Russian President Vladimir Putin submitted a bill to the State Duma that allows him to independently determine the maximum age for military service for senior officers of the Russian army. The bill proposes to set deadlines for the extension of contracts for marshals, generals of the army and admirals of the navy for the time specified in the presidential decision.

The article The New Yorker about Lyubov Sobol - as short Emin Jafarov / Kommersant In childhood, Love Sobol loved the Soviet series about Sherlock Holmes. She wanted to be a private detective, but adults said that such a profession no longer exists, so she decided to become an investigator. But then I read the speeches of lawyers in the courts of pre -revolutionary Russia - and went to study as a lawyer. Sable specialized in corporate law.

After journalists find an abandoned private prison outside St. Petersburg, it’s promptly bulldozed shut Google Earth Pro Satellite image of a building containing an underground secret prison outside St. Petersburg A strange facility now lies in ruins outside St. Petersburg. Until bulldozers arrived on Monday, July 19, a compound 44 kilometers (27 miles) from the city concealed an abandoned private prison with three cells, a guard station, and a furnace that may have served as a crematorium.

Meduza looks back on Russia’s most high-profile incidents of repression over the past six months Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Six months ago, on January 17, 2021, opposition politician Alexey Navalny returned to Russia and was immediately arrested at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport.

The Federal Security Service (FSB) of Russia proposed to approve a list of information that does not constitute a state secret, but when transferred to a foreign state, citizen or company “can be used against the security of the Russian Federation.” As Mediazona notes , the creation of such a list is provided for by the law on individuals “foreign agents”, which was adopted in December 2020.

She received the rights last year The press service of the Tver District Court / TASS Valeria Bashkirova during the meeting as they stop in the Tver District Court of Moscow, July 19, 2021 The Tver court of Moscow arrested the 18-year-old Valery Bashkirov, who is considered the culprit of the accident in which three children were injured .

As the parents of children with difficult diagnoses live in Russia. What are the last (terrible) for six months in Russia. "Teams 29" no more Good evening, This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about important news of the day. And on Mondays, also about what happened over the weekend. Let's start today's issue with ... stories about true love!

The Russian government has prepared the previously announced Sanitary Shield project aimed at protecting the sanitary and epidemiological safety of the country. This was announced by Deputy Prime Minister Tatyana Golikova at a meeting of the Council for Strategic Development and National Projects. 30 billion rubles will be allocated to finance the project until 2024.

After seven years of defending Russia’s most difficult political cases, prominent legal group Team 29 disbands fearing prosecution Ivan Vodopyanov / Kommersant Team 29 head Ivan Pavlov (center) and lawyer Evgeny Smirnov (right). June 9, 2021. August 2021 should have marked the seventh anniversary of Team 29 — an independent association of lawyers, attorneys, and journalists known for tackling some of Russia’s most hopeless human rights cases.

In Russia with freedom of speech is much better? Spoiler: Not everything is so simple Tunahan Turhan / Sopa Images / Zuma Wire journalists put their microphones and video cameras on Earth during the protest against the detention of their colleagues, photographer of the AFP agency Bulant Kilich at the gay parade in Istanbul.

Boris Vishnevsky, the leader of the Yabloko faction in the legislature, and two candidates who are his namesakes, put forward their candidacy for the elections to the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, which will be held in September. Both of them changed their names and surnames, says Novaya Gazeta.

Memory of Vadim Gaevsky is a theater, on the texts of which more than one generation of critics has learned Irina Shtrich On July 16, at the 93rd year of his life, Vadim Moiseevich Gaevsky died-a legendary Russian theater, who learned more than one generation of theatrical and musical critics. From his youth, he walked against the system - and as a result, he survived the Soviet era outraged by his texts for a long time.

There is a wildlife rescue center in Massachusetts, and next to the center is a pond where a Canada goose named Arnold and his lover live. This is a long and lasting relationship - the birds have been together for several years. Usually goose keep at a respectful distance from people. But recently, the center's staff noticed that Arnold began to limp and fall out of the blue. That's when the neighbors got worried.

(Relatively) a brief chronicle of the last (terrible) months Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Six months ago, January 17, 2021, Alexei Navalny, who returned to Russia after treatment in Germany, was detained right at Sheremetyevo Airport. Navalny was accused of violating the terms of the trial period in the Yves Rocher case, and on February 2, the court sentenced the most famous opposition policy of Russia to real imprisonment.

Members of the Public Monitoring Commission (PMC) of St. Petersburg Elena Shakhova and Roman Shirshov received information that a riot had taken place in the Kresty pretrial detention center in St. Petersburg on the night of July 12. This was reported in the Telegram channel of former members of the PMC of St. Petersburg . Shakhova and Shirshov arrived at Kresty on July 18. They found two prisoners with bodily injuries in the special block of the detention center.