What happened on the day of July 7th. The main thing

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has recommended that international sports federations lift sanctions against Russian athletes. He also temporarily reinstated the Russian Olympic Committee. According to the decision, the IOC will not hold events under its auspices in the Russian Federation anyway, but other sports federations can do this. Doping control will be carried out by the International Testing Agency. According to Mikhail Degtyarev, the head of the Ministry of Sports, the IOC's decision will accelerate the process of restoring all Russian athletes to the international arena. Other main events of the day are in the Izvestia digest.

A suspect in the assassination of Ermolaev was shot dead near Kiev.

The Ukrainska Pravda newspaper reported that the body of Anastasia Berezovskaya, the main suspect in the attempt on the life of Ukrainian businessman Vadim Ermolaev, was found near Kiev. This information was later confirmed by the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) — the woman was shot several times in the head. According to investigators, after returning to her homeland, Berezovskaya communicated with two men — an active employee of the Main Intelligence Directorate of the Ukrainian Ministry of Defense and a former law enforcement officer. The SBU also suspects them of involvement in the assassination attempt on Ermolaev — the money was transferred to the murdered man. Both suspects have been detained, they are being investigated for murder committed by a group of people by prior agreement.

Macron was tried to blow up during a visit to Syria

French President Emmanuel Macron is on an official visit to Syria. He became the first leader of an EU country to visit the republic after the change of power. He was staying at the Four Seasons Hotel in the center of Damascus, where two explosions occurred. Law enforcement officers noticed the explosive devices even before detonation, but were unable to defuse them in time, the Syrian Interior Ministry reported. As a result of the incident, at least 18 people were injured, including four policemen. Macron was not injured — during the explosions he was in the palace of Syrian President Ahmed Hussein al-Sharaa, where an expanded meeting of the delegations of the two countries was taking place. Despite the assassination attempt, the French president continued his visit.

A man-made emergency regime was introduced in the Kherson region

A technogenic emergency situation (emergency) regime has been introduced in the territory of the Kherson region. The corresponding decree was signed by the governor of the region, Vladimir Saldo. He explained that the introduction of the regime would speed up the resolution of issues related to the functioning of life support facilities, infrastructure and the economy. In particular, the authorities will be able to carry out the necessary work more quickly, as well as purchase machinery, equipment and materials by reducing administrative procedures. There will be no changes for residents of the Kherson region, similar to the emergency regime in Crimea.

The most massive attack on the Moscow region in two years

At night, the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU) carried out a new massive drone attack on Moscow and the Moscow region. It started at about 02:00 Moscow time. By 06:00 Moscow time, the mayor of the capital, Sergei Sobyanin, reported the elimination of 430 Ukrainian drones, 36 of them on approach to Moscow. Thus, the Ukrainian Armed Forces attack has become the largest in the Moscow region over the past two years. Last week, on July 4, Sobyanin reported the elimination of more than 200 drones overnight, and on June 18 their number exceeded 190.

Marine Le Pen sentenced to three years in prison in embezzlement case

The Paris Court of Appeal has approved the verdict of Marine Le Pen, the leader of the French National Unification Party, in the case of embezzlement of European Parliament funds to create fictitious jobs. She has been sentenced to three years in prison, one of which she must spend under house arrest with an electronic bracelet. At the same time, the court commuted the verdict of March 2025, when Le Pen was sentenced to four years in prison and banned from participating in the French presidential elections. The Court of Appeal reduced the last point from 60 months to 45, which gives the politician the right to run for president in 2027, when elections will be held in France. She has not yet made a decision on participation.

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The State Duma in the first reading approved the law on regulation of AI

The State Duma approved in the first reading the government's draft basic law on supporting the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. The project is designed to create legal conditions for the accelerated development and implementation of large fundamental models of artificial intelligence in Russia. The bill introduces a single conceptual framework in the field of artificial intelligence, including definitions of AI, technologies and services based on it. The document also suggests dividing domestic developments into sovereign and national models. Another initiative will be the phased introduction of labeling materials created using artificial intelligence. At the first stage, such labeling will be voluntary.

Promotion of the Russian Armed Forces: Petro-Ivanovka is liberated

The Russian army has taken control of the settlement of Petro-Ivanovka, located in the Kharkiv region. Fighters of the North group of forces took part in the operation to liberate the Armed Forces from the militants. In addition, during the day, the Russian air defense system shot down 797 drones and two Neptune missiles in the special operation zone. In addition, the facilities of the port infrastructure, energy, logistics centers used for the purposes of the Armed Forces of Ukraine were damaged. Air defense systems destroyed 27 HIMARS multiple rocket launchers. Four Ukrainian Armed Forces locomotives were hit in the Dnipropetrovsk region.

Four Ukrainian Armed Forces officers sentenced to life for war crimes in Mariupol

The court sentenced four officers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine in a criminal case on the murder of 93 civilians, shelling of residential areas and civilian infrastructure of Mariupol. The commander of the 36th Marine Brigade of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, Vladimir Baranyuk, his deputies Dmitry Karmyankov and Vitaly Yaroshenko, as well as the commander of the 501st Marine battalion, Nikolai Biryukov, were found guilty. The court found all four defendants guilty and sentenced each to life imprisonment with time served in a special-regime penal colony. The charges included a number of articles of the Russian Criminal Code, including ill-treatment of civilians and prisoners of war, murder of two or more persons, attempted murder and intentional destruction of property.

Gagik Tsarukyan, an oppositionist, was arrested in Armenia

A court in Armenia has authorized the arrest of Gagik Tsarukyan, leader of the Prosperous Armenia opposition party, for a period of two months. He is accused of organizing fraud and money laundering on an especially large scale. The defense called the charges absurd and announced its intention to appeal the court's decision. The day before, Tsarukyan's house was searched, and unidentified people in civilian clothes and security forces in camouflage barricaded the entrance to his house.