Several thousand people staged a rally near the building of one of the courts in Paris in memory of 24-year-old black Frenchman Adam Traor, who died after being detained in 2016. According to BFM TV, citing a source in the police, more than 19,000 people came to the rally. Le Figaro cites other police data - about 15 thousand participants. Two hours after the start of the rally, clashes broke out between some protesters and gendarmes. The police responded with tear gas.

Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin instructed the Ministry of Health to maintain a reserve of beds for people with COVID-19 in case the incidence of the disease resumes. The head of government also instructed to work out the issue of the need to create additional beds in case a second wave of the epidemic begins in Russia.

Actor Alexander Filimonenko recently starred in a homophobic propaganda video titled “Why amendments to the Constitution are important.” He then opposed voting in favor of those very same amendments. The video was created by the “Federal News Agency” (RIA FAN) and the “Patriot” media group, both of which are linked to businessman Evgeny Prigozhin .

Igor Ivanko / Agency "Moscow" More than ten independent publishers refused to participate in the book Festival "Red Square" in Moscow, scheduled for June 6-8. Most of them refused to participate due to fears for the health of employees and visitors, the BBC Russian Service reports . Who refused to participate? The Alpina Non-Fixes, New Literary Review, Sinbad, Phantom Press, Ad Marginem, Individuum, and Children's Pink Giraffes, Polyandria, White Raven and Apricobux children's publishing houses.

Law enforcement have begun arresting protesters for participating in single-person demonstrations opposing police violence outside of the police headquarters in Moscow, OVD-Info reports. At least 16 people have been arrested, according to Novaya Gazeta, including a number of people who were picketing in support of jailed journalist Ilya Azar.

Update: Police have detained more than 20 people, MBKh Media reports . Police officers have begun detaining participants in single-person pickets against police violence taking place near the Moscow Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs building on Petrovka, OVD-Info reports. Among those detained are also those who went out to picket in support of the arrested journalist Ilya Azar.

The department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Moscow district of Kuntsevo asked the court to establish until April 27, 2029, administrative supervision over Varvara Karaulova, who was convicted in the case of trying to join the Islamic State. This was reported to TASS by lawyer Sergei Badamshin. The Kuntsevskaya police ask that Karaulova, as part of administrative supervision, be banned from being outside the house from 22:00 to 06:00 Moscow time, if this is not related to work.

The head of the Moscow Information Technology Department said that the first sick people appeared in the city back in January Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS / Vida Press Eduard Lysenko, head of the Moscow Information Technology Department, said in an interview with Khabra that coronavirus infection appeared in Moscow in the middle-end of January. The first to say the statement by Lysenko was the attention of the journalist of Echo of Moscow, Alexander Plyushchev.

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The High Qualification Board of Judges has announced a second competition for the post of chairman of the Moscow City Court. This is reported by Vedomosti. The powers of the current head of the Moscow City Court Olga Yegorova expire in October. Initially, the competition was announced in mid-April, but in the end it did not take place due to a lack of candidates. Egorova herself did not participate in the competition and did not comment on the reasons for the refusal.

Actor Alexander Filimonenko starred in the promotional video "Why amendments to the Constitution of Russia are important." And then he himself opposed these amendments. The video was created by the Federal News Agency (RIA FAN) and the Patriot media group, which are associated with businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin. According to the plot of the video, Russia has not adopted amendments to Article 72 of the Basic Law of the Constitution of the Russian Federation.

Lev Fedoseev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA The collapsed bridge across the Kola River. June 1, 2020. A flood in the Murmansk region damaged a railway bridge across the Kola River in northwestern Russia. As a result, passenger and freight trains along the Vykhodnoy – Kola line, connecting the village of Vykhodnoy to the regional capital of Murmansk, have been suspended. One of the railway bridge’s five pillars collapsed on May 30.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. American cities are covered by riots. Why is racism in the United States remaining such an acute problem? For more than a week, protests against police arbitrariness have been going on in the United States. They began because of the death of the black American George Floyd, harshly detained by the police on May 25. Peaceful rallies began in Minneapolis, where they detained Floyd.

Rosstat and the Ministry of Economic Development began to publish statistics and forecasts later than usual, Reuters noted. According to his sources, in this way the government hopes to draw less attention to the economic crisis due to the epidemic of coronavirus infection in Russia. If earlier Rosstat published data around 16:00 Moscow time on weekdays, then, for example, on May 21, the agency posted statistics on industrial production in April at 21:00 Moscow time.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree approving the foundations of the state policy in the field of nuclear deterrence. The document is published on the official portal of legal information. This is the first publication of such a decree - previously all of them were closed. The document notes that Russia considers nuclear weapons solely as a means of deterrence, and its use is an extreme necessary measure.