Presentation of the Chechen resort “Veduchi”

The Children’s Ombudsman, speaking in a VIP lounge at the airport, reflects on Russia lagging threefold behind the United States in birth rates and on the situation in orphanages. He also recalls a meeting with President Putin, who allowed him to finish his speech — and then pointed to his untied shoelace.

Participants of the Seliger youth camp watch a video featuring Navalny, and some chant “Turn it off!” Dmitry Ternovsky then criticizes Putin for the case against Pussy Riot, the judicial system as a whole, and the immutability of power. The Russian president responds that he did not change the Constitution to suit himself, and "moved to a lower position".

The Seliger Forum was held for the eighth time in the Tver Region. This time, the organizers positioned it as “apolitical,” promising to focus mainly on social projects. Nevertheless, politics could not be avoided, and Vladimir Putin's visit became the central event of the forum.

Elena Mizulina, chair of the State Duma Committee on Women, Family and Children, criticizes U.S. Ambassador Michael McFaul for failing to attend an extended session of the committee, citing diplomatic protocol. She then goes on, for reasons that are not entirely clear, to claim that there is also no protocol “that allows the United States to kill Russian children.” She later clarifies that she is referring to the adoption of Russian children by same-sex couples.

Aleksey Pushkov, chair of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs, scolds the media for their “pathological” defense of the United States, noting that the U.S. is the only country alongside Somalia that has not ratified the Vienna Convention on the Rights of the Child.

Activists from the Youth Anti-Drug Special Forces carried out a punitive raid against dealers of spice—a synthetic smoking blend. The Youth Anti-Drug Special Forces (YADSF) project was created on the initiative of the pro-Kremlin youth movement Young Russia. A group of YADSF members, looking like ordinary teenagers, attacks a suspected stash courier, who insists that he is merely a buyer and “just smoked a little.” They beat him, including with a hammer, and then go to ride the metal carousel on a children’s playground.

The birth of a “true United Russia member.” Andrei Razin, producer of the band Laskovyi Mai, joins the United Russia party and tells orphans about his “victory” over The Beatles: “Every fifth person, including elderly people, has been to a Laskovyi Mai concert… This is a result that no one has beaten to this day — not Michael Jackson (may he rest in peace), not The Beatles, not any artist in the world.”