The Moscow Arbitration Court seized the companies of the Transbunker group in favor of the state, RBC reports , citing the court's press service. “The stated demands of the Prosecutor General’s Office must be satisfied in full. The decision takes effect immediately,” the judge ruled. The Prosecutor General's Office filed a lawsuit in mid-April, the defendants were the structures of the Transbunker company and its founders Joseph Sandler and Sergei Pugachev .

The Moscow Court of Appeals has increased the sentence against Halyna Bekhter, a 68-year-old resident of the Russian-occupied part of Zaporizhzhia Region who suffers from both dementia and cachexia, a life-threatening metabolic condition that results in severe weight loss and muscle deterioration. In March, Bekhter was convicted on charges of “state treason.” On Monday, her sentence was raised from 11 years to 12.5 years.

The AI ​​model Claude behaved ethically during security checks in part because it recognized surveillance. When Anthropic researchers turned off the “fake” and “made up” patterns in her “thoughts” that are responsible for understanding that a situation is a test, the model, who had never done this before, began to blackmail people. This follows from a new company study published on July 6.

The United States revoked the general license that allowed the sale of Iranian oil. According to a Reuters source, a representative of the American authorities, the decision was made after attacks on commercial tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. He said Iran's actions were "completely unacceptable" and "there will be consequences." The US Treasury Department said that transactions with Iranian oil previously permitted under the license must be completed by July 17.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg arrested activist Ariadna Litvinova, deported from Turkey. This was reported by the joint press service of the city courts. According to the activist’s father, Valery Kryzhanovsky, who lives in Turkey, Litvinova was expelled from the country due to overstaying her visa-free stay and lack of a residence permit. He told the BBC Russian Service about this.

Nuclear physicist Andrei Ozharovsky discovered a leak at a radioactive waste repository in the Sergiev Posad district of the Moscow region. As the scientist said on his YouTube channel, in the area near the stream flowing from the territory of the burial ground, he found soil contaminated with cesium-137. We are talking about the radioactive waste dump of the Federal State Unitary Enterprise "Radon", which Ozharovsky calls the largest radioactive waste repository in the Moscow region.

In Russia, the proportion of those persecuted for speaking out continues to decline, as well as the proportion of those imprisoned in political cases, but in general the number of repressed persons remains unchanged - about 500 cases in three months. From April to June 2026, the number of cases against Jehovah's Witnesses and people who donated money to FBK continued to grow.

The Paris Court of Appeal on Tuesday, July 7, commuted the sentence for far-right leader Marine Le Pen. Instead of the original sentence of five years of deprivation of the right to hold public office, this term was reduced to 15 months, which may allow Le Pen to take part in the 2027 elections. The newspapers Le Figaro and France 24 write about this. The court upheld the conviction; it was handed down back in March last year.

The Belgium team beat the USA team in the 1/8 of the World Cup with a score of 4:1. On the eve of this match, a scandal was brewing due to the admission to the game of one of the expelled players of the US national team: he was disqualified due to a red card, but this decision was reversed after a call from President Donald Trump to FIFA. Shortly before the match, forward Folarin Balogun was returned to the American team.

Two people were detained on the Serbian-Hungarian border who were allegedly preparing sabotage on German territory in the interests of Russian intelligence services, writes BILD. According to the German publication, the detainees were “disposable agents” who are used for individual tasks for a small reward. They allegedly found an explosive device. The intended target could be a defense facility in Germany associated with supporting Ukraine in the war against Russian aggression.

Berlin police have issued a warning about a new method of drug distribution: colorful leaflets with dealer contacts are being dropped directly into mailboxes along with a bag of cocaine, hashish, ecstasy, marijuana or other drugs. The police asked citizens to report such advertisements to law enforcement officers. “Unfortunately, colorful bags are especially attractive to children. Therefore, parents should be especially careful now,” the message says.

The leader of the French right-wing National Rally party, Marine Le Pen, has announced that she will run in the French presidential elections in 2027. She stated this on TF1 television a few hours after the decision of the Paris Court of Appeal, reports Le Monde. She emphasized that she does not intend to refuse to participate in the elections, despite the confirmation of the guilty verdict, and will appeal the court decision to the cassation instance.

On the night of July 7, the Ukrainian Unmanned Systems Forces attacked 8 Russian tankers at once. The commander of the Armed Forces of the Unmanned Systems of the Armed Forces, Robert “Madyar” Brovdi, wrote about this. From his post it follows that the tankers were attacked in the Sea of ​​Azov.

In total, journalists identified more than 90 places in the occupied territories of Ukraine where civilians and prisoners of war were kept. About a third of them were unofficial and were located in garages, hotels, former tax office offices and other buildings. The BBC discovered another 102 detention centers in Russia. According to the office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, torture and abuse of civilians in such places is systematic.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) confirmed the death of Anastasia Berezovskaya, who was suspected of organizing the assassination attempt on Ukrainian billionaire Vadim Ermolaev in Monaco. The intelligence service's message also confirms that two people were detained: a current GUR officer and a former law enforcement officer.