The Ukrainian state company Energoatom said that power unit No. 4 of the Zaporozhye nuclear power plant, which is controlled by Russian troops, was transferred to a “hot shutdown” on July 24. “Such actions are a gross violation of the requirements of the license to operate this nuclear installation. Now the operation of the ZNPP power unit No. 4 should be carried out exclusively in the “cold shutdown” state,” the company said in a statement.

Political scientist Daniel Treisman on the state of Russia’s autocracy Andrey Rudakov / Bloomberg / Getty Images In April 2022, economist Sergei Guriev and political scientist Daniel Treisman published a book titled Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century focused on modern autocracies and what they call “spin dictatorships,” which base their authority on manipulation and propaganda. The book was submitted for publication prior to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

Ukrainian Defense Minister Oleksiy Reznikov said in an interview with CNN that the Ukrainian counteroffensive is behind schedule, but that doesn't bother him as everything is going according to plan. The minister called it a delusion that every counterattack "should be quick." According to him, the offensive is developing more slowly, since there is an “air defense issue”, and the front line stretches for hundreds of kilometers. “And against us a large number of opponents.

Russian forces attacked the city of Kostiantynivka in the Donetsk region with cluster munitions fired from Smerch multiple rocket launcher systems, reports Pavlo Kyrylenko, head of the Donetsk regional administration. According to Kostiantynivka’s city administration, a 10-year-old boy was killed. Seven others were injured, including four children, reports the Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspilne.

"There is a complete tin" Alabuga Polytech page in VKontakte After the start of the full -scale war of Russia with Ukraine in the special economic zone of Alabuga in Tatarstan, the mass production of Iranian shock drones of Shahed was organized, to the assembly of which are attracted by students of the Alabuga Polytechnic college. This is stated in the investigation of the journalists of the publication "Protocol" and the UTUB channel "RZVR" .

Why Russian religious leaders’ efforts to restrict abortion may soon succeed An operating room in a Ryazan hospital’s gynecology department. January 24, 2017. Last week, at a plenary session of the Russian State Duma, Health Minister Mikhail Murashko laid out his extremely regressive vision of what a woman’s life trajectory should look like.

Russian military fired at Konstantinovka in Donetsk Oblast using Smerch multiple launch rocket systems with cluster munitions , reported Donetsk Oblast Administration head Pavel Kirilenko. According to the Konstantinovka city administration, a 10-year-old boy was killed, seven people were injured, including four children, the Ukrainian TV channel Suspilne reported . Among the injured children were two sisters, one of them in serious condition, the prosecutor's office said .

The Knesset (Parliament) of Israel approved on July 24 in final reading the first law in the framework of the judicial reform, which previously caused many months of protest, reports The Jerusalem Post. The opposition boycotted a vote in the Knesset. The adopted law cancels the so -called principle of rationality, which limits the powers of the Supreme Court of Israel, which had the right to block any government decision. This is one of the key and most controversial elements of judicial reform.

Russian businessman Oleg Deripaska has filed a lawsuit with the Tagansky Court of Moscow against the founder of The Bell, Elizaveta Osetinskaya, and the head of the Russia Sedentary Foundation, Olga Romanova, follows from the case file on the court’s website. According to The Bell, Deripaska filed a lawsuit over a video version of an interview with Olga Romanova, which she gave to the YouTube project “This is Osetinskaya”.

What do the main Western media write about battles at the front Diego Herrera Carcedo / Anadolu Agency / Abacapress / DDP Images / Vida Press Ukrainian BMP on the way to Bakhmut, July 22, 2023 The Observer : The West must focus on the preparation of Ukrainian troops Western support allowed Ukraine to get serious advantages over Russian troops at the front, but the international partners of Kyiv need to evaluate and correct their mistakes in recent months, writes the author of the article, a

The commander of the Leningrad Regiment, Colonel Yevgeny Vashunin, died in the war in Ukraine. This was stated by the Chairman of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg, Alexander Belsky, as reported by Fontanka and Rotonda . According to him, Vashunin died on July 14, when the Leningrad Regiment, formed from mobilized men from St. Petersburg, went to help the Storm detachment, formed from former prisoners.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Why did the Kremlin decide to arrest Strelkov? Maybe those who say that this is a kind of preparation for a truce with Ukraine are right? On July 21, the court arrested the former commander of the self-proclaimed DPR and ex-officer of the FSB Igor Strelkov (his real name is Girkin). The investigation accuses Strelkov of public calls to “carry out extremist activities on the Internet” (part 2 of Article 280 of the Criminal Code).

Mikhail Popkov, a former policeman from Angarsk, who is serving a life sentence for the murders of dozens of people, confessed to the murders of three young women, the Irkutsk Region Department of the Investigative Committee reports. According to investigators, in 1997 Popkov killed a 27-year-old woman in the village of Zhilkino near Irkutsk, a year later - a 25-year-old woman in Irkutsk, in 2003 - a 31-year-old woman on the territory of the Novo-Lenin cemetery, also in Irkutsk.

The authorities of the country are conducting the largest operation to evacuate residents On the island of Rhodes - one of the most beautiful in Greece - forest fires continue for a week. At least 19 thousand local residents and tourists were evacuated. The authorities call this the largest operation to evacuate people in the history of the country. On Rhodes, as in the rest of Greece, very hot weather was established. Air temperature - more than 30 degrees Celsius.

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