Ukraine believes that the Kremlin is using the 50-day pause announced by the US President before possible new sanctions Ukrainian authorities believe that Russia plans to use the 50-day pause announced by US President Donald Trump before the possible introduction of new sanctions to increase the intensity of military operations. According to CNN, some 160,000 Russian troops are already massed along the front line, and a major summer offensive is expected in the coming days or weeks.

There will be no delay in the entry into force of fines, despite criticism from Z-bloggers and Margarita Simonyan The Russian authorities were unexpected by the sharp criticism of the amendments introducing administrative fines for searching “ extremist materials ” on the Internet, but public negativity will not prevent these fines from being introduced; they plan to apply them to “targeted” people, sources told Vestka.

More than 20 contractor companies may be associated with it In the Bryansk region, a criminal case has been opened regarding fraud by an organized group or on an especially large scale (part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code) during the construction of protective structures. “Verstka” learned about this from a court decision to freeze the accounts of one of the defendants in the case.

Signs of “propaganda” were found in the book “Infernal Feminism” by Peter Faxneld and two other publications The Tverskoy District Court of Moscow fined the independent bookstore “Phalanster” 800 thousand rubles for so-called “ LGBT propaganda ”. According to TASS, the corresponding signs, according to experts, were found in the book “Infernal Feminism” by Peter Faxneld and two other publications.

Mezyb produces up to 200 thousand bottles of wine per year The Mezyb winery, located near Gelendzhik and owned by the Russian Orthodox Church, earned a record 118.2 million rubles in 2024. This is evidenced by data from the State Accounting Reporting Resource (BFO), noted Vorstka. In order not to miss new texts from “Layout”, subscribe to our telegram channel Over the year, the winery’s revenue quadrupled – in 2023, Mezyb earned only 28.9 million rubles.

And NATO called on the US and the EU to be prepared for a future war with Russia and China The leaders of China, Russia and the United States - Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump - may meet in Beijing in early September. As the British publication The Times reports , citing sources in the Chinese leadership, the meeting is planned to coincide with a large-scale military parade in Tiananmen Square.

Slovakia, which blocked it, abandoned its veto after negotiations with the head of the European Commission The EU countries have approved the 18th package of sanctions against Russia. The head of European diplomacy, Kaya Kallas, announced this, calling it “one of the toughest” to date. New restrictions will affect, among other things, Russia’s “shadow fleet”, the Nord Stream gas pipeline and will lower the price ceiling for Russian oil.

It included the publication “Activatika” and seven people The Russian Ministry of Justice has updated the register of “ foreign agents ”, adding seven people and the publication “Aktivatika” to it. In order not to miss new texts from “Layout”, subscribe to our telegram channel Who was included in the updated list of “foreign agents”?

Russian authorities are focusing on China, where foreign messengers are prohibited First Deputy Chairman of the State Duma IT Committee Anton Gorelkin said on July 18 that WhatsApp, owned by Meta, whose activities in Russia are recognized as extremist and banned, “with a very high probability will be included in the list of software from unfriendly countries that is subject to restrictions.” And Anton Nemkin, a member of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy, said that “the fate of