The head of the presidential administration of Russia, Sergei Ivanov, called the statements of the authorities of the Baltic countries about the threat of attack from the Russian Federation a “mental disorder”. Ivanov made this statement in an interview with The Financial Times. According to Ivanov, when declaring a Russian military threat, the Baltic countries are pursuing selfish interests, hoping to receive money from NATO.

State Duma deputy Irina Yarovaya, elected to the lower house from the Kamchatka Territory, demanded that law enforcement agencies find those responsible for the attack on a supporter of Alexei Navalny in Magadan. The attack on Dmitry Taralov , the head of the RosZhKH project participating in the propaganda campaign in Magadan, was committed on June 21 at the local market. The police, according to Taralov's associates, took no action to detain the attackers.

Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has delivered a "final proposal" to European creditors to resolve the crisis with debt payments. In a telephone conversation with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Francois Hollande and European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker, Tsipras assured that it was "a proposal that would fully suit all parties," the press service of the Greek Prime Minister said.

Mercedes driver Nico Rosberg won the eighth round of the Formula 1 series, the Austrian Grand Prix, held in Spielberg. Rosberg's Mercedes teammate Lewis Hamilton finished second. The third result at the Austrian Grand Prix was shown by Felipe Massa from Williams. Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen and McLaren's Fernando Alonso collided on the exit from the second lap and were unable to continue the race. Russian Daniil Kvyat took 12th place.

The pilots who hijacked two planes from the DOSAAF airfield in the city of Ishim flew to the Tyumen region a few days ago on one of them from Moscow. Such details of the incident were reported to Interfax by representatives of the Tyumen transport prosecutor's office. According to the interlocutors of the agency, two men flew to Ishim on a Gardan GY-80-160 plane from Moscow on June 17. They did not have properly executed documents and they did not receive permission to continue the flight.

The militants of the Islamic State terrorist organization laid explosives for monuments in Palmyra, which are part of the UNESCO cultural heritage list. This was announced by Syrian Observatory for Human Rights based in London. According to human rights activists, it is still unknown whether the militants mined monuments in Palmyra in order to destroy them, or explosives are laid down so that government troops do not try to enter the city.

The downpour flooded the streets of the capital of Russia: photos and videos of eyewitnesses Photo: Nikolai Avvakumov / Facebook On June 20, heavy rain was in Moscow. According to the Moscow meteoro, in the capital, a record for the number of precipitation that had fallen a day that had fallen per day was broken in the capital. Some streets of the city, buildings, as well as the lobby of one of the metro stations were flooded. The pouring rain took place in other regions of Central Russia.

The authorities of Germany and France do not support plans to deploy American missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads in Europe, reports Deutsche Welle, citing Der Spiegel magazine . Such a step, according to the German defense department, will lead to increased tension in the region.

Results of the photo contest of night landscapes Photo: Brad Goldpain On June 16, the results of the annual photo contest “Heaven and Earth” were summed up, which is organized by the international program “World at night” ( Twan ). The competition was attended by photographers from 54 countries, including from Russia.

On the territory of the former military arsenal near the village of Urman in Bashkiria, where warehouses with gunpowder burned in early June, two explosions occurred, the regional department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry reported. According to preliminary data, grass caught fire near the village of Urman on the morning of June 21. The fire caused two shells to detonate. The fire was quickly extinguished.

Two sports planes left the aerodrome of the DOSAAF club in the city of Ishim, Tyumen region, without authorization. Private planes Gardan GY-80-160 and Yak-52 took off from the airfield on Sunday at about 05:00, the Ural Investigation Department for Transport of the Russian Investigative Committee said in a statement. The Yak-52 aircraft, due to a technical malfunction, made an emergency landing at the DOSAAF airfield in the city of Yalutorovsk.

Figure: Kukryniks. Crocodile, No. 23, 1949 In the past week, President Vladimir Putin demanded that the government deal with the causes of mortality in Russia, and we studied at Medusa what the Russians were dying of. It remains to recall, in connection with which death appeared on the pages of the Soviet satirical magazine Crocodile. Every week we publish in “Shapito” cartoons and feuilletons from the main Soviet satirical magazine.

Interview of the ex-director of the NATO Informburo in Moscow Robert Pshel Photo: Edijs Palens / Leta The conflict between Russia and NATO, which began after the Ukrainian crisis and marked by the cessation of all contacts between Moscow and the North-Atlantic bloc, flares up with renewed vigor.

The crew of the ISS was put on alert due to an on-board computer failure in the US segment of the station, a source in the Russian space industry said. Failure, according to the interlocutor of the agency, occurred on Saturday, June 20. Troubleshooting, he added , was helped by specialists from the Russian Mission Control Center. The computer has now been restored, the source said.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko appealed to the Constitutional Court with a request to declare unconstitutional the law on depriving Viktor Yanukovych of the title of president so that in the future such a decision could not be appealed in any court of the world. This was announced by the first deputy head of the presidential administration of Ukraine Vitaliy Kovalchuk.