The prosecutor's office asked that former employee of the Popcorn Books publishing house Artem Vakhlyaev be sentenced to four years of suspended imprisonment in the case of selling queer literature, Mediazona reported. Vakhlyaev was accused of participating in the activities of an extremist organization, as well as of involving other people in the activities of such an organization (parts 1.1 and 2 of Article 282.2 of the Criminal Code).

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin signed a decree that allows the circulation of gasoline according to Euro-3 standards until the end of 2026. The document was published on the official Internet portal of legal information. According to the resolution, some oil refineries are allowed to produce motor gasoline with reduced sulfur content requirements (no more than 150 milligrams per kilogram).

The main suspect in the case of the explosion in Monaco, which injured Ukrainian businessman Vadim Ermolaev , was a woman, Le Figaro and BFMTV report, citing sources. According to BFMTV, Monaco police have identified the suspect, who was found “in one of the European countries.” The authorities of the principality asked this country for assistance in the investigation. Le Figaro writes that we are talking about a Ukrainian citizen who lives in Germany. The suspect's name has not been released.

State Secretary of the Security Council of Belarus Alexander Volfovich called on residents of the country to refrain from traveling to Russia, especially to the border regions. Volfovich made such a call after reports from Russian authorities that a Ukrainian drone attacked a tourist bus from Belarus in the Bryansk region. As stated in the Investigative Committee of Russia, an explosive device went off “in the immediate vicinity” of the bus. Two drivers and one passenger were injured .

Ukrainian telegram channels Exilenova+ and Supernova+ published a video on July 2 showing a multi-kilometer queue near one of the gas stations. It is unclear when the recording was made. It is reported that the video was filmed in the Chita region in the Trans-Baikal Territory. Meduza verified the recording: it was filmed near a Rosneft gas station in the urban settlement of Atamanovskoye in the Chita region.

The American hockey club Washington Capitals has extended the contract with the team captain, Russian forward Alexander Ovechkin for another season. "I'm back! Thank you everyone for giving me and my family time to make this decision,” said the 40-year-old Washington Capitals forward. According to the contract, Ovechkin will receive a salary of $1 million, a 10-game appearance bonus of $4.75 million and a signing bonus of $3.25 million.

Governor of the Kaliningrad region Alexey Besprozvannykh, at a meeting with Vladimir Putin in the Kremlin, asked for priority delivery of additional volumes of fuel to the region. Putin supported his appeal, said presidential press secretary Dmitry Peskov. Putin also supported the request “to allocate funds for subsidized air tickets for residents of the Kaliningrad region.” According to Peskov, we are talking about a traditional form of subsidizing.

Zelensky answered the question of what could force Putin to stop the war. Brief retelling What kind of text is this? This is a brief paraphrase of the statement made by Ukrainian President Vladimir Zelensky on July 2. The meaning and context are fully preserved, but some parts of his speech may have been edited or swapped. Russia will receive a response for today's attack on Kyiv. We are for a just peace, a fair end to the war. In the meantime, he’s gone - for a fair answer.

Lawyer Maria Bontzler, who was arrested on charges of collaboration with a foreign state, spoke about the unbearable conditions in the Kaliningrad pre-trial detention center Kaliningrad lawyer Maria Bontzler is known for defending defendants in political cases. A year ago, she was arrested on charges of collaborating on a confidential basis with a foreign state. Since then, Bontzler has been kept in Kaliningrad pre-trial detention center No.

The International Booker Prize will be called the Bukhman International Booker Prize in honor of Russian billionaire Dmitry Bukhman, according to the prize's website. The businessman's name was added to the title after his charity, Bukhman Philanthropies, pledged to fund the award for the next ten years. The prize fund for the winner was doubled - from 50 to 100 thousand pounds.

In at least four Russian regions, officials began to be served without queuing at gas stations. The publication “7×7” drew attention to this. In Saratov, where restrictions on gasoline sales were recently extended until July 15, one of Rosneft’s gas stations only serves company cars. However, this applies not only to cars belonging to emergency services, says the local publication Vzglyad-info.

Valery Hache / AFP / Scanpix / LETA Police officers patrol the area where the explosion occurred. June 29, 2026 Monaco authorities have released from custody a man suspected of carrying out an assassination attempt on Ukrainian businessman Vadim Ermolaev, as a result of which he survived but was hospitalized, Monaco Daily News reports .

The head of the State Duma Committee for Family Protection, Nina Ostanina, accused the Russian government of hiding the real scale of the fuel crisis. According to her, almost a third of the country’s oil refineries are out of commission, but deputy prime ministers and ministers are not talking about this. “Why are the Minister of Agriculture and the Deputy Prime Minister supervising him silent on the eve of the harvest?

In recent years she lived on the streets in extreme poverty Davey Chase, 2011. Jesse Grant/WireImage/Getty Images The Los Angeles County medical examiner has determined that the cause of death of American actress Davey Chase was AIDS. They also reported that the actress was addicted to several drugs at once. Chase's former manager said that she actually retired from acting in 2015. After that, she repeatedly had problems with the law.

52.5 thousand residents of Kiev , including 4.5 thousand children, took refuge in city metro stations during a massive Russian attack on the night of July 2, authorities in the Ukrainian capital reported. Roman Pilipey / AFP / Scanpix / LETA As the Kyiv Metro notes, this is the highest figure in recent years of the war. The exact period was not indicated there.