Top stories for July 17

Top stories for July 17

🔹Informer Ilya Remeslo was arrested for two months in a case on military "fakes." The evidence of "public dissemination of knowingly false information" about the Russian army in his case was an interview with Ksenia Sobchak.

🔹Grigory Leps apologized for an interview in which he expressed sympathy for most Russian families who somehow "manage" to live on 200,000-300,000 rubles a month. He said this in his Telegram channel.

🔹The Justice Ministry added Golos to the register of "undesirable organizations." The movement ceased operations a year ago.

🔹In Volgograd, local residents were detained after recording a video appeal to Bastrykin over the fuel crisis. Security forces deemed it an unauthorized rally.

🔹The Libertarian Party of Russia and the director of OVD-Info were added to the list of "foreign agents."

🔹A TV Rain source says authorities in Buryatia are forcing businesses to send workers to the front, but companies are resisting. According to documents available to the editorial team, enterprises in the Muysky municipal district in June sent only one worker to the front, though they were supposed to send 24 people.

🔹Rosselkhoznadzor asked Iran to suspend certification of flowers for shipments to Russia, suspecting they are from Armenia. The agency said that in 2026 the volume of supplies from Iran is significantly higher than last year.

🔹Nadezhdin was fined 1,000 rubles over a photo of Navalny. The grounds for prosecuting the politician were a link on the politician's YouTube channel to Elvira Vikhareva's video "Candidate Against Putin 2024."

🔹Trump claimed there were "vulnerabilities" in the US election system and Chinese influence on the 2020 election. According to Trump, intelligence representatives allegedly concealed information about China's activities.

🔹Andy Burnham has been named leader of the Labour Party. He will become the new prime minister of the United Kingdom.

🔹TV Rain is looking for a news editor.

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