Billionaire Alexander Mamut left Russia after the invasion of Ukraine and allegedly plans to launch a liberal media outlet in exile Sasha Mordovets / Getty Images Russian billionaire and former owner of the tech and media company Rambler Group Alexander Mamut left Russia shortly after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Participants of the conference on the restoration of Ukraine promised to send an additional $60 billion to Kyiv for the reconstruction of the country. This is reported by "European Truth" with reference to the final document of the conference, which was held in London.

A prosecutor in the case against Dagestan journalist Abdulumin Gadzhiyev, who was an editor with the news outlet Chernovik, has requested that the court sentence him to 19 years in prison, says a group working to support the journalist. Gadzhiyev is accused of participating in and financing a terrorist organization, as well as participating in an extremist organization. The journalist has been in a pre-trial detention center for four years , since June 2019.

Estonia becomes the first Baltic country to cross the marriage equality finish line Story by Aliide Naylor for The Beet . Edited by Eilish Hart . This story first appeared in The Beet , a weekly email dispatch from Meduza covering Central and Eastern Europe, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Sign up here to get the next issue delivered directly to your inbox.

Why Russia’s liberal creatives seek grants from an institute that pours money into online Kremlin propaganda Every year, the Russian government allocates dozens of millions of rubles for propaganda projects ranging from films and TV series to videogames. Much of this so-called “patriotic” content is focused on glorifying Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and discrediting its critics.

Participants in the rescue operation in the Atlantic Ocean believe that the wreckage found in the search area for the missing Titan submarine is part of the apparatus. This is reported by CNN, citing a rescue memo. According to the channel, the fragments found are fragments of the outer part of the Titan. At the same time, the document cited by CNN notes that the search for the capsule with the crew continues.

Flooding from the Kakhovka dam collapse displaced thousands of Ukrainians. Many are still missing. Roman Pilipey / Getty Images On the night of June 6, the dam at Ukraine’s Kakhovka Hydroelectric Power Plant exploded. (The evidence suggests Russian forces blew it up from the inside, according to The New York Times.) The disaster endangered at least 40,000 people and flooded 45 settlements, 14 of which are located on the Dnipro River’s Russian-controlled east bank.

UN Secretary-General António Guterres said that Russia is responsible for the deaths of 136 children in Ukraine in 2022, according to the organization's annual report. The document was sent to members of the UN Security Council, according to Reuters and Agence France-Presse , who read the report. According to AFP, a UN report on children in conflict zones will be published next week.

Air defense systems shot down a drone over Kursk, said the governor of the Kursk region, Roman Starovoit. The head of the region did not tell the details of what happened. “We kindly ask that if you find debris, do not touch it and call 112,” Starovoit wrote. Mash reported that residents of Kursk heard two explosions - in the area of ​​the railway station and Dubrovinsky Street. The Telegram channel published a video from one of the city districts.

A memorial plaque in memory of the poetess Anna Akhmatova, which was installed on the building of the former Kresty pretrial detention center in St. Petersburg, was returned to the police, Fontanka reports. According to the publication, the plaque is in the 21st police department of the Kalininsky district. It was given there by St. Petersburg lawyer Vladimir Filatov. He told journalists that he removed the plaque to preserve it. "I am a native Leningrader, all my grandparents lived here.

The leader of the Opposition Republican People's Party of Turkey Kemal Kylychdaroglu, who participated in the 2023 presidential election, can be detained as part of the investigation of 28 claims filed against him, Cumhuriyet reports. The channel explained that since Kylychdaroglu ran for the president, he could not participate in the parliamentary elections, which were at the same time, as a result, he was left without deputy inviolability.

During the debate in the Southern District Military Court, a representative of the prosecutor's office requested 19 years in a maximum security penal colony for Abdulmumin Gadzhiev, who worked as an editor at the Chernovik newspaper. This was reported by the Dagestani journalist's support group.

Independent Russian publication Verstka reports that Wagner Group posted a job ad on Russia social networking site VKontakte seeking former employees of various Russian law enforcement agencies. Vertska didn’t provide a link to the VKontakte page in question, but based on a post on the publication’s Telegram channel the report seems to refer to the page Vakansii v ChVK Wagner [Wagner Group Openings].

The Soviet City Court of the Kaliningrad Region sentenced local activist Igor Baryshnikov to seven and a half years in prison in the case of spreading "fake news" about the Russian army (clause "e" of Part 2 of Article 207.3 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), his lawyer Maria Bontsler told OVD-Info. The court also banned 64-year-old Baryshnikov from administering the sites for four years. The prosecutor asked to send the activist to a colony for eight years.

In the search area for the Titan submarine, which was heading for the sunken Titanic, some debris was found, the press service of the US Coast Guard said. So far, there is no information about what kind of wreckage it is. According to Sky News, discovered the wreckage. Experts are now studying the information received. the French deep-sea robot Victor 6000 The Coast Guard says it will provide more details during a briefing at 22:00 Moscow time.