In St. Petersburg, the court arrested an activist Evgeny Musin for 20 days for a banner against amendments to the Constitution. This was reported by the telegram channel "Yagrazhdanin". Musin, along with two activists on July 16, blocked Nevsky Prospekt. They went out with the banner "Change power, not the Constitution." During the action, no one was detained.

Since April, the political and business elites of Russia had access to the Vaccine of the National Research Center for Epidemiology and Microbiology named after Gamalea from Covid-19, Bloomberg writes with reference to the experimental participants. This was also told by the researcher, aware of the situation. According to him, several hundred people took part in the vaccination, but they decided not to advertise it in order to avoid hype. Volunteers participated in vaccination for free.

The Tver court of Moscow found guilty of repeated violation of the rules of rallies transgender activist Polina Simonenko, arresting her for 14 days. According to Lawyer Simonenko Konstantin Boykov, the arrested was sent to serve his sentence in a male specialist. Simonenko, along with several dozen activists, was detained on July 18 near the State Duma building. They carried out single pickets against the bill introduced into parliament with senators led by Elena Mizulina.

In Khabarovsk for nine days, mass shares have been going on in support of the arrested governor Sergei Furgal. On July 11 and 18, the most numerous manifestations were held in the city, according to some estimates, 35-50 thousand people participated in them. Demonstrators demand to release a van out of arrest and conduct a trial of him in Khabarovsk. Also at rallies there are political slogans against the federal government.

A 24-year-old teacher of physical education of a secondary school in the village of Tumanino, Nizhny Novgorod Region, Alexei Mashkin , said that his colleagues were forced to participate in the vote on amendments to the Constitution. Director of the Shakhun secondary school No. 1 named after D. Komarova (the school of the village of Tumanino is its branch) Rifat Mukhamatchin sent a letter to the teachers demanding that after the vote, send him a message.

The former operating director of the German payment system Wirecard, Jan Marslekle is hiding in Russia, writes Handelsblatt. The sources of the newspaper claim that he lives in a private house near Moscow under the supervision of GRU. Marsealek is considered the main acting person of fraud in the company, in the balance sheet of which they found a hole of € 2 billion. The publication claims that before that Marselek was led to Russia from Dubai a large amount in bitcoins.

Mass manifestation in support of Sergey Furgal in Khabarovsk. July 18, 2020 In Khabarovsk for nine days, mass shares have been going on in support of the arrested governor Sergei Furgal. On July 11 and 18, the most numerous manifestations were held in the city, according to some estimates, 35-50 thousand people participated in them. Demonstrators demand to release a van out of arrest and conduct a trial of him in Khabarovsk.

In Kyiv, a memorial was opened in memory of journalist Pavel Sheremet. His car was blown up on July 20, 2016. Only three years later the suspects in this crime were detained. But they themselves deny guilt. Many Sheremet's colleagues also doubt the version of the investigation and consider professional activities the reason for his murder.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that neither a parade on Red Square on June 24, nor a vote on amendments to the Constitution, which lasted a week before July 1, led to an increase in the number of infection with coronavirus. Putin answered the questions of the employees of the bay of the bay in Kerch in the annexed Crimea, where he arrived on Monday. According to Putin, the observance of sanitary rules helped.

The on -board recorders of the Ukrainian passenger Boeing, shot down by mistake by Iranian air defense under Tehran, were delivered to Paris. In the coming hours, they will be sent to the Bureau for the Investigation and Analysis of Civil Aviation Security. This was announced today by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Canada Francois-Filipp Shampan.

In 2019, Russia paid more than one billion rubles on the decisions of the European Court of Human Rights. This was reported on the website of the Accounts Chamber of the Russian Federation. This is almost 67 percent of the approved budget allocations in the amount of one billion 700 million rubles, the document says. Money was paid for 1240 ECHR decisions.

The mayor of Norilsk Rinat Akhmetchin resigned, TASS writes with reference to the press service of the city administration. Last week, Akhmetchin turned to the governor of the Krasnoyarsk Territory Alexander Uss with a request to send an additional medical personnel to the control of coronaviral infection to the plastic city. After that, a conflict occurred between him and the governor.

Mikhail Efremov The Moscow prosecutor's office approved the indictment against actor Mikhail Efremov. He will be judged under the article of the Criminal Code "Violation of a person driving a car, the rules of the road, committed intoxicated, entailed by negligence the death of a person." Efremov faces up to 12 years in prison. The minimum sentence under this article is 5 years in prison. The case will be considered Presnensky district court of Moscow.

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A participant in the Sunday campaign in defense of the head of the Khabarovsk Territory Sergey Furgal in Vladivostok was arrested for five days. Anton Rasin was found guilty of disobedience to police officers, VL.ru reports with reference to local activists. This is the first arrest of a participant in the defense of the van, which has been going on for more than a week. In Khabarovsk, where the shares are the most numerous, so far there were no detentions or arrests. According to Siberia.