Director Kira Muratova died on June 6, the Ukrainian version of Buro 24/7 reports, citing Muratova's husband Yevgeny Golubenko. Also about the death of Muratova, citing sources, writes the publication "New Time". Muratova was 83 years old. The cause of her death has not been reported. Update . Condolences in connection with the death of Muratova were expressed by the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko. Muratova graduated from the directing department of VGIK.

Dmitry Semyonov, deputy chairman of the Open Russia movement, announced on his Facebook page that he had left for Lithuania. According to him, the decision to move was unplanned. “I went on <…> a business trip to a conference in Lithuania. And already there, after conferring with our lawyers and lawyers, I received a recommendation from them to postpone the return to Russia, ”Semenov wrote.

Update . At about 22:00, the fire in the "House of Pedagogical Books" was extinguished, the Ministry of Emergency Situations reported . In Moscow, on Bolshaya Dmitrovka, a building caught fire, in which the bookstore "House of Pedagogical Books" is located. Ceilings in the building may collapse due to the fire, according to the Ministry of Emergency Situations.

The Frunzensky District Court of Saratov fined Ekaterina Rogatkina, the former head of the Saratov Society of Diabetes Patients, recognized as a “foreign agent,” 50 thousand rubles.

The Ministry of Justice is generously planning revisions to its internal regulations that will allow prison inmates to send complaints, petitions, and suggestions over email. Less generously, officials will bill prisoners for every email, and the option will only be available at some facilities. Human rights lawyer Andrey Lepekhin told Meduza that the reforms are likely just a budgetary scheme by the Federal Penitentiary Service to grab funding for their computers.

Regional lawmakers from Samara have submitted draft legislation to the State Duma that would limit medical privacy for minors between the ages of 15 and 17, granting their parents access to their medical records. The law’s explanatory note warns that “older adolescents are often disinclined to inform their parents about unplanned pregnancies, sexually transmitted diseases, injuries sustained in fights, drug addiction,” and so on. The State Duma will reportedly review the bill in the fall.

Russia’s judicial system can’t quite make up its mind about how far women can go when defending themselves against abusive partners. This week, a regional court in Tver convicted a woman of using unnecessary force when she stabbed and killed her husband while he was beating her in a drunken argument. Investigators determined that he punched and kicked her at least 51 times before she parried his last blow and stabbed him in the chest twice with a knife.

Vladimir Egorov is the latest Russian activist to feel the sting of the country’s unpredictable “anti-extremism” policing. On Tuesday, a court in Tver slapped him with a two-year suspended sentence and three years of probation, after convicting him of inciting extremism through anti-Putin posts on social media. The court also prohibited Egorov from moderating any websites in the future and placed him on a three-year probation period. Prosecutors say he advocated killing Vladimir Putin.

On Tuesday, the Ukrainian website Strana.ua published what appears to be the infamous “hit list” obtained in the sting operation that faked Arkady Babchenko’s murder. After some reluctance, Ukrainian officials confirmed the authenticity of the hit list, which contains the names of 47 journalists, writers, and bloggers. The National Security Agency is also investigating the criminal disclosure of material evidence in an active case.

The ‘Babchenko hit list,’ protecting Putin online, and Sentsov's plea Wednesday, June 6, 2018 Ukraine manages a leaked "Russian hit list" Another Internet user is sentenced for "online extremism" A battered wife is convicted of killing her husband An ex-cop wants back his seized property The Justice Ministry proposes a curious and potentially lucrative email scheme for prisoners Lawmakers want to stop older teenagers from hiding their medical records from their parents A teacher faces a lawsuit

Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who has been on a hunger strike in a Russian colony since May 14, asked those who are at large not to go on hunger strike in his support. This was announced by his lawyer Dmitry Dinze. According to Dinze, for Sentsov, the hunger strike is the only way to influence the “situation with Ukrainian political prisoners,” while people at large have “many other opportunities” for this. Oleg Sentsov asks people at large not to starve in support of him.

Patrick T. Fallon / Bloomberg / Getty Images Jan Kum and Brian Eckon at the WSJDLIVE GLOBAL TECHNOLOLOLOGY conference in California. October 2016 Facebook bought WhatsApp in 2014 for $ 19 billion - this is still the most expensive acquisition of a company, which also belong, in particular, Instagram and Oculus VR. In 2017-2018, the founders of Brian Eckon and Jan Kum left the WhatsApp. According to the media, the reason for the departure was their fundamental disagreements with Facebook leaders.

The Arbitration Court of the Moscow Region ruled to recover 6.3 billion rubles from the operator of the Kuchino landfill in Balashikha for damage caused to the environment. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the Governor of the Moscow Region Andrei Vorobyov. Thus, the court satisfied the claim of the administration of the Balashikha city district, filed against the operator of the Kuchino landfill, the Zagotovitel company, in August 2017.

June 6th The closure of Euroset and 20 years of Sex and the City Sex and the City is 20 years old! Exactly 20 years ago, on June 6, 1998, HBO aired the first episode of Sex and the City, the story of four unmarried friends who seek happiness in their personal lives in New York.

Rosobrnadzor will sue the St. Petersburg teacher Dmitry Gushchin, who announced the leakage of USE assignments in mathematics. This was reported to TASS by the head of the department, Sergei Kravtsov. He called Gushchin's statement unverified, suggesting that it could be a provocation. “Even if it actually happened, why bother? But this could not happen, because our technologies exclude this possibility,” Kravtsov said.