In Pskov, during the judicial debate on July 3, the prosecutor's office requested six years of a colony of general regime to journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva, accused in a criminal case of justification of terrorism. In addition, the state prosecution demanded to ban Prokopieva to engage in journalism for four years. The reason for the criminal case was the author’s transfer of the journalist about the terrorist attack in the FSB building of the Arkhangelsk region.

Russian President Vladimir Putin commented on reports that an LGBT flag was hung on the US Embassy building in Moscow. He said this on air on Rossiya 24 . “They showed something about who works there,” Putin said. According to the president, in Russia there has never been and will never be anything related to the restriction of rights on the basis of race, sexual orientation, nationality or religion. “The question is completely different.

“Such things” in a series of monologues “ Close to heart ” tell about journalists and bloggers from the regions, which gradually change the local community with their indifference. The heroine of the fourteenth text is the editor -in -chief of the Altai newspaper Zmeinogorsky Bulletin Lyudmila Caybol. Lyudmila told how readers become accomplices in public changes, helping fire and low -income families, keeping forests and struggling with corruption. “Such things” publish her monologue.

The Investigative Department of the IC of the Russian Federation in the Trans-Baikal Territory began to check after the threats to the chief editor of the Borzin newspaper to the deputy of the city council Natalya Nikiforova, the press service of the department reports . According to Chita.ru , the journalist was scolded by the representative of the contractor Sergei Shilov.

The diocesan court in Yekaterinburg deprived the rank of schema-abbot Sergius. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the chairman of the church court, Nikolai Malet. “The next meeting of the church-diocesan court has ended. They decided: first, to recognize schema-abbot Sergius, Nikolai Vasilyevich Romanov, guilty of violating the priestly oath and monastic vows. The second is to overthrow schema-abbot Sergius, Nikolai Vasilyevich Romanov, from the priesthood,” Nikolai said.

In November 2019, imported original medicines for people with cystic fibrosis began to disappear in Russia. Until now, these vital drugs have not returned to the Russian market. Now all that the funds and people with this disease have is the remnants of drugs in pharmacies and in warehouses, sometimes with an expired shelf life. “Such things” tell what difficulties patients face.

The company commander of the second operational regiment of the Moscow police was reprimanded because of the same numbers on the badges of two police officers who detained Ekho Moskvy journalists Tatyana Felgengauer and Alexander Plyushchev in May near the building of the capital's Ministry of Internal Affairs. This was reported by RBC with reference to the department for interaction with civil society institutions and the media of the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Central Election Commission of the Russian Federation (CEC) has approved the results of the all-Russian vote on amendments to the Constitution, the CEC press service reports . At a meeting on July 3, the Central Election Commission adopted a resolution stating that the amendments were supported by 77.92% of voters (57.7 million Russians), and 21.27% (15.7 million) were against the changes. The final voter turnout was 67.97%.

International and Russian human rights organizations sent a letter to the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, with a request to open a criminal case into the death of 23-year-old Chechen Madina Umaeva, reports MBKH Media . The girl’s relatives claimed that she died from her husband’s beatings, but later Madina’s mother apologized to the head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, for such statements.

The Supreme Court of Tatarstan overturned the acquittal of a resident of Bugulma, who was accused of sexual assault against his one and a half year old daughter. The Republican Prosecutor's Office reports this. In June, the court acquitted a 27-year-old man who admitted to sexually assaulting his one-and-a-half-year-old daughter and explained the incident by saying that he “just freaked out” after a quarrel with his wife.

The trade union of the Vedomosti newspaper put forward a list of 12 demands to the owner and general director of the publication, including not cutting salaries and staff, and ensuring compliance with ethics in the editorial office. Otherwise, the journalists threatened to go on strike, Kommersant reports.

During the court hearings, the prosecutor's office asked that Pskov journalist Svetlana Prokopyeva be sentenced to six years in a general regime colony in the case of justifying terrorism. This was reported by Pskov Province. In addition, the state prosecution demanded that Prokopyeva be banned from practicing journalism for four years. Svetlana Prokopyeva is a correspondent for the Radio Liberty website and former editor-in-chief of the Pskov Province publication.

Russian Health Minister Mikhail Murashko, in an interview with Interfax, said that during the coronavirus pandemic in Russia, 40 doctors have died from the disease. Chairman of the Independent Medical Society Alexey Erlikh told Taki Dela that he does not agree with these data. Murashko emphasized that the most verified information about how many doctors have died from COVID-19 in Russia is the number of cases for which lump-sum insurance payments were made.

In Yekaterinburg, the local investigative department began an investigation after a video appeared of a girl with a knife trying to help her mother in a fight, the department’s press service reports . The inspection is also being carried out by the local Commissioner for Children's Rights Igor Morokov, RIA Novosti reports. According to preliminary data from the Investigative Committee, a conflict between a man and a woman occurred in front of the child.

The Higher School of Economics spoke about the consequences of the faculty reform - DOXA magazine reported that now some employees are facing layoffs because they were included in the list of “unreliables.” At the Faculty of Humanities of the Higher School of Economics, two structural divisions have merged - the School of Philosophy and the School of Cultural Studies, during which part of the teaching salaries will be reduced, but the rates of scientific staff will be introduced.