Sentenced to 15 years in a penal colony, the ex-head of the Serpukhov district, Alexander Shestun, went on a dry hunger strike. This was reported to Novaya Gazeta by the head of the public committee "Freedom to Shestun" Vlada Rusina. “The reason for such a radical decision is the demand of the Moscow Region Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia to transfer him for interrogation to the Moscow region (SIZO No.

They learned that “real champagne” can be done in Gelendzhik. But not in Shampani. Will the first champagne war Russian President Vladimir Putin signed amendments to the law that actually forbid French winemakers to call champagne that bubbling and, often-an expensive drink that they pouring them somewhere there, in a distant Shampani not certified by the Russian legislation. The decision caused literally a storm in a glass of "Klimko".

The Readovka editors received a decision to block their site by July 8. This is reported by the editorial board itself. The document was sent on July 3rd. It turned out that the editorial office should block the resource on the basis of the decision of the Vidnovsky city court, issued back in March last year.

The goalkeeper of the Latvian national hockey team, Matisse, Edmund Killenex, died at the age of 24. This was reported by the Latvian Federation of Hockey. Photo: Latvian hockey Federation According to the Delfi portal, the hockey player suffered during the salute in honor of the United States Independence Day on July 4: he received his head injury. Recently, Matisse Edmund Killenex has played for the American Columbus Blue Jackets team.

Why Taliban* goes north, to the former borders of the USSR Afghan militias join the forces of defense and security of Afghanistan during a meeting in Kabul. June 23, 2021. Photo: AP/Associated Press/East News On the night of July 5, 1037 Afghan soldiers and officers and participants in the pro -government militia crossed the Pyanzh border with Tajikistan and moved to the territory of the neighboring republic.

Brent crude rose above $77 a barrel for the first time since 2018. This follows from the data of the London Stock Exchange ICE. This is a futures contract with delivery in September. At 20:15 Moscow time, a barrel of Brent oil is trading at a price of $77.04, which is 1.19% higher than the day before at the close of trading.

* In Sochi and its environs, after heavy rains, the rivers Matsesta, Khosta, Kudepsta, Herota, Psou and Mzymta overflowed their banks and flooded streets and buildings. The Ministry of Emergency Situations asks people not to go to sea, the authorities warn about evacuation. Beaches are closed, local authorities are preparing shelters with food supplies for the evacuees. Seven settlements were left without electricity.

20,000 reservists were drafted into the army of Tajikistan against the backdrop of the aggravation of the situation on the border with Afghanistan. The President of the country Emomali Rahmon gave the corresponding instruction to the head of the Ministry of Defense during a meeting of the Security Council, reports . his press service The President instructed the Minister of Defense to send additional troops to the border areas.

How the modern class Russia works: Vladislav Inozemtsev explains in 10 theses The term "New Middle Ages) has become quite common and is used to designate (mainly grotesque or more correctly, Alarmist) social or geopolitical trends of the late XX century. I will not touch on how reasonable the application of this concept is to Western societies, however, in my opinion, what is happening today in Russia is very reminiscent of a return to the past, and in many aspects.

What forced Denis Lebedev, the mayor of the small city near Moscow, to commit suicide? Reporting "New" Before the farewell ceremony with the mayor of Kolomna. Photo: Nadezhda Isaeva / "New Gazeta" In Kolomna, they said goodbye to the head of the city district Denis Lebedev, who committed suicide on July 2. The policy was 46 years old. He was found in his own apartment with a gunshot wound. According to the Investigative Committee, Lebedev brought to suicide.

The story of the detention of the Mundee Ketevan Haraidze: in May, she announced that she would go to the State Duma elections, in June she was arrested in the case of fraud Ketevan Haraidze. Shot from the video "He wants to help everyone and cannot refuse anyone, often for his detriment" The Mundop of the Tver District of Moscow Ketevan Haraidze was born in Tbilisi. Her father is a writer, a journalist. Mom is a philologist, worked as a teacher of Russian language and literature.

Memory of Vladimir Menshov Photo: RIA Novosti These “fragments” of Soviet cinema, which are smaller ... When you put them together, you understand how bizarre, multicolored, unique, these colored and black and white glasses are unique. Menshov was a fierce knight of spectator cinema. Oddly enough, in those days it was not possible to declare adherence to the cinema of simple feelings and pure emotions, to the cinema to the genre, plot, possibly slightly rude, devoid of subtle allusions.

American entrepreneur Jeff Bezos has officially stepped down as Amazon CEO, reports The Verge, citing information on the company's investor website. Andy Jesse, who previously headed the Amazon Web Services division, has become the new CEO of the company in materials for investors. Jesse joined Amazon shortly after graduating from Harvard Business School in 1997 and has led AWS since the team's founding in 2003.

The whereabouts of the former Yukos security officer Alexei Pichugin, who was taken four days ago from colony IK-6 (“Black Dolphin”) in the Orenburg region, where he is serving a life sentence, is still unknown, Pichugin’s lawyers told Novaya Gazeta. “There is still no information,” the defenders said. The Federal Penitentiary Service did not tell where Pichugin was transferred to, either to lawyers or relatives.

In the Tambov region, the court arrested for two months four participants in the attack on environmental activist Roman Gerasimov, who complained to President Vladimir Putin about the construction of a landfill in the village of Sosnovsky. This was reported to TASS in the press service of the main department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region.