Armenian border guards detained Natalia Taranushenko, a teacher of Russian language and literature from the Moscow region town of Protvino, at the Yerevan airport on Saturday morning. She had to leave Russia after a case was opened about "fakes" about the Russian army. Two sources close to the teacher told the Agency about this.

The IDF has struck an area in the Gaza Strip where senior Hamas leaders, including the mastermind of the October 7 attack, Mohammed Deif, were said to be located, according to the Israeli military. The Hamas-controlled Health Ministry says the strike killed 71 people and wounded 289. The IDF reports that the strike was carried out "on an area where two senior Hamas terrorists and other terrorists were hiding among civilians." The exact location of this area is not specified.

Alexander Lukashenko ordered the withdrawal of troops from the border with Ukraine and announced the "elimination of tensions" on the border, Belta reports . He said that the Belarusian authorities currently have no "complications with the Ukrainians" and said that he plans to discuss "further steps regarding Ukraine" with Vladimir Putin.

Analyst Naalsio updated the data on confirmed losses of equipment of the parties in the Avdiivka operational area . For the period from June 28 to July 5, he recorded 27 lost units of equipment of the Russian Armed Forces and six of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. In the Kharkiv direction, for the period from July 1 to July 8, Naalsio counted 16 lost units of equipment of the Russian Armed Forces and seven of the Ukrainian Armed Forces.

Billionaire Elon Musk has donated money to an organization called America PAC, which supports Donald Trump's presidential campaign. According to Bloomberg, citing sources, the size of the contribution is unknown, but the amount is "significant." America PAC is set to disclose its donor list on July 15. The publication notes that America PAC does not directly support Trump's campaign, but "behind the scenes," and spends a lot of money on voter outreach.

The Insider News July 13, 2024 A Sukhoi Superjet 100 plane flying from Nizhnevartovsk made an emergency landing in Mineralnye Vody due to technical problems, RT reports , citing the Southern Transport Prosecutor's Office. Half an hour before landing, the crew submitted a request for an emergency landing due to generator failure, but the landing itself proceeded as normal, the department reported. The same model plane crashed in the Moscow region the day before, killing three people.

A New Mexico court has dismissed the case against actor Alec Baldwin, who was accused of manslaughter in the shooting of cameraman Galina Hutchins on the set of the film "Rust," Reuters reports . It cannot be retried, and all charges against the actor have been dropped. Baldwin could have received 18 months in prison on the charges. When the actor heard the judge's decision, he cried. He left the courtroom without commenting on the outcome of the case to the press, agencies report.

A bill was introduced to the State Duma that would ban adoption in Russia for citizens of countries where trans-gender transition is permitted; the document has been posted in the Duma's electronic database. The initiators of the bill were, in particular, State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, who also announced the bill on his Telegram channel, and State Duma Vice Speakers Pyotr Tolstoy, Irina Yarovaya, and Anna Kuznetsova.

Politics I-AN Lee , Andrey Zasakin 13 July 2024 Not even six months have passed since the Taiwanese authorities were forced to impose sanctions on companies that imported high -precision machines that were indispensable in military production, as business with suppliers of the RF traders continued: as The Insider found out, the Taiwanese company Giant Force pledged to the Russian buyer to be indispensable For testing the heat -resistant coating of missile housings - the so -called "chamber of

The Insider News July 13, 2024 A bill was introduced to the State Duma that allows Belarusians permanently residing in Russia to take part in local elections at their place of registration, as well as in referendums.

An Ecuadorian criminal court has sentenced two accomplices in the murder of presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio to 34 years and 8 months in prison. Three others were sentenced to 12 years in prison. The first suspect, Edwin Angulo, according to investigators, gave the order to kill Villavicencio. The criminal's accomplice, Laura Castillo, was involved in organizing the murder.

Businessman Igor Kotelnikov, who was accused of bribing officials of the Ministry of Defense, died in Moscow's Pretrial Detention Center No. 4 (Medved), writes Eva Merkacheva, a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, in an article for Moskovsky Komsomolets. According to Merkacheva, 52-year-old Kotelnikov died on Monday, July 8. He became ill in the punishment cell located in building No. 5, and his heart stopped.

Russian TV channels will not show the Olympic Games for the first time in 40 years, Sports.ru reports . According to the publication, this is a "political decision" related to the fact that Russian athletes are performing without an anthem and under a neutral flag. It became known back in the winter of this year that Channel One and Russia 1 had refused to broadcast the Olympic Games, but Match TV was still in negotiations.

Russian troops carried out two strikes on the village of Budy, said Oleg Sinegubov, head of the Kharkiv regional administration. As a result of the attack, two people were killed and 22 were injured. At least nine of the injured were hospitalized. Among the dead is the head of the Kharkiv district department of the State Emergency Service of the Kharkiv region, Artem Kostyrya. Among the wounded are 16 men and 6 women aged from 14 to 81 years.

Novaya Gazeta published an open letter calling for an end to hostilities in Ukraine and the Gaza Strip, signed by 51 Nobel laureates, including winners of the Nobel Prize in Medicine Louis Ignarro and Barry Marshall, winners of the Nobel Prize in Physics Steven Chu and Andre Geim, as well as Nobel Peace Prize winners Dmitry Muratov and Belarusian writer Svetlana Alexievich.