US Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy has announced his retirement. As Reuters writes, Kennedy, being a conservative, sometimes joined the judges from the liberal flank and ensured the victory of their point of view on matters of principle. This happened, in particular, in 2015 when deciding on the legality of same-sex marriage in the United States. Kennedy was the author of the Supreme Court opinion.

Police in Karelia have reportedly detained Yuri Dmitriev, the historian’s lawyer and daughter told the newspaper Novaya Gazeta . Officers apparently stopped his car as he tried to leave Petrozavodsk to visit a cemetery where one of his friends is buried. The television network NTV reported that Dmitriev was detained for violating court-imposed travel restraints. A source told the station that the historian was supposedly planning to flee to Poland, which awarded him the Cross of Merit in 2015.

The humiliation of the Moscow mayoral race’s ‘municipal filter’ Sergey Vedyashkin / “Moskva” City News Agency Moscow mayoral hopefuls meet with municipal deputies on June 26, 2018 On the evening of June 26, at the Moscow Municipal Council building, mayoral hopefuls met for a second time with municipal deputies to give speeches and try to convince the elected officials to endorse their candidacies.

In Karelia, the head of the local branch of Memorial, Yuri Dmitriev, was detained on charges of child pornography. This is reported by Novaya Gazeta. According to Dmitriev's daughter Ekaterina Klodt, he was detained on the way to the Alexander-Svirsky Monastery (located in the Leningrad Region), where he went with a friend.

Participants in a special session of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) voted to give the organization the right to name alleged perpetrators and organizers of chemical attacks. for the adoption of the relevant document proposed by Great Britain voted 82 countries (including the majority of Western countries) . Representatives of 24 states, including Russia, spoke out against it.

Music manager Joseph Jackson, father of singer Michael Jackson, has died at the age of 89. Joseph Jackson was the first manager of musical projects involving his nine children, including the group "Jackson 5", in which Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson sang in childhood and adolescence. Jackson was the architect of his children's early successes, but some of them later said that his diligence bordered on bullying.

Netflix On June 27, the RT channel published the news about the suicide attempt by the informant of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) Grigory Rodchenkov. It was reprinted by dozens of publications, discussed on television channels, and State Duma deputies commented. And then it turned out that this is probably the news from the satirical site, invented after the victory of the Russian football team over Egypt.

Alexander Zemlyanichenko / AP / Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Putin and John Bolton in the Kremlin. June 27, 2018 John Bolton, adviser to US National Security President, flew to Moscow and met with Vladimir Putin. They agreed on the time and place of Putin’s meeting with Donald Trump - but neither the date nor the city has yet been informed reporters. These will be the first negotiations of the two presidents of the tete-a-tet. What will they talk about?

27th of June. Germany did not qualify from the group for the first time at the World Cup News The German national team - the reigning world football champion - flew out of the tournament in Russia. The Germans lost to South Korea, conceding two goals in stoppage time. Germany didn't make it out of a group at the World Cup for the first time in history - and everyone is shocked . Russia's Supreme Court has refused to consider the war in Syria a war.

Andrey Kovalchuk, suspected of organizing cocaine smuggling through the Russian embassy in Argentina, is ready to stand trial in Germany, because he believes that "only in this country is a fair trial possible." This is stated in the official statement of his lawyers, which was sent to the Supreme Court of Berlin. The Russian lawyer of the defendant Vladimir Zherebenkov confirmed the authenticity of the RBC document. Kovalchuk is under arrest in Germany, Russia is seeking his extradition.

Situation: the current world football champion, the German team, could not leave the group - at the very end of the decisive match against South Korea, the Germans missed two goals and lost. About at least a little watching football are struck. "Save calm and say goodbye to Germany" Kay-Pop Capibar in honor of the victory of the national team of South Korea (If you have not seen the last "Avengers", you are unlikely to understand a joke) “The end is in Kazan.

The mathematician Vladimir Uspensky died. Academician Alexei Semenov explains what he did for science and society Vladimir Uspensky in the Summer School "Modern Mathematics", July 2012. Rina Sergeeva / Flickr (CC by-SA 2.0) On June 27, Vladimir Uspensky died. The largest Russian scientist, who for many years heading the department of mathematical logic and theory of algorithms of the Mehmat MSU, was 87 years old.

(And in conversations with "enemies" with Radio Liberty!) MFTi (CC by 2.0) Doctor of Physics and Mathematics Maxim Balashov taught at the MIPT and at the same time was a trade union activist Balashov taught at the Department of Higher Mathematics since 1999. In 2015, he became the chairman of the department of the Interuniversity trade union University Solidarity. In this Union, MFTs are represented by about 30 more teachers.

The German national football team, the reigning world champion, did not reach the playoffs of the 2018 World Cup in Russia. In the last match of the group stage, the Germans lost with a score of 0:2 to the team of South Korea, goals were scored in the third and sixth added minutes. Germany scored three points in three matches. According to Sports.ru , the German national team did not leave the group at the World Cup for the first time in its history.

BelTA information agency / YouTube in the garage at the director of the Belmedtechnic enterprise Alexander Sharak On June 25, the KGB of Belarus announced the disclosure of a large -scale corruption scheme for the purchase of medical equipment and drugs. More than 50 people have been detained, the names of many are not yet named. It is known that most detainees are officials.