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16 июл. 2026 г.A rapper touted his support for Russian soldiers in Ukraine. A Moscow court fined him for drug-themed lyrics anyway.
The Nikulinsky District Court in Moscow fined David Nuriyev, the rapper better known as Ptakha, 80,000 rubles (about $1,000) on an administrative charge of drug propaganda, the independent Russian outlet Mediazona reported. According to the Russian state news agency RIA Novosti, the case stemmed from three tracks: “Ne pozdno” (“Not Too Late”), “Ne mogu” (“I Can’t”), and “Monolog” (“Monologue”). The last was recorded by Centr, the group Ptakha used to belong to.
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16 июл. 2026 г.Ukrainians protest and Z-bloggers celebrate after Zelensky fires the defense minister who cut Russia off from Starlink and flooded the front with drones
Roman Pilipey / AFP / Scanpix / LETAOutgoing Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov at a press conference in Kyiv. July 16, 2026 On the evening of July 15, news broke that Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov would be dismissed from the post he had held since January. Ukraine’s parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has yet to formally approve his removal. Fedorov confirmed the news, acknowledging at a press conference that he had clashed with Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine’s commander in chief.
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16 июл. 2026 г.Google Play removes Max, Russia’s Kremlin-backed messenger, and VKontakte, VK’s flagship social network — three days after the EU sanctioned VK, their parent company
VK said on July 16 that the Max messenger and the VKontakte social network apps had been removed from the Google Play app store. The Odnoklassniki social network app is also unavailable there. The apps remain available for download through RuStore, Huawei AppGallery, Samsung Galaxy Store, Xiaomi GetApps, and other Android app stores, the company said. Apps already installed will continue working without restrictions.
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16 июл. 2026 г.An 80-year-old man died waiting in line for fuel in Perm Krai. He’s the third person to die at a gas station in Russia since late June.
An 80-year-old man died at a gas station in Lysva, a city in Perm Krai, the local newspaper Iskra reported. He had fallen ill while waiting in line to fill up his car. Bystanders called an ambulance, but paramedics could not save him. The Perm Krai Health Ministry’s press service told 59.ru that the emergency medical team had attempted to resuscitate him but that their efforts had, unfortunately, been unsuccessful. The man died on the evening of July 14, the ministry said.
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16 июл. 2026 г.Анонсирован сборник ранее не издававшихся песен Дэвида Боуи. Часть из них была записана с создателем Led Zeppelin Джимми Пейджем
Лейбл Polydor анонсировал выпуск сборника, в который войдут десять ранее не издававшихся композиций Дэвида Боуи, пишет «Би-би-си». В сборник, получивший название «The Shel Talmy Recordings», войдут треки, которые Боуи записал в самом начале своей карьеры в 1965 году, когда выступал под псевдонимом Дэйви Джонс. В некоторых композициях гитарные партии исполнял Джимми Пейдж — будущий создатель Led Zeppelin, который на тот момент был сессионным музыкантом. Сборник будет выпущен 18 сентября.
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16 июл. 2026 г.Yachts linked to six Russian billionaires, plus Vladimir Putin, gather off Turkey’s coast
Six yachts belonging to Russian billionaires have gathered near the Turkish resort city of Bodrum, the independent Russian investigative outlet Verstka reported . The yacht Victoria , linked to Vladimir Putin, had arrived there earlier. Among the vessels now anchored off Turkey’s southern and southwestern coast are those belonging to Roman Abramovich, Oleg Deripaska, VTB Bank chief Andrei Kostin, and Lukoil founder Vagit Alekperov, according to Verstka.
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16 июл. 2026 г.Ukrainian Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov stopped rubber-stamping the General Staff’s requests. Six months in, Zelensky sided with the generals.
Mykhailo Fedorov, who spent six months as Ukraine’s defense minister, will not be reappointed to the new government. His departure came amid a broader reshuffling of Ukraine’s cabinet: on July 14, the Verkhovna Rada accepted the resignation of Prime Minister Yulia Svyrydenko, and the rest of the ministers automatically lost their posts.
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16 июл. 2026 г.Индекс Мосбиржи за одну сессию потерял более 4%. Это происходит уже второй раз за месяц
Индекс Мосбиржи по итогам сессии 16 июля снизился на 4,24%, до 2022,27 пункта. В лидерах падения оказались акции банковского и нефтегазового секторов. Бумаги «Газпрома» в ходе сессии обновили исторический минимум. Как отмечают эксперты РБК, распродажа акций происходит на фоне опасений новых жестких санкций США, а также топливного кризиса внутри России и ожидания ухудшения финансовых показателей крупных нефтяных компаний, объекты которых атакуют беспилотники.
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16 июл. 2026 г.Oryol ends ‘odd-even’ gasoline rationing, becoming first region in Russia to lift its fuel limits
The Oryol region has lifted the temporary “odd-even” system it had introduced during the fuel crisis to ration gasoline by license plate number, Governor Andrei Klychkov announced, saying there had been no lines at the region’s gas stations for more than a week. “The ‘odd-even’ system proved effective and achieved its main goal — eliminating unwarranted panic buying,” Klychkov said.
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16 июл. 2026 г.Russia says it returned the bodies of 501 Ukrainian soldiers and received 31 in exchange
Russia and Ukraine again exchanged the bodies of fallen soldiers, State Duma deputy Shamsail Saraliyev told the business news outlet RBC. Russia handed over 501 bodies to Ukraine and received 31 in exchange, Saraliyev said. Ukraine had not confirmed the exchange at the time of publication. Moscow and Kyiv last exchanged the bodies of fallen soldiers on June 18, when Russia handed over 522 and Ukraine 33.
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16 июл. 2026 г.Moscow appeals court upholds 18.17-trillion-ruble order against Euroclear, the Belgian depository holding €190 billion of Russia’s frozen funds
A Moscow appeals court has rejected a petition from Euroclear, the Belgian securities depository, the Russian state news agency TASS reported. A spokesman for Euroclear said a ruling ordering the firm to pay 18.17 trillion rubles in a case brought by Russia’s central bank remained in force.
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16 июл. 2026 г.Russia’s richest businessmen are moving billions abroad amid fears of asset seizures, Bloomberg reports
Several of Russia’s wealthiest businessmen have moved billions of dollars out of the country over the past year amid growing concern about the economy’s future and the federal budget, Bloomberg reported, citing six wealthy Russians and other people familiar with the thinking of several of the country’s billionaires.
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16 июл. 2026 г.Russia won’t let opposition politician Boris Nadezhdin run for parliament. Now it won’t let him leave the country, either.
Russian politician Boris Nadezhdin says he has been barred from leaving the country. He learned of the restriction through Gosuslugi, Russia’s government services portal. “Overnight, an order imposing a travel ban on me arrived via the government services portal,” Nadezhdin wrote on Telegram. “We’re working through it with defense attorneys. They say it’s an unlawful decision.
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16 июл. 2026 г.Орловская область первой в России отменила систему заправки «чет-нечет» по номерам автомобилей
В Орловской области отменена временная система заправки «чет-нечет» по номерам автомобилей, введенная из-за топливного кризиса. Об этом сообщил губернатор Андрей Клычков. Как заявил Клычков, уже больше недели на заправках региона не наблюдается очередей. «Система „чет-нечет“ оказалась эффективной и достигла своей главной цели — снять необоснованный ажиотаж», — отметил губернатор.
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16 июл. 2026 г.Russia’s state gas giant Gazprom drops 5% to an all-time low on the Moscow Exchange
Gazprom shares fell to 83.98 rubles on the Moscow Exchange on July 16, hitting an all-time low — down 5% from the previous session’s close. The previous record low was set on October 24, 2008, when shares in the gas monopoly traded at 84 rubles, the Russian state news agency TASS reported. The stock partially recovered during the session but was still trading near its lows as of 1 p.m. Moscow time.