The Thai Senate has overwhelmingly passed a bill allowing same-sex marriage, Associated Press reports . The bill passed the final reading in the Senate of Thailand and received 130 votes in favor. Another four senators voted against, and 18 abstained. After approval by the Senate, the law must be approved by the country's King Maha Vajiralongkorn and published in the Government Gazette. Together with the publication, the date of the law's entry into force will be set.

Vladimir Putin believes that most Russians earn 200 thousand rubles a month. He said this while speaking at a meeting with local specialists during his first trip to Yakutsk in 10 years. “2.4 million rubles a year is the income of the majority of citizens of the Russian Federation,” TASS quotes Putin as saying. Putin added that this is why the government chose the threshold of 2.4 million in annual income for the increase in personal income tax, which will take place in 2025.

Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine, more than 10 thousand cases of refusal to serve have been filed with Russian military courts, Mediazona noted .

The Prosecutor General's Office considers some provisions of the federal law on the treatment of animals to be unconstitutional. This was stated at a session of the Constitutional Court by the Prosecutor General's representative in the Constitutional Court, Vyacheslav Rosinsky, RBC reports . According to Rosinsky, several provisions that give regional authorities the right to decide independently what to do with homeless animals should be declared unconstitutional.

Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas may take up the post of the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy, Reuters reports , citing sources among European diplomats. According to the agency, informal talks between EU leaders on the possible appointment of Callas took place on Monday, June 17. Josep Borrell has held this post since 2019. Reuters calls Kallas a harsh critic of Russia.

Russia is the undisputed leader in the medal count of the BRICS Games held in Kazan. Thus, Russian athletes received 115 gold medals there, in second place are participants from Belarus with 19 gold medals, and in third place are Chinese athletes who won 17 gold medals, TASS reports . Such a stunning success of Russian athletes is explained by the fact that they have practically no rivals in these competitions. For example, Russian synchronized swimmer Alexander Maltsev won two gold medals.

In Shebekino, residents of a multi-storey building where one of the entrances collapsed on June 14 said that local authorities are not providing them with any assistance. This is reported by the project "We Can Explain". The publication's interlocutors said that they are forced to live in apartments with broken windows in a building that is awaiting demolition. According to them, the local administration is ignoring their requests.

For the sake of helping her, I refused good work, spent savings and lost friends Usually we hear about the wives of prisoners and much less often - about men who are waiting for women from prison. Almaz Gatin is such an exception. For three years he has been supporting his wife, who has been pursued for political reasons.

The nationwide protest of farmers on their social network page X reported that they are starting to spill manure on the border of Poland and Belarus to combat illegal migrants from Muslim countries. “In accordance with the promises made earlier by activists of the All-Polish Farmers’ Protest and the Young Farmers’ Movement, we are starting to water the border strip on the Polish-Belarusian border with pig manure,” said one of the participants in the action.

The Federal Tax Service of Russia plans to automatically assign citizens the status of tax non-residents from 2025. This is reported by RBC, citing the official plan of the agency's activities. It states that a special automated system will be created for this purpose, which will determine the status of a tax and currency resident of Russia for individuals based on data on received foreign passports and information on the citizen's crossing of Russian borders.

Vladimir Putin arrived in Yakutsk on a special flight, which was accompanied by at least one fighter jet, the Agency noted . The publication analyzed the video and photos of the fighter jet, published on social networks by residents of the region, and came to the conclusion that the footage showed a Su-30SM fighter jet. The local publication SakhaLife also reported on the escort plane that landed behind Putin's plane.

American singer and actor Justin Timberlake has been arrested for drunk driving, CNN reports, citing police. According to the publication, on the night of May 18, Timberlake was driving a BMW in the village of Sag Harbor, New York. Police noticed him after he failed to stop at a stop sign and then drove into the next lane. Law enforcement officers stopped the artist and took him to the station, where he spent the night. Timberlake was charged with drunk driving but released without bail.

Telegram has launched a dating service called TON Dating, which is developed for the first time on the TON blockchain. This was reported by the Telegram channel “Durova’s Code” with reference to the application’s press service. As the channel writes, the application should guarantee security when communicating with users. "When registering in the mini-application, each potential member of the TON Dating community undergoes mandatory multi-stage identity verification.

The Constitutional Committee of the Finnish Parliament has approved a bill that tightens the rules for obtaining refugee status and international protection for migrants arriving from Russia, Kommersant reports , citing the Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat. The law assumes that refugees who enter Finland via the border with Russia will be placed in special centres at or near the border until a decision on whether to grant asylum is made. Those who are denied asylum are deported.

In April, beer exports from the European Union to Russia reached their highest level since August 2023, RIA Novosti reports , citing its own analysis of Eurostat data. Thus, the EU countries supplied Russia with a total of 27.5 thousand tons of beer worth 23.1 million euros. This was 17% more in physical terms and 13% more in monetary terms than the month before.