Almost two million citizens of the Russian Federation were banned from traveling abroad due to debts as of June 1, 2016. This is reported by RBC with reference to the microfinance company E Zayom, which is based on data from the Federal Bailiff Service (FSSP). Of the 392,000 people who were banned from leaving due to debts from January to May 2016, 157,000 have debts on loans and borrowings. According to RBC, this is 80 percent more than in the same period in 2015.

Press Secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that the Russian authorities were not involved in hacking the database of the US Democratic National Committee. “I completely rule out the possibility that the government or government agencies were involved in this,” he told Reuters.

The police detained two Russian fans in Lille, where on June 15 the Russian team will play the second match at Euro 2016. It is reported by Sky Sports. There is no official confirmation of this information yet. R-Sport, citing its correspondent, also reports on the detentions of fans, but without indicating their nationality. TASS correspondent Maxim Allanazarov reported the arrest of one English fan.

The national teams of Portugal and Iceland tied their first match at the European Football Championship with a score of 1:1. The Portuguese opened the scoring in the match - Nani scored a goal in the 31st minute. In the 50th, Birkir Bjarnason equalized. Earlier in Group F, the Hungarian team beat the Austrian team with a score of 2:0.

An England fan who was beaten in Marseille on June 11 has been diagnosed with brain death. This was stated by the Consul of the Russian Federation in France Daniil Boltaks. According to him, in connection with the deterioration of his condition, the Russian fans detained on June 14 in France will undergo an “identification process”. that Russian fans were detained due to brain death in an English fan .

Journalists, telling about the work of scientists, are very fond of making loud headlines about “breakthroughs”, even if these headlines have little in common with the subject of research. The host of the satirical program Last Week Tonight John Oliver, who often takes on a difficult topic in simple language, recently undertook to talk about the complex relations of science and the media. At the request of Medusa, the VERT Dider educational project translated Oliver's performance.

The authorities in Novosibirsk are searching for a bear that, eyewitnesses say, escaped from the forest. A local woman contacted the city's emergency services to report that she saw a bear exploring the streets outside her home. By the time the emergency crew arrived, the animal had managed to hide. Police officers suspect that the bear could have escaped from an enclosure belonging to one of the residents of this area, as bears are extremely rare in the vicinity of Novosibirsk.

The prosecutor's office of Tatarstan will check the statements of blogger Ramil Ibragimov, who commented on the shooting at the Pulse gay club in Orlando. Ibragimov called the incident "a convincing action in the fight against homosexuality" and supported the actions of the shooter Omar Matin on behalf of the Union of Young Innovation Leaders. In addition, he expressed regret that the people who ended up in hospitals did not die on the spot.

In Grodno, two policemen during duty held a lamppost for two hours so that it would not fall from a strong wind. On the street where the unstable pillar turned out to be, it was crowded because of the festival of folk cultures. Photo: the Internal Affairs Directorate of the Grodno Oblast Executive Committee is the same pillar An eyewitness told the Lieutenant about a staggering lantern. After that, the police came to a dangerous place, asked people to move away and began to hold a pillar.

The wife of Omar Mateen, who killed 49 people at the Pulse gay club in Orlando, testified to the FBI in connection with the attack. It is reported by NBC News, citing sources close to the investigation. It follows from the channel's report that Nur Matin knew about the preparation of a terrorist attack. The woman told the FBI that she tried to talk her husband out of attacking the club. She said that once she took her husband to the institution.

The prefecture of the Central District of Moscow has canceled a previously agreed rally against the reappointment of Yuri Chaika as the Prosecutor General of Russia. According to Alexei Navalny, head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, on June 10, officials reported that the rally had been approved.

Russian hackers linked to the Russian government have infiltrated the databases of the US Democratic National Committee and gained access to the dossier on US presidential candidate Donald Trump. The Washington Post writes about this, citing its own sources in the committee. According to the newspaper, the hackers had access to the databases for a year. The breach in the defense of the national committee was closed on June 11-13.

Russian state prosecutors have opened an investigation targeting Ramil Ibragimov, the president of the Union of Young Innovators of Tatarstan, for an Instagram post he wrote this week celebrating the massacre at a gay nightclub in Orlando this past weekend. The prosecutors' press release doesn't mention specifically why they're investigating Ibragimov, stating merely that the 35 year old is the focus of a new case involving his Instagram post.

What Sony showed at the E3 Game Conference Photo: Robyn Beck / AFP / Scanpix / Leta These days in Los Angeles, the main event of the year in the game world is taking place-the E3 conference. On it the largest developers show games in which we will enthusiastically play in the coming years. Separately, in a series of events, there is a presentation from Sony: the developer PlayStation dumped a crazy number of powerful announcements on the heads of players.

The British PR agency “Portland” has ranked Russia one of world's strongest countries, in terms of “soft power.” Of the 30 most “soft powerful” nations, Russia placed 27th. The United States took first place. The term refers to a state's ability to wield influence around the world without resorting to military or economic pressure, using the appeal of its own national image.