Alexander Lukashenko Information digest “Time of Freedom” with Andrey Sharogradsky.

“I was amazed that people turn themselves in and their acquaintances. These are some random girls from discos with a dose of LSD, beggar saleswomen... In fact, everyone testified against themselves simply because they were intimidated at the first stage not with torture and beatings, but only with conversations about them.” Poet and human rights activist Alina Vitukhnovskaya is in the third episode of Victor Kulganek’s podcast. Replay from March 6, 2022

The UK has added the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) to its list of banned organizations.

Soyuz launch from Baikonur The head of the American aerospace agency NASA, Jared Isaacman, met with the head of Roscosmos, Dmitry Bakanov, on July 13 at the Baikonur Cosmodrome. This was reported by NASA and Russian agencies. This is the first visit by the head of NASA to Baikonur in the last eight years. The cosmodrome is located on the territory of Kazakhstan and is controlled by Russia.

Yaroslav Kostrov In St. Petersburg, urban protection activist Yaroslav Kostrov, who was nominated as a candidate for the city Legislative Assembly, was detained. He reported this on his Telegram channel. Kostrov was taken to police department No. 2. According to Fontanka, he was detained for the same reason as city defender Oleg Mukhin and deputy of the Communist Party faction in the Legislative Assembly of the Leningrad Region Ivan Apostolevsky.

Screenshot from a video of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region In the Rostov region, police detained a local resident who was selling fuel through a makeshift gas station. 120 liters of fuel were confiscated from him, the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs reported . Earlier, another suspect in the illegal trade in fuel at an inflated price was detained in the region.

Andrey Melnichenko Russian billionaire businessman Andrei Melnichenko became the main character of the latest issue of the influential British weekly The Economist. The publication of the publication caused an unusually heated discussion on social networks.

On July 13, the UK expanded its sanctions list to include 10 Russian citizens allegedly associated with the Rybar project. We are talking about a network of telegram channels and other Internet resources, which positions itself as an analytical project that covers conflicts in Ukraine, the Middle East and other regions, as well as the internal politics of Western countries, from a pro-Russian position.

The cause of the sudden death of US Senator Lindsey Graham, according to preliminary data, was aortic dissection due to atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. This was announced in his office on the evening of July 12. The message emphasizes that a death certificate will be issued after toxicological and microscopic examinations have been carried out. Washington police and medical examiner leaders confirmed the report in a joint statement.

Illustrative photo Last week, drones attacked oil refineries in Nizhnekamsk, Syzran and Saratov, killing two people. The fuel crisis in the Volga region is intensifying - in several regions the authorities have introduced a system of dispensing fuel according to the state registration numbers of cars. In Cheboksary, owners of apartments damaged as a result of a UAV strike will be able to receive payment for repairs at the rate of 9 thousand rubles per square meter.

Information digest “Time of Freedom” with Andrey Sharogradsky.

Illustrative photo In the Stavropol region, as a result of an attack by Ukrainian drones on the night of July 13, an oil depot in the village of Vyazniki, Shpakovsky district, burned - this is the second fuel facility attacked in this village in a week. The governor of the region, Vladimir Vladimirov, reported a fire “in the industrial zone.” The ASTRA publication, having analyzed eyewitness footage, established that an oil depot was burning next to the railway.

Politician Boris Nadezhdin, whom Russian authorities added to the register of so-called “foreign agents” last week, announced his arrest on social networks on the afternoon of July 13. As Nadezhdin wrote , police officers took him to the police department in the city of Dolgoprudny. Lawyer Dmitry Trunin managed to find out that the politician is accused under an administrative article for displaying extremist symbols, writes the EcoLawyer project.

Dulux paint cans from AkzoNobel Vladimir Putin signed a decree on the transfer to temporary management of the Russian assets of the Dutch company Akzo Nobel, one of the world's largest manufacturers of paints and varnishes. The Bell drew attention to this. According to the decree, shares in the companies Akzo Nobel Decor, Akzo Nobel Coatings and Akzo Nobel Lakokraska were transferred to Development of Construction Assets JSC.