An anti-war blogger given two years in prison for criticising the Russian government is determined to see justice Sergey Veselov in January 2023. Photo Yelena Georgieva Sergey Veselov, a 54-year-old anti-war blogger from central Russia’s Ivanovo region, was sentenced to two years in prison on 17 May for discrediting the Russian army. The charge is just one of many which landed Veselov on the national list of extremists and terrorists. This article was first published by Novaya Gazeta Baltic.

How was the 27th St. Petersburg Economic Forum, which no one of the Western countries came to, but the Taliban arrived Vladimir Putin, after a performance at the plenary meeting of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg, Russia, June 7, 2024. Photo: Anton Vaganov / EPA-EFE The International Economic Forum ended in St. Petersburg.

"Terrible News" with Kirill Martynov An international economic forum was held in St. Petersburg. It was visited by foreign delegations: the presidents of Bolivia and Zimbabwe, as well as representatives of the Taliban, which is still banned in Russia. During the SPIEF, Putin made a number of statements about the use of nuclear weapons in response to the lifting of the ban on attacking Russian territory with Western weapons.

A Russian soldier who was held as a prisoner of war in Ukraine was arrested in Moscow on Friday and charged with “collaboration” while he was in Ukrainian captivity, a Moscow military court told independent news outlet Mediazona. Pavel Guguev had been given early release from a Russian prison where he had been serving a 12-year sentence for murder to go and fight with the Russian military in Ukraine. While serving, he was captured by Ukrainians troops and became a POW.

The Russian offensive in Ukraine’s Kharkiv region has ground to a halt, according to a report published by Russian independent media outlet Agentstvo on Saturday, citing data from the Ukrainian war monitoring project DeepState.

An attempt to murder the former mayor of Kupyansk in the Kharkov region, Gennady Matsegora, was made in Stary Oskol, Belgorod region. This was reported by Ukrainian intelligence. According to the department, the attack on the official took place on June 7, he was hospitalized, and is in critical condition in the hospital. As Mash reports , Matsegora was shot near his home in Stary Oskol. The man was urgently hospitalized in Moscow, he is in serious condition.

FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich, 26 December 2021. Photo: EPA-EFE / LESZEK SZYMANSKI The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has suspended the Russian Chess Federation’s (RCF) membership of the global body for two years as punishment for the RCF’s activities in the Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine, FIDE said in a statement on Friday.

The offensive of Russian troops in the Kharkov region in early June practically stopped, writes Agency with reference to the data of the Ukrainian analytical project Deepstate. In early May, Russian troops began to actively advance in the border areas of the Kharkov region. According to Vladimir Putin, this was necessary to create a “buffer zone” and protect the neighboring Belgorod region from shelling.

How Russia re -learned to talk about the deadlines and stages Photo: Nikolai Vinokurov / Alamy / Vida Press The prison in Russia has always been close - and the experience of millions of people, and songs and jargon, which officials spoke and speak. From the prison, they talked, and from Suma. Speak, yes, everyone said.

A missile strike on a shop in the village of Sadove in the Russian-occupied part of Ukraine’s Kherson region on Friday evening killed 22 people, according to the Russian-installed regional governor Volodymyr Saldo. In addition to reporting the 22 dead, Saldo said that a further 15 people had been injured in the attack on the village shop, which had “a significant number of visitors and staff” in it at the time of the strike.

The Russian authorities announced a large -scale tax increase. Why right now and where will this money go? Explains economist Alexander Kolyandr Finance Minister Anton Siluanov. Photo: Yuri Kochetkov / EPA-EFE Just a year ago, Russian officials convinced the audience that raising taxes is like cutting a cow: today you will be fed, but in a year you will die from hunger.

The employees of the Israeli army (IDF), security services (Shabak) and the police released four people captured by the militants of the Palestinian group of Hamas in Gaza. This was reported by the press service of the IDF. The publication says that the 27-year-old Russian Andrei Kozlov, 25-year-old Noah Argaman, 40-year-old Shlomi Ziva and 21-year-old altor Milera managed to save.

In the light of the introduction of the first American sanctions, functionaries from the Georgian Dream accuse the opposition of betraying their homeland The wall of the house with graffiti on Tbilisi Street, Georgia.

The 235th Military Garrison Court in Moscow arrested Pavel Guguev, a participant in the war in Ukraine, under the article on confidential cooperation with foreigners (Article 275.1 of the Criminal Code). This was reported to Mediazona by the court's press service. No other details were disclosed in court, citing the confidentiality of the investigation. Pavel Guguev went to war in Ukraine after serving a criminal sentence for murder, causing moderate harm and theft.

The International Chess Federation (FIDE) has suspended the Russian Chess Federation (RCF) from membership for 2 years. This was announced by FIDE President Arkady Dvorkovich. According to him, the decision was made by the ethics commission in the first instance. Dvorkovich claims that the basis for the exclusion of the Russian Chess Federation from FIDE was his own participation in the RCSF board of trustees. He added that he was reprimanded.