Businessman Oleg Tinkov gave the first interview after the lifting of British sanctions to the Financial Times. In it, the entrepreneur said that the decision to lift sanctions demonstrates the reasonableness of the British authorities: "It was a mistake. Now they've fixed it. This is good for them, because they can show other Russian businessmen who have rallied around Putin thanks to the sanctions that it is possible to make a statement and leave Russia for the civilized world.

Earlier, the Duma discussed maintaining the lower bar at the level of 18 years, while raising the upper one to 30 years. The head of the Defense Committee of the Federation Council, Viktor Bondarev, called for a phased increase in the draft age to 21. this He announced on his telegram channel. “In my opinion, what the Minister of Defense spoke about and what the president supported should be fixed: the lower limit of the draft age should be 21 years old, the upper one - 30 years old.

Russia’s Ministry of Justice has made its updates to the “foreign agents list”, adding TV Rain host Mikhail Kozyrev and the 7x7 media outlet.

South Africa’s Department of Justice has filed a formal request to the country’s National Director for Public Prosecutions (NDPP) to enforce the International Criminal Court’s (ICC) directive for Russian President Vladimir Putin to be arrested on charges of war crimes, according to the Democratic Alliance party. The Director for Public prosecutions received the request on 17 July.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has updated the list of "foreign agents" by adding Mikhail Kozyrev, a journalist from the Dozhd TV channel, and the 7x7 Horizontal Russia publication.

The Ministry of Justice of South Africa has asked the head of the country's prosecutor's office for an arrest warrant for Russian President Vladimir Putin. This was reported by the opposition party "Democratic Alliance". The head of the prosecutor's office of South Africa received a corresponding request on July 17. The Democratic Alliance notes that the country's government has officially initiated the process of arresting Putin if he gets to South Africa.

A court in Moscow has sent Igor Strelkov, also known as Girkin, the former “defence minister” of the so-called “Donetsk People’s Republic” and the de-facto leader of Russia’s proxies in the War in Donbas, to a pretrial jail until 18 September, as per Mediazona. An FSB detective said at the court session that the criminal case on online extremism had been initiated on 18 July. Strelkov’s lawyer Alexander Molokhov says two posts on Telegram dated 25 May were behind the charges.

A group of MPs has introduced a bill to the Russian State Duma that would allow Russia to deprive people of their citizenship even if they became Russian by birth, as per Duma’s database . The suggested changes will allow termination of citizenship if an individual has committed a crime or an act that “threatens Russia’s national security”. What kind of acts threaten national security will be determined by the FSB.

The Meshchansky District Court of Moscow arrested the former "Minister of Defense" of the self-proclaimed DPR, Igor Strelkov (Girkin), until September 18. It is reported by Mediazona. At the meeting, the FSB investigator said that the case under the article on public calls for extremist activity on the Internet (part 2 of article 280 of the Criminal Code) was opened on July 18.

Muslims of the metropolitan region reached a rally against police raids in mosques Photo: Dialog.ua Muslims reached a rally at the historical mosque in the center of Moscow. Over the past month, law enforcement officers arranged several raids in the mosques near Moscow, where they allegedly looked for “illegal” migrants.

What is behind the not accepted statement of the resignation of the Minister of Culture of Ukraine Minister of Culture and Information Policy of Ukraine Alexander Tkachenko.

A group of senators introduced a bill to the State Duma, which is proposed to deprive Russian citizenship of people who received it by birth. This was reported on the website of the Duma base of bills. According to the proposed amendments, the deprivation of Russian citizenship by birth can be resolved as a result of a crime by a citizen, or committing actions that pose a threat to the national security of the Russian Federation.

The GDP of Armenia, Georgia, and other states is rising more quickly due to an influx of Russian migrants. We explain the ‘relocation effect’ and its downsides Yerevan. Photo: Verelq Last year, several hundred thousand people fled Russia due to war and mobilisation. This has become a major economic stimulus for Russia’s neighbouring visa-free countries, like Georgia and Armenia — so major that their GDP growth predictions had to be increased several times.

Moscow managed to quarrel with Tehran. It came to the call of the Russian ambassador, but there will be no continuation yet: the regimes are too similar to aggravate relations Foreign Minister Iran Hossein Abdollahian and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. Photo: EPA-EFE / Yuri Kochetkov / Pool After a recent exacerbation in relations with Turkey, the Kremlin is experiencing a new diplomatic scandal with another important partner in the Middle East - Iran.

The bank's shareholders were Russian billionaires Mikhail Fridman, Petr Aven and Andrey Kosogov The Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine decided to nationalize Sense Bank (former Alfa-Bank Ukraine) for one hryvnia. This was reported on the website of the government of the republic. From today, the Ukrainian government represented by the Ministry of Finance has become the new owner of the bank. His purchase took place for a symbolic amount of 1 hryvnia. work in the bank .