Alexei Navalny's Instagram account published a post in which he responded to the court's decision recognizing the FBK , the Foundation for the Defense of Citizens' Rights, and Navalny's regional headquarters as "extremist organizations." "When corruption is the basis of state power, those fighting corruption are extremists," Navalny said. He called the trial "a laughing stock" and noted that the case materials had been "declared a state secret." The trial was closed.

As expected, the Moscow City Court has sided with the district attorney’s office and formally designated Alexey Navalny’s entire national political movement as illegal “extremist” organizations. The ruling applies specifically to the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the Citizens’ Rights Protection Foundation (both of which Russia’s Justice Ministry has already designated as “foreign agents”), and Navalny’s nationwide network of campaign offices.

Evgeny Feldman The regional headquarters of the policy of Alexei Navalny, the Fund for the Combat Corruption and the Fund for Protection of Citizens' Rights are recognized as “extremist” in Russia. The first appeal of the general jurisdiction in Moscow rejected the appeal of lawyers to this decision of the Moscow City Court, which was adopted on June 9, and now it has entered into force. Medusa tells how all this threatens former employees of Navalny, his supporters, as well as journalists.

The Moscow City Court has granted the Moscow prosecutor's office's claim to recognize the Anti-Corruption Foundation , the Citizens' Rights Defense Foundation , and the regional headquarters of politician Alexei Navalny as extremist organizations. This was reported by the Moscow City Court's press service. Organizations were prohibited from disseminating any information, conducting financial transactions, participating in elections and organizing events.

Russian filmmaker Vladlena Savenkova on her new documentary about the victims of Stalin’s terror Liza Kin In late March, the television channels Dozhd and OstWest premiered the film “Survivors” (“Vyzhivshie” in Russian), a feature-length documentary about a group of young Russians exploring the stories of their family members who fell victim to Stalin’s repressions.

In Chechnya, a court sentenced Magomed Gadaev, who lived in France for a long time and was deported from there at the end of 2020, to one and a half years in a penal colony. This was reported by the BBC Russian Service. Gadaev was found guilty of illegal arms trafficking. The weapons cache was found on the day Gadaev was deported. Before that, he had not been to Russia since 2010. As the BBC notes, the relatively lenient court ruling came as a surprise to human rights activists.

Formally in order to find intermediaries of “undesirable organizations”, but the authorities may not stop there Andrey Gordeev / Vedomosti / TASS On June 9, the State Duma adopted in the third - final - reading a package of laws on countering "the penetration of unwanted organizations into the territory of the Russian Federation." In particular, one of the bills aims to struggle with intermediaries in receiving “undesirable organizations” of foreign financing.

Ivan Vodopyanov / Kommersant Lawyers Evgeny Smirnov, Ilya Novikov, Ivan Pavlov and Vladimir Voronin during a press conference near the court building The Moscow City Court recognized the structure of the politician Alexei Navalny with “extremist organizations” . Such a status was received by the “Fund for Combating Corruption” , the “Fund for Protection of Citizens' Rights” and the regional headquarters of the policy.

Alexey Pivovarov, a journalist and author of the YouTube channel "Edition", invited video blogger Evgeny Bazhenov (BadComedian) to hold a debate. Pivovarov published his proposal in his telegram channel. The reason why Pivovarov invited Bazhenov to “talk in the form of live debates or discussions” was the review of the film Zoya, in which Bazhenov mentioned the release of the Editorial Office dedicated to Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya. What did Bazhenov say?

The Aloe Vera group had to cancel a concert in Kazan and a performance in St. Petersburg as part of the Stereoleto festival due to pressure from the authorities. This was announced by the vocalist of the group Vera Musaelyan. According to Musaelyan, the owners of the club in Kazan, where the concert was supposed to take place, received a call “from there” and were told that the performance “is not recommended”, otherwise threatening to be checked by Rospotrebnadzor.

Piroschka Van de Wouw / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Court's meeting in the MH17 Creation case In the Netherlands at a court meeting in the MH17 flight disaster in the Donbass in 2014, several previously unknown records of interceptions of conversations of the accused were released, the Russian BBC service reports. In conversations, they discuss the transportation of the Buk missile system in the territory controlled by them.

Yuri Khovansky is suspected of justifying terrorism (because of the song). Dmitry Bykov was poisoned by the same FSB agents as Navalny. In Moscow, two covid hospitals are emergency Good evening, This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about important news of the day. Today we start with emergency weather carriers. In Kharkov, a real rain of kittens passed: as soon as the owner of the shelter, the “fluffy hostel” opened the door of the room, as a dozen kittens collapsed on him with meow.

U.S. President Joe Biden has rescinded his predecessor Donald Trump's executive orders barring U.S. citizens from doing business with Chinese companies that own short video service TikTok and messaging app WeChat. Instead, Biden instructed the Commerce Department to review apps that link to the authorities of "foreign adversaries" of the US, including China, and "may pose an unacceptable risk to national security," the White House said.

On June 9, the Basmanny District Court sentenced Anton Berezhnoi to nine years in a maximum security prison for murdering a gay man at a Moscow train station in 2019, reports Agentstvo Moskva. Earlier, the jury found Berezhnoi “guilty and deserving of leniency.” Anton Berezhnoi was accused of stabbing two men, Roman Yedalov and Evgeny Yefimov, at the Kursky railway station in June 2019. They were returning home from a gay nightclub at the time of the attack.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Are you also angry with electric scooters on the sidewalks? Here's what you need to do with them right now (and this is definitely not searches in companies that rent scooters for rent) On the morning of June 9, residents of St. Petersburg could not rent electric scooters in the largest short-term lease services. Operators and investigators seized electric scooters from parking lots in different areas of the city.