The Ukrainian Orthodox Church is facing one of three ways: close, choose a side or become a bargaining subject The Divine Liturgy in the refineries of the Monk Anthony and Theodosius of the Pechersk Holy Assumption of Kiev-Pechersk Lavra. Photo: Capital Estateur / Wikimedia The beginning of July radically changed the status of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, which was part of the Moscow Patriarchate until 2022.

"Terrible News" with Kirill Martynov Former Minister of Transport and Ex-head of the Kursk region Roman Starovoit shot himself in the Moscow Region. Why can this death be called the strangest in recent years, and how has Putin scared everyone at the funeral of the official? More than 100 thousand Russians encountered a transport collapse at airports due to assassins. What other basic possibilities are selected daily from the inhabitants of Russia for the sake of the Putin war?

At the end of 2024, the Moscow government conducted through the Moscow City Duma a new edition of the city law on cultural heritage sites, according to which architectural monuments, which did not have time to pass the examination before July 1, 2025, cease to be considered such. This was reported by the Archnadzor project.

Who and why installed a bust of Stalin in Kaliningrad. Spoiler: Not the Communists People take place in front of the high relief with Stalin, Moscow, Russia, May 15, 2025. Photo: Maxim Shipenkov / EPA The first bust of Stalin appeared in Kaliningrad. Earlier, the city authorities managed to ignore the perpetuating of the leader, which led to a conflict with local communists.

Why pronatalism is on the rise in Russia and around the world A woman walks with her child in a residential area of Moscow, Russia, 30 June 2025. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV In some parts of Russia, schoolgirls who become pregnant are being paid more than 100,000 rubles (nearly €1,100) for giving birth and raising their babies.

Iranian President Masud Chizeshkin and Vladimir Putin in Moscow. Photo: Evgenia novozhenina / epa / pool Vladimir Putin told Donald Trump and Iranian officials that he supports the idea of a nuclear transaction, according to which Iran could not enrich Uranus. It is reported by Axios with reference to sources. According to three European and one Israeli interlocutors, Moscow urged the Iranians to agree to “zero enrichment”.

Z-critics scold the collection of stories by the writer Anna Shipilova about how the war is reflected in the Russians. We understand what the "patriots" are again dissatisfied Photo: Alpina Plisher; AGN "Moscow" As you know, the main thing during the investigation is not to reach yourself. That by his own example, the literary critic Mitya Samoilov, belonging to the Z-community, experienced.

The aftermath of the attack on Lviv. Photo: Lviv Mayor Andriy Sadovyi At least two people were killed in a fresh barrage of Russian drones and missiles on Ukraine, with Poland scrambling fighter jets as a drone attack was recorded on the western city of Lviv in the early hours of Saturday.

In the Vladimir region, the first system of digital supervision of prisoners using AI is tested in Russia Deputy Director of the Federal Penitentiary Service of the Russian Federation Sergey Shcherbakov in the Melekhov colony, Vladimir region. Photo: Press Service of the FSIN The digitalization experiment is carried out on the basis of the IK-6-Melekhov colony, famous primarily by the fact that there was a politician Alexei Navalny there for a year and a half (from June 2022 to December 2023).

Due to the attack in the west of the country, Poland lifted fighters into the air Lviv after the attack of drones. Photo: "BBC" On the night of July 12, Russia again attacked Ukraine. This was reported by the State Emergencies Ministry of Ukraine. Updated (10:00 Moscow time) Vladimir Zelensky said that during the night the military of the Russian Federation produced 26 cruise missiles and 597 drones in Ukraine, more than half of which were shock “mines”.

The Moscow Arbitration Court reached the state’s income assets of the Glavproduct Group of Companies, which belonged to the American Universal Beverage Company. This was reported by TASS and Kommersant. The court examined the lawsuit of the Prosecutor General in one meeting on July 11, and preparation for it was conducted since March this year. The defendants were Leonid Smirnov, Universal Beverage Company and Universal Company 2000, owning Glavproduct Group of Companies.