The US Treasury Department announced the blocking of a $ 1 billion Heritage trust associated with Russian senator and businessman Suleiman Kerimov. This is stated in the message on the website of the department. The Ministry of Finance sent a corresponding notice to the trust. It says that the organization is subject to the same sanctions as Kerimov, who was included in the sanctions list. According to the agency, Kerimov owns a property stake in Heritage.

Ukraine is breaking off diplomatic relations with Syria over the country’s decision to recognise the independence of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Luhansk “people’s republics”, the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry announced . The ministry noted that Kyiv considers this decision an unfriendly act against Ukraine, an encroachment on its sovereignty and territorial integrity and a violation of Ukrainian law, the UN Charter and the fundamental norms and principles of international law.

In Novosibirsk, professors of the Novosibirsk State Technical University (NSTU) and the head of the laboratory of quantum optical technologies of the Novosibirsk State University (NSU) Dmitry Kolker in the state of Stateismmen, the head of the Kvante. It is reported by Taiga.info with reference to the son of Kolker. Photo: Dmitry Kolker / "VKontakte" According to the son of Kolker Maxim, the scientist was accused of granting China data containing state secrets.

Ukraine breaks off diplomatic relations with Syria due to the recognition by the government of this country of the independence of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. today The decision was announced by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine.

The Tverskaya District Court of Moscow sent under house arrest the rector of the RANEPA, Vladimir Mau. It is reported by TASS. Photo: The press service of the court Mau is accused of embezzlement of university money. The case was opened according to the testimony of the former Deputy Minister of Education of the Russian Federation Marina Rakakova. During the investigation, Mau did not plead guilty. The investigator noted that the MAU had tickets to Turkey on July 2 and there is a passport.

How the driver of the agricultural "ambulance" lives for a salary of 12 thousand rubles In June, drivers of the ambulance near Moscow turned to President Vladimir Putin with a request to increase salaries. According to the authors of the appeal, their salaries have not indexed ten years. The young driver, when working for one rate, receives 28 thousand rubles, the experienced earns a maximum of 45 thousand. Photo: Nadezhda Andreeva, especially for Novaya Gazeta.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has demanded that Russia not carry out the death sentences of Britons Sean Pinner and Aiden Aslin, convicted in the "DPR" in the case of participation in hostilities on the side of Ukraine. The corresponding decision is published on the website of the court. The European Court ruled that the Russian authorities must ensure that the death penalty against the British is not carried out, as well as that they have proper conditions of detention.

The Russian State Duma (the lower chamber of parliament) has approved the third and final reading of the bill that gives the Russian prosecutor general or his deputies the right to shut down foreign media without a court ruling “in case of hostile decisions regarding Russian media outlets abroad”, the Duma website reports .

Employees of the Moscow Media holding told Kholod that they were asked to find three people each who would participate in remote electronic voting in municipal elections. “They explained to us that nothing would happen to us if we did not provide a list. But literally it sounded like this: "You know that we work in a city publication, and our curators asked." I believe that the curators are employees of the mayor's office, ”said the Moscow 24 journalist, who asked not to be named.

Vladimir Mau, rector of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration (RANEPA), was detained in Moscow, a source of Novaya Gazeta. Europe reports. The Russian police stated that he had been charged with embezzlement of university funds.

The Central Bank has raised the limit on transfers that Russian residents can make to a foreign bank account from $150,000 to $1 million per month. This was reported on the website of the regulator. The relief will come into effect on July 1. "Transfer limits have been increased due to the stable situation in the domestic foreign exchange market," the report says.

The Czech Ministry of Education recommended that local universities limit the education of students from Russia and Belarus in technical specialties due to EU sanctions. This is reported by Aktualne.cz. A letter sent to universities said that EU sanctions prohibited "direct or indirect technical assistance" from Russia and Belarus, and education fell into that category.

We publish the trial of the “foreign Agent” Leonid Gozhzman, who filed a lawsuit against the Ministry of Justice On June 30, Leonid Gozman was suing the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow with the Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation, which some time ago recognized him as a “foreign agent”. We publish a speech that he made in court, where he demanded to admit that he was not any agent.

As private initiatives, they make up for the fact that Russian scientific bureaucrats broke, and European scientific bureaucrats are in no hurry to repair British Prime Minister Boris Johnson “invited” Russian scientists who condemn violence to come to work in the UK. True, at the same time he did not indicate which institutions, on whose money, in which programs. The building of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences.

In the Amur Region, 19 wagons of a freight train derailed at the Sgibeevo - Bolshaya Omutnaya section. about the incident on the railway tracks . reports Interfax Due to the accident that happened on June 29, the gauge of the adjacent track was violated and the support of the contact network was damaged. There were no casualties.