Photo: Balazs Mohai / EPA “Hevy-Metal’s godfather”, one of the founders and soloists of the Rock-band Black Sabbath, Oszi Osborn died at the age of 76. It is reported by Sky News with reference to the family of the musician. “With such sadness that cannot be conveyed in words, we are forced to inform that our beloved Ozzi Osborn died this morning. He was with his family and surrounded by love, ”the relatives said. For about five years, Osborn suffered from Parkinson's disease.

Residents of the city in Kabardino-Balkaria were left without water, light, gas and communications due to the mudflow. Announced emergency mode - but not everyone is evacuated The villager in the Elbrus district of Kabardino-Balkaria. Photo: Telegram / Ministry of Emergencies Kabardino-Balkaria On the evening of July 21, in the Elbrus district in the south-west of Kabardino-Balkaria, a mudflow came down. Part of the city of Tyrnyauz was left without electricity, water and gas supply.

Digital shutdowns are at an all-time high in Russia, with those in power now able to turn off mobile internet at will A man walks past a poster featuring Soviet and Russian soldiers in Podolsk, outside Moscow, Russia, 21 May 2025. EPA/MAXIM SHIPENKOV Russia appears to have found a radical new tool against Ukrainian drone attacks: widespread mobile internet blackouts that have cost the economy millions and, in some cases, endangered its own citizens.

The SK said that the security forces transmitted limited access information to the channel In Moscow, the security forces came with searches to the editorial office of the Baza telegram channel and his chief editor Gleb Trifonov. This was reported by the authors of the channel. Telegram channel "Before everyone else. Well, almost ” published personnel from the place of investigative actions.

Censorship bills have not met such a powerful critic for a long time - even the propagandists did not accept it Photo: Sergey Kiselev / Agency "Moscow" July 22 and 23 - the last days of the State Duma before vacation. Deputies finally adopted a bill on fines for the search for "knowingly extremist" materials and the use of VPN. Despite the unprecedented public resonance, they did not bring any semantic edit to the third reading.

Sergey Silantyev. Photo: Mediazona A court in the city of Yekaterinburg, in the Russian Urals, has released a pensioner convicted of treason for posting leaflets advertising the Freedom of Russia Legion, which fights alongside the Armed Forces of Ukraine against the Russian military, independent media outlet Mediazona reported on Tuesday.

In relation to the former head of the Federal Staff, Boris Nadezhdin Dmitry Kisiev, his lawyer Leysan Mannapova and journalists Yulia Petrova and Konstantin Zharov made protocols after the State Duma picket against the amendments for the search for “extremist materials”. This was reported by the "headquarters of candidates" created by Kisiev.

The performance of Valery Gergiev in Italy was eventually canceled. How did it turn out that he was invited, and why now they are not waiting? Valery Gergiev, June 12, 2025. Photo: Arthur Novosiltsev / Agency "Moscow" The first from the beginning of the full -scale war of Russia with Ukraine Valery Gergiev’s performance in the EU is postponed indefinitely.

Small activists are looking for guilty in the original decision Congress of Russian communities. Photo: Telegram / Russian community zov In the Trinity district of the Chelyabinsk region, an interagency commission on counteracting the manifestations of extremism began to search among employees of the administration of members of the “Russian community”.

“For a Russia without censorship. Orwell penned a dystopia, not an instruction manual”. Dmitry Kisiev at the State Duma in Moscow on 22 July 2025. Photo: Boris Nadezhdin / Telegram A Russian activist has been detained in Moscow while protesting a potential new law introducing fines for looking up banned content online, independent news outlet RusNews has reported .

The Central District Military Court in Yekaterinburg released a 63-year-old pensioner from Izhevsk Sergey Silantyev from punishment, who was charged with stirring the leaflets of the Russian Freedom Legion.

The mincifres said that this was an alternative to complete blocking of foreign messengers Photo: Maxim Shipenkov / EPA State Duma deputies in the third final reading adopted an amendment to introduce fines for "the search for knowingly extremist materials and receiving access to them." 306 deputies voted “for”, 67 “against”, another 22 abstained.

Photo: Ranshe Vsekh Police in Moscow carried out searches at the editorial office of the Baza Telegram channel and at the home of its editor-in-chief Gleb Trifonov on Tuesday, Baza has reported . Baza, a pro-Kremlin breaking news channel which was established in 2019 and currently has over 1.6 million subscribers on Telegram, often publishes stories based on police leaks and is thought to have close ties to the security forces.

Irina Podnosova. Photo: kremlin.ru Irina Podnosova, the chief justice of Russia’s Supreme Court, has died in Moscow at the age of 71 “after a serious illness”, state-owned news agency TASS reported on Tuesday. A former classmate of Vladimir Putin at the Law Faculty of Leningrad State University, Podnosova was appointed chief justice in April 2024.

Volodymyr Zelensky attends a National Security and Defence Council meeting on Monday. Photo: Zelensky / X Russia and Ukraine will hold a new round of peace talks in Istanbul on Wednesday, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky announced on Monday. Zelensky said in his nightly address that he and National Security and Defence Council Secretary Rustem Umerov had discussed a prisoner exchange with Russia and another meeting in Türkiye with the Russian delegation.