Germany has suspended the program for receiving those in need of the protection of foreigners for humanitarian reasons. The message appeared on the website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the country. He was noticed by the human rights project "Ark". For three years, about 3,000 people from Russia who had the risks of persecution for political reasons received humanitarian visas, human rights activists note. Among them are civil activists and journalists.

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The sculptural image of Satan The Supreme Court of Russia on Wednesday, on the joint lawsuit of the Prosecutor General and the Ministry of Justice, recognized the extremist and banned the activities of the "international movement of Satanism" in Russia. It is reported by "Interfax." The court was closed. The decision is subject to immediate execution.

To the 50th anniversary of Radio Liberty. 2001, from the archive: memory of Ilya Dadashidze, New York, September 11-eyewitnesses, Viktor Suvorov about his profession, say. Athos Republic through the eyes of Mikhail Talalai. 49 minutes of jazz. Memory of Nikolai Morshen. Solzhenitsyn-traveler. Poet Vladimir Gandelsman.

Employees of law enforcement agencies during a search (archive photo) The Investigative Committee of Russia on the night of July 23, almost a day after the start of investigative actions, officially announced the detention of the chief editor of the online publication of BAZA Gleb Trifonov and producer Tatyana Lukyanova. According to investigators, BAZA employees paid money for the police information from at least three regions - the Belgorod region, the Krasnodar and Krasnoyarsk regions.

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Hall of meetings of the State Duma The State Duma deputy from United Russia Mikhail Tarasenko at a plenary meeting on July 22, 11 times voted on various issues, the last time the vote was recorded about an hour before during the same meeting was announced about his death. The Russian BBC service drew attention to this.

Negotiations between Russia and Ukraine in Istanbul in full delegations lasted about half an hour. Their completion in the evening on Wednesday was the first to report with reference to the sources of the TASS agency and RBC-Ukraine . Radio Liberty calculated the time of the meeting, based on the difference in the completion of the introductory speech of the Foreign Minister of Turkey Hakan Fidan and the first messages of the media sources.

Is humanity approaching a new world war? Are there any direct signs that indicate this - just like before the first and Second World War? Is the world military-political situation similar in 2025 to the one that developed before 1914 and before 1939?

Vyacheslav Volodin State Duma Chairman Vyacheslav Volodin at the last meeting of the Spring-Years Session of the Duma, held on July 23, again called to perpetuate the memory of the Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, declaring his key contribution to the victory in the Great Patriotic War.

The court in Moscow sentenced to eight and a half years the colony of the maximum regime of the head of the 5481st military representation of the Russian Ministry of Defense Sergey Bolgarev. He was found guilty of receiving a bribe when fulfilling a state order. More than 14 Milions of rubles were also collected from him. The sentence is reported by the Investigative Committee. Bulgarev was arrested in January 2025.

After a blow to the great Burluk On the night of July 23, Russian troops struck drones at several regions of Ukraine. Civil infrastructure was attacked in the city of Sumy, said Mayor Artyom Kobzar. Because of this, some of the inhabitants were left without electricity. The city of Kryvyi Rih underwent a massive attack of drones, said the head of the city’s defense council, Alexander Vilkul.

Yuri Dud On July 22, the Basmanny Court of Moscow arrested journalist Yuri Dudia in absentia for two months on charges of evading the duties of a foreign agent. Dud left Russia three years ago. He did not comment on this message in his social networks, but published an advertisement for his new interview - with the former US ambassador to Moscow and one of the authors of the sanctions against Russia Michael McFol. Bloggers with irony respond to news from Moscow.