The Chicago Black Hawks have traded striker Artemy Panarin to the Columbus Blue Jackets. Thus, one of the best (and popular) hockey players in Russia will no longer play in the Western Conference, but in the Eastern. In exchange, Chicago received Brandon Saad, who had previously played for this club. In the same deal, Chicago will get goaltender Anton Forsberg and a 2018 fifth-round pick, while Columbus will get Tyler Motte and a 2017 sixth-round pick.

Tomasz Szamblan / Agencja Gazeta / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Monument to Soviet soldiers in the Polish city of Lrynitsa On June 22, the Polish parliament approved at least 469 monuments to Soviet soldiers - throughout the country.

Tima Agency / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Roskomnadzor demands from the Telegram service to submit to Russian laws, the founder of the company Pavel Durov refuses , Roskomnadzor threatens with blocking. All this telegram was already taking place in Iran, where a messenger is six and a half times more popular than in Russia. "Medusa" tells how the Iranian authorities are trying to control the spread of information with the help of a messenger.

Sergey Konkov / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On June 23, the protracted conflict of the official Russian authorities and the Telegram messenger moved to the active phase. Roskomnadzor put forward an ultimatum - register or you will be blocked. The creator of Telegram Pavel Durov called this “sabotage of state interests” and recalled that there are no complaints about Facebook and WhatsApp. Medusa recalls the history of the conflict between the Russian authorities and the popular messenger.

The Ukhta prosecutor's office did not find violations in conducting police exercises to accelerate rallies with the participation of students of the mountain and non-wipe college. This was reported by the publication "Comonline".

Judging by the news of the late May and June, Roskomnadzor is the most problematic (and probably unhappy) Russian Federal Department. Its employees and managers are pursuing troubles: a “hole” was discovered in the register of prohibited sites, Google is blocked in Russia by mistake, and Pavel Durov accuses Roskomnadzor of “sabotage of state interests”. The reaction of Roskomnadzor to these sad events turned out to be untimely and strange.

The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, wrote an open letter to Telegram founder Pavel Durov on June 23, in which he stated that “time is running out” and the messenger must register in Russia so that it is not blocked.

Russian lawmakers in the State Duma have unanimously adopted the first reading of legislation that would ban technologies that make it possible to circumvent Internet censorship. In the law’s explanatory note, the Duma deputies argue that Russia’s existing system to block illegal content on the Web is “not effective enough.” 363 deputies voted in favor of the draft law, which was recently endorsed by a Duma committee reviewing the legislation.

State Duma deputies adopted in the first reading a bill banning the use of technologies to bypass website blocking. 363 deputies voted for the document, no one spoke against it. The bill provides for blocking anonymizers and VPN services that refuse to restrict access to sites banned in Russia. The document also proposes to introduce fines of 500 to 700 thousand rubles for search engines for issuing links to blocked sites.

Symantec, an American manufacturer of network equipment and other high-tech products, refused to certify equipment in Russia due to concerns that the source code could be used for cyberattacks. This is reported by Reuters, citing a statement by company representatives. Symantec explained that the company had to undergo certification of one of the products (which product is not reported) and show the source code for security checks.

In Bryansk, the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case of negligence due to the death of 11 newborns in the perinatal center of the Bryansk City Hospital No. 1. “As part of the criminal case, with the involvement of relevant specialists, issues of the quality of medical services provided by the institution will be clarified,” the statement said. The perinatal center was opened in early March 2017, President Vladimir Putin came to the opening .

Fontanka ru / youtube On the evening of June 22, in St. Petersburg, the court arrested the former head of the Nevsky district, retired police colonel Alexei Kharlashin. He was detained on June 20 after the chase - in the car in which Kharlashin was traveling, they found more than a kilogram of cocaine. In the houses of the alleged accomplices of the retired colonel, even more than half -ton of drugs were seized. On June 20, the St.

Medusa Podcast Alexei Ponomarev and Evgeny Berg discuss Vladimir Putin's relationship with the Internet, the death of an American student after a trip to North Korea, "pocket" forensic experts and the case of Karelian local historian Yuri Dmitriev, the surreal trial of the management of the Gogol Center, and the cult status of the film Brother. You can download the podcast here .

Update. Durov replied to Zharov that Telegram had blocked more than 5,000 channels and groups associated with terrorist propaganda in June 2017 alone. The head of Roskomnadzor, Alexander Zharov, said that the department had not received a response from Telegram regarding the registration of the service in Russia. So Zharov reacted to the remark of the creator of the messenger Pavel Durov.

In Belgium, a court found eight women from the Abu Dhabi Al Nahyan emirs family guilty of exploiting and humiliating the servants who served them at the Conrad Hotel in Brussels in 2007-2008. The court sentenced each defendant to 15 months of suspended liberty and a fine of 165,000 euros. None of them were present at the trial. Sheikha Hamda Al Nahyan and her seven daughters lived in Brussels for several months, renting an entire floor of the Conrad Hotel.