Saudi Arabia and Türkiye are trying to conclude an agreement on the return of Ukrainian children taken to Russia. About this writes Financial Times with reference to sources. According to them, negotiations have been lasting several months. Intercessor countries are trying to find an option for a compromise transaction for Ukraine and Russia, the newspaper writes.

Cyril Ramapos and Vladimir Putin The President of South Africa asked the International Criminal Court (MUS) of permission not to arrest Russian President Vladimir Putin. Sil Ramapos made such a statement in response to a lawsuit filed by the opposition "democratic alliance" in order to force the government to arrest the Russian president if he arrives in Johannesburg at the Brix summit. According to Ramapos, Putin's arrest will be equal to the declaration of war.

The Omsk Garrison Military Court sentenced the junior sergeant Maxim Prokopenko to five years in a general regime colony in the case of leaving the place of service during the mobilization period (Article 337 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). This was announced on Tuesday by the press service of the court. Prokopenko, as the message says, left part in Omsk "without good reason" in November 2022.

The Russian Prosecutor General’s Office of Russia announced the American Wild Salmon Center salmon organization undesirable. According to the department, the company's activities served as a “cover” for projects aimed at constructing the economic development of Russia. ” Among these projects, the Prosecutor General’s Office notes “supposedly useful” proposals for the creation of specially protected natural territories in the Far East.

Anti -war initiatives from different countries asked the European Parliament to protect Russians who refused to fight in Ukraine. Almost 70 projects signed the letter. The authors of the letter note that the Russian authorities created legislative mechanisms for criminal prosecution of citizens who refused or plan to refuse military service, deserted or surrendered.

The head of Dagestan, Sergei Melikov, announced the need to rename the stadium in Makhachkala, who is now named after Elena Isinbaeva, a two -time Olympic jumping champion with a pole with Dagestan roots, Caucasus reports . The reason was Isinbaeva’s move to Spain and her statement, in which she called herself a "man of the world." Earlier, Isinbaev was a confidant of Russian President Vladimir Putin, she has a military rank of major.

The State Duma deputy from the LDPR party Andrei Lugovoi promised to "punish" the deputy from "United Russia" Vitaly Milonov for the incident with his participation in Donetsk.

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Leader of the rock band "Kino" Victor Tsoi The Bank of Russia issued a three-ruble coin with a portrait of the leader of the movie "Cinema" Viktor Tsoi. The report of the Central Bank says that the musician was "the idol of his time, and his songs became a symbol of the era of perestroika." The coin is made of 925th silver and released five thousand pieces. On one side of the coin is Viktor Tsoi with a microphone in his hand, and against the background of a guitar with flames.

The court in Penza fined 100 thousand rubles of pensioner Nikolai Gutsenovich in a criminal case on discrediting the Russian army. The reason for this was 18 reactions under posts on the social network "Odnoklassniki". This was reported by the OVD-Info with reference to the lawyer Stanislav Fomenko. The prosecution asked for a pensioner for 120 thousand rubles.

Protests in Israel, July 18, 2023 In Israel, mass protests are held against judicial reform, reports The Times of ISRAEL. It is expected that during the "resistance day" hundreds of thousands of people will go on the demonstration. Protesters have already blocked the roads in dozens of cities, several demonstrators with the police took place in several. About 20 people were arrested - all of them, according to the police, violated public order.

The ECHR recently made a decision against Russia in the case of the murder of the politician Boris Nemtsov in 2015. Strasbourg judges recognized the investigation ineffective, including because the authorities did not consider the political motive of the murder and the possible involvement of state persons in it.

Less than two weeks ago, we collected network opinions about traffic jams in front of the Crimean bridge and a proposal to tourists to go through the actually front -line occupied territories of Ukraine. That review came out under the name "suicidal tourism" , and this Monday the victims of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Armed Forces of the Bridge was just a couple of tourists from the Belgorod region.

"This is Dron-Kamikadze, his task is to drive up and explode. If at the beginning of the full-scale war we had such drones, they would carry Russian columns." The Ukrainian military hopes to get new weapons of their own development - ground drones, which may turn out to be as effective as air and sea drones.

According to preliminary data, five people were injured on Tuesday during the shelling of the village of Shamino in the Shebekinsky city district of the Belgorod region. This was announced by Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov. He claims that shelling was conducted by the Ukrainian military. “One man has a fragmentation wound of the chest, doctors evaluate his condition as moderate severity. In four - wounds of mild severity,” Gladkov wrote in his telegram channel .