Chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Viktor Ozerov decided to leave his post due to "pressure" from the Ministry of Defense, RBC reports , citing a source in the upper house of parliament and an interlocutor close to Ozerov. According to the interlocutor of the publication, Ozerov had "tense relations" with Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu. An acquaintance of the head of the committee said that Ozerov was “not very submissive,” and Shoigu did not welcome this.

The police demanded that the doctors discharge the previously detained volunteer of the headquarters of Alexei Navalny Alexander Turovsky, who underwent a brain puncture. Turovsky's associates tweet that police officers went to the diagnostic room and demanded that the doctors discharge the volunteer, but they refused to do so. Earlier on Thursday, the young man was taken to the Research Institute. Sklifosovsky with suspected concussion.

The verdict of Vladimir Anikaev may be a “cover operation” for a much more serious criminal group Photo: Andrey Nikerichev / Agency "Moscow" The Moscow City Court sentenced the leader of the hacker group “Shaltai-Boltai” Vladimir Anikeev, known in cyberspace under Nick Lewis, to two years in prison. Already in July, Anikeev may be released by parole, since Art. 272 of the Criminal Code is a crime of moderate severity, and parole is possible after the first third of the term.

Rostov miners declared a new hunger strike and go to Moscow Photo: Anna Artemyeva / "New Gazeta" On June 30, the official statement was published on the website of the Government of the Rostov Region: “The obligations were fully fulfilled that the regional government took upon the payment of debts to former employees of the bankrupt group of Kingcool companies.

In the Arctic, they decided to develop the Cossacks at the state account Photo from the group of the Murmansk Cossacks in VK “Friends myself come from Siberia, but for 12 years I have been serving in the SCA as much as possible into the Cossack Brotherhood in Murmansk. The Cossack was not, not me, not my ancestors, but always dreamed of becoming.

Photo of the day Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta"

The Prosecutor General’s Office blocks the sites of nationalists supporting the war in the Donbass Egor Prosvirnin, on the left. YouTube screenshot The Prosecutor General’s Office demanded that Roskomnadzor block the “nationalist sense” sites, including the “satellite and pogrom”, “Russian sector” and “right view”. “These resources promote the ideas of national and religious growth, which forms threats of public security, encourages extremism,” the Prosecutor General’s statement said.

The administration of Tambov refused to agree on the pickets of the Yabloko party as part of the anti-war campaign of Grigory Yavlinsky against Russia's participation in military conflicts, in particular in Syria. This is stated in the message of the party. At the end of June, the activists asked the mayor's office to agree on the installation of campaign cubes at two points in Tambov, but were refused.

The first test awaits the “correspondence friendship” invented by journalists Photo: EPA/MAXIM Shipenkov The meeting of the presidents of Russia and the USA “in the fields” “Twenty” in Hamburg causes mixed expectations in the USA. Advisers are asking Trump to improvise less and remember national interests. The congressmen directly call: no concessions. And experts say that an agreement on future contacts will be the best result. Sensational breakthroughs are not expected here.

Senator Viktor Ozerov wrote a letter of resignation from the post of chairman of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security of his own free will, as he wants to change the situation and the rhythm of life, RIA Novosti reports . “It is necessary to rotate posts in the Federation Council, the time has come in the committee on defense and security,” Ozerov told the agency.

The co -founder of the Dissernet project Andrei Zazakin responds to the publication of the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky in the Rossiya Gazeta Photo: RIA Novosti "Ti estin aletheia?" (What is the truth?) - asks Pilate in the Gospel (John 18:38). Some consider this phrase a manifestation of moral or epistemological relativism, connecting it with ancient skeptics.

The Investigative Committee has sent an interim response to Tatiana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights in Russia, based on the results of checking data on the persecution of gays in Chechnya, reports . Interfax “It says that they have not established facts confirming violent acts against (such) persons, due to the fact that they do not have specific data on these citizens,” Moskalkova said.

Navalny’s offices throughout Russia are under the attack of the security forces and “activists” who are sympathetic. What's happening? Photo: Vlad Dokshin / "New Gazeta" The first election headquarters of the opposition Alexei Navalny was opened in St. Petersburg in February.

Members of the Free Historical Society responded to an article by Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky, published in Rossiyskaya Gazeta. According to scientists, “the minister's article is so self-revealing that now the dissertation council of Belgorod University is simply obliged to deprive its author of a scientific degree. Or disband immediately." This is stated in a statement on the VIO website. “For Vladimir Medinsky, history is not a science.

Education Minister Olga Vasilyeva announced that schools will be transferred to the jurisdiction of regional authorities from municipal ones to strengthen the vertical of management with the Ministry of Education and Science at the head, Interfax reports . “It is hard to imagine that 44,000 schools are in no way subordinate to the Ministry of Education and Science. They are also not subordinate to the region,” Vasilyeva said.