On the Internet on June 7, a video was published from the outdoor surveillance camera in London, shot during the terrorist attack on June 3. The video shows how police officers come to the Bor-Market area, where three criminals with knives attacked passers-by, and open fire to defeat. It is not known who exactly the first to publish the video. The sources of The Guardian confirmed the authenticity of the video. Attention. The video contains violence scenes.

The U.S. Internet giants Google and Facebook have posted job vacancies for public policy and government relations managers to advise the companies on operations in Russia. The website TJournal drew attention to the announcements on June 8, Thursday evening.

The Scottish Episcopal Church has allowed priests to celebrate weddings for same-sex couples. According to the BBC, this is the first time same-sex marriage has been allowed by a major British church. The members of the synod, meeting on June 8 in Edinburgh, voted to abolish the provision defining marriage as a union between a man and a woman.

State Duma deputy, leader of the LDPR party Vladimir Zhirinovsky asked President Vladimir Putin to allocate him a house in the center of Moscow for the Institute of World Civilizations, of which he is the founder. It is reported by RBC with reference to sources close to the Kremlin. In a letter to Putin, Zhirinovsky asks that Minister of Economic Development Maxim Oreshkin be given a corresponding instruction (the Ministry is in charge of the Federal Property Management Agency).

Former FBI head James Komi testified against Donald Trump in the Senate Brendan Smialowski / AP / Scanpix / Leta Former FBI director James Komi testified in the US Senate. Public hearings on the circumstances of his dismissal, relations with President Donald Trump and the investigation of Trump's entourage with Russia lasted more than two and a half hours.

The parents of mixed martial arts fighter Murad Amriev have filmed a public appeal pleading with Belarusian officials not to send their son back to Chechnya, where they say he’ll likely be killed “to settle a personal score.” Before he came to Belarus, Amriev was detained on June 4 by border guards while entering Russia from Ukraine. Officials accused him of using false documents because his passport contained a typo.

MMA fighter Murad Amriev was brought from the police department of the Belarusian city of Dobrush to Russia. Mediazona writes about this with reference to Anastasia Garina, an employee of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture. This is also reported by Novaya Gazeta without specifying the source. According to lawyer Pyotr Zaikin, a convoy of six cars, including two patrol UAZs and a minibus, left the courtyard of the police department at 20:20 Moscow time. “We went after them.

MMA fighter Murad Amriev, whom Belarus intends to deport to Russia, wants to ask local authorities for political asylum. The video, in which Amriev shouts about it from the window of the Dobrush District Department of Internal Affairs, was published by the Dozhd TV channel. Amriyev also says that he is "not given the right to a lawyer" and "no one is allowed to see him." His lawyer Pyotr Zaikin answers him that the lawyer "went to him." Apparently, we are talking about a Belarusian lawyer.

Andrey Igoshev / Photobank Lori On June 4, some users have problems with access to the Telegram messenger, and many popular and public sites-the IVI.ru, Wikipedia, Medusa and many others were not available within three days.

Metropolitan Korniliy, the high priest of the Russian Orthodox Old-Rite Church, is calling on men not to shave their beards, arguing that facial hair offers protection against homosexuality. “God gave us rules: it is written that the Lord created all [men] with beards. This concept has completely disappeared in the Catholic West, and yet it’s [true] beyond any doubt. After all, in our icons it is impossible for us to imagine Christ or any other saint without a beard.

Former FBI Director James Comey said during a hearing in the US Senate that after his dismissal, he asked a friend to share with reporters the contents of his notes made following one of his meetings with President Donald Trump. Comey said this in response to a question from Senator Susan Collins about whether he showed anyone his notes. “On the Friday after I was fired, the President tweeted that I should hope that there are no records [of our conversations].

Tennis player Elena Ostapenko from Latvia reached the final of the French Open, beating the Swiss Tima Bachinsky in three sets in three sets 7:6, 3:6, 6:3. The match took place on the birthday of both tennis players: Ostapenko turned 20 on June 8, and Bachinsky - 28. Ostapenko became the first Latvian tennis player to reach the Grand Slam final. In the quarter-finals of the French Open, she defeated former world No. 1 Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark.

Parents of the MMA fighter Murad Amriev recorded a video message, in which they asked to prevent their son’s transfer to Chechnya. According to them, in the republic they are trying to "reduce personal accounts." Amriev was detained on June 4 in the Bryansk region on the way from Ukraine to Moscow. He managed to escape from the building of the prosecutor's office, to which the Chechen security officials came. On June 8, Amriev was detained in Belarus.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) ordered Russia to pay five thousand euros to nationalist Vyacheslav Datsik, who complained about the conditions of detention in the Krasnoyarsk colony IK-31. The decision, as follows from the documents on the website of the ECtHR, was made on May 4. about him . On June 8, lawyer Andrey Fedorkov told Fontanka In a complaint filed in October 2014, Datsik complained of an overcrowded cell, lack of fresh air, and "constant cigarette smoke".

Mario Anzuoni / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On June 6, Amal Alamuddin and George Clooney had twins. These are the first children for both; Clooney is 56 years old, Alamuddin - 39. He is an actor and director, she is a human rights activist, and together they are one of the most noticeable star couples in the world. Moreover, none of them sacrificed a career and social activity for the sake of the family (and vice versa).