Last month, Belarus sentenced a 29-year-old German citizen to death for his alleged role in a railway explosion. At least one Belarusian opposition politician has suggested the case is the result of a “backroom deal” with Moscow. Here’s what we know.
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Russian investigators have arrested another top defense ministry official as part of a corruption case: Former Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov, who oversaw logistics operations at the start of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. https://t.co/biZZXP4JKq

The Kremlin wants to make its war against Ukraine an integral part of all new Russian art. To achieve this, the Russian authorities need to fully consolidate their control over the arts in Russia — and they plan to bring back Soviet-era methods to do so.
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Former Russian Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov arrested in connection with corruption case - Meduza https://meduza.io/en/news/2024/07/26/former-russian-deputy-defense-minister-dmitry-bulgakov-arrested-in-connection-with-corruption-case

Russian Children’s Rights Commissioner Maria Lvova-Belova, whom the ICC has charged with war crimes, is having an affair with Konstantin Malofeev, an Orthodox media tycoon with monarchist views and big political ambitions, according to @verstka_media.
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YouTube will load 70 percent more slowly on desktop computers in Russia by the end of next week, according to lawmaker Alexander Khinshtein. He said Moscow is throttling the service in retaliation for Google’s removal of pro-Kremlin content.
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Former Deputy Defense Minister Dmitry Bulgakov detained https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/zaderzhan-byvshiy-zamestitel-ministra-oborony-dmitriy-bulgakov

Update: On Thursday, Belarusian state TV aired a segment titled “Confessions of a German terrorist” in which Rico Krieger appears to confess to collaborating with Ukrainian intelligence. At the end of the segment, he’s shown crying and asking Alexander Lukashenko to pardon him. https://t.co/9ltG6n2lUm

Former Deputy Defense Minister General Dmitry Bulgakov detained in corruption case - FSB https://theins.ru/news/273386

The Central Bank raised the key rate from 16% to 18% https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/26/tsentrobank-podnial-kliuchevuiu-stavku-s-16-do-18-news

An Argentine soccer player was robbed at the Olympics during a training session of the national team. He estimated the damage at 50,000 euros https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/argentinskogo-futbolista-obokrali-na-olimpiade-vo-vremya-trenirovki-sbornoy-on-otsenil-uscherb-v-50-tysyach-evro

The defendants in the case of preparing a terrorist attack in "Sheremetyevo" received sentences of up to 22 years in a strict regime colony https://theins.ru/news/273385

Shoot the archers, not the arrows. Colby Bedwor on why Ukraine will be protected not by air defense but by U.S. permission to strike targets in Russia https://theins.ru/opinions/kolbi-bedvor/273322

The Ukrainian armed forces are holding the defense of Toretsk. Local residents are being evacuated right under Russian shelling. Photos https://meduza.io/feature/2024/07/26/vsu-derzhat-oboronu-toretska-mestnyh-zhiteley-evakuiruyut-pryamo-pod-rossiyskimi-obstrelami-fotografii

Military court sentences two defendants in Sheremetyevo terrorist attack case to up to 22 years in prison https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/voennyy-sud-prigovoril-k-srokam-do-22-let-dvuh-obvinyaemyh-po-delu-o-podgotovke-terakta-v-sheremetievo

Former Verkhovna Rada deputy Irina Farion was shot with a modified pistol, a sports shell casing was found on the spot - investigation https://theins.ru/news/273380

"Famous killers riding around town. They promise not to mess around." Investigator of special cases from St. Petersburg - about prisoners returning from the war https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/znatnye-killery-katayutsya-po-gorodu-obeschayut-ne-shalit-sledovatel-po-osobo-vazhnym-delam-iz-sankt-peterburga-o-vernuvshihsya-s-voyny-zaklyuchennyh

The Justice Ministry included the Free Russia Foundation in the list of "extremist organizations" as a subdivision of the "Anti-Russian Separatist Movement" https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/26/miniust-vkliuchil-fond-svobodnaia-rossiia-v-spisok-ekstremistskikh-organizatsii-kak-podrazdelenie-antirossiiskogo-separatistskogo-dvizheniia-news

The Justice Ministry added the Free Russia Foundation to the list of "extremist" organizations, calling it a subdivision of the "Anti-Russian Separatist Movement" https://theins.ru/news/273383

Nearly 500 foreign companies face secondary sanctions over ties to Russia https://theins.ru/news/273379

3/4s of the meals at the #Olympic village are #vegan or #vegetarian. I find that laughable, given that athletes need a lot of high quality protein in order to perform well. Not all proteins are made equal, and nothing is as good as animal protein.

I've had a number of lucid dreams with entities (?) telling me to go vegan. But I don't listen to armchair CEOs from another dimension. When they'll incarnate too, we'll then see what their bodies will need too.

#keto #carnivore #olympics #plantbased

Russian Justice Ministry adds the Free Russia Foundation to the list of "extremist organizations" https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/minyust-rf-vnes-fond-svobodnaya-rossiya-v-perechen-ekstremistskih-organizatsiy

Emigrant scoring. More than 350 athletes left Russia after the war started. At least 26 of them will compete in Paris under the flags of other countries, Nova-Europe found out https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/26/emigrantskii-zachet

Dmitry Skurikhin, convicted of "discrediting" the army, was released from the colony. He painted anti-war inscriptions on the facade of his store https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/dmitriy-skurihin-osuzhdennyy-za-diskreditatsiyu-armii-vyshel-iz-kolonii-on-nanosil-na-fasad-svoego-magazina-antivoennye-nadpisi

The Times: UK plans to develop long-range missiles capable of destroying Russia's nuclear weapons https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/the-times-velikobritaniya-planiruet-razrabotat-dalnoboynye-rakety-sposobnye-unichtozhit-yadernoe-oruzhie-rossii

Olga Polyakova, wife of deputy Khinstein, sells advertising in the banned Instagram. Her husband was one of the initiators of the ban on advertising on the social network https://theins.ru/news/273378

25 July 1925 | A German Jewish girl, Rosa Cohen, was born in Dinslaken.

In August 1942 she was deported to Auschwitz. She did not survive.

Listen to our new #podcast about the advantages of literature written by direct witnesses over literary fiction inspired by the subject of Auschwitz.

Podcasters: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/auschwitz-memorial/episodes/On-Auschwitz-48-Good-examples-of-literature-dedicated-to-the-history-of-Auschwitz-camp-e2ma3ss

Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0mYpL8C4HoZyTezxwBPoi2?si=a5b2f7fd4d8c49e3

Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/pl/podcast/on-auschwitz/id1568273147?i=1000662960969

25 July 1908 | Bronisław Czech was born. An eminent Polish #skier, 24-time Polish champion, 3-time Olympian, mountain-climber & rescuer, glider pilot.

In #Auschwitz from 14 June 1940 (no. 349). He died of exhaustion in the camp hospital on 5 June 1944. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronis%C5%82aw_Czech

📖 Voices of Memory vol. 1 - The Evacuation, Liquidation, and Liberation of Auschwitz

It includes a historical outline, selected accounts, photographs, and documents as well as a timeline of important events.

#eBook: https://books.auschwitz.org/en_US/p/E-BOOK-Voices-of-Memory-1.-The-Evacuation%2C-Liquidation%2C-and-Liberation-of-Auschwitz/458

Metropolitan Hilarion suspended from service after harassment allegations, the alleged car bomber of a Russian Armed Forces officer is brought from Turkey to Moscow. Nova-Europe selection https://novayagazeta.eu/articles/2024/07/26/mitropolita-ilariona-otstranili-ot-sluzhby-posle-obvinenii-v-domogatelstve-predpolagaemogo-podryvnika-mashiny-ofitsera-vs-rf-dostavili-iz-turtsii-v-moskvu-news

Russian troops attacked Ukraine with drones and missiles. Energy facilities were hit https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/voyska-rf-atakovali-ukrainu-dronami-i-raketami-pod-udar-popali-ob-ekty-energetiki

Yevgeny Serebryakov, a suspect in the car bombing of a GRU officer, has been brought from Turkey to Moscow https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/evgeniya-serebryakova-podozrevaemogo-v-podryve-mashiny-ofitsera-gru-dostavili-iz-turtsii-v-moskvu

There will be only 15 athletes from Russia at the Olympics in Paris (although they will be in neutral status). And in which events? And are there any chances for medals? We tell you very briefly https://meduza.io/feature/2024/07/26/na-olimpiade-v-parizhe-budet-vsego-15-sportsmenov-iz-rossii-pravda-i-oni-v-neytralnom-statuse-a-v-kakih-vidah-i-est-li-shansy-na-medali

The Russian army has broken a new hole in the Ukrainian defense. The supply of Ukrainian armed forces on the most difficult section of the front is at risk. And this is not the only success of the Russian Armed Forces during the week. Battle map for July 26 https://meduza.io/feature/2024/07/26/rossiyskaya-armiya-probila-novuyu-bresh-v-ukrainskoy-oborone-pod-ugrozoy-snabzhenie-sil-vsu-na-samom-slozhnom-uchastke-fronta

I see news that in Berlin a patient has been cured of HIV, and in Africa a cure for the virus has been successfully tested with 100% efficacy. Is humanity really defeating this disease? https://meduza.io/cards/vizhu-novosti-chto-v-berline-patsienta-vylechili-ot-vich-a-v-afrike-uspeshno-ispytali-lekarstvo-ot-virusa-s-effektivnostyu-100-neuzheli-chelovechestvo-pobezhdaet-etu-bolezn

An unorthodox romance. Maria Lvova-Belova, the Russian children's rights commissioner accused of war crimes, leaves her husband for 'Orthodox oligarch' Konstantin Malofeev. https://meduza.io/en/feature/2024/07/26/an-unorthodox-romance

The State Duma proposed to oblige athletes to swear an oath of allegiance to Russia https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/26/v-gosdume-predlozhili-obyazat-sportsmenov-prinosit-prisyagu-na-vernost-rossii

Belarusian TV showed a story about German Rico Krieger, sentenced to death. The footage showed him crying and asking Lukashenka to pardon him https://meduza.io/news/2024/07/25/na-belorusskom-tv-pokazali-syuzhet-o-nemtse-riko-krigere-prigovorennom-k-smertnoy-kazni-na-kadrah-on-plachet-i-prosit-pomilovaniya-u-lukashenko

Fanfiction site Fanficus was blocked because of stories with LGBT characters. The resource decided to hide some of its content from readers from the Russian Federation https://theins.ru/news/273372