Bard from the Pskov region Boris Yakovlev, who is accused of extremism in Russia, received political asylum in Finland. He announced this "Radio Liberty." “I am glad of the decision of Finland, I am glad that they realized that I was really in danger in Russia. It would be a prison with all the ensuing, up to humiliation, torture. Now here I will leave the camp “into people”, to learn the language even deeper and get a job.

The court in Warsaw sentenced a former employee of ministries of economics and energy Marek V. to three years in prison for espionage in favor of Russia. It is reported by RMF24 radio stations. The defendant was also forbidden to hold positions in the civil service for ten years.

The Insider and Bellingcat have already written about Major General GRU Denis Sergeyev (Sergey Fedotov), ​​who led the operation to poison the Skripals in Salisbury and poisoning the Bulgarian entrepreneur Goebrev in Bulgaria. As it was possible to find out The Insider and Bellingcat in cooperation with the team of investigators from the Swiss Media Group Tamedia, Sergeyev also participated in operations in Switzerland, and there he also intersected with Boshirov and Petrov.

The Westminster Bridge in London is temporarily closed after an excursion boat with tourists crashed into it. This was reported by the police of London. “London firefighters and local authorities on the spot. No one was injured, ”the report said. The police specified that the incident is not related to terrorism. According to the Daily Mirror, the City Cruiser walking vessel stuck under the design of the bridge. Emergency services continue to work on the spot.

More than 70 people were detained on unauthorized protests in Almaty and Nur Sultan. It is reported by Radio Azattyk. In Nur-Sultan, the detention took place near the Esil trading house, in Almaty-near the central stadium. Earlier, the leader of the movement “Democratic Choice of Kazakhstan” Mukhtar Ablyazov called on the protest against the authorities with a call to reach the protest against the authorities.

The police of the Turkish province of Bole discovered more than 18 g of the radioactive substance of California when searching for a car, which is considered the most expensive metal in the world. It is reported by Timeturk with reference to the statement of the Governor of the province. The market value of the found substance reaches $ 72 million. The suspicious car was stopped to check the local security department to combat smuggling and organized crime.

The captain of the Athall walking boat, which turned on the eve of the Black Sea near Tuapse, did not have a license to transport passengers. This was reported on the website of the Southern Transport Prosecutor's Office. The case of an administrative offense has been opened. Earlier, the UK started a criminal case under an inappropriate provision of services that entailed the death of two or more people by negligence.

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation for the first time allowed Georgy Shahet, a relative of the repressed, to read the documents of the case. It is reported by Kommersant. Shaht wanted to get access to the documents of his grandfather Pavel Zabotin, shot in 1933 for the theft of state property - material for the construction of bridges. The trouser tributary was sentenced by the NKVD trial two weeks after the arrest.

The Ministry of Digital Development, Communications and Mass Communications of the Russian Federation has developed a bill that approves the rules for the allocation of subsidies to the Publishing House "Big Russian Encyclopedia" to create and the functioning of the "national interactive encyclopedic portal". The document is placed on the portal of draft regulatory legal acts, RBC drew attention to it.

The building of the prosecutor's office of St. Petersburg on Pochtametskaya Street on the morning of July 5 was filled around the perimeter with unknown gas. It is reported by Fontanka. According to the publication, the operatives of the EC center are looking for a 28-year-old native of the Moscow Region Arthur Astapchuk. At 8:46 a.m., a man in a black suit and a white shirt, with an umbrella and a white bag in his hands, walked around the building and sprayed unknown gas.

Moscow "Lokomotiv" became the owner of the Russian Super Cup, defeating Zenit from St. Petersburg with a score of 3: 2. The meeting was held in Moscow at the VTB Arena stadium. The metropolitan club stepped forward already in the sixth minute after the goal of Fedor Smolov, but Zenit managed to equalize the score in the end of the first half thanks to the ball of Serdar Azmun. The second goal Azmun scored at the beginning of the second half, and the club from St.

The Soviet District Court of Makhachkala sentenced to a fine of 200 thousand rubles of the former acting mayor of the city of Abusupyan Hasanov, accused of abuse of powers (part 2 of article 286 of the Criminal Code). This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to the lawyer Suleiman Azuev. According to TASS, the case was considered in a special order - without the interrogation of witnesses and the study of evidence. “Hasanov repented, he fully admitted guilt.

In California, on the night of July 6, an earthquake of magnitude 7.1 has occurred - the strongest since 1999. It is reported by Reuters. The earthquake happened 17 km from the city of Ridzhkrest, 202 km from Los Angeles. The tremors were felt, in particular, in Los Angeles, Las Vegas and in Mexico. After the earthquake in California, fires began, cracks formed in the foundations of buildings. One person received minor injuries.

In Moscow, a street action was held in support of the Khachaturian sisters accused of a western murder of his father. This was reported by the OVD-Info. According to the publication, one of the participants in a single picket was detained in support of the sisters, as well as three participants in the “male state” movement, who opposed the accused.

The district election commission adopted signatures for nomination of the lawyer of the FBK Lyubov Sobol to the elections to the Moscow City Duma. She herself reported this on Twitter. Recall that the sable is running for the Moscow City Duma from the 43rd district of Moscow. Its competitors may be the former Russian national team footballer Dmitry Bulykin, actor Andrei Sokolov and member of the Yabloko Political Committee Sergey Mitrokhin.