Deputy Head of the Russian Foreign Ministry Sergei Ryabkov admitted that the basic documents concerning nuclear deterrence could be changed due to "escalatory actions by the US and its NATO allies." His words were quoted by Interfax.

Actress Yana Troyanova said that Russians "deserve" words about the need to kill Russians, even children. The State Duma responded to this by proposing to ban her from entering the country. "My homeland is the limit for me <...> Of course, today we deserve it when they shout in our faces: "Russians must be killed, even children." Or as the Ukrainians say: "A good Russian is a dead Russian," Troyanova said in an interview with Novaya Gazeta - Europe.

The United States has lifted a long-standing ban on arms supplies to the Ukrainian Azov Brigade, The Washington Post reports . The State Department noted that Azov had passed the "Leahy test," which is linked to Patrick Leahy, who wrote the law. It prohibits the supply of weapons to foreign units that have committed serious human rights violations. At present, the State Department has not found any violations during its inspection of the brigade.

At the 12th meeting of the Russian-Chinese working group on cooperation in veterinary supervision, phytosanitary control and food safety, Chinese officials announced their desire to import reindeer from Russia. This was reported by the publication "Agroexpert" with reference to an anonymous source familiar with the results of the negotiations. The working group meeting was held from June 4 to 6 in the Chinese city of Sanya.

The second stage of nuclear force exercises has begun, during which Russian and Belarusian military personnel will work out joint training for the combat use of non-strategic nuclear weapons. This was reported by the Defense Ministry.

A resident of Primorye filed a complaint against Stanislav Tsabiev, a participant in the war in Ukraine, accusing him of rape, but the Ministry of Internal Affairs refused to initiate a criminal case, Dozhd reports . According to the TV channel, the investigators explained their refusal by the fact that the victim, 18-year-old Ruslana from the village of Kraskino in Primorsky Krai, did not have any obvious signs of rape: bruises or torn clothes.

A group of scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have found that cement can become part of a battery. According to them, if set up correctly, supercapacitors made of cement, water and carbon black could in the future replace lithium batteries and power entire homes, the BBC reports . The ability of cement to become a supercapacitor was accidentally discovered by MIT scientist Damian Stefaniuk.

Georgian TV channel Mtavari, citing anonymous sources, reports that Georgia and Russia are working to restore diplomatic relations. The channel's unnamed sources claim that recruitment for the Georgian embassy in Moscow has already begun. At the same time, as Mtavari notes, the channel's Georgian sources "close to the Kremlin" claim that the ruling Georgian Dream party denies information about the negotiations.

An anonymous former employee of the French service BlaBlaCar told the Agency how the company provided the Russian FSB with access to its servers due to its inclusion in the register of organizers of information dissemination (ORI). As the publication notes, BlaBlaCar was included in the ORI in 2018.

The European Center for Analysis and Strategies in Europe, whose expert council includes such well-known Russian oppositionists as Dmitry Gudkov, Sergey Aleksashenko and Andrey Movchan, proposed a number of measures to the EU authorities to facilitate the relocation of Russians to Europe. According to the authors, they should create new challenges to the Putin regime by increasing the outflow of wealthy and educated Russians from the country.

The world's five largest banks are complicit in damaging the unique Amazon ecosystem, which contains most of the planet's tropical forests and is home to more than half of all land species of animals, plants and insects, The Guardian writes , citing data from a report published by Stand.earth in collaboration with COICA.

Scientists have discovered that elephants communicate with each other using unique names that they invent for their fellows. Unlike parrots and dolphins, which communicate by imitating the sounds of members of their own species, elephants use individual, name-like calls that are not related to imitation, writes The Guardian, citing a study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

Apple has introduced system updates for its devices. This is reported on its website. The presentation took place in Cupertino at the Worldwide Developers Conference WWDC 2024. For iPhone, the company presented iOS 18, iPad — iPadOS 18, for computers — macOS Sequoia. It is expected that the new operating systems will be released in the fall. Among the innovations is the creation of its own artificial intelligence Apple Intelligence and the integration of the Siri voice assistant with ChatGPT.

In Chelyabinsk, the general director of the Chelyabinsk Electrometallurgical Plant, Pavel Khodorkovsky, was detained. Several media outlets, citing their own sources, reported that he is suspected of pedophilia. "Criminal cases have been opened against the director and other persons for committing crimes against the sexual inviolability of minors and public morality. The director has been detained.

The Carnegie Foundation and the Ukrainian sociological research company Rating conducted a survey among Ukrainians and found that half of them consider the war in Ukraine to be "at a dead end," but two-thirds of the population are confident that the Ukrainian army will liberate the occupied territories. This is reported by The Washington Post. The publication notes that this is one of the largest surveys since the beginning of the war.