In the UK, on ​​July 4, parliamentary elections took place. Polling stations closed at 22:00 local time (23:00 Moscow time). According to the ecsit regulations, the BBC reports, the Labor Party wins the victory. She can get 410 out of 650 seats in parliament. Her 61-year-old leader Cyrus Starmer will almost certainly become the next Prime Minister of Great Britain.

The Muftiyat Karachay-Cherkessia took a temporary ban on wearing Nikabov in the region, reports Interfax. As the chairman of the coordination center of the Muslims of the North Caucasus, Ismail Berdiev, explained, the ban will introduce "until the eliminated threats and the new theological imprisonment." Berdiev did not specify what threats arise due to the fact that women in the region wear Nikabs. On the eve of a similar ban was introduced by the mufti of Dagestan.

In the second Western District Military Court on July 4, the debate was held in the case of the director Zhenya Berkovich and playwright Svetlana Petriychuk. The state prosecutor Ekaterina Denisova during the debate called the terms to which the prosecutor's office asks the accused. Since the meeting was held closed, what terms it was - it is unknown.

The YouTube video service blocked the official channels of Yaroslav Dronov (Shaman) and Polina Gagarina, who recently fell under European sanctions. “My YouTube channel was blocked because I am Russian,” the Shaman commented on the situation. Kommersant adds that Hosting also blocked the pages of Oleg Gazmanov, Julia Chicherina, Grigory Leps and actor Vyacheslav Manucharov, who led the propaganda show "Empathy Manuchi".

A new Russian operation threatens a significant part of Ukraine’s Donbas Like our earlier reports on the combat situation in Ukraine, this article takes stock of the recent developments on the battlefield based on open-source information. Meduza has condemned Russia’s invasion of Ukraine from the very start, and our detailed military analyses are part of our commitment to objective reporting on a war we firmly oppose.

He is accused of looting Katerina Sulova / CTK / DDP / Vida Press The court in Prague began to consider the case of the former soldier Philip Siman, who is accused of looting - and that he, in violation of the law, entered the service in the army of Ukraine. This was reported by Czech publications CTK , Seznam Zpravy and Novinky .

Since July 3, the Czech Republic ceased to recognize the non -biometric passports of the Russian Federation, CTK reports with reference to the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs. “If a Russian citizen appears in the Czech Republic with a non -biometric passport, then he or it is illegally here, and we are trying to decide what to do with them,” said the representative of the department Marian Vernova. She explained that the documents of the old model are easier to fake.

Maxim Dondyuk has photographed Zelensky and embedded with Ukrainian troops. Now Kyiv’s military censorship is keeping this photographer from the front. Maxim Dondyuk From the series “War in Ukraine.” January 2022. Ukrainian photographer Maxim Dondyuk began taking photos of the war in Donbas in 2014. After Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, he worked with many of the world’s largest media outlets, including Time, Der Spiegel, and The New Yorker.

Victor Orban Prime Minister Viktor Orban will visit Moscow. This is with reference to sources is written by the Hungarian journalist Sabolch Panya, as well as the Hungarian edition of Radio Liberty. According to journalists, the trip will take place on July 5. Together with Orban, the Foreign Minister of Hungary Peter Siyyarto will come to Moscow. Officially, neither Hungary nor Russia reported on the visit. On July 2, Viktor Orban visited Kyiv for the first time since the beginning of the war.

Putin spoke at the SCO summit. Brief retelling The ceasefire with Ukraine is impossible before the start of negotiations, because we are not sure of the response actions of Kyiv. We need to achieve steps from them that would be irreversible and acceptable for us. The completion of the conflict with the help of intermediaries seems unlikely - intermediaries have no authority to sign documents.

Ostankino District Court sentenced the US citizen Robert Woodland to 12 and a half years in a maximum security colony on charges of attempting a large-scale drug sales (part 3 of article 30 of the Criminal Code, paragraph “G” of part 4 of Article 228.1 of the Criminal Code), the press service of Moscow courts reports . Woodland was detained in January 2024.

On Wednesday, Russian President Vladimir Putin traveled to the Kazakhstani capital of Astana to attend the Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit along with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Pakistani Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, and other members of the 10-nation club. Meduza shares some key quotes from Putin’s press conference following the event.

Russian President Vladimir Putin at the SCO summit said that Moscow is in contact with Afghanistan controlling the Taliban movement and that the Taliban are ready for cooperation "including on the anti -terrorist track." Since 2003, Taliban has been officially considered a terrorist organization in Russia (unlike, for example, the United States and the UN).

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the ceasefire in the war with Ukraine is impossible before negotiations and the achievement of clear agreements with Kiev. Putin made a corresponding statement while communicating with reporters in Astana, the record was published by TASS. According to the president, Russia cannot agree to the ceasefire, because I am not sure of the response of Ukraine.

The 2nd Western District Military Court in absentia sentenced the former employee of the North Caucasus Regional Center for Judicial Expertise of the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation Denis Mamedov to 16 years in prison in the case of the assistance of terrorist activities (part 1 of Article 205.1 of the Criminal Code), writes Mediazon with reference to the defender. The court ruled that the first three years Mammadov should spend in prison, the rest in a maximum security colony.