The meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump is likely to take place in Helsinki. Reuters and Politico write about this, citing sources. According to Reuters sources, it was decided to abandon the idea of ​​holding a summit in Vienna . The final decision will be made following the visit of Trump's adviser John Bolton to Moscow.

The Argentina national football team reached the 1/8 finals of the World Cup, beating the Nigerian national team with a score of 2: 1. The winning goal was scored in the last minutes of the match by Marcos Rojo. In the event of a draw, not Argentina would have left the group, but Nigeria. In the match, Argentine striker Lionel Messi scored his first goal of the tournament. In a parallel match in Group D, group leader Croatia beat Iceland 2-1.

Director Konstantin Bogomolov will leave the Chekhov Moscow Art Theater. This was reported by Dozhd, citing a source; The theater's press secretary, Maria Malkina, confirmed this information to Meduza. According to Dozhd, the theater management decided not to renew the contract with Bogomolov "due to aesthetic differences." Update . Bogomolov on Facebook confirmed that he would leave the Moscow Art Theater.

In London, a court returned Uber's license to transport passengers, which was stripped of it last September by the city authorities. The court placed the company on a 15-month probationary period. During this period, transport authorities will be "thoroughly scrutinizing" the company's compliance with the rules, London Mayor Sadiq Khan said. Uber UK general manager Tom Elvidge said he was satisfied with the court's decision.

In Sudan, a court commuted the sentence of Noura Hussain, convicted of killing her husband who raped her. Instead of the death penalty, she received 5 years in prison, according to CNN, citing her lawyers. Noura Hussain, 19, was sentenced to hang in May 2018. The Sharia court found her guilty of murdering her 35-year-old husband, to whom the girl was forcibly married. After the wedding, she refused to have sex with her husband, and he raped her.

The crash of the Saratov Airlines An-148 plane in the Moscow region was caused by the crew's incorrect actions, the Russian Investigative Committee reported. Investigators concluded that the pilots failed to turn on the heating for the airspeed sensors, which led to icing of the instruments and the crew receiving incorrect data.

The U.S. Supreme Court upheld Donald Trump's executive order, which restricts entry into the country of citizens from a number of Muslim countries - Iran, Libya, Somalia, Syria and Yemen. The decision states that the adoption of the document was within the powers of the president and was dictated by concern for national security. The court did not see signs of religious hostility in the decree. Five out of nine judges voted to approve the decree.

June 26th. Why we shouldn't raise taxes Main news Igor Kholmanskikh was dismissed from the post of plenipotentiary in the Urals Federal District. Kholmanskikh, former head of the assembly shop at Uralvagonzavod, whose political career began after publicly supporting Vladimir Putin during a teleconference; he has held the post of plenipotentiary since 2012.

Yabloko held primaries. The winner withdrew his candidacy in favor of the leader of the Moscow branch, Sergei Mitrokhin, who came in second. Mitrokhin blamed the leadership of Yabloko for his defeat, and it decided to nominate Elena Rusakova for mayor. The Moscow branch voted for Mitrokhin anyway, but the federal bureau did not recognize this decision. The Moscow branch supported Mitrokhin again, and he submitted documents to the Moscow City Electoral Commission.

Anti-fascist Ilya Shakursky, a defendant in the “Penza case,” went on a hunger strike after he was placed in solitary confinement in pretrial detention center No. 1 in Penza. Shakursky's mother, Elena Bogatova, told OVD-Info that the activist was sent to solitary confinement on June 25 for seven days because he allegedly talked during his daily hour-long walk. In total, nine people are involved in the "Penza case".

The national teams of France and Denmark played a 0-0 draw at the World Cup. This is the first goalless draw in the tournament. The teams have scored at least one goal in 35 previous matches. France and Denmark secured their place in the 1/8 finals, finishing first and second respectively in Group C. The Australian team also fought for the playoffs from Group C, but they lost 0:2 to the Peruvians (goals were scored in the 18th and 50th minutes).

Alexey Navalny has lost another defamation lawsuit brought by a billionaire. A Moscow district court ruled on Tuesday that Navalny defamed Mikhail Prokhorov when he claimed in a recent Anti-Corruption Foundation report that Prokhorov bribed then Deputy Prime Minister Alexander Khloponin by paying three times the market value for his Italian villa.

A man in Kaliningrad has been sentenced to two years in prison for inciting acts of terrorism, the murder of police officers, and the violent overthrow of the state in audio messages posted on the instant messenger Telegram. Alexander Petrovsky shared the recordings in a chat group called “Revolution: Kaliningrad,” but he says prosecutors used his messages out of context. The verdict was handed down in late May, but journalists only learned about it a month later.

More than 230 academics from Russia and other countries have signed an open letter calling on Russia’s Federal Education and Science Supervision Agency (Rosobrnadzor) to reconsider its decision to revoke the state accreditation of the Moscow School of Social and Economic Sciences, better known as “Shaninka.” The letter describes the school as one of Russia’s leading humanities colleges and argues that the code violations discovered by inspectors can be addressed easily without any regulatory

The federal bureau of the “Yabloko” political party is being sued for refusing to nominate Moscow branch leader Sergey Mitrokhin as the party’s candidate in this September’s Moscow mayoral election. The party held primaries in Moscow, but the winner withdrew his candidacy in favor of Mitrokhin’s. Afterwards, Yabloko’s federal bureau refused to nominate Mitrokhin, though the party’s Moscow branch submitted his candidacy paperwork to the Moscow Election Commission.