United Russia's cowardly courage, interactive activism against domestic violence, and a retired colonel is freed in Afghanistan Thursday, June 13, 2019 This day in history: 67 years ago, on June 13, 1952, Soviet Air Force fighter jets shot down two Swedish aircraft over international waters in the Baltic Sea. Moscow publicly denied involvement in the “Catalina affair” until the USSR dissolved in 1991.

US President Donald Trump announced the impending resignation of White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders. Trump specified that Sanders would leave office by the end of June, after which he would continue his political career in his home state of Arkansas. “I hope she decides to run for governor,” the US president tweeted. Sarah Sanders has been White House Press Secretary since July 2017.

Updated . The Ministry of Emergency Situations announced the elimination of the fire. As a result of the incident, no one was injured. In the east of Moscow, the museum complex of the Izmailovsky Kremlin caught fire, TASS reports, citing a law enforcement source. “The fire started at Izmailovskoye highway, 73ZH. There is the Izmailovsky Kremlin. The fire started on the first floor and the fire spreads to the second.

Who is pursued for participating in the march in support of Ivan Golunov Evgeny Feldman for "Medusa" On June 12, in the center of Moscow , a march against police arbitrariness inconsistent with the authorities took place. The reason for him was the case of the journalist "Medusa" Ivan Golunov . More than 500 people were detained for shares.

US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that Iranian authorities bear responsibility for the attack on tankers in the Gulf of Oman that occurred on the morning of June 13. Pompeo called the incident part of a "campaign of escalation" allegedly carried out by Iran. He said the United States would defend its interests in the region, but gave no details of what Washington would do next. A similar incident occurred off the coast of the UAE in early May, when four tankers were attacked.

In Kabardino-Balkaria, the head of the Khabze public organization, Martin Kochesokov, was placed under arrest in a criminal case for purchasing marijuana. RIA Novosti reports this with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the region. According to the police, Kochesokov was detained on June 7, and during a personal search and inspection of his car, bags containing 263.4 grams of marijuana were found.

Channel One / YouTube Igor Medoev The family of FSB Lieutenant Colonel Marat Medoev owns villas and companies in Slovakia. This is stated in the investigation of Novaya Gazeta and the investigative center of Slovakia ICJK. Earlier, the sources of the Project publication said that Medoev “could be an interest in funeral business projects”, about which the Special Corps of Medusa Ivan Kolunov wrote.

How Russia’s ruling political party ‘abandoned’ the Moscow City Duma elections Stoyan Vasaev / TASS Among the politicians running this September for seats in the Moscow City Duma, there’s not a single candidate from the country’s ruling political party, United Russia, even though it held primaries in May to determine its favorites from among its members and supporters.

Film company Warner Bros. Pictures introduced the first trailer for the movie Dr. Song. The film was shot by director Mark Flenegan, known for the series "Ghosts of the House on the Hill" and the film "Gerald Game". Wbrussia The plot of the film is built on the book of the same name by Stephen King and is a continuation of the "Shine". Danny Torrens matured, but could not recover from the injury experienced in childhood, which is why he was abusing alcohol.

State Duma deputy from the Communist Party of the Russian Federation Valery Rashkin sent a deputy request to Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika with a request to check reports of threats to Meduza correspondent Ivan Golunov. The appeal notes that some details of the case "have signs of fabrication" and that Golunov himself in court linked his persecution with his articles about the funeral business.

The Moscow City Hall refused to approve a rally in support of Ivan Golunov and against political repression on Sakharov Avenue on June 23, the applicants for which were the Libertarian Party of Moscow and the Trade Union of Journalists and Media Workers. Instead, the mayor's office proposed moving the event, with a declared number of 20,000 participants, to a site in Sokolniki, which can accommodate about a thousand people, the party told Interfax.

imago / Xinhua / Scanpix / LETA Afghan security guards in Herat, January 2019 Retired Colonel Alexander Lavrentyev, a member of Russia’s Cross-Agency P.O.W. Commission, spent a month in captivity in Afghanistan, the officer’s friends told the news website RBC . On March 26, 2019, Lavrentyev arrived in the province of Herat on an expedition to find and identify the remains of Soviet soldiers who went missing during the USSR’s war in Afghanistan between 1979 and 1989.

A court has refused to grant house arrest to Viktor Kudryavtsev (the 75-year-old Russian scientist charged with treason for allegedly sharing secret information with a Belgian institute), citing an email he received that claims he’s been pre-approved for a green card in the United States. Ivan Pavlov, the scientist’s attorney, told Meduza that this message was only spam. Catherine Holt, the consular section chief at the U.S.

On June 3, Russian schoolchildren took the exam in the Russian language. In one of the tasks, they were asked to write an essay-reasoning based on an excerpt from Viktor Dragunsky's autobiographical story “He Fell on the Grass”. It tells about the Moscow militias who defended the city in 1941.

The Tagansky Court of Moscow fined Vyacheslav Steblin 150 thousand rubles, who was detained at an unauthorized rally in support of Ivan Golunov in Moscow. He was found guilty of repeated violation of the rules of the event (the maximum penalty under this article is 300,000 rubles fine or arrest for up to 30 days). This is the first fine assigned to the participant of the action on June 12. Steblin was one of several detainees who were left overnight in the police department.