An illustrative photo Investigators detained and interrogated the owner of a fast food cafe "shawarma" in Bratsk after poisoning 62 people, 29 of which are hospitalized, including five children. This was reported by the Investigative Committee for the Irkutsk Region. A criminal case has been opened under an article on the production and sale of products that do not meet the requirements of security, which provides for the punishment of up to two years in prison.

Why did some Western media doubt about the culprits of the disaster? What are the consequences of the destruction of the Kakhovsky hydroelectric power station? Interlocutors Vitaly Portnikova - Ukrainian journalist Sergei Rudenko and French writer, translator, historian Galya Akkerman.

News Radio Liberty: accuracy, efficiency, impartiality

In Rostov-on-Don, a trial began on 24 former participants in the Ukrainian Regiment of Azov, Kommersant reports . They are charged with participation in a terrorist organization, which is recognized as Azov in Russia, as well as an attempt to violent seizure of power in the territory of the so -called Donetsk People’s Republic. The Russian media claim that most of the defendants were captured or detained last spring in Mariupol, and that they partially pleaded guilty.

Poster “Russia is here forever” in Kherson, July 2022. A few months later the city was abandoned by Russian troops The Russian Central Election Commission has set a date for local elections in the Moscow-controlled territories of Ukraine. Russia plans to hold 83 campaigns on a single voting day on September 10, the Central Election Commission said .

The military personnel of the Russian army post photos of their positions and fortifications in the Zaporizhzhya region in places where they can very soon face the Ukrainian counterattack. We show what the famous Russian "Zashny feature" in Zaporozhye looks like the eyes of the Russian military themselves.

Budyonnovsk, Dubrovka, Beslan-three similar terrorist attacks, during which the Russian authorities behaved completely differently, why? About this - in the fourth episode of the podcast "Budyonnovsk". The author and leading podcast is Katya Golenkova.

Australia Parliament (archive photo) The Australian Parliament adopted a law that canceled the rental of a plot for the construction of a new embassy building due to the threat of national security. It is reported by ABC. The territory that Russia rents since 2008 adjoined the parliament building in Canberra, and the deputies considered that such proximity entails the risks of espionage.

In the spring of 2023, against the backdrop of exciting news from Ukrainian fronts, reports on the persecution of labor migrants in Russia were increasingly began to appear. They are especially talked about Tajiks. At first, only some nationalists wrote about this in their telegram channels (of course, presenting information in the antitajik spirit), but in May-June the problem sounded in the professional media, including diplomatic Tajik-Russian meetings on the rights of migrants.

The leaders of the African countries plan to propose to suspend the order of the arrest of Russian President Vladimir Putin issued by the International Criminal Court in The Hague. Such a measure can be listed in the initiative to organize negotiations on the end of the war in Ukraine. This was reported by Reuters . The agency’s journalists got acquainted with the draft of the plan that African leaders want to offer to “build confidence” by participants in potential peace negotiations.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Minister of Finance Anton Siluanov (archive photo) Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed the government to develop a law that gives the state a priority right to buy Western assets with a "significant discount". It is reported by Financial Times with reference to the secret disposal signed by Putin last week. It is assumed that in the future these assets will be resold Russian companies, and the profit from transactions will enter the budget.

In the Kherson region, according to the latest data, at least 10 people died on the right, controlled by Kyiv, the banks of the Dnieper after the destruction of the dam of the Kakhovskaya hydroelectric power station on June 6. Radio Liberty was reported in the regional military administration. More than 40 people are considered missing, including seven children. More than three thousand houses remain flooded in the territory of the region controlled by Ukraine.

On Thursday, the military personnel of the National Guard Massachusettst Jack Teiyre, who was suspected of organizing the leakage of the Pentagon secret documents, was charged. The large jury, which examined the evidence presented by the investigation, approved the indictment of six points. He is accused of illegal storage and distribution of secret documents related to national defense. Taysher, if guilty, may threaten a 60-year conclusion. See also a drama with documents.

The Minister of Defense of Ukraine Alexei Reznikov (on the right) looks at the clock, talking with the US Minister of Defense Lloyd Austin. June 15, 2023 In the headquarters of NATO in Brussels, a meeting of the contact group was held US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Chairman of the United Committee of Chiefs of Staff (OCHS) Mill Milli on Thursday performed in Brussels at the NATO headquarters following a meeting of the contact group.

The court in Ufa sentenced the ex-head of the local headquarters of Alexei Navalny to Lilia Chanyshev to 7.5 years in the colony. She was found guilty of organizing an extremist community. This is the first such sentence to the supporters of Navalny after recognition of its structures by extremist organizations.