Heavy rain caused flooding in the Bulgarian city of Varna, which killed 10 people, ITAR-TASS reported on June 20. A 5-year-old child is also among the disaster victims, police said. The city streets are flooded with water. Public transport has been stopped. Ambulances cannot reach the victims. Electricity has been cut off in many areas of the city.

Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said that Moscow was surprised by statements about the concentration of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine. “We are surprised by such statements about the alleged concentration of Russian troops on the border with Ukraine.

The Russian Ministry of Finance has prepared a draft government decree limiting the duty-free import of goods for personal use sent by carrier or international mail to the amount of €150 and weighing 10 kg. The draft document, if adopted, must come into force 30 days after the day of its official publication, Prime reports. On May 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law giving the Russian government the right to change the parameters of duty-free online trading.

The Customs Union will not introduce a ban on shoes with flat soles and high heels, since the initiator of such a restriction should be a relevant body, for example, the Ministry of Health. Earlier, Socialist Revolutionary Oleg Mikheev proposed banning these types of shoes, as they are harmful to health. Independent journalist Konstantin Eggert considers this initiative absolutely logical in the current conditions.

Clashes between protesters and police took place during the 2014 World Cup match between England and Uruguay A protest in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo ended in clashes between demonstrators and police. Police used tear gas against demonstrators who were calling for a reduction in public transport fares and the reinstatement of metro employees fired during the strike. Thursday's demonstration could be considered the largest since the start of the World Cup in the country.

On June 20 at 4 am, investigators came to search the apartment of Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny. The search was carried out in connection with the “SPS case,” the politician’s lawyer Vadim Kobzev said on Twitter . “Today’s search of Alexei Navalny is another attempt to put pressure on him. It is absolutely clear that there is no need to conduct a search at 4 am in a case that allegedly took place eight years ago,” said Mr. Navalny’s press secretary Anna Veduta.

Oleg Sobolev about the film “Twenty Steps from Glory” by Morgan Neville The “Free Thought” program includes a film about the main backing vocalists of rock music, which over the past year has been collecting festival nominations and prizes around the world and ultimately received an Oscar as the best documentary film of 2013 On March 14, 2011, the great vocalist Darlene Love was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Marianna Tkachenko, portfolio manager at Allianz Investments June 23-24 Publication of sales statistics on the US housing market for May The expected value of sales of secondary housing is 4.74 million homes, which is 1.9% higher than the previous one (4.65 million homes) and close to the minimum values ​​since June 2012 (4.6 million homes). Sales of new buildings are expected to reach 440 thousand houses – an increase of 1.6% compared to the previous period (433 thousand houses).

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday had a telephone conversation with Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, in which he confirmed support for the efforts of the country's authorities to combat terrorists. “Putin confirmed Russia’s full support for the efforts of the Iraqi government to quickly liberate the territory of the republic from terrorists,” the Kremlin press service said in a statement .

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The prosecution plans to interrogate in court more than 200 witnesses in the case of the former official of the Russian Ministry of Defense and defendant in the Oboronservis case, Evgenia Vasilyeva. “The list includes all the witnesses who were questioned at the investigation stage. The law provides that witnesses can be excluded from the list of indictments if the prosecution and defense decide so,” Ms. Vasilyeva’s lawyer Hasan-Ali Borokov told RIA Novosti .

Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko on Friday presented in Donbass a peace plan to resolve the situation in the eastern regions of the country. The plan includes 15 points, according to the head of state’s website. Thus, it provides security guarantees for all participants in the negotiations, exemption from criminal liability for persons who have laid down their arms and have not committed serious crimes, and the release of hostages.

As an advertisement By the end of 2014, about 240 thousand citizens-consumers of electrical energy in Ufa, according to plans, will switch to direct service by the guaranteeing supplier of electricity in the Republic of Bashkortostan - Energy Sales Company of Bashkortostan LLC.

Energy OJSC RAO ES of the East expects, at the expense of Gazprom, to reconstruct a number of network power facilities in the Amur Region, which will be used to supply power to the planned gas processing plant (GPP). “In the Blagoveshchensk area we will most likely reconstruct a 500 kV substation - where Gazprom will build factories. Most likely, we will reconstruct the export substation to China or build a new and small network.

Assistant Commander of the Central Military District, Colonel Yaroslav Roshchupkin, announced a sudden check of the combat readiness of the Central Military District troops. “A number of motorized rifle and anti-aircraft missile formations stationed in the Urals and Western Siberia were suddenly alerted and are now making multi-kilometer marches by vehicle and by rail to their destination areas,” Mr.