Members of the Council on Foreign and Defense Policy (Swan) published an open letter in which they condemned statements about the possibility of a “preventive” nuclear strike of Russia in the event of a deterioration in the situation in Ukraine. “We know the results of long and modern studies of possible damage as a result of such a war. To hope that a limited nuclear conflict can be controlled and not allowed to grow into a global nuclear war is the top of irresponsibility.

The Russian military attacked Ukraine Drones-Kamikaze Shakud on the night of July 15. This was reported by the command of the Air Force of the Armed Forces. In total, six drones were launched, four of them managed to knock down. The alarm was declared in the Zaporizhzhya, Kherson and Nikolaev regions. In Zaporozhye, a 62-year-old man suffered from drones, he was hospitalized, Anatoly Kurtev, secretary of the Zaporizhzhya city council. In the Nikolaev region, three Shakad drones were shot down .

ECONOMICS Poor man's statistics. How Russia combats poverty on paper as the nation grows poorer Dada Lyndell 15 July 2023 Official statistics suggest that Russia's poverty rate has plunged below 10% for the first time in history: only 9.8% of its population is poor. According to Rosstat, the number of Russians living in poverty dropped by 1.7 million in 2022.

Policy Change of citizenship, rewriting textbooks and “re -education” of children: how the Kremlin “Russify” Ukrainians Konstantin Skorkin July 15, 2023 Instead of the officially declared “denacing”, the Russian authorities in the occupied territories are actively engaged in “deracainization”. With the hope of eranding Ukrainian identity, the Kremlin forces the local population to receive a Russian passport, cancels the Ukrainian language and rewrites school history textbooks.

In Kazan, the police detained about 60 football fans, Interfax reports with reference to a source in law enforcement. The detainees “violated public order” on a train traveling to Tatarstan from Nizhny Novgorod, the police press service said.

The court in Moscow arrested seven suspects in preparing an attempt on Margarita Simonyan and Ksenia Sobchak, TASS reports. At the same time, according to RIA Novosti, six suspects were arrested. Both state media at the same time write that the decision was made by the Basmanny Court of Moscow. "Mediazona" with reference to the press service of the court writes that seven suspects were arrested.

Employees of the FSB and the Investigative Committee claim that they prevented the preparation of the Ukrainian special services of the murder of the propagandist Margarita Simonyan and TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak. According to the special services, members of the Paragra-88 group, who followed Simonyan and Sobchak, were detained in this case in Moscow and the Ryazan Region.

The Administrator of the Kremlin Parathu Telegram channel Mikhail Polyakov, who was previously arrested under the article “Extortion” (a group of persons or on an especially large scale), turned out to be Colonel of the FSB, who worked in the Department for the Protection of the constitutional system of the FSB in Moscow and the region. This was reported by "important stories" with reference to the source close to the special services.

The Afghan journalist Cobra Hassani, who escaped from the Taliban to Ukraine, can be transferred back to the new Afghan "authorities", writes "like this." Hassani, while Afghanistan was under the control of the United States, worked in a construction company, later worked as a school teacher, and then - an administrative assistant in the Australian company. Later, she decided to do journalism, managed to work both in Turkish Anadolu Agency and in the American NPR News Agency.

Official statistics suggest that Russia's poverty rate has plunged below 10% for the first time in history: only 9.8% of its population is poor. According to Rosstat, the number of Russians living in poverty dropped by 1.7 million in 2022. However, this ‘success’ results from a primitive statistics trick: before 2021, the poverty line directly correlated with food prices, but the authorities invented a new approach to the poverty line, assessing relative values for each region.

Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov was awarded the French Order of the Legion of Honor. The reward was presented to him by the ambassador Etienne de Ponsen on behalf of France President Emmanuel Macron. “I have long wanted to tell you how much my country admires your courage and commitment to the ideals of freedom. You have become a symbol of resistance to injustice.

A criminal case was opened on the article “Extortion” (a group of persons or on a particularly large scale) on June 14 on June 14, the administrator of the Kremlin Parathu Polyakov. It is reported by BAZA. According to the Telegram channel, together with Polyakov, the general director of the PSK "Heritage" Alexander Sanin was detained. According to preliminary data, Polyakov and Sanina are accused of extorting money from one of the largest Russian IT Lanit holdings.

Marfa Smirnova: Hello! Thank you very much for joining our broadcast. I want to remind our spectators, first of all, that 7 years ago Kadyrov posted a video with you, where you were literally at the sight. Therefore, I think, probably, you have your own view of this whole story with Nemov and Milashina. They say that Putin was dissatisfied. Although we, of course, cannot know for sure, but, again, there was some kind of chaotic reaction: everyone fussed, ordered each other instructions.

Participants in the neo -Nazi association NS/WP, detained on charges of preparing an attempt on propagandist Margarita Simonyan and TV presenter Ksenia Sobchak, were tortured a day before the official detention, knocking out testimonies. This was told by The Insider one of the representatives of NS/WP. The official press release on the detention of the FSB released on Saturday, July 15, while the suspects were detained on the night of Thursday to Friday, the participant of NS/WP said.