What brought the Russian currency from the "comfort zone" and how deep it can fall The exchange rate in Moscow, July 6, 2023. Photo: EPA-EFE/MAXIM SHIPENKOV On Thursday, July 6, the ruble continued a rapid fall. The dollar has risen in price to almost 94 rubles, the euro exceeded 102 rubles. The Russian currency left the “comfort zone” indicated by the authorities at 80-90 rubles per dollar.

In colony No. 41 in the Kemerovo region, prisoners were beaten for avoiding charging. Several people opened their veins in protest, Tayga reports , citing sources. According to the publication, the head of the regional department of the Federal Penitentiary Service came to the colony with an inspection, and he did not like that not everyone does sports exercises.

How destroy the organization-successor of the Perm "Memorial" Center for historical memory of Perm. Photo: Yandex.Mat On July 4, 2023, the Motovilikhinsky District Court found the Perm Center for historical memory guilty of “Army Discrediting” and fined it 300 thousand rubles. We tell what the Memorial organization was doing and how they prevent her from living further. IMPORTANT We remind you that the “new newspaper Europe” is recognized as undesirable.

27 journalists were killed in the first six months of 2023. This is the lowest figure in the last 15 years, according to the Swiss non-governmental organization Press Emblem Campaign (PEC). The organization draws attention to the fact that, compared to last year, Ukraine has tightened control over accreditation and access to the war zone for journalists.

We figure out what happened yesterday in the Shevchenkovsky court of Kyiv and what preceded this The territory of the Shevchenkovsky court after the explosion. Photo: Telegram IMPORTANT We remind you that the “new newspaper Europe” is recognized as undesirable. Do not refer to us in social networks if you are in Russia.

Russia’s Southern District Military Court has sentenced two Ukrainian nationals Yury Domanchuk and Vitaly Skakun to 23 and 24 years in a penal colony respectively over charges of attempting to assassinate the “deputy governor” of the occupation “authorities” of the Kherson region, Vitaly Bulyuk, Russia’s state news agency TASS reports . The prosecutor requested both men be imprisoned for life. On 12 December 2022, Bulyuk was injured following a car explosion.

Yevgeny Prigozhin’s ‘troll factory’ is no more. We spoke to former employees of Prigozhin’s media empire about what they used to do for a living Illustration by Novaya Gazeta Europe Yevgeny Prigozhin’s Patriot media conglomerate shut down on 30 June, shortly after the Wagner chief’s mutiny attempt. The conglomerate included the infamous “troll factory” and “media factory” that employed hundreds of people.

He is not given food suitable for vegans Anti-war activist, author of the street art “*** war” Ivan Kudryashov, sentenced to 6 years in the colony in the case of “preparation for the attack”, has been starving for 29 days. In the pre-trial detention center-1, where he is waiting for the appeal, they refuse to provide him with transmitted vitamins and food that does not contain animal products, told in the "solidarity zone." Ivan Kudryashov.

How Kyiv’s military and diplomatic leverage are tied together, explains international relations expert Liana Fix Members of Ukraine’s 59th Separate Motorised Infantry Brigade named after Yakiv Handziuk during repair work on a tank near a frontline in the Donetsk direction, eastern Ukraine, 02 July 2023, amid the Russian invasion. Photo by EPA-EFE/NIKOLETTA STOYANOVA The Ukrainian counter-offensive appears to be progressing at a slower pace than anticipated.

Ukraine has brought back 45 POWs as part of a prisoner swap, Head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak reports . According to Yermak, two officers, 41 privates and sergeants, as well as a civilian employee of the Azovstal steelworks and a member of territorial defence of Kherson were returned to Ukraine. Furthermore, two children illegally deported to Russia were brought back to Ukraine — a 6-year-old boy, Renat, and a 10-year-old girl, Varvara.

Ukraine returned 45 prisoners of war to the country during the next round of exchange. This was announced by the head of the Office of the President of Ukraine Andriy Yermak. According to him, two officers, 41 privates and a sergeant, a civilian employee of Azovstal and a member of the territorial defense from Kherson returned to Ukraine. Also, two children who were illegally taken to Russia were returned to Ukraine - 6-year-old Renata and 10-year-old Varvara.

According to human rights activists, security forces are guilty of the crime A court in Chechnya sentenced a taxi driver from Grozny, Said Omarov, to eight years and two months in a strict regime colony for murder. This is reported by the “Team against torture”. Initially, the investigation suspected the security forces of the murder of the pharmacy manager Alexei Kardashov and the theft of his car in 2017, and Omarov acted only as the main witness.

The Court of Appeal in Novosibirsk transferred the former prefect of the Northern Administrative District of Moscow and the former deputy head of Rosprirodnadzor Oleg Mitvol from a pre-trial detention center to house arrest, TASS reports citing his lawyer Alexander Obozov. Mitvol was sent to a pre-trial detention center in June 2022.

"Important stories" estimated the number of Russian military dead in the war in Ukraine in 2022 at least 18 thousand people, based on data from Rosstat. this The publication itself reports . “Rosstat has published preliminary data on the death rate of Russians for 2022. Of course, there is not a word about death in the war.

25 years ago, Viktor Orban for the first time became Prime Minister of Hungary. During this time, relations between him and the EU were so degraded that Budapest are going to deprive the chairmanship of the EU Council Victor Orban. Photo: EPA-EFE/ARIS OIKONOMOU Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban continues to insert sticks into the wheels of the rest of the EU and on new sanctions against Russia, and when approving the next packets of assistance to Ukraine.