Seven people and the Gorby Magazine media project were added to the updated list The Russian Ministry of Justice added publicist Boris Stomakhin and playwright Artur Solomonov to the list of so-called “ foreign agents ”. Seven people and one media project, Gorby Magazine, have been added to the updated list.

The Russian President said that Moscow is not seeking the capitulation of Ukraine, but “insists on recognizing the realities” Russia is not seeking the capitulation of Ukraine, but “insists on recognizing the realities that have developed on earth,” President Vladimir Putin said during a speech at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF-25).

All five parliamentary parties had difficulty recruiting candidates for regional elections In the fall, 20 regions of Russia will elect a governor, 11 will elect deputies to legislative assemblies, and another 25 will elect deputies to city councils. Regional election commissions have already scheduled elections - the period for nominating candidates and candidate lists is underway, which will last until the end of July - beginning of August.

To do this, the authorities used Medialogy. The owner of one of the city public pages on VK in the Kaluga region was fined for posts that spoke about the consequences of drone attacks. The owner of the public site reported this to “Layout” on condition of anonymity. In order not to miss new texts from “Layout”, subscribe to our telegram channel According to him, the magistrate imposed three fines of 3 thousand rubles each.

Both entrepreneurs are obsessed with spreading their genes At the end of May, the founder of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov announced a partnership with Elon Musk’s AI startup xAI. According to Durov, the Grok chatbot being developed by xAI can be built into the messenger and used for fact-checking, searching and even writing messages. The deal has not yet been officially concluded.

Vladimir Zelensky said that the majority of Ukrainians who returned to their homeland have been in captivity since 2022 Russia and Ukraine announced another round of prisoner of war exchange. Several exchanges took place last week. They are being carried out on the basis of agreements reached during direct negotiations in Istanbul on June 2. The media, without specifying details, also write that medical exchanges of the wounded took place.

Bots “whitewash” the Taliban and say that the Lada is a “cool car” Pro-government bots on Vkontakte were involved in the coverage of the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum (SPIEF), in 30 hours from its start, the bots left more than 5.2 thousand comments, according to data from the Botnadzor project, which was analyzed by Vorstka.

In 6 months, the Russian currency has grown by more than 40% At the moment, the ruble exchange rate against the dollar is undervalued, the equilibrium rate is the rate of “100 plus” per dollar. This was stated by the head of Sberbank German Gref during a business breakfast at SPIEF-2025. In order not to miss new texts from “Layout”, subscribe to our telegram channel “Today we have an exchange rate of 78–79 rubles. for a dollar.