The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case in connection with the death of an employee of the Ivkhimprom enterprise in Ivanovo as a result of an explosion in a boiler room. An explosion at a chemical plant in Ivanovo occurred on the afternoon of June 23. As a result, five employees were injured, they were hospitalized. One of them died in the hospital.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation sent to court the case of the so-called GTA gang, a criminal group that committed a series of murders on highways near Moscow. Nine members of the gang have been charged. Four people were put on the international wanted list, two of them were detained in Tajikistan. “Depending on the role of each, they are charged with committing crimes under Art. 209 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (banditry), Art.

In Havana, representatives of the Colombian government and the left-wing rebel group "Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia" (FARC) signed a ceasefire agreement. The Colombian civil war has been going on since 1964. The ceremony was attended by Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos, FARC leader Timoleon "Timoshenko" Jimenez, Cuban President Raul Castro, UN head Ban Ki-moon and other world leaders. “Let this be the last day of the war,” Jimenez was quoted as saying by Reuters.

Boston Dynamics, owned by Google, showed its new Spot Mini robot. The four-legged car with a whip on a long neck knows how to walk, crawl, climb the stairs, manipulate in small objects and move so that the head remains motionless. Bostondynamics Introduction Spotmini But when a banana skin came across in the way of Spot Mini, he just fell. True, the robot immediately rose and continued to explore the world. And even brought soda to a man. And almost gave it to him.

In Los Angeles, a jury found not guilty of plagiarism Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, the authors of the song "Stairway to Heaven". Page and Plant were accused of plagiarism from the song "Taurus" by the American band Spirit. The plaintiffs alleged that the intro to "Stairway to Heaven" was identical to the riff from the song "Taurus", written two years earlier.

In Karelia, the director of the Gold of the White Sea camp, Denis Orlov, was detained, Interfax reports, citing Deputy Governor Alexander Pshenitsyn. According to Open Russia, he was detained in a case on the provision of services that do not meet safety requirements, which was initiated by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on June 23 in connection with violations of sanitary and epidemiological standards in the camp.

The Guardian newspaper found a service with which you can anonymously send a spoiler from the Game of Thrones to its enemy. To do this, just know the victim’s phone number. Order for spoilers can be placed through the website Spoiled.io. The service is paid - it costs 99 cents. Spoilers can be sent to any numbers in the world. Fresh spoilers go after the release of each new series.

Photo: Stavropol regional government's press service Nikolai Velikdan, deputy head of the Stavropol regional government. A swarm of locusts has been devouring politicians' campaign billboards in Stavropol. According to Nikolai Velikdan, a regional state official, the bugs ate the banners of some candidates for local parliament, and now they're chewing on farmers' car tires.

The Dissertation Council at the Faculty of Political Science of St. Petersburg State University recommended to withdraw the degree of candidate of political sciences from the State Duma deputy from A Just Russia Alexei Kazakov, in whose thesis were found . incorrect borrowings “Out of 21 members of the dissertation council, 20 voted for the deprivation of their degree, one abstained,” Larisa Melikhova, a member of the Dissernet community, told Fontanka.

Recently, in the village of Popovka in the Ryazan region, road markings were applied directly over pits and puddles. After that, the regional authorities conducted an investigation and found out that the markings were applied illegally: unidentified persons allegedly offered the workers who were marking in another place to draw a dividing line on the same broken area for a fee. Ryazan governor Oleg Kovalev asked the FSB and the Interior Ministry to check the incident.

The court arrested the former head of the state company RusHydro, Yevgeny Dod. He is accused of fraud. According to the RF IC, in 2013 Evgeny Dod unlawfully accrued an extra 73.2 million rubles to himself as a bonus. Dod pleads not guilty . Dmitry Finkel, who is the chief accountant of RusHydro, is also involved in the case. He is detained. Yevgeny Dod was detained on June 22.

What happened in the UK on the eve and during a referendum. Report "Medusa" Photo: Katerina Nikitina On June 23, a referendum on the country's withdrawal from the European Union (Brexit) takes place in the UK. How it ends is almost impossible to predict: opinions on this issue were divided approximately equally. The outcome of the vote depends on those 9%that are going to vote, but do not know why (or do not talk about this to sociologists).

The Solar Impulse 2 plane almost finished a trip around the world. Why is it important Photo: Revillard / Solar Impulse On the morning of June 23, the Solar Impulse 2 plane completed the first in history the flight on sunny batteries through the Atlantic Ocean. Solar Impulse 2 has been trying to fly around the world for more than a year without spending a drop of oil. In 2015, the trip had to be interrupted for nine months due to a breakdown.

In the city of Viernheim in western Germany, an unidentified man opened fire in a cinema. According to Reuters, citing the Darmstaedter Echo, between 20 and 50 people were injured as a result. Bild writes that 25 people were hit by tear gas. Who sprayed the gas and under what circumstances is not reported. Some media reports that the man barricaded himself inside. Others report that he has already been detained.

The parole trial for Oleg Navalny, brother of oppositionist Alexei Navalny, will be open. The meeting will take place on June 27 at the Uritsky District Court of the Orel Region. This was announced by Alexei Navalny. On June 22, the judge told the lawyer that due to repairs in the court building, the meeting was moved to the colony and made it closed. Why, as a result, the consideration of the application for parole was made open is unknown.