Russian presidential spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Vladimir Putin can exercise any of his constitutional rights, including the right to apply to the Federation Council for permission to use troops abroad. “The President can exercise any of his constitutional rights. This is his right," Peskov said. RIA Novosti Federation Council Speaker Valentina Matvienko on June 3 warned of a possible convening of an extraordinary meeting of the upper house of the Russian parliament.

HSBC will pay 43 million dollars (40 million Swiss francs) in compensation for the identified violations. The credit institution agreed on this with the law enforcement agencies of Switzerland. As stated in Geneva, the amount roughly corresponds to the profit that the bank received from illegal operations. The agreement means that Switzerland will stop the investigation into HSBC and will not publish its results.

Shot: Systems / YouTube The Privkhn group "Sydenkuk" published the roller "Bremen musicians: the road of rage", in which the video of the Soviet cartoon is crossed with the voice acting of the trailer "Mad Max". Sydenkkuk Bremen musicians: Rage Road The Systemenk was previously turned the “Dunno on the Moon” into a trailer for “Interstellar” , and the film “Caucasian Captive” - in the announcement of “50 shades of gray”. Sydenk for fifty shades of Shurik

Order and. O. the head of the theater "On Liteiny" Vladimir Slovokhotov on the appointment of Boris Mezdrich as director of the institution was canceled. As Svetlana Savinova, Slovokhotov's lawyer, said, it turned out that, according to the theater's charter, the acting director did not have the authority to make such appointments.

The press service of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia reported that ensign Artem Guryanov, who died from a gunshot wound at a training ground in the Volgograd region, died as a result of an accident. Earlier there was information that the ensign was shot dead by one of his colleagues. According to the press service, during firearms training, the ensign accidentally shot himself in the head with a Kalashnikov assault rifle.

Anti-drug officials have blocked Russian Internet users’ access to the popular website The Daily Beast over an article titled “ You Can Buy Pot Here: WeedPortal.com and Marijuana’s Lawless Online Frontier ,” written by Abby Haglage. The article was published on October 15, 2013, and the Russian government’s decision is dated April 21, 2015. According to the website Antizapret.info , Roskomnadzor, the Kremlin’s media watchdog, blacklisted The Daily Beast on April 29, 2015.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya opened a criminal case on a pogrom in the office of the Committee against Torture. According to Apti Alaudinov, deputy head of the Chechen department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, the case was initiated under part 2 of article 167 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (“damage to property out of hooligan motives by a group of persons”). There is no information about the defendants in the case.

Law enforcement agencies of Venezuela conducted a search at the headquarters of the national football federation. The Venezuelan Attorney General's Office announced that the search was carried out as part of an investigation launched against the head of the national federation, Rafael Esquivel, without specifying any details.

In the Voronezh region, a Su-34 front-line bomber crashed. According to the press service of the Russian Ministry of Defense, during landing, the aircraft did not deploy a braking parachute. The Su-34 skidded off the runway and overturned. The two pilots in the cockpit were not injured. “The flight was carried out without ammunition,” added a representative of the Russian Defense Ministry. TASS Earlier, on June 4, a MiG-29 fighter crashed in the Astrakhan region during a training flight.

Shot: The Late Show with Stephen Colbert / YouTube American TV presenter Stephen Kolber, who until December 2014 conducted the satirical news show The Colbert Report on the Comedy Central channel, shot a video about his beard. He let her go since he stopped appearing on television. In the video, Kolber is trying to choose a new appearance for a new show - in September he will begin to lead the Late Show on CBS.

The European currency at the auction on the Moscow Exchange has risen in price to 63 rubles. Compared with the closing level of the previous session, the euro has risen in price by more than 1.8 rubles. At the mark of 63 rubles, the euro was last traded on April 1. The exchange rate of the dollar against the ruble is also growing. The American currency costs 55.87 rubles, having risen in price by 1.52 rubles compared to the previous day.

Ever since Russian opposition figure Vladimir Kara-Murza landed in the hospital with a mysterious illness, his father has told reporters that he believes the incident is most likely an accident, not an attack on his son. (He famously told the media, "It could have been stale kefir, for all we know.") According to the BBC , that changed today, when Kara-Murza’s father said he now believes his son was poisoned.

Turkish police have officially confirmed that Varvara Karaulova, a student at the Faculty of Philosophy at Moscow State University, who was allegedly recruited by the Islamic State, arrived in Istanbul on May 27. This was reported on the website of the Russian Foreign Ministry. The Russian Foreign Ministry, in contact with Turkish law enforcement agencies, “continues to make efforts to quickly establish the place and conditions of stay of citizen Karaulova,” the statement said.

Writer Boris Akunin, economist Konstantin Sonin, as well as bloggers Oleg Kozyrev and Andrey Malgin banned Ekho Moskvy from publishing their texts. As a reason, they cited the post of assistant editor-in-chief of the radio station Lesya Ryabtseva, in which she criticized an unnamed politician for refusing to come on the air. Although the name of the addressee is not mentioned in Ryabtseva's entry, Akunin writes that the Ekho employee addressed oppositionist Mikhail Kasyanov.

At the training ground in the Kalachevsky district of the Volgograd region, a serviceman opened fire on his colleagues during firing. As a result, 24-year-old ensign Artem Guryanov was killed. 20-year-old private Yakov Lagoshin was wounded in the leg. The incident was investigated by the military prosecutor's office of the Volgograd garrison. According to the Volgograd Reporter, it has not yet been established whether this is a premeditated murder or an accident.