On the evening of June 30, the premiere of the play “I am not participating in the war,” directed by Alexei Agranovich, took place at the Gogol Center. This is the last premiere of the season and the last performance that Agranovich staged as artistic director of the Gogol Center.

Vladimir Mau - the head of the Ranchin and one of the ideologists of the Putin economy - was put under house arrest. "Medusa" tells its story Sergey Karpukhin / TASS On June 30, it became known that Vladimir Mau was detained in Moscow, the rector of the RANEPA - the university under the President of Russia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree transferring the assets of Sakhalin Energy to state ownership. Sakhalin Energy is the operator of the Sakhalin-2 project, within which gas and oil are produced offshore Sakhalin Island. The decree "On the application of special economic measures in the fuel and energy sector in connection with the unfriendly actions of certain foreign states and international organizations" was published on the Official Internet Portal of Legal Information.

Ketanji Brown Jackson was sworn in as a member of the U.S. Supreme Court on June 30, becoming the first African-American woman in United States history to hold that office. The oath was broadcast by CNN.

Of the three former arts, two openly opposed the war Sergey Karpov / TASS On the evening of June 29, the Moscow Department of Culture fired the leadership in three subordinate theaters. In the "Gogol Center" of the artistic director Alexei Agranovich and director Alexei Kabeshev, Anton Yakovlev and Alexander Bocharnikov will be replaced (in addition, the former name will be returned to the site-the Gogol Theater).

The Basmanny District Court of Moscow upheld the sentence of former employees of the Department of Labor and Social Protection of the Moscow City Hall Tatyana Barsukova and Elena Semkina, convicted in the case of the death in 2016 of 14 children at Syamozero in Karelia. However, the statute of limitations in the case has expired, and the officials found guilty of negligence and sentenced in the spring of 2022 to four and a half and four years in prison were released in the courtroom.

How St. Petersburg’s Alexander Beglov used the war against Ukraine to get back on Putin’s good side Nikolai Trishin / TASS Alexander Beglov (second from the right) and “DNR” leader Denis Pushilin visiting a school in Mariupol. June 1, 2022. At the start of 2022, St. Petersburg Governor Alexander Beglov seemed under more pressure to step down than ever before.

The US Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has blocked a Heritage trust linked to Russian businessman Suleiman Kerimov. This is stated in a message on the website of the US Treasury. The trust, registered in the state of Delaware, manages Kerimov's assets in the United States, which are worth more than $1 billion, according to OFAC. The Heritage Trust was established in July 2017, before Suleiman Kerimov was placed on the US sanctions list.

Rosneft shareholders at the absentee annual meeting approved the amount of dividends for 2021. Taking into account the payment of dividends for the first half of 2021, the total dividend per share for 2021 will be 41.66 rubles, TASS quotes a statement from the oil company. We are talking about record dividends, Rosneft stressed.

On June 30, Russian President Vladimir Putin met in Moscow with Indonesia President Joko Vidodo. Negotiations were held in the Kremlin. At this meeting, as the Indonesian leader himself said, he handed Putin a certain message from the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky (in the office of the President of Ukraine, however, they deny this). But it turned out that even this is not the most curious detail of negotiations.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow has authorized the house arrest of the rector of the Russian Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA) Vladimir Mau, who is accused in the case of fraud on an especially large scale, for a period until August 7, Interfax reports . Representatives of the investigation, explaining the need for house arrest of the rector of the RANEPA, in particular, stated: “Mau has a foreign passport, he bought tickets for July 2 to Turkey.

The "Iron Curtain" between Russia and Western countries has begun to descend, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said at a press conference with Belarusian Foreign Minister Vladimir Makei. “As for the Iron Curtain,” I agree with Vladimir Vladimirovich (Makei, — note by Meduza), it is almost already descending. Let them just be careful not to pinch anything. But this process has been launched, ”said Lavrov (quote from Interfax ).

The Russian government has prepared and submitted for consideration by the lower house of parliament a draft law “on providing for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation during counter-terrorist and other operations outside the territory of the Russian Federation.” The document , posted in the State Duma database, proposes to introduce an appropriate article into the law "On Defense".

Ukrainian photographer Pavlo Pakhomenko captures the Milky Way over war-torn Kharkiv Since the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion, Kharkiv has been one of the hardest hit cities in Ukraine. Due to regular airstrikes and its proximity to the frontline, blackouts and a nightly curfew have been in effect for months. The authorities have asked residents to avoid turning on the lights in their apartments and the city’s streets are no longer lit.

Actors, musicians and critics-about the closure of the Gogol Center (instead of which the Gogol Theater will now again be in Moscow) Anvar Galeev / TASS On the evening of June 29, the Moscow Department of Culture announced the change of artistic director and director of the Gogol Center: Anton Yakovlev and Alexander Bocharnikov, Alexei Agravovich and Alexei Kabeshev, take place .