Top news for July 17

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Top news for July 16 ✹ In Ukraine, there are protests over the resignation of Defense Minister Mykhailo Fedorov. ✹ Oryol Oblast became the first in Russia to cancel the odd-even refueling system based on car license plate numbers. ✹ Boris Nadezhdin was banned from leaving Russia. ✹ "Max"…

Top news for July 17

✹ Blogger Ilya Remeslo was sent to pretrial detention over posts criticizing Putin.

✹ Trump said there is a "shocking vulnerability" in the U.S. electoral system. And accused China of trying to influence the 2020 election.

✹ Putin's rating is falling at the fastest pace since the start of the war.

✹ Boris Nadezhdin was fined over a photo of Navalny. The politician told the court he would "drop dead" if he were put under arrest.

✹ Zelensky decided to replace the secretary of the National Security Council. Umerov's place, as negotiator with Russia, will be taken by the former interior minister.

Text of the day. Who will decide what Russia will be like after Putin? Those who resisted? Or those who tried to preserve their own property? Maxim Trudolyubov explains why this question is worth thinking about right now.

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