The closing of the Rain television channel becomes almost inevitable. The Krasny October Business Center, located in the center of Moscow, warned the leadership of the Rain television channel about the intention not to extend the short-term sublease agreements after the expiration of their validity on June 20. This was announced on his page on Facebook by the project investor Alexander Vinokurov.

A considerable part of the Orthodox Christians in Ukraine attach some extraordinary religious significance to their unity with Moscow - church, and ideally, both political and state. The first is still somehow understandable: after all, the UOC-KP, headed by Patriarch Filaret, is not recognized by the rest of the Orthodox churches and is considered “non-canonical.” So the desire to maintain communication with the canonical church hierarchy as a whole is understandable.

Ukraine intends to introduce a visa regime with Russia. The corresponding order was received by the country's foreign policy from the National Security and Defense Council (National Security and Defense Council) of Ukraine. As the Secretary of Higher Professional Education Andrei Parubiy said, the Foreign Ministry in the coming hours should work out a mechanism according to which citizens of the Russian Federation will be able to get to the territory of Ukraine only through foreign passports.

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