The organisers of the Bubble Baba Challenge rubber women swimming competition in the Leningrad Region have refused to hold the swim this year due to pressure from the authorities. Information about this was published on the event's website.

The defendant in the second Simferopol case of Hizb ut-Tahrir, Crimean Farkhod Bazarov, was attempted to be recruited to the war in Ukraine from a prison in the Saratov region. This is reported by QIRIM.Media with reference to the wife of the convicted man, Fetime Yanikova. As Bazarov's wife said, the Crimean is currently in prison in Balashov - there he was offered to join the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but he refused.

Security forces have come to search the home of Dmitry Galkin, the older brother of comedian Maxim Galkin. This was reported by RBC, citing a source close to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to RBC, searches are taking place at Dmitry Galkin's company — he himself is engaged in re-equipping the armored personnel carrier.

The 2nd Western District Military Court sentenced a resident of the Nizhny Novgorod Region, Maksim Durnykin, to seven years in prison in the case of an attempt to set fire to a military registration and enlistment office and the building of the Balakhna city administration. This became known from the ruling of the Supreme Court, which upheld the sentence in cassation; Mediazona drew attention to the decision.

The High Court of the Republic of South Africa has ordered the freezing of the assets of the local division of Google because the company failed to comply with the demand of a Moscow court and did not unblock the YouTube of the Orthodox TV channel Spas. This was reported to Moneyweb by lawyer Hugo Johnston, who represented the interests of the Russian law firm Art De Lex . YouTube administration blocked the Spas channel in March 2022. By that time, it had more than a million subscribers.

Due to new American sanctions, Moscow Exchange will not trade in dollars and euros from June 13. This is stated on the platform's website.

The United States has added the Moscow Exchange, the National Clearing Center (NCC) and the insurance company Sogaz to its sanctions list. This was reported on the website of the US Department of the Treasury. As RBC notes , the NCC acts as a counterparty in all currency transactions on the Moscow Exchange. Due to the new sanctions, the latter will not conduct trades with the euro and dollar from June 13.

Krivoy Rog was shelled by missiles from the Russian side during the day, the Dnipropetrovsk regional administration reported . The country's Interior Ministry and Prosecutor General's Office reported eight dead and 21 injured. Later, it became known that one more person had died, increasing the number of injured to 29. Explosions were heard in the city at about 15:50, notes a correspondent of Suspilne.

The Sovetsky District Court of Omsk fined oppositionist Vladimir Kara-Murza 30 thousand rubles for the absence of the "foreign agent" marking in the Telegram channel (Part 4 of Article 19.34 of the Code of Administrative Offenses). This was reported to the human rights project "For Human Rights" by lawyer Sergei Safronov. The politician took part in the hearing via video link from Omsk IK-6.

In 2023, 93 Russian officials and volunteers could have been killed or injured in the occupied territories of Ukraine. This is the conclusion reached by Important Stories , which studied data from the Pension and Social Insurance Fund. The state pays compensation for injuries and deaths of civil servants and volunteers who were sent on missions to the occupied Kherson and Zaporizhia regions, as well as to the self-proclaimed LPR and DPR.

Police detained five to eight people who were trying to take their belongings from a five-story emergency building on Narimanov Street in Rostov-on-Don. This was reported by 161.ru. On the morning of June 12, the residents of the house took tools with them to remove the barriers on the windows and the fence that had been installed after their last visit, the newspaper writes. Police officers were on duty at the house - they called for reinforcements and began detaining people.

Russian peacekeepers have left the territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, which is under the control of Azerbaijan, the country's Defense Ministry reported . The ministry said that on June 12, the process of withdrawing the Russian peacekeeping contingent was completed: weapons and equipment left Nagorno-Karabakh along with personnel. 1,960 troops have been in Nagorno-Karabakh as peacekeepers since 2020, based on an agreement between Azerbaijan, Armenia and Russia.

The accused in the case of the play "Finist Yasny Sokol", director Zhenya Berkovich, has been restricted from sending letters in the pretrial detention center. This was reported by her support group. According to Berkovich, she is told that the correspondence is not censored. She receives "at best 1-2" letters per week. The director's support group asks everyone who sent her letters to leave complaints on the FSIN-Letter service.

The Pskov City Court has registered an administrative case on "discrediting" the army, filed against the deputy chairman of the Yabloko party Lev Shlosberg. Mediazona drew attention to the card on the court's website. The protocol was received by the court on June 11. Shlosberg told Mediazona that he knew about it and declined to comment further.

Two retired generals have been arrested in Sri Lanka on suspicion of recruiting their compatriots to fight in Ukraine on Russia's side, AFP reports . As the agency writes, another six people helped them with logistics. The names of the generals and their assistants are unknown. According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Sri Lanka, a total of more than 450 citizens of the country ended up in the war in Ukraine.