Top stories for July 10
Top stories for July 10
🔹Russia’s Foreign Ministry has begun drafting a bill to introduce exit visas, sources told “Mozhem Obyasnit.” The ministry itself called it “nonsense.”
🔹Politician Boris Nadezhdin was added to the “foreign agents” register. He said that he would “go on living and fighting.”
🔹In St. Petersburg, city preservation activist Oleg Mukhin and CPRF deputy Ivan Apostolevsky were arrested over links to Facebook and Instagram. Mukhin was detained on July 9 near the deteriorating historic building of Mikhailovskaya Dacha under the pretext of meeting with journalists. Apostolevsky was detained the same day near his home, on his way to a meeting with residents in Sosnovy Bor. They spent the night at the police station.
🔹Former serviceman Lunin, who had threatened a mutiny, said that there would be no meeting with Putin. But he added that “a very large amount of work is being carried out.”
🔹Deputy Prime Minister Novak on fuel: “We must acknowledge that there are problems and there is a shortage.” He added that the authorities are “doing everything to strengthen the protection of our oil refineries.”
🔹Foot traffic at grocery stores in Russia fell by 10%. Other retail formats also showed a drop in traffic.
🔹Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was buried in Iran. Ali Khamenei’s son and successor, Mojtaba Khamenei, still has not appeared in public.
🔹Authorities in Taganrog reported the evacuation of people from the “emergency zone.” A drone attack caused a fire on port grounds there.
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The ministry drafts exit visas and calls it nonsense.
The agency is already arguing with its own work.