Elton John. Photo from the site www.sheetmusicusa.com British musician Elton John plans to meet with Vladimir Putin in November and discuss gay rights in Russia. According to Lenta.ru, the singer said this in an interview with Sky News. “I will see Putin and talk to him. I don’t know what will come of it, but I’ll try,” said Elton John. The President of Russia himself had previously expressed his attitude to the homophobic law adopted during his third presidential term.

The detention of a neo -Nazi. Frame NTV The metropolitan riot police detained more than 250 participants in the congress of the neo -Nazi organization Restruk, reports New Gazeta. The Restruk movement is headed by neo -Nazi, Maxim Martsinkevich, also known, nicknamed Tesac. He himself is currently in a pre -trial detention center on charges of inciting interethnic hatred. Members of the organization gathered on Saturday evening in the concert hall of the Izmailovo Hotel.

135 years ago, on June 29, 1879, a factional congress of members of the Land and Freedom party, supporters of terror, began in Lipetsk. The congress decided to include in the program "Land and Freedom" the recognition of the need for a political struggle against the autocracy as a primary and independent task. The participants in the congress declared themselves the Executive Committee of the Social Revolutionary Party and adopted a charter based on centralism, discipline and conspiracy.

Petro Poroshenko in the ATO zone. Photo: President.gov.ua The five military army of the Ukrainian army died and at least more than 17 were injured over the past day in the east of the country. According to Interfax, the representative of the staff of the power operation, Alexei Dmititrashkovsky, announced on the air of the Ukrainian "Channel 5". According to him, the militants fired at the checkpoints of the Ukrainian army to ten times.

North Korean missile. Shot CNN The DPRK launched two low -range missiles from the east coast of the Korean Peninsula to the Japanese Sea, reports Lenta.ru with reference to the Renhap agency. The launch of missiles of the SKAD type 500-600 kilometers was carried out near the city of Vonsan of the South Korean province of Canvondo. The DPRK conducted previous missile tests on Thursday. North Korea launched three small -range missiles towards the Sea of ​​Japan.

Fighters of the Donbass battalion. Photo: News.liga.net Fighters of the Volunteer battalions "Donbass", "Dnipro" and "Aidar", the Council of Hundreds and public organizations of the Maidan held a rally near the building of the Presidential Administration of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, Interfax reports. They demanded to stop the ceasefire in the east of the country and introduce martial law there.

June 29 at 11:00 am in the Central House of Journalists (Nikitsky Boulevard, 8a) will host a regular meeting of the Congress of the intelligentsia. The topic was "Russia in the Conditions of a Split: The Role and Responsibility of the Intelligentsia". Congressional statement

OSCE observers in Ukraine. Frame BBC Representatives of the self -proclaimed "Donetsk People's Republic" announced the liberation of four observers of the organization on security and cooperation in Europe, RIA Novosti reported. Observers under guard were delivered to the Donetsk hotel Park Inn, where other members of the OSCE mission live. Together with them, the Prime Minister Alexander Borodai arrived at the hotel. He said that the OSCE representatives were in the Lugansk People's Republic.

The next session of the intelligentsia Congress, held on Sunday at the Moscow House of a journalist, was accompanied by provocations. According to the correspondent of the "faces", activists of the national liberation movement (NOD) picked the house of the journalist with posters "Congress of the Traditional", "The Congress of the Intelligentsia serves the US Congress" and others. One of the activists tried to break into the hall.

165 years ago, on June 29, 1849, Count Sergey Yulievich Witte, a real secret adviser, Minister of Finance and the First Constitutional Chairman of the Council of Ministers of the Russian Empire was born. Under Witte, a wine monopoly was introduced and monetary reform based on the gold support of the ruble was carried out, which made Russia attractive to foreign investments. Witte was the initiator and builder of the Trans -Siberian Railway.

Evgenia Vasiliev. Frame NTV The case of Oboronservice will be considered by the judge of the Presnensky court of Moscow Tatyana Vasyuchenko, a source familiar with the situation told Interfax. According to the interlocutor of the agency, Vasyuchenko is known for judging a number of resonance processes, including sentenced to five years in prison, the capital's businessman Alexei Kozlov, her husband, journalist Olga Romanova.