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Economist Konstantin Sonin A court in Moscow sentenced economist Konstantin Sonin in absentia to eight and a half years in a general regime colony. He was found guilty of distributing so-called fakes about the Russian army motivated by political hatred. This was reported by the joint press service of the Moscow courts. Sonin was also banned from administering Internet sites for four and a half years. In February of this year, the court arrested the economist in absentia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has authorized the seizure and confiscation of property of the United States, American citizens, residents, companies operating primarily in the American market, and companies owned by them to pay compensation for confiscated Russian assets. The decree was published on the official portal of legal acts.

The UN General Assembly voted on Thursday to establish an annual Srebrenica Genocide Remembrance Day. The resolution was adopted with 84 votes in favor, 19 countries were against, and 68 abstained. Serbia, as well as the leadership of the Bosnian Serbs, sharply opposed the initiative. The proposal was previously made by Germany and Rwanda. The adopted document declares July 11 an international memorial day.

On May 23, the Tverskoy Court of Moscow announced a hearing in the case of the arrest of the deputy head of the Moscow region department of the Federal Penitentiary Service, Vladimir Talaev. He is accused of receiving a bribe on an especially large scale, as follows from the case file on the court’s website. It is known about the detainee that he is a lieutenant colonel of the internal service.

Mikheil Saakashvili On May 23, the European Court of Human Rights published a decision on the complaint of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, who filed an application with the ECHR in connection with two criminal cases brought against him in Georgia. The ECHR rejected Saakashvili's complaint, finding that the former president did not provide sufficient evidence of the unfairness of the trials in these cases in Georgia.

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Mikhail Khodorkovsky Six years later, Yuri Dud again had a long interview with Mikhail Khodorkovsky. What is obvious is that the conversation was built around a large revision of the nineties, now going on in the RuNet at the instigation of Maria Pevchikh. At the same time, Khodorkovsky made a completely polar impression on different viewers. For the second day I’ve been tormenting Dudya and Khodorkovsky. How boring he is😏 And he’s always fidgeting like he’s in a frying pan...

Blinken at the hearing in Congress US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken, after a recent visit to Kyiv, changed his position and is now advocating to allow the Ukrainian military to strike targets in Russia using American weapons. With reference to sources, the New York Times writes about this.

RTO "Cyclone", 2020 The Conflict Intelligence Team has confirmed the loss of the Cyclone small missile ship by the Russian Black Sea Fleet. It was sunk as a result of a Ukrainian army missile attack on Sevastopol on the night of May 19. The fleet received it six months ago. After a missile attack, a Russian ship sank at the pier in the port of Sevastopol. Researchers received a photograph from the city, which shows a mast sticking out of the water.

The building of the Ministry of Defense of Russia In Moscow, the court arrested the head of the Department of the Department of Defense Order of the Ministry of Defense of Russia Vladimir Verteletsky. The Investigative Committee accused him of abuse by official powers when fulfilling the state order with damage in the amount of 70 million rubles. According to investigators, in 2022, Verteletsky accepted unfulfilled works.