The YaRUS social network team announced that the project will be suspended on June 30 at 15:00 Moscow time. This was reported on the team's page in the social network. The statement said the platform had an audience of 12 million. Financial support for the project has been suspended due to the "unstable political situation," the developers point out. Now the developers are looking for new investors.

Andrei Movchan, the economist and founder of the group of investment management companies, Andrei Movchan, abandoned Russian citizenship. This was reported on his Facebook page. Movchan explained his rejection of citizenship by the fact that he was "indifferent" for the country.

James A. Robinson, economist and co-author of ‘Why Nations Fail?’, discusses the origins of Russia’s vulnerable dictatorship Photo by EPA-EFE/MAXIM SHIPENKOV Authoritarian regimes around the world are closely watching Putin’s ongoing war in Ukraine. The visible failure of the Russian army may be pushing other dictatorships away from aggressive actions against their neighbours. In recent years, the number of democracies in the world has been shrinking.

Journalist Sasha Sulim left the Dela crime podcast team after the project moved from YouTube to Vkontakte. this She announced on her Instagram. According to her, the fact that "Case" was going to another site became known at the end of May. Sulim decided to leave the team after a few days. “I don’t want to indulge in high-flown arguments about the choice and the possibility or impossibility of a compromise, my situation is still not so critical.

A wrong age movie rating brought the case forward Start, a Russian streaming platform, has been fined 3.7 million rubles (€39,000) for showing Paolo Genovese’s Perfect Strangers that was marked as 16+, TASS reports . The police report shows that one of the characters in the movie comes out to his friends and the film should be rated 18+ rather than 16+, the agency notes. The criminal case against the platform was launched in late May.

Sergei Surovikin has not appeared in public for several days. What can happen to him now? Sergey Surovikin. Photo: screen video The commander of the Russian troops in Ukraine and, in fact, the second person after Sergey Shoigu in this war, General Sergei Surovikin disappeared on June 24. The last time he publicly made a video message to Evgeny Prigozhin.

Starting September 1, 2024, the subject “Basic Security and Defense of the Motherland” will appear in Russian schools, which will replace the OBZH (“Basics of Life Safety”). This, according to RIA Novosti, said the Deputy Director of the Department of State Policy and Management in the Sphere of General Education of the Ministry of Education Anna Timofeeva.

How Putin is preparing for the new military coup, and which of the army generals, special services and officials won (or lost) from the rebellion of Prigozhin Photo: EPA-EFE/SERGEI ILNITSKY After the end of the Saturday rebellion, President Putin called for a meeting of the leaders of the law enforcement agencies and said to them: "I gathered you in order to thank for the work done." And he thanked literally everyone at whom his gaze fell.

Their film Hallout was nominated for an Academy Award in 2023 Evgenia Arbugaeva and Maxim Arbugaev, documentary makers from Russia’s Yakutia, have been invited to join the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences after their film Hallout was nominated for a best documentary short subject Oscar in 2023, Variety reports . Moreover, composer Anna Drubich, daughter of actress Tatyana Drubich and director Sergey Solovyov, is also on the list.

Their film "Exit" was nominated for Oscar Documentaryists from Yakutia Maxim and Evgeny Arbugaevs, who shot the short film “Exit” nominated at Oscar, were invited to the ranks of the US Cinema Academy. It is reported by Variety. In addition, the list was composer Anna Drubich, the daughter of actress Tatyana Drubich and director Sergei Solovyeva.

The Basmanny District Court sentenced in absentia the founder of the Support Service project and media manager Ilya Krasilshchik to eight years in a penal colony in the case of “fakes” about the Russian army (clause “d” part 2 of article 207.3 of the Criminal Code), Mediazona . reports In addition, Dyer was banned from administering the sites for four years. Initially, the state prosecution requested nine years in prison for the media manager.

The Golovinsky District Court of Moscow registered an administrative case against the editor-in-chief of the Dozhd TV channel, Tikhon Dzyadko, under the article on the absence of a “foreign agent” marking (part 4 of article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). It is reported by Mediazona. What kind of posts on social networks became the reason for the administrative case is unknown. The date of the meeting is also unknown.

The reason was the mislabeling of the film "Perfect Strangers" by Paolo Genovese The Cheryomushkinsky District Court of Moscow fined the online cinema Start 3.7 million rubles due to the demonstration of the film Perfect Strangers marked 16+. It is reported by TASS. As follows from the protocol, in the film, one of the characters of which makes a coming out in front of friends, is marked "16+", while the film must be marked "18+", the agency reports.

How to ruin a man from the army? According to the 59th article of the Constitution, a citizen has the right to replace military service with an alternative civilian, if it contradicts his beliefs or religion. Ilya from Voronezh and Evgeny from St. Petersburg abandoned military service due to anti-war beliefs. The military enlistment office did not sign permission for a long time, but men managed to abandon military service.

Deputy head of the Russian group of forces in Ukraine, General Sergey Surovikin has been detained following the Wagner Group’s failed rebellion, the Financial Times reports , citing three sources. The newspaper notes that it is unclear whether the general is suspected of conspiring with Wagner chief Yevgeny Prigozhin or just in custody for questioning. UPDATE IStories was told by two sources close to the General Staff and the FSB that Surovikin was only questioned and then let go.