When Russian hackers were reported to have broken into the computers of the Democratic National Committee on June 14, the Russian media — state, pro-Kremlin and independent — covered the event, but briefly, and using only Western media reports
Several hundred convicts organized a rebellion in Corrective Labor Colony No. 35 in the republic of Khakassia in southwestern Russia, reportedly demanding Muslim prayer times.
Prosecutor General Yuriy Lutsenko is investigating a claim that Vadim Troyan, first deputy head of the National Police had placed Pavel Sheremet, the journalist slain July 20 in a car bomb, under surveillance before his death.
In the past 24 hours, 6 Ukrainian soldiers died in battle, 13 were wounded and 8 other servicemen in the Armed Forces suffered concussions, said a presidential spokesman.
Aleksandr Zakharchenko, leader of the self-declared “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DNR) announced that elections, which he had scheduled for tomorrow, July 24, would be postponed to November 6, 2016,
Leonid Volkov, opposition activist in Alexey Navalny’s Anti-Corruption Foundation is accusing the Moscow Mayor’s office of now blocking an opposition rally originally approved.
Aleksandr Bastrykin, head of the Investigative Committee initiated the cases against seven investigators on charges of bribe-taking.
Pavel Sheremet, a veteran journalist known throughout the former Soviet Union for his critical reporting, was killed in a car explosion in Kiev this morning
Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has suspended the deputy minister of sports pending the doping investigation, and President Vladimir Putin says he will dismiss officials named in WADA’s report.
The Federal Security Service (FSB) has detained in Russia a translator for the OSCE Special Monitoring Mission (SMM), but released him and allowed him to return to Ukraine.
