In front of the central entrance to the Russian State Library, they began to re-lay the granite staircase, which had already been repaired in 2016, Kommersant reports. One of the first to notice this was local historian Alexander Frolov. Everyone knows the square in front of the entrance to the Russian State Library. The granite-paved space and steps...

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin signed a resolution providing for the transition to separate waste collection by January 1, 2020, the Moscow City Hall reports. By this time, containers for various wastes - plastic, glass, paper, cardboard, metal - should be installed near residential buildings and social institutions.

A Russian town unleashes its rage against the Roma community, following a deadly brawl Alexander Tuzov / Penza Post On June 13, there was mass violence in the town of Chemodanovka, outside Penza. Allegations that members of the local Roma community raped a woman led to a brawl between more than 150 people. One man died, and another five were hospitalized with stab wounds, leaving a victim in intensive care.

Russian cosmonaut candidates will undergo pre-flight training at the Russian University of Special Forces in Gudermes, Interfax reports. The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, agreed on this with the head of the Cosmonaut Training Center, Pavel Vlasov. Pavel Vlasov said that at the special forces university, in particular, they would conduct courses for survival in the wild, as well as parachute training.

The Baring Vostok investment fund, founded by American investor Michael Calvey, has transferred 9.99% of the shares of Vostochny Bank to Artem Avetisyan's company Finvision. This was reported by RBC with reference to representatives of Finvision and Baring Vostok. Cyprus-based Evison Holdings Limited, controlled by Baring Vostok, has forcibly exercised the option to transfer shares, fulfilling the decision of the Amur Arbitration Court on the petition of Finvision.

Update: Alexey Ananyev's lawyer Dmitry Tugushi told RNS that his client has not owned the paintings from the Institute of Russian Realist Art museum since 2017. A collection of paintings worth several hundred million rubles has disappeared from the storage facilities of the Institute of Russian Realist Art, founded by businessman Alexei Ananyev. This was reported by RBC and RNS , citing the press service of Promsvyazbank.

The Israeli investigative company Black Cube tried to collect dirt on the founder of the Anti-Corruption Foundation Alexei Navalny, The Wall Street Journal reports. FBK executive director Vladimir Ashurkov, who lives in London, spoke about attempts to collect compromising evidence. According to him, in 2017, a certain Patrick Diane met with him, who offered Ashurkov's company to organize a party in London.

U.S. Army Secretary Mark Esper will become acting head of the Pentagon, U.S. President Donald Trump tweeted. Prior to this, Patrick Shanahan, who has been in office since January 1, 2019, was the acting US Secretary of Defense. According to Trump, Shanahan decided not to continue the confirmation process as head of the Pentagon in order to devote more time to his family.

The head of the Chechnya parliament Magomed Daudov sharply reacted to the words of the speaker of the parliament of Dagestan Hizhri Shikhsaidov, who condemned Chechnya for a “demonstration of power” in a conflict in Kizlyar. In early June, the residents of Dagestan threw Chechen road signs installed on the border of the two republics, after which the Rosgvard detachments arrived at the place of arrival.

The Public Council of Roszdravnadzor in Moscow will again ask investigators to check the work of pediatrician Yevgeny Likunov, who is accused of forging tests and fake vaccinations. This is reported by the medical publication Vademecum. The council proposes to initiate a criminal case against Likunov under articles on fraud, illegal business and the provision of services that do not meet security requirements.

Maryl Streep is terrifying in the new episodes based on the novel by Liana Moriarty HBO / "Amediathek" On the American HBO and in the Russian "Amediat", the second season of "Big Little Lie" started. To Nicole Kidman, Reese Witherspoon, Zoe Kravitz, Lore Dern and Sheilin Woodley joined Maryl Streep. The film critic Yegor Moskvitin explains how the director Andrea Arnold changed new episodes and where fear comes from if the murder has already been disclosed.

As the Kaliningrad journalist Igor Rudnikov was accused of extorting a bribe from General SK - and then suddenly released David Frenkel Igor Rudnikov after the sentence. Petersburg, June 17, 2019 On June 17, the Moscow District Court of St. Petersburg released the editor-in-chief of the Kaliningrad newspaper New Wheels Igor Rudnikov, who spent more than a year and a half on charges of extortion of 50 thousand dollars with the general of the Investigative Committee Viktor Ledenev.

Manufacturers of motor gasoline raised prices for their products by 17.5% in May, Rosstat reports. During the same period, the cost of crude oil rose by 4.5%. During the first full week of June — from June 3 to June 9 — gasoline prices in Russia rose by an average of 0.3%. Fuel prices increased in 58 regions of the country. Update.

Facebook Facebook officially announced the creation of cryptocurrencies called Libra, as well as the Calibra online wallet for its use. As expected, they will begin work in 2020. The Calibra wallet, as promised in the company, can be used both using a separate application and directly from Facebook Messenger and WhatsApp .

On June 18, the National Bank of Ukraine was subjected to a powerful DDoS attack, due to which access to the official website was temporarily restricted. The bank's key infrastructure, including the payment system, was not affected, the regulator reported on its Facebook page. However, the regulator was forced to publish the official exchange rate of the national currency, the hryvnia, set for June 19 on Facebook.