Former US Minister of Defense Donald Ramsfeld died at the age of 88. He died surrounded by a family in the American state of New Mexico, the statement published on Twitter Ramsfeld said. Wally Santana / AP / Scanpix / Leta Ramsfeld died due to a multiple myeloma-a malignant tumor of plasma cells, reports The New York Times, referring to a representative of the family.

A police officer attacked Mediazona correspondent Nikita Sologub on Pokrovka Street in Moscow, when the journalist filmed and videotaped how an Interior Ministry officer squeezed the head of a detained man between his legs. Mediazona published a video taken before the attack. The footage shows several police officers, one of whom is holding the detainee. The footage also shows a knife lying on the pavement.

British scientist and creator of the World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee has sold the original source code used to develop the web at Sotheby's in the form of a non-fungible asset ( NFT ). According to a tweet from Sotheby's, "one of the most historically significant digital artifacts" was sold for $5.4 million.

Roskomnadzor warned that it would block six VPN services in Russia: NordVPN; ExpressVPN; Hour; VPN Unlimited; Speedify; IPVanish. Roskomnadzor asked the Russian departments to report if these services are used "to ensure the operation of technological processes of enterprises and organizations." In May, the service sent similar requests to organizations due to the Opera VPN and VyprVPN services, which it blocked a month later .

Open Media profiles Russian defense minister’s younger daughter, examining her remarkable professional feats and penchant for leveraging dad’s influence and connections Ksenia Shoigu / Instagram In a new investigative report published by Open Media, Ilya Rozhdestvensky profiles Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu’s daughter Ksenia, who is just 30 years old but oversees billions of rubles in investments and youth programs.

Moscow police have detained transgender man Alan Leongard and his wife, activist Valya Narcissova, after they walked onto Red Square holding a rainbow flag that read "The right to marriage for everyone!" The activists held the rally on the day of their wedding, according to a report received by the editors of Meduza. After the arrest, the protesters were taken to the Kitai-Gorod police department. According to OVD -Info, public defender Vladimir Vasilenko went to the detainees.

The Supreme Court of the US state of Pennsylvania has overturned the conviction of 83-year-old comedian Bill Cosby , who was convicted of rape in 2018. According to the court's decision, Cosby will be released, CNBC reports. The court overturned the verdict after it was determined that a plea agreement with prosecutors prevented Cosby from being charged in the case. The new ruling bars a retrial, court documents say. It is unclear whether prosecutors will appeal the ruling.

On the evening of June 30, Russian law enforcement detained Alexey Yakovlev, the former broadcast director for the YouTube channel “Navalny Live,” on board a plane that had just landed at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport. Yakovlev told Open Media that he was taken to the Investigative Committee for questioning in connection with a fraud case against jailed opposition politician Alexey Navalny.

Alexey Malgavko / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Vaccines effectiveness Quote As for me, when I did [vaccine], in February, or something, there were two vaccines in the civilian circulation: “Epivaccoron” of the Novosibirsk Center “Vector” and “Satellite V”. As you know ... they are both good, modern. The Vector vaccine is generally so synthetic, they say that it is advanced. But as it seemed to me from my friends, I’ll tell you what I was guided by: after all, it acts less in time.

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Police detained the former director of the Navalny LIVE YouTube channel, Alexei Yakovlev, on the plane at Sheremetyevo Airport when his flight landed in Moscow. Yakovlev told Open Media that he was taken for interrogation to the Investigative Committee in the case of fraud, which was initiated against politician Alexei Navalny. The director said that earlier the investigator called him and summoned him for interrogation, but he refused to accept the summons by phone.

The Russian Attorney General’s Office has recognized Mikhail Khodorkovsky’s eponymous, U.K.-registered foundation as “undesirable” in Russia, along with several other NGOs based in Britain and France.

People who have had a coronavirus infection no more than six months ago will be able to check into hotels, sanatoriums and other places of recreation in the Krasnodar Territory without a vaccination certificate and a negative PCR test result for coronavirus. Such changes to the resolution "On the introduction of a high alert regime" were made by the governor of the region Veniamin Kondratiev.

Putin discusses Sputnik V, local issues, and more in annual call-in show Scanpix / LETA Last year, President Vladimir Putin’s annual call-in show was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. But on Wednesday, June 30, the “direct line” made its return to national television. Despite some technical hiccups , Putin answered questions from Russian residents for four hours straight.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Patriarchal ponds are the most prestigious residential area in Russia, now you can’t just come to a car there. What does this say about the structure of cities and society? In Moscow, the access of cars to patriarchal ponds will soon be limited . Now, in the evenings at the weekend, drivers who are not owners or tenants of housing nearby will not be able to come there. Local authorities call it an experiment.