Almost every election season, Russian celebrities vow to run for office and serve the nation. They’re usually full of shit. Sergey Karpukhin / TASS What happened? Russia’s current election season has featured several unexpected announcements from celebrities that they, too, would like seats in the next State Duma. Political inspiration has struck (sometimes faded) stars like former t.A.T.u.

One of the defendants in the "Network" case, Igor Shishkin, has been released from prison. His brother Andrey Shishkin told Mediazona about this. In June, the court granted the claim of Colony No. 4 of the Federal Penitentiary Service Administration for the Novgorod Region to establish administrative supervision over Shishkin for a period of eight years.

An interview with Roman Dobrokhotov, whose publication The Insider was declared "Ino -Age" Sergey Chizhikov On Friday July 23, the Ministry of Justice included the media list - “Ino -Agents” by The Insider, famous primarily by his joint investigations with the Bellingcat International Group.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky has signed a decree imposing sanctions on the largest Russian online retailer Wildberries. The decree was published on the official website of the Ukrainian President. Legal entities of Wildberries in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, Poland, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Armenia fell under the sanctions. The sanctions imply, in particular, the blocking of versions of Wildberries in these countries on the territory of Ukraine.

The Belarusian state TV channel ONT has published on Telegram a video with the world champion in Thai boxing Alexei Kudin, who was recently extradited to Belarus by Russia. Kudin said that he was “alive and well” and was in pre-trial detention center No. 1 in Minsk.

The Russian Football Union has appointed Valery Karpin as the head coach of the Russian national football team, according to the official website of the RFU. The contract was signed until the end of 2021 with the possibility of extension, while Karpin will combine the post of national team coach with the work of the head coach of Rostov. Financial details of the agreement are not specified.

Who tried to kill Navalny - and not only The Ministry of Justice of Russia on July 23 introduced the publication The Insider in the register of "Media - Foreign Agents". Despite this, his editor -in -chief Roman Dobrokhotov said that the publication would continue to work. “The Insider is a Latvian publication that is registered in Latvia under Latvian law. And what is there the Ministry of Justice [of the Russian Federation], The Insider does not interest.

23% of Russians believe that gays, lesbians and other representatives of the LGBT community are sick people who need medical care. The proportion of people with this opinion has not changed significantly since 2004 , according to the results of a survey by the All-Russian Public Opinion Research Center (VTsIOM).

Meet Vitaly Borodin, the activist whose complaint led Russia to outlaw the investigative news outlet ‘Proekt’ Vitaly Borodin’s personal archive On July 15, the Russian authorities declared the investigative outlet Proekt “undesirable” — a designation that officials previously used only with NGOs.

In Tokyo, the strangest Olympiad in history began. Maksim, get well! Millions of Argentines cannot receive a second dose of "satellite V" Good evening, This message (material) was created and (or) widespread by a foreign media that performs the functions of a foreign agent, and (or) a Russian legal entity that performs the functions of a foreign agent This is the daily newsletter of "Medusa" about important news of the day. Finally Friday!

On July 23, the opening ceremony of the Olympics was held in Tokyo. Emperor Naruhito was present at it, it was he who declared the games open, and Olympic fire lit a tennis player Naomi Osaka. Before that, athletes from more than 200 countries participating in games, including Russians, who again, due to a doping scandal, perform without a national flag and anthem, were held at the Olympic stadium.

“I am happy that this is not in our country,” she said. “You have a rotten heart,” he answered Stoyan Vassev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Tatyana Navka-the champion of the Olympiad in Turin 2006 in ice dancing and the wife of the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov-spoke about men in rhythmic gymnastics. On July 21, Navka laid out on Instagram a fragment of the speech of the Spanish gymnast Christopher Benites at the 2019 competitions and stated that this personally is a “bust”.

The Kremlin says that the vaccines are not enough due to the "growing consciousness" of Russians Agustin Marcarian / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Vaccination "Satellite V" in Argentina Argentina authorities said that they could break the contract for the purchase of the Sputnik V Russian vaccine due to the “critical situation” with delays in deliveries. This was written by the Argentine newspaper La Nacion.

Anton Khitrov lived in him - and talks about impressions Ilya Ivanov From July 23 to 25, the sixteenth festival of landscaping objects “Arch” with the theme “Personal” will be held in the Nikola-Lenivts art park in the Kaluga Region. This year’s headliner is “Russian ideal”, architect’s house-manifest house Sergei Kuznetsov, who argues with the traditions of the park and with stereotypes about Russian architecture. Anton Khitrov lived a day in the house-pipe and talked with its creator.

The Russian Ministry of Justice added The Insider to the register of “foreign agent media outlets.” The list also includes five journalists: Mikhail Rubin , Sofia Groysman , Yulia Apukhtina (all from Proekt ), Ilya Rozhdestvensky ( Open Media ), and Alexey Posternak ( Siberia. Realii ). The Insider's editor-in-chief Roman Dobrokhotov said that it would continue to operate. "The Insider is a Latvian publication registered in Latvia under Latvian law.