Israel has banned the sale of fur products. According to The Jerusalem Post, the document was signed by the country's Minister of Environmental Protection Gila Gimliel. The ban will take effect in December 2021. At the same time, permission to use fur for scientific and educational purposes, as well as in religious ceremonies, will remain. Animal rights activists have been seeking a ban on the sale of fur in Israel since 2009.

The Armenian government has approved an agreement with the European Union under which it will receive financial aid in exchange for stopping the use of the word "cognac" in the name of drinks produced in the country. Under the agreement, the EU will pay Armenia three million euros. These funds will be used to develop a new brand, popularize it, and support competitiveness in foreign markets. Armenian producers must stop producing drinks called “cognac” starting in 2032.

After the publication in The Insider, I was most surprised by the comments: when I was poisoned, I was supported en masse, and now it’s the other way around: they can’t forgive me for their sympathy at the time, they write that it was an “election campaign.” And my pride is infinitely flattered that they don’t like me so much. I don’t think there was an intention to kill — they wanted to cripple me completely and for a long time.

An administrative case on drug propaganda is being considered against journalist Yuri Dud. The relevant information is posted in the card index of the Zyuzinsky Court of Moscow. Dud is charged with an administrative offense of promoting narcotics via the Internet (Part 1.1 of Article 6.13 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation). The maximum penalty is a fine of 1.5 million rubles. The court date has not yet been set.

Lisbon officials apologize for sharing pro-Navalny activists’ personal information with the Russian authorities City officials in Lisbon are coming under fire after a group of activists who organized a pro-Navalny rally outside of the Russian Embassy earlier this year discovered that their personal details were shared with the Russian authorities.

The Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested blogger Yuri Khovansky, accused of public calls for terrorism. Khovansky will spend two months under arrest. The investigation insisted on this measure of restraint. On the morning of June 10, Khovansky was officially charged with publicly justifying terrorism (Part 2 of Article 205.2 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The blogger faces a fine of up to a million rubles or imprisonment for up to seven years.

Interview with the lawyer Ilya Novikov - on the results of the court over the structures of Navalny Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / Scanpix / Leta Ilya Novikov. June 9, 2021 On the evening of June 9, the Moscow City Court recognized the “extremist” FBK and other structures of Alexei Navalny. They are forbidden to disseminate any information, perform financial transactions, as well as participate in elections and organize shares.

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Russian courts have accepted lawsuits from at least 42 former Moscow subway system employees, who were laid off because they registered online to attend recent pro-Navalny demonstrations, reports Open Media. The lawsuits demand that the Moscow subway system reinstate the fired workers and pay compensation for moral damages ranging from 30,000 ($417) to 100,000 rubles ($1,390). The court hearings are scheduled to begin on June 16.

Catering magnate Evgeny Prigozhin has filed a lawsuit against Ekho Moskvy and its editor-in-chief Alexey Venediktov, as well as the chief editor of the radio station’s website, Vitaly Ruvinsky. According to the press service for Prigozhin’s Concord Group, the lawsuit insists that “the information about Evgeny Viktorovich [Prigozhin] being the ‘owner of the Wagner PMC ’ be recognized as untrue” and demands that Ekho Moskvy take down this information and issue a retraction.

A court in France has sentenced 28-year-old Damian Tarel to four months in prison for slapping the country's president, Emmanuel Macron. The prosecutor's office had requested 18 months' imprisonment for the accused. The maximum penalty under the article on assault on an official, under which the charges were brought, is three years' imprisonment.

Valentin Egorshin / TASS Dzerzhinsky District Court of St. Petersburg will choose a preventive measure to the video blogger Yuri Khovansky, detained on charges of public justification of terrorism. The investigation asks to arrest him for two months.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The verdict of Navalny’s structures on recognition of their “extremist” again showed how non -self -state courts in Russia are. How did it happen? Is it easy to fix? On June 9, the Moscow City Court recognized the structure of the politician Alexei Navalny with “extremist organizations”.

The courts accepted claims from 42 former employees of the Moscow Metro, who were fired after it became known that they had registered on the "Freedom for Navalny" website, Open Media writes. The plaintiffs are demanding that they be reinstated at work, as well as compensation for moral damages in the amount of 30 to 100 thousand rubles. Court hearings are scheduled to begin on June 16.

The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) branch in Russia’s Khabarovsk territory has signed an agreement with the company Bamstroymekhanizatsiya “on bringing in convicts for forced labor” on the construction of the second line of the Baikal–Amur Mainline (BAM), reports RIA Novosti. The agreement was signed by the regional FSIN head Yuri Dorokhin and Bamstroymekhanizatsiya general director Alexander Chernoyarov.