The police evacuated the building on Karetny Ryad, where the human rights organization Memorial is located, after a performance by Teatra.doc dedicated to the arrested chairman of the Grozny Memorial, Oyub Titiev, took place there. Initially, the police evacuated the Theater.doc building in Maly Kazenny Lane, where another performance was going on at that time. The theater employees reported that they had not received any threats, after which the police went to the Memorial office.

Fast food chain Teremok has closed both of its restaurants in the United States. As the general director of the chain, Mikhail Goncharov, clarified , restaurants located in New York have not been operating since May. Goncharov called the closure of the outlets a “technical point,” but emphasized that he sees no point in opening new restaurants in the United States “until relations between countries change.” “Yes, we are closed.

Alexey Filippov / Sputnik / Scanpix / LETA German Klimenko is no longer Vladimir Putin’s point man on the Internet, following the president's decision on June 13 to fire him. As a Kremlin adviser for the past two and a half years, Klimenko stood out for eagerly and openly supporting more censorship online, whether it was banning instant messengers, blocking Bitcoin, or modeling the RuNet’s isolation on the Chinese Internet.

The US Federal Reserve raised the base rate by 25 basis points, from 1.50-1.75 percent to 1.75-2 percent. The decision of the regulator coincided with the forecasts of the vast majority of economists and experts. The Fed raises the base rate for the second time since the beginning of the year. The regulator also said that it now expects to raise the rate twice more in 2018, and not once, as previously thought. The regulator also increased its 2018 US GDP growth forecast from 2.7% to 2.8%.

The Civic Initiative party nominated Dmitry Gudkov, former State Duma deputy, as a candidate for Moscow mayor, Interfax reports. The corresponding decision was taken at a meeting of the Moscow branch of the party unanimously. In the near future, Gudkov intends to submit the necessary documents to the city election commission.

Russia’s Interior Ministry has apparently instructed regional police departments not to report any “bad news” while the country hosts the FIFA World Cup (from early June until late July). Sources in the ministry's regional press offices confirmed the rumors to the website Mediazona , saying police have been issued “special orders” to focus on prevented crimes.

A few days before the World Cup, the websites of the regional departments of the Ministry of Internal Affairs stopped publishing “negative” news on their websites. Sakhalin.info to Law enforcement sources in the Urals reported to Znak.com about the presence of a corresponding instruction from the management on condition of anonymity, and in Sakhalin.

Robert Atanasovski / AFP / Scanpix / Leta extreme right Macedonians protest against a possible compromise with Greece on the central square of Skopier on March 4, 2018. Greece and Macedonia seemed to end the dispute, which lasted 27 years The Government of Macedonia after negotiations with Greece agreed to rename the country into the Republic of North Macedonia.

Update . Kudrin's spokesman told The Bell that the head of the Accounts Chamber spoke about the failure to meet "part of the indicators", the word "majority" did not sound. Changes have also been made to the TASS news; its previous version is available on the Wayback Machine service. The head of the Accounts Chamber, Alexei Kudrin, said that most of the economic targets of the "May Decrees" signed by President Vladimir Putin in 2012 were not achieved. It is reported by TASS.

Volkswagen will pay a fine of one billion euros to the German authorities for manipulating the indicators of emissions of harmful substances into the atmosphere. The company's statement emphasizes that it accepts the fine and thereby acknowledges its responsibility. The automaker expressed the hope that Volkswagen's willingness to pay the fine "will have a positive effect" on proceedings in other European countries.

Duma deputy Leonid Slutsky gives his first big interview since allegations that he sexually harassed multiple journalists Sergey Bobylev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA What follows is a paraphrased retelling of Leonid Slutsky’s June 13 interview with the website Snob . Multiple journalists have accused Slutsky, who chairs the State Duma’s foreign affairs committee, of sexually harassing them over the years when they approached him for comments.

The head of the Serpukhov district, Alexander Shestun, was taken for interrogation to the UK, TASS reports citing sources. According to the agency, he was detained and is being considered as a suspect in the case of "malfeasance". The source does not name a specific article. According to Interfax , Shestun is charged with abuse of power (286 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation) in 2013. The maximum penalty under this article is 10 years in prison.

On June 13, 2018, German Klimenko was fired from the post of presidential adviser on the Internet, which he held for two and a half years. During his work, he managed to make a lot of unexpected statements about the blocking of Internet mixers, the ban on bitcoin and isolation of the Russian Internet on the model of China (Klimenko warmly greeted all these phenomena). Medusa recalls Klimenko’s accomplishments at his now former work. Alexey Filippov / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta He opposed Telegram.

June 13. Rename Macedonia and the first interview of the deputy of Slutsky The main news German Klimenko was dismissed from the post of presidential adviser on the Internet. Vladimir Putin today reassigned the majority of officials of his administration: for example, the head of AP Anton Vaino, his deputy Sergei Kiriyenko and spokesman Dmitry Peskov, but Klimenko did not receive his posts, for example. The Prime Minister of Georgia resigned .

The first major interview of MP Leonid Slutsky after the harassment accusations. As brief as possible I didn't harass anyone. I couldn't call anyone "little bunny", I usually say "little bunny". I didn't grab anyone by the pubis. If a political opponent on Dozhd had grabbed someone by the buttocks - that would have been the best gift, but for some reason the noise only started three years later. Farida Rustamova's recording is cut from different episodes. The girls fell victim to a provocation.