A 72-year-old disabled pensioner from Omsk, Vladimir Beskhlebny, was charged with creating an extremist community. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by Beskhlebny's relatives. The pensioner denies the collapse of the USSR and is the chairman of the Omsk "executive committee of the Council of People's Deputies of the RSFSR." He himself, five of his associates, as well as two Omsk offices of the movement were searched. Beskhlebny's apartment was searched last week.

Protests began in Minsk and several other cities across Belarus after the country’s Central Election Commission refused to register potential candidates Viktor Babariko and Valery Tsepkalo in the presidential election. Both Babariko and Tsepkalo were considered main challengers to current president Alexander Lukashenko, who has been in power for 26 consecutive years.

It was Banksy's new graffiti about the coronavirus pandemic (it has already been erased 😭) Anonymous street artist Banksy drew a new graffiti dedicated to the coronavirus pandemic. These are several of his trademark rats, one of which is sneezing, and the second is flying on the elastic bands of a medical mask, like on a parachute. The work appeared in the London Underground, where it is forbidden to ride without masks. She was taken as a call from the artist not to neglect masks.

Thousands of migrants from Uzbekistan are stranded in makeshift camps at the Russia-Kazakhstan border Artyom Golyakov In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, thousands of migrants from Uzbekistan have found themselves stranded at the Russia-Kazakhstan border. Left without work in Russia, they wanted to make their way home over land through Kazakhstan, but the country’s escalating coronavirus epidemic has led Nur-Sultan to tighten entry restrictions and the border remains closed.

Investigative journalists at ‘Proekt’ say a Moscow businessman handles hundreds of millions of dollars that belong to Chechnya’s elite Elena Afonina / TASS / Vida Press Adam Delikhmanov and Ramzan Kadyrov, May 23, 2019 The investigative news website Proekt reports that Moscow businessman Pavel Krotov is responsible for handling money and property for several powerful Chechen public figures, including republic head Ramzan Kadyrov, his close friend Adam Delikhmanov , and others.

The arrested governor of the Khabarovsk Territory, Sergei Furgal, does not know that rallies are being held in Khabarovsk in his support. Representative of the Public Monitoring Commission (POC) of Moscow, Eva Merkacheva, reported this to TASS after visiting Furgal in the Lefortovo pre-trial detention center. “Furgal doesn’t know anything about the protests in Khabarovsk, his TV doesn’t work, we were forbidden to talk [about the rallies],” Merkacheva told TASS.

In Minsk and some other cities of Belarus, protests began after the Belarusian CEC refused to register with presidential candidates Viktor Babariko and Valery Tskopkalo. According to Radio Liberty, in Minsk people began to spontaneously gather in various places. On Independence Avenue, a column of several hundred people began to move. Motorists will be alarm as a protester. The police partially blocked the avenue and the beginning of the detention.

A group of members of the Federation Council, headed by Elena Mizulina, submitted to the State Duma a package of bills developed "in order to strengthen the institution of the family." Interfax writes about this with reference to the press service of Mizulina. The bills have not yet been published in the electronic database of the State Duma.

Russia told Belarus that it was ready to resume transport links between the countries in the coming days. This was stated by the Prime Minister of Belarus Roman Golovchenko after a meeting with the head of the Russian government Mikhail Mishustin. Russia announced the closure of border crossings at all external land borders, including the border with Belarus, at the end of March. In early April, trains and planes stopped running between Minsk and Moscow.

Andrei Loshak told Yuri Dudya about the Order from Putin, the worst film of Parfyonov and respect for the Zumers The hero of the new release of the UDUD Yetube show was a journalist, documentary Andrei Loshak. He told how his career took shape after NTV, how he refused to get an order from the hands of Vladimir Putin, why does not love Boris Yeltsin and for which he respects Zumers. Below a few quotes from the interviews (with contractions).

Eight countries are ready to accept Russians "even tomorrow." The incidence in the Altai Territory has increased several times. Over the past five days, a million people fell ill Good evening, This is Meduza's mailing list about the coronavirus during the pandemic. It comes out on weekdays instead of Evening Medusa. If this letter was sent to you by someone you know and you have not yet subscribed to the mailing list, subscribe here .

How social workers take care of elderly people during the pandemic Anna Mayorova / ura.ru / TASS During the Pandemia of Coronavirus, the help of social workers is especially in demand. Older people who were at risk are not recommended to visit public places, contact other people and even see relatives. For many of them, social workers became the only help at this time. Meduzacare talked with some of them. The article that you read is part of our Meduzacare philanthropists support program.

Spoiler: For some reason, the Moscow City Hall believes that the series and passport number are not personal data Anatoly Zhdanov / Kommersant On the day of the publication of Medusa, officials from the City Hall of Moscow and the Ministry of Communications of the Russian Federation commented on it about the flowing database of Internet recipients.

The prosecution has asked for a variety of sentences for the suspects in the “Novoe Velichie” (New Greatness) case, ranging from four years probation to seven and a half years in prison on charges of organizing an illegal extremist group. The Novoe Velichie Case In 2018, ten activists from the so-called “Novoe Velichie” (New Greatness) movement were accused of organizing an illegal extremist group.

After the publication of the material, clarifications and updates were added to this text. On July 12-13, several threads appeared on Russian Twitter, talking about inappropriate behavior and sexual harassment by men who worked or continue to work in Russian media. The described cases, according to the authors of these threads, occurred both at work and at friendly parties and after them.