The foreign borrower, due to which the Russian budget of 2017 will not receive about a billion dollars, is Venezuela. It is reported by RBC with reference to the conclusion of the Accounts Chamber on the draft amendments to the budget for 2017.

On June 6, deputies from United Russia submitted to the State Duma a draft law that provides for the approval of candidates for the post of president of the Russian Academy of Sciences (RAS) with the government of the Russian Federation and the approval of the head of the academy by the president of Russia. The draft law proposes to elect the President of the Russian Academy of Sciences from three candidates agreed by the government.

Many Russian businessmen, including those from the rating of the country's richest entrepreneurs, after the adoption of the law on deoffshorization in 2014, decided to stop paying taxes in Russia in order not to report on foreign assets.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Russia to pay Vladimir Barsukov (Kumarin), who is called the leader of the Tambov organized criminal group, 15,000 euros in compensation for not providing medical care in custody. According to the decision, after his arrest in 2007, Barsukov, who was diagnosed with a number of chronic diseases, repeatedly complained about health problems, but for a long time did not receive the necessary medical care.

A retired police colonel carrying 5 million rubles (almost $90,000) was hospitalized in St. Petersburg on Monday, according to the local news site Fontanka . In addition to the money, the decorated former officer was carrying several other suspicious items. According to Fontanka , paramedics picked up the man late in the evening on June 5, roaming the streets drunk. At the hospital, the man refused to identify himself.

Evgeny Feldman / Project "This is Navalny" On May 31, the Lublin court of Moscow made a decision on the claim of billionaire Alisher Usmanov against Alexei Navalny and the corruption Fund. Among other things, Usmanov pointed out that fragments of the investigation “He is not Dimon to you” defeat his business reputation. In his claim, the businessman asked the court to oblige Navalny and the FBK to remove these fragments, but the judge Marina Vasina went on and demanded to remove the entire film.

The Memorial Human Rights Center has recognized actor Yury Kuliy as a political prisoner, who was sentenced to eight months in a colony-settlement for using violence against a National Guard fighter during a rally on March 26. The report of Memorial notes that no injuries were recorded on the injured employee of the National Guard, who was grabbed by the hand by Kuliy.

The Attorney General's Office refused to make public the results of the audit of the "Panama Archives".

The Syrian Democratic Forces Alliance, which includes Syrian Kurdish military units and Arab groups, launched an assault on Raqqa on June 6, which has been held since 2013 and is considered the “capital” of terrorists from the Islamic State. The start of the operation was announced by the press service of the US-led international coalition against ISIS. The capture of Raqqa will be supported by the coalition.

Dmitry Vinogradi / Spanpix / Leta Police at the house in the village of Redkino Tver region, where Sergey Egorov shot nine people on the night of June 4 On the night of June 4, nine people were killed in the village of Redkino of the Tver Region. 45-year-old electrician Sergei Egorov, armed with a saiga carbine, came to the country site to the neighbors who had a feast and killed them; Only a 21-year-old girl who hid under the blanket survived.

Russian court hands down rare acquittal to foreign journalist charged with joining anti-Kremlin protesters Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / Scanpix / LETA Alec Luhn, Moscow correspondent for The Guardian, in Tverskoy District Court in Moscow on June 6, 2017 On June 6, Tverskoy District Court Judge Ekaterina Korotova threw out the misdemeanor charges against American journalist Alec Luhn, who was detained for attending an illegal protest in Moscow on March 26.

YUI MOK / PA Wire / PA Images / Scanpix / Leta mayor of London Sadik Khan and ambulance officers in a minute of silence for the dead as a result of the terrorist attack on June 3. After the terrorist attack in London on June 3, US President Donald Trump criticized the mayor of the British capital of the garden of Khan for his statements in connection with what happened.

What to read, until the "Ministry of the highest happiness" Arundati Roy has come out (which we are waiting for) On the site Amazon.com on June 6, the second novel of the Indian writer Arundati Roy went on sale.

On May 31, the Lublin court of Moscow decided that Alexei Navalny should delete the investigation "He is not Dimon to you." Among other things, the film says that businessman Alisher Usmanov gave a bribe Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. It was Usmanov who sued Navalny, although most of the investigation was dedicated to people close to Medvedev, and not Usmanov .

The company "Yandex" has released the interactive card "Ai da Pushkin" by Alexander Pushkin's birthday. The map marks 99 places related to the life of the poet. Places are divided into several categories - some talk about Pushkin’s childhood, others about traveling, others about links. The user can independently choose stories or press the playing bone and read a random fact from the poet’s biography. “Pushkin is not only“ our everything ”in ten volumes.