. Audi “rejects all forms of racism and discrimination,” a company representative told the press on June 24. Sobchak had been collaborating with Audi for eight years, acting as the face of the brand in Russia.

A transgender woman in St. Petersburg won a landmark LGBTQ and labor rights case. Here’s her story. Ksenia Ivanova for “Meduza” Anastasia Vasilyeva in 2017 In 2017, Anastasia Vasilyeva (whose name has been changed at her request) was fired from her job at a printing press after coming out as a trans woman and changing the gender marker on her government identification documents.

The German automaker Audi terminated an advertising contract with Ksenia Sobchak after posts on her Instagram, which the company considered racist. It is reported by Deutsche Welle. Audi "rejects any form of racism and discrimination," the newspaper quotes a spokesman for the concern. The company planned to cut ties with Sobchak back in March due to her "ambiguous image." Following her recent comments on Instagram, the contract was terminated on June 24 without notice, clarifies .

How Russia plans to drop flat income taxes Alexander Kazakov / Kommersant On June 23, Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed raising income tax rates “for the rich.” According to him, Russia’s residents (including permanent residents and foreigners) who earn more than 5 million rubles per year (around $73,000) will pay a 15 percent income tax, rather than the 13 percent flat rate starting in 2021.

In the second quarter of 2020, Yandex expects a loss of 3-4.5 billion rubles against a profit of 3.4 billion rubles for the same period a year earlier. This is stated in the message of the company. Yandex expects that quarterly revenue will be 40.6-41.8 billion rubles, for the same period in 2019 - 41.4 billion rubles). As the company noted, revenue was affected by restrictions related to the COVID-19 epidemic, which affected Yandex's advertising revenue and the direction of carsharing.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Ankl Bens, Eskimo and other brands, which are now considered racist. As the Black Lives Matter campaign, the business changes. And by the way, does it change? In the United States, protests against police arbitrariness, which began after the death of a black resident of Minneapolis George Floyd, have been going on in the United States.

The precinct commissions say that they do not understand how it happened Sofya Sandurskaya / Agency "Moscow" Summing up the results of registration for electronic voting, June 23, 2020 More than a million Muscovites enrolled in electronic voting on amendments to the Constitution-in general, this is every 7th voter. According to official statistics, in some areas there are more such people than voters as a whole. The most abnormal Moscow PEC - No. 3395 in the Trinity Administrative District.

Niall Carson / Pa / Scanpix / Leta The Guinness brewer launched hundreds of thousands of pitch with beer for fertilizer for EV and fir trees. The matter, of course, in the coronavirus: the bars and pubs were closed during the quarantine, and the welded beer had to be taken somewhere, otherwise it would just deteriorate. Therefore, Staut and Eli Guinness decided to give to nature. Beer also went for composting, and part was turned into biogas.

Muscovites went to the Victory Parade - although they were asked not to do this. How state employees are forced to vote. The European Union will not open borders for Russia Good evening, This is the Medusa newsletter about the coronavirus during the pandemic. She comes out on weekdays instead of the "evening jellyfish." If one of your friends sent this letter to you and you have not yet been subscribed to the newsletter, subscribe here .

The volume of foreign currency deposits in Russian banks in May increased by 721 million dollars and by June 1 amounted to almost 89 billion dollars, follows from the statistics of the Central Bank. Prior to that, for four months there was an outflow of deposits in foreign currency, notes . RBC The publication calls the growth of foreign currency deposits “symbolic”: bank customers have so far returned only 8.7% of what they have taken from deposits since the beginning of 2020.

Putin raised taxes to help children with rare diseases. We asked the philanthropists who support them, whether this will help Donat Sorokin / TASS On June 23, Vladimir Putin announced that Russia will increase income tax from 13 to 15% - but only “for the rich”, that is, for those whose annual income exceeds five million rubles.

"Medusa" tells how the mayor of Moscow tried to cope with the coronavirus - but eventually harmed his image and quarreled with Putin Vladimir Gerdo / TASS / Scanpix / Leta In the spring of 2020, Moscow mayor Sergei Sobyanin turned out to be one of the most common heroes of publications and plots dedicated to the fight against coronavirus in Russia.

XAVI BONILLA / AFP / Zuma / Scanpix / Leta Barcelona Airport El Prat, June 22, 2020 Russia, the USA and Brazil are not among the states for which the European Union plans to open external borders from July 1. This was written by The New York Times with reference to preliminary lists of countries and four sources, as well as Euronews with reference to the source. In addition, Politico reports about the ban for the United States and Brazil.