Coca-Cola will sell its flagship drink under the Dobry Cola brand in Russia. This was announced by the founder of the Teremok fast food chain Mikhail Goncharov. According to Goncharov, his network received a notification from the Coca-Cola company. “We will try to sell it,” the businessman said, stressing that there are other drinks “based on cola” on the Russian market.

How the Russian authorities gave Kamchatka conservationists a cleanup grant — and then jailed them for it Alexander Petrov / TASS The Valley of Geysers in the Kronotsky Nature Reserve Story by Anna Evdanova. Abridged translation by Sam Breazeale. On July 15, a court in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky sentenced multiple high-level employees of the Kronotsky Nature Reserve to prison terms ranging from three to five and a half years.

Russian Security Council Deputy Chairman Dmitry Medvedev wants you to know that the invasion of Ukraine is designed to prevent a Third World War. In an interview with the French television network La Chaîne Info, Russia’s former president (and former prime minister) explained that WWIII could have started if Ukraine had been allowed to join NATO, paving the way for a supposed Western military operation against Russia.

Is Kyiv preparing to retake Russian-annexed Crimea by force? AP / Scanpix / LETA The end of Crimea’s summer tourist season was disrupted by a series of attacks on Russian military infrastructure on the peninsula On the eve of Ukraine’s Independence Day, Kyiv hosted the Crimea Platform — an international summit devoted to the deoccupation of the Crimean Peninsula, which Russia forcibly annexed from Ukraine in 2014.

The police officer who attacked human rights activist Igor Kalyapin has been fired, according to Kalyapin’s colleague, Eva Merkacheva . Major Sergey Chernikovsky, who reportedly served in Nizhny Novgorod’s criminal investigations department, has problems controlling his behavior when intoxicated, other officers told Merkacheva, who says he is now under criminal investigation (though she didn’t specify the charges).

Evgeny Prigozhin’s battle with independent journalists continues. On Friday, his “Concord” catering company filed a complaint with Russia’s Federal Investigative Committee against Fontanka reporter Ksenia Klochkova and her editor-in-chief, Alexander Gorshkov. Prigozhin wants felony the authorities to charge the two journalists with felony “disinformation.” Fontanka recently reported that Prigozhin was involved in recruiting a local prison inmate to fight in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

"Special military operation" in Ukraine is carried out in order to prevent the Third World War. Dmitry Medvedev, Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of the Russian Federation, stated this in an interview with the French TV channel LCI. “We must do everything so that the third world war does not happen, and the policy of our country is aimed precisely at this,” Medvedev said (quoted by Interfax).

Russian President Vladimir Putin has awarded former President of Turkmenistan Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedov the Order of Merit to the Fatherland, IV degree. The corresponding decree was published on the official Internet portal of legal information. Berdumukhammedov received the order for his "great contribution to strengthening the strategic partnership" between the two countries, the decree emphasizes.

Russia’s ‘patriotic’ curriculum for the upcoming school year Dmitri Lovetsky / AP / Scanpix / LETA It's back-to-school season, and for Russian students, this semester will be a bit different from previous ones.

The police officer who attacked the founder of the Committee Against Torture, Igor Kalyapin, has been fired, human rights activist Eva Merkacheva reported. According to Merkacheva, the policeman's name is Sergei Chernigovsky; he was a major in the criminal investigation department in Nizhny Novgorod. The human rights activist noted that his colleagues "noticed strange behavior" and that the policeman became aggressive when he drank.

The Concord company, owned by businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, has filed a complaint with the Investigative Committee of Russia to initiate a criminal case under the article on "fakes" against Fontanka journalist Ksenia Klochkova and the publication's editor-in-chief Alexander Gorshkov. This was reported by the company's press service. The basis for the statement is a previously published article by Fontanka about a prisoner who was sent to fight in Ukraine.

Yevgeny Roizman gave his first interview as an accused. A brief summary Initially, the operatives had the task of finding something - gold, currency, money - and immediately transferring me to Moscow. But I have nothing illegal. I do not deny what I said about the war in Ukraine. They had plans for the museum , but, apparently, they were stopped. It suddenly turned out that there were several decision-making centers.

She opened a jewelry boutique in Italy, headed the charity fund and made friends with many NATO officers Inst @adelserein Maria Ala Kufeldt River, 2016 The Insider, together with Bellingcat , Der Spiegel and La Repubblica, has published an investigation about the GRU employee who lived in Europe for almost 10 years.

According to Russian media , Ukrainian artillery forces launched a strike on the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant on Friday. “Four strikes were recorded in the area of the radioactive isotope storage facility,” the Enerhodar occupation authorities reported. The nuclear plant’s radiation levels remain normal and no damage was done to the station’s infrastructure, according to Interfax .

Biotech company Moderna has announced it is filing lawsuits against Pfizer and BioNTech, accusing them of using patented technologies without a license in their joint coronavirus vaccine, Moderna reported in a press release. "We are filing these lawsuits to protect the innovative mRNA vaccine technology platform that we invested billions of dollars in and patented long before the pandemic.