Meduza talks to the Tut.by team about launching a new media outlet while their colleagues sit in jail Beata Zawrzel / NurPhoto / Shutterstock / Vida Press In the face of pressure from the authorities, the most prominent independent media outlet in Belarus, Tut.by, ceased operating in mid-May.

Nikolai Rybakov explains his party’s problem with the Navalny movement and his belief that Yabloko is Russia’s only option for democrats Emin Dzhafarov / Kommersant In the past few days, the leaders of the Russian democratic opposition party Yabloko have deliberately alienated Alexey Navalny’s followers.

The Maltese authorities have banned travelers who have not been vaccinated against the coronavirus from entering the country. It is reported by the Times of Malta. Until now, it was possible to come to Malta from countries recognized as epidemiologically safe with a negative PCR test. The new measures will come into effect on July 14. Only children under 12 years old will be allowed to go unvaccinated if they are accompanied by vaccinated parents.

Russian and US Presidents Vladimir Putin and Joe Biden held a telephone conversation, the White House press service reported. The White House said in a statement that the presidents discussed recent hacking attacks by "criminals based in Russia" and that Biden pressed Putin to take action to disrupt the activities of these groups.

Putin is aware that Russia is negotiating with terrorists. FBK vs. "Taliban." Nino Katamadze - in the Marathon "Summer Agents"! Good evening, This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about important news of the day. Today we have joy, and tears, and happiness! And a special honor for us. In the Marathon “Summer Agents”, Nino Katamadze performs in Georgian romance, the name of which can be translated into Russian as “days pass”. “Dear friends!

A court in North Carolina sentenced Leonid Teif, former deputy head of Voentorg, to five years in prison. After leaving prison, Teif will be under police surveillance for another three years. Teif, who has lived in the US since 2010, was arrested in 2018. He was charged with conspiracy to launder money - according to investigators, Teif, being the deputy director of Voentorg, received kickbacks from subcontractors with whom the organization entered into contracts between 2010 and 2012.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has included five more organizations on the list of "undesirables", four of which are associated with Mikhail Khodorkovsky. The list included the Khodorkovsky Foundation (“Khodorkovsky Foundation”) and its subsidiary Oxford Russia Fund (“Oxford Russia Foundation”), as well as the organization Future of Russia Foundation (“Fund for the Future of Russia”) - all of which are registered in the UK and are associated with Khodorkovsky .

Journalist Julia Ioffe wrote a big article about her in Vanity Fair. And we retold it Evgeny Feldman Vanity Fair has published a large article about Julia Navalny, the wife of politician Alexei Navalny. It was written by an American journalist of Russian descent Julia Ioffe. The article was built in an interview with friends and acquaintances of Navalny, as well as on the memoirs of Joffe, who talked to her. The heroine of the text refused to give an interview for the article.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. In Iceland, they are experimenting with a four -day work week. We envy: in Russia it will not work out - and that's why Iceland shared the results of a large experiment on the transfer of workers to a shortened working week. Instead of 40 hours, employees of organizations worked 35-36 hours. The experiment is recognized as successful - labor productivity remained at the same level or even grew, and the well -being of people improved.

A group of teenagers from the Yunarmiya organized a shooting with blank cartridges at a children's camp near Novosibirsk In the Novosibirsk region, a group of teenagers from the Yunarmiya group broke into a children's tent city and started shooting from a blank-firing weapon. The incident occurred near the village of Kornilovo in the Bolotninsky District on July 5 in a field tent camp where about 50 children were staying.

Being outlawed in Russia just isn’t the same for everyone On July 8, 2021, a delegation from the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (better known as the Taliban) visited Moscow and met with representatives of Russia’s Foreign Ministry for formal talks about unrest at Afghanistan’s border with Tajikistan.

On July 1, the Ukrainian parliament adopted a bill “On the Indigenous Peoples of Ukraine,” which was put forward by President Volodymyr Zelensky. The Russian leadership responded negatively to the legislation. President Vladimir Putin brought it up repeatedly and even compared it to the “theory and practice of Nazi Germany.” Moscow took issue with the fact that Russians weren’t included in the official list of Ukraine’s indigenous peoples.

Lawyers for Alexey Navalny’s organizations have appealed the Moscow City Court’s decision to outlaw his Anti-Corruption Foundation (the FBK), Citizens’ Rights Protection Foundation, and national network of campaign offices as “extremist.” “We filed a complaint against the Moscow City Court’s ruling in the case of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, Citizens’ Rights Protection Foundation, and Navalny’s Headquarters.

TUT.BY journalists launched a new media - although part of the publication team sits in a pre -trial detention center (including the editor -in -chief). We talked with them Beata Zawrzel / Nurphoto / Shutterstock / Vida Press In mid-May, the largest news site TUT.BY in Belarus stopped full-fledged work due to pressure from the authorities and was blocked .

(The cat also got into the frame!) The mayor of the city of Kamyshlov in the Sverdlovsk region, Alexei Polovnikov, came out to check on the improvement of Karl Marx Street. 89 million rubles were allocated for the work, but the condition of the street, apparently, has not improved at all . Vladislav Postnikov, an activist and candidate for the State Duma from the Yabloko party, published a small video and photos from the tour of the city on Facebook.