83 Yabloko candidates failed to register for the municipal elections in St. Petersburg, Bumaga reports , citing party representative Dmitry Anisimov. The party is going to appeal the refusal decisions. Even during the review of the election documents, Yabloko candidates complained that the process was very drawn out and that they were being denied registration with the same wording. Also, in St.

Italy's Supreme Court of Cassation has overturned the life sentence of nurse Antonio De Pace for the murder of his fiancée, Lorena Quaranta, a medical student. According to ANSA, the court found that the sentencing had not taken into account the mitigating circumstance of the stress of the Covid-19 pandemic. The case has been sent back for a new trial. Quaranta, 27, was killed in March 2020 at a villa in Sicily. Her fiancé De Pace later confessed to strangling her.

A security guard at the Porokhovskoye Cemetery in St. Petersburg detained and handed over to the police a man suspected of desecrating the grave of Yevgeny Prigozhin, founder of the Wagner PMC. According to Fontanka, the detainee is a previously convicted 36-year-old resident of the Voronezh Region. According to the security guard, the suspect pasted three posters on the tombstone. They had the following inscriptions: "Noem Intelligence", "Stepan Zasunko" and "Rooster".

An employee of the state-run publication SB.Belarus Segodnya, Lyudmila Gladkaya, published previously unknown details of the case against German citizen Rico Krieger, who was sentenced to death by firing squad by the Minsk Regional Court, on a Telegram channel.

POLITICS France's political deadlock: Left-centrist tug-of-war may lead to prolonged parliamentary void Olga Dmitrieva 22 July 2024 On July 16, French President Emmanuel Macron accepted Prime Minister Gabriel Attal's resignation. Attal's cabinet will temporarily continue its functions until a new prime minister is appointed, likely after the end of the Olympic Games. There are no clear candidates for his replacement.

Asian countries are now the largest buyers of Russian coal. After the US, Australia, UK and, most importantly , the EU imposed an embargo on coal supplies from Russia in 2022, Russian companies redirected them to China and India. At the same time, both India and China have set a goal of achieving carbon neutrality: China plans to become carbon neutral by 2060, and India by 2070. In both countries, renewable generation is rapidly developing alongside coal.

News The Insider July 22, 2024 In today's summary: In two days, the Russian Armed Forces managed to turn the tide of the battles for the village of Progress, which lasted for three months.

On July 16, French President Emmanuel Macron accepted Prime Minister Gabriel Attal's resignation. Attal's cabinet will temporarily continue its functions until a new prime minister is appointed, likely after the end of the Olympic Games. There are no clear candidates for his replacement.

Cover photo: Alsu Kurmasheva on trial in Kazan, Russia. Source: AP Photo The Supreme Court of Tatarstan has sentenced Alsu Kurmasheva, a journalist for Idel.Realii , the regional news outlet of Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty’s (RFE/RL) Tatar-Bashkir Service, to 6.5 years in prison for “spreading false information” about the Russian army, according to an Associated Press report citing court records.

The news The Insider July 22, 2024 The circumstances of the airplane of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 aircraft are established in the suburbs. According to the Interstate Aviation Committee (MAC), the aircraft exceeded the specified speed, after which he moved to dive. Before the fall, the crew controlled the aircraft manually. SSJ 100 engines worked until the end of registration of flight parameters. “In the process of reducing, a shutdown of autopilot and traction machine was recorded.

Irina Farion was shot in the head in the courtyard of her home in Lviv, on Masaryk Street. She was hospitalized and died there. The suspect fled the scene of the murder. Farion was a member of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine in 2012–2014 and became famous for her scandalous statements.

The address indicated in the document in the Telegram channel of the Volgograd lawyer contains a repost of an April material from the SotaVision channel, which talked about the harassment that Melnichenko and other residents of Volgograd were subjected to for laying flowers at the monument to the victims of political repression in March 2024, after the death of Alexei Navalny. SotaVision does not mark its materials, ignoring the demands of the Russian authorities.

The Supreme Court upheld the sentence of politician Alexei Navalny, who died in prison, and former technical director of Navalny LIVE, Daniel Kholodny, in cassation: 19 and 8 years of imprisonment, respectively, Rusnews reports .

A court in Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkaria, has imposed administrative fines of three thousand rubles on eight local residents who failed to stand during the performance of the Russian anthem at school, TASS reported , citing the joint press service of the republic's judicial system. Nine administrative protocols have been submitted to the court, the last of which will be reviewed in the near future.

Russia has decided to build its own factories for hemodialysis equipment. This comes after the largest U.S. manufacturer ceased shipments to the country. For years, Russian doctors have relied on Western equipment, and now they must adapt to substitutes. This is just one of the problems facing Russian medicine as a result of the country’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine.