Outrage in Kyiv as sanctioned Russian Senate speaker lambasts ‘Nazis in Ukraine’ at Geneva summit Valentina Matviyenko delivers a speech at UN Headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, on 28 July 2025. Photo: Magali Girardin / EPA The speaker of Russia’s Federation Council, Valentina Matviyenko, who has personally been sanctioned by both the EU and Switzerland, has flown to Geneva to attend a session of the Inter-Parliamentary Union.

Photo: social networks A criminal case was received in the Lefortovo District Court of Moscow under an article on Gosizmen (Article 275 of the Criminal Code) against Saltykovsky V.A. “Important stories” write that, presumably, we are talking about the curator of international programs of Moscow State University and REU Vadim Saltykovsky. Details of the case are unknown.

How is it possible? Photo: Magali Girardin / EPA The speaker of the Russian Council of Valentina Matvienko, despite the sanctions of the EU, Switzerland and other countries, flew to Geneva. From the rostrum at the UN headquarters, she made a speech in support of Russian military aggression, accused Ukraine of Nazism and called on the audience to visit the Donbass to make sure the “crimes of the Kyiv regime”.

Olga Komleva in court on 29 July. Photo: SOTAvision A court in the city of Ufa, in Russia’s Volga region, has sentenced a journalist to 12 years in prison for cooperating with Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) and spreading “false information” about the Russian military, independent news outlet Mediazona reported from the courtroom on Tuesday . Olga Komleva, 46, worked for Russian independent news outlet RusNews.

Russia is not tired of killing Ukrainian children. At the same time, Ukrainian surgeons under shelling conduct unique operations to children The explosion of the Russian drone illuminates the sky over Kyiv, Ukraine, July 10, 2025. Photo: Gleb Garanich / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On July 8, 2024, at ten in the morning, the Russian army began the next attack from the air in Ukraine, mainly in Kyiv.

Photo: Ivan Apostolevsky / Telegram A councillor from Russia’s northwestern Leningrad region was detained at a railway station in St. Petersburg on Tuesday and charged with sharing symbols of an “extremist organisation” over a 2017 social media post in which he mentioned the then-leader of the Rusisan opposition Alexey Navalny, state-owned Russian news agency RIA Novosti has reported .

Photo: social networks In the work of the network of "Capital Pharmacies" there was a failure. Attention was paid to Downdetector users, the information was confirmed by the company's press service. Downdetector users over the past day have left more than 800 complaints about the work of pharmacies. They write about the impossibility of placing an order online, as well as that some of the network pharmacies are closed "for technical reasons." “Booking is not available.

The governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Mikhail Kotyukov confirmed that restrictions on the work of mobile Internet were introduced in the region. The official wrote about this in his telegram channel. “I see all your messages with a request to comment on the temporary restrictions on the work of mobile Internet.

The aftermath of the attack on a penal colony in the Zaporizhzhia region. Photo: Volodymyr Zelensky / Telegram At least 16 people were killed and 44 injured in a Russian airstrike on a penal colony in the Zaporizhzhia region of southeastern Ukraine overnight, the Ukrainian Justice Ministry reported on Tuesday.

A year after the death of Pavel Kushnir, his Birobidzhan Diary came out. This is a bitter book about the experience of living hopelessness during the war Photo: Pavel Kushnir's memory community in VKontakte On July 27, 2024, 39-year-old Pavel Kushnir, pianist, composer and writer died in the Birobidzhan pre-trial detention center. He was placed in jail for the anti-war videos, which he posted in his own Utube Canal “Ino-Agent Mulder”. Five people were signed on him.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of a terrorist attack (paragraph “a” of part 2 of article 205 of the Criminal Code) against two 16-year-old teenagers from the Trans-Baikal Territory, accused of arson of forest in the village of Atamanovka. This was reported in the press service of the department.

US President Donald Trump gestures during a meeting with UK Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer in Turnberry, Scotland, on 28 July 2025. Photo: EPA/TOLGA AKMEN / POOL US President Donald Trump on Monday set a new deadline for Russia to end the war in Ukraine, saying Vladimir Putin had “10 or 12 days” to agree a peace deal or face sanctions and secondary tariffs.

The man opened shooting in a skyscraper to Avenue Park in New York, the mayor of the city Eric Adams said during a press conference. According to him, four people became the victims of the shooter, including an employee of the New York Police Department, Didarul Islam. Another man who received a gunshot wound is in a stably critical state. The attacker also died, firing in his chest, the CNN TV channel said .

In the Rostov region, the wreckage of Ukrainian drones fell by trains, there were no victims At least 16 people were killed and 35 were injured as a result of a night Russian strike in a penal colony in the Zaporizhzhya region. This was stated by the head of the regional administration Ivan Fedorov. According to him, the Russian military at night fired at the Zaporizhzhya district eight times, presumably, by air bombs. A local correctional colony fell under the blow.

A new trend: Political Zyats and activists are deprived of only Russian citizenship. The scheme was worked out on criminals and naturalized migrants-fingers A burning Russian passport for protests at the Embassy of the Russian Federation in Chisinau, Moldova, February 16, 2024. Photo: dumitru doru / epa Kaliningrad nationalist Vyacheslav Popov, convicted of preparing the attack, is deprived of Russian citizenship.