Vladimir Putin gave an interview to the Financial Times - and we recounted it The retelling is based on the transcript of the interview in Russian, published on the Kremlin website. Putin's quotes are in quotation marks. During the Cold War, there were rules, now there are not. Donald Trump is a talented man, he is sensitive to the expectations of voters. In Syria, we have achieved even more than I expected. There are no Russian troops in Venezuela, only military specialists and instructors.

In Moscow, fences have been installed around the public space "Pit" on Khokhlovskaya Square, MBKh Media reports. According to the workers, the "Pit" is closed for restoration, the newspaper writes. The Pit public space on Khokhlovskaya Square was opened in autumn 2017; The project was carried out by Strelka Design Bureau. Recently, Pit several times activists of the Lev Against movement, which opposes smoking and drinking alcohol in public places, have come to the .

Hackers working for Western intelligence agencies hacked Yandex systems in 2018. This was reported by Reuters, citing four sources. The attack occurred in October-November 2018. The hack used a rare malware called Regin, which is believed to be used by intelligence agencies in the US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand. It is unknown which of these countries carried out the attack. The hackers maintained access to Yandex systems for at least several weeks, writes Reuters.

On the eve of the G20 summit in Osaka, Russian President Vladimir Putin gave an interview with Financial Times (here is his words in Russian on the Kremlin’s website). During the conversation, the Linel Barber correspondent asked Putin about the situation with the poisoning of Sergei and Julia Skripaley in Salisbury in March 2018. Putin replied that “all this spy fuss, it is not worth, as we say, five cents”, and no one has yet proved the involvement of Russia.

The episode of Andrey Malakhov's program "Live" on the channel "Russia 1", dedicated to the case of the Khachaturyan sisters , was cancelled. This was written on Facebook by activist Daria Serenko, who was supposed to participate in the program. In the post, Serenko stated that the program was cancelled without explanation. However, activist Alena Popova, who was also supposed to come to the show, stated in the comments that they knew the reason for the cancellation.

Jony Ive will leave her position as Apple's chief designer. This is stated in a statement from the corporation. Ive decided to found his own design studio. Apple will become one of its main clients, the press release notes. The Financial Times, citing Quince, writes that his studio will be called LoveFrom. Following Ive's departure, Apple's design team will be led by Evans Hankey, vice president of industrial design, and Alan Dye, vice president of user experience design.

Swen Pfoertner / DPA / AP / Scanpix / Leta On June 27, the German police arrested two people suspected of complicity in the murder of the head of the administrative district of Kassel (Federal Land of Hesse) Walter Lyubke. The famous municipal politician who was part of the Christian Democratic Union Angels Merkel was shot dead on the night of June on the veranda of his own house.

The prosecution has demanded that Krasnodar resident Dmitry Baksheev, accused in the so-called "Krasnodar cannibals" case, be sentenced to 14 years and three months in prison. Baksheev's lawyer Yulia Fedotova told Mediazona about this. Baksheev is charged with murder and desecration of a corpse . According to investigators, the accused killed his acquaintance Elena Vakhrusheva, with whom his wife Natalya had quarreled due to jealousy.

The Interstate Aviation Committee (IAC) has published a 180-page final report ( .pdf ) on the crash of the Saratov Airlines An-148 in February 2018. The report states that the plane crashed due to erroneous actions by the crew during the climb "in instrumental meteorological conditions with unreliable indications of the airspeed." The instruments showed unreliable data because all three total pressure receivers were clogged with ice, the IAC noted.

A criminal case for abuse of office has been opened against the head of IK-5 in the Arkhangelsk Region and his deputy. This was reported by the local Investigative Committee. According to investigators, in 2016-2019, the suspects provided patronage to one of the convicted men: they provided him with food and alcohol, allowed him to live in the office premises and use communication equipment, and also allowed strangers to see him.

Meduza reviews Russia's biggest news stories over the first six months of the year We’re now halfway through the year, which is a good excuse to pause and take stock of the major news stories in Russia so far in 2019. Over the past six months, Meduza has reported on hundreds of current events, but some incidents and trends resonate and rise above the rest. What follows is hardly an exhaustive list of all the important things that have happened this year in Russia.

A court in Smolensk fined local resident Sergei Komandirov 30,000 rubles under the article on disrespect for the authorities . Komandirov himself told MBKh Media about this. The reason for the fine was a post published on VKontakte on April 24 under the news about a fine for disrespect for the government in the Novgorod region. Komandirov posted a picture of Vladimir Putin and the text "Every citizen knows who... No.

From breakdancing to rock climbing, we break down Russia's prospects in the newest official Olympic sports The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris will include four new events: breakdancing, skateboarding, surfing, and sport climbing.

The Bank of Russia suspects former co-owners of Transaero airline Tatyana Anodina and her son Alexander Pleshakov of manipulating the shares of the carrier company. The Central Bank of the Russian Federation said in a statement that Pleshakov transferred 41.4% of the company's shares to Anodina in September-December 2016, but did not disclose insider information that he had left the Transaero shareholders.

On May 30, the Ministry of Communications posted a draft bylaw to the law on the isolation of the Runet on the portal regulation.gov.ru. The document describes the procedure for monitoring the installation of communication equipment, with the help of which Roskomnadzor will transmit instructions to key market players in the event of an emergency and the introduction of centralized management of the Runet. The largest mobile operators - VimpelCom, MTS and T2 Mobile - left comments on the draft.