US President Donald Trump has announced that he will meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 12 in Singapore. He announced this after a meeting at the White House with North Korean representative Kim Yong Chol, who handed him a letter from the leader of the DPRK. Trump said his meeting with the highest-ranking North Korean official to visit the White House in 18 years was longer than he expected. According to him, she "went very well" (English lang.).

June 1st. Real estate of Putin's ex-wife and two versions of the assassination attempt on Babchenko In the summer of 2013, Russian President Vladimir Putin and his wife Lyudmila divorced. Before his divorce from the president, his wife had a very small annual income, but recently she and her relatives began to buy land and luxury real estate in the Moscow region and abroad.

Arkady Yevstafyev, the owner of Saratov Airlines, which stopped flights, has filed an application with the Federal Air Transport Agency for the creation of a new carrier with the same name, the Ministry of Transport of the Russian Federation reports. The Federal Air Transport Agency will consider Evstafiev's application within 60 days, the agency reports.

In Italy, a new government was sworn in, formed by the winners of the March 2018 parliamentary elections, the Five Star Movement and the League. Giuseppe Conte, professor of law, has been appointed head of government. The leader of the Five Star Movement, Luigi DiMaggio, became Minister of Economic Development, and the leader of the League, Matteo Salvini, became Minister of the Interior. They both received the positions of vice-premiers.

Vnesheconombank (VEB) intends to lay off 40-50% of employees in order to save money. About 900 people will leave the bank, RBC reports with reference to a VEB message received by the editorial office. All employees who have been made redundant will be paid the statutory compensation. In addition, the bank will help them in further employment, RBC reports. It is reported that the decision to reduce staff was made following an audit of the bank's condition.

In Yekaterinburg, a group of deceived equity holders recorded a video message to Russian President Vladimir Putin with a request for help. At the end of the video, with the words “Mr. President, help us” they knelt. The video was recorded on May 30 near the memorial "Urals who forged victory." The site "Regions Online" writes that the authors of the video are counting on his entering the "direct line" with Vladimir Putin, which will be held on June 7.

Twitter user @bulletsmikey (he didn't give his name or the country he lives in) tried to take a panoramic photo with his dog, a border collie named Reggie. It was a mistake. "I regret trying to take a cute panorama with my dog" Due to the fact that when creating a panorama, the image is "stitched" from several fragments, moving objects often turn out to be distorted. One of the most famous examples is the white half cat.

Alexander Drymanov, the head of Moscow’s Investigative Committee, has reportedly submitted his resignation , sources told the magazine RBC . Drymanov took the job in December 2015, after managing the agency’s criminal investigations department, where he worked cases involving war crimes.

To fight the spread of “defrauded coinvestors,” Russian officials are considering a complete ban on the sale of unfinished housing. Sources told the newspaper Vedomosti that the new policy could take effect by 2020, with the imposition of some new restrictions as soon as the end of this year.

Regional officials have reportedly been warned that they better be at the office on June 7, when Vladimir Putin holds his next marathon live call-in show. Sources tell the magazine RBC that this year’s show will feature live conference calls with governors and members of his cabinet. The president will reportedly turn to the new format when he wants to discuss a particular complaint submitted by a member of the public.

Ramzan Kadyrov, the ruler of Chechnya, announced late on Thursday that his office has nearly secured the return of 94 children from Iraq whose mothers have been imprisoned on charges of terrorism.

Late on May 31, a Kiev district court placed the businessman Boris German under arrest for allegedly organizing the attempted murder of the journalist Arkady Babchenko. German says he started cooperating with Ukrainian counterintelligence after he was approached by an “old acquaintance” living in Moscow who “works at a Putin foundation, organizing unrest in Ukraine.” He identified the man as Vyacheslav Pivovarnik.

A lawsuit was filed with the Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow by the Estonian company CryptoOcean OU (Cryptocean), which accuses Telegram founder Pavel Durov of borrowing its technologies, Interfax reports. As stated in the lawsuit, on February 1, the company held a closed demonstration of a service designed to ensure the user's information security as part of the Cryptocean ICO project. At the same time, a number of company products were announced, including a crypto-passport.

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The Department of the RF Investigative Committee for the Irkutsk region opened a criminal case on the provision of services that do not meet safety requirements after a fire in the Komsomoll shopping center, where eight children were burned during chemical experiments. In the case, the technical director of the organization renting the premises where the experiments took place, as well as the guides who conducted them, was detained.