Streaming service Spotify has decided to lift its recent restrictions on musicians who have been accused of violence and cruelty. This was announced on June 1st. The service believes that the wording of these rules turned out to be too vague, which led the musicians to fear that "one suspicion could affect their chances of getting into the Spotify playlist and negatively affect their future." The rules against the dissemination of hate speech remain in place.

RIA Novosti correspondent Irina Vysokovich reported that on June 1, officers of the Security Service of Ukraine attempted to recruit her. This happened in Kherson, where she arrived for the trial of RIA Novosti-Ukraine editor-in-chief Kirill Vyshinsky, who was accused of treason. According to the journalist, plainclothes men, who later introduced themselves as SBU officers, took her out of the court and put her in a car under the pretext of protecting her from attacks by an unknown woman.

On Pushkinskaya Square in Moscow, the police detained director Mikhail Mestetsky, who went out on a solo picket in support of Oleg Sentsov. Mestetsky told Meduza that a protocol had been drawn up against him for violating picketing rules (part 5 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses).

On June 1, US President Donald Trump announced that his meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on June 12 in Singapore would still take place, although he himself canceled it just a week ago . However, according to The Washington Post, citing sources, the organizers of the meeting faced an obstacle: they cannot decide who should pay for the hotel for the DPRK leader.

Photographer Ariana Smoak tweeted pictures of her dog Sunny with her brick best friend. Initially, the brick held the rug so that it would not wrap. Sunny was still a puppy when they became friends. Now the dog is already a year old, but he still loves to play with his brick friend and even sleeps with him in his arms. Sunny's owner told Buzzfeed that she picked him up off the street. The puppy, like his brothers and sisters, was full of fleas, and the mother had problems with teeth and hair.

In Catalonia, on June 2, a new government was sworn in, formed following the results of the elections that took place in December 2017. Thus, the direct administration of Madrid, introduced in the fall, ended in the region. The government was headed by Kim Torra, a supporter of the independence of Catalonia, whose candidacy was proposed by the former head of the region, Carles Puigdemont, who is abroad.

MSU student Dmitry Petelin-about the criminal case, which was brought on him due to the inscription “No fan zone” on the sign to the 2018 World Cup Photo from the personal archive of Dmitry Petelin. Moscow, 2018 On June 1, 2018, the police opened a criminal case of vandalism due to the inscription “There is no fan zone” on the sign to the World Cup.

We have a new season of the podcast "A Matter of Chance" coming out, and it's better to get ready for it This letter to the readers of "Saturday Medusa" was written by our editor Ekaterina Krongauz. It is not quite ordinary, but to change something in it for the sake of preserving the format is only to spoil it.

Google will not renew the contract with the US Department of Defense, which has become a reason for dissatisfaction and dismissal of employees. According to Gizmodo, the head of cloud services at the company Diane Green announced this at a meeting with employees. Greene also said that Google will unveil new AI ethical guidelines next week, according to Gizmodo sources. The contract expires in 2019 and will not be renewed, Green said.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. "Who are you to give advice!" The last release of the first season In the final issue of the first season, Galya Timchenko, Katya Krongauz and Lika Kremer answer questions from each other. And visiting them, the editor -in -chief of Medusa Ivan Kolpakov. - What to do if on my birthday more than anything you want to hide from people? ( 4:32 ) - How to resist and not give advice if you know exactly how to solve the problems of your friends?

On May 31, in Moscow, Azerbaijani citizen Khadzhibaba Talybkhanly (Hadzhi Beylagansky), who was called the “personal killer” of crime boss Rovshan Dzhaniev, was detained. According to an Interfax source, Talybkhanly is suspected of murdering crime boss Ilgar Aliyev in 2012, a friend of the leader of the Russian underworld Aslan Usoyan (Ded Khasan). The Investigative Committee, without specifying names, announced the arrest of a suspect in a murder committed in 2012.

PARCO Archeologico di pompei the remains of a person found in Pompeii. The first studies showed what he was in 30 years. He was crushed by a huge stone The archaeological season of 2018 in Pompeii is the anniversary: ​​the first scientific excavations of the ancient Roman city, which died due to the eruption of Vesuvius in the 1st century AD, took place in 1748.

Film about women's football team in Vladikavkaz On June 2, at the Beat Film festival they will show “Without Cups and Medals”, the film of Stereotactic Studios - documentary almanacs about football as uniting strength.

Journalists living in Ukraine Matvey Ganapolsky and Yevgeny Kiselev said that on June 1 they were summoned to the Security Service of Ukraine for a meeting on the security of people who allegedly wanted to be killed by those who ordered the assassination attempt on journalist Arkady Babchenko. “Those who organized the assassination attempt on Babchenko <…> will certainly try to get revenge, so everyone needs to be careful,” Ganapolsky said about the content of the meeting.

The first update for the Telegram messenger in a month and a half appeared in the App Store. This version contains changes related to the requirements of the GDPR, the new European data protection regulation. "Great news! Apple approved our latest update for Telegram, and we were able to upload a new version to the App Store with long-awaited fixes and improvements,” wrote messenger founder Pavel Durov.