Twitter users have been given the opportunity to publish tweets as voice messages. This was reported in the company's blog. To make a voice tweet, you need to click on the icon with the image of sound waves. The duration of each message should be a maximum of 140 seconds. If the voice tweet lasts longer, the platform will automatically split it into several records and create a thread from them.

RIA Novosti calls it the first such case in the city In Moscow, two-year-old Marusya Parshikova died of a new disease associated with coronavirus. about this RIA Novosti writes with reference to the girl's mother Anna Parshikova. TOK "She had blood running down her stomach." Kawasaki syndrome or COVID-19? Interview with a mother who has lost a child On May 18, Marusya was taken to the Morozov Children's Hospital. She had a high fever, swollen lymph nodes, and a rash appeared.

On the night of June 18, four men in civilian clothes, introducing themselves as police officers, arrived at the editorial office of the Dozhd TV channel and demanded that correspondent Anton Baev travel with them. The channel itself reports this.

Late on Wednesday night, police officers arrived outside the studio of the independent television network Dozhd , where they demanded to speak with journalist Anton Baev, the author of a recent investigative report that claims Moscow residents are being offered money to register fake accounts (using real senior citizens’ passport information) and vote online in support of amending Russia’s Constitution.

The new editor-in-chief of Vedomosti, Andrey Shmarov, issued an order prohibiting the publication of articles in the newspaper and on its website that had not been approved by "the editor-in-chief or employees authorized by him." Meduza has the text of the order. The ban does not apply to sections "News", "News of companies", promotional materials and some others. All other texts must be submitted for approval no later than three hours before the time of the planned publication.

On June 16, members of Moscow’s local election commissions were set to hold their first meetings on conducting the July 1 plebiscite on constitutional amendments. However, several regions have only half the required number of electoral commission personnel, Open Media reports, citing members of the territorial electoral commission and election monitor coordinators.

About 80 veterans of the Great Patriotic War, who will be on the same podium with Russian President Vladimir Putin during the Victory Parade, have been quarantined. This was reported by two Bloomberg sources. Veterans are isolated for two weeks at a resort outside Moscow, Bloomberg writes. However, Echo of Moscow's sources in the parade organizing committee stated that the veterans were not taken anywhere, but were simply asked to stay at home.

Moscow residents are being offered money to register fake accounts for online voting Kirill Kukhmar / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Moscow residents are being offered money to register fake accounts on the government platform mos.ru and vote online in support of amending the constitution, reports the television channel Dozhd (“TV Rain”) . Would-be participants are being promised 75 rubles for each registration (about $1), and another 50 rubles (about $0.70) for voting through the created account.

The traffic congestion in Moscow on the evening of June 17 reached 9 out of 10 points. This was reported by TASS with reference to the data of the Yandex.Traffic service. Traffic was hampered along almost the entire length of the Garden Ring, along the boulevards, the Third Transport Ring, Moskvoretskaya and Sofiyskaya embankments. Traffic jams arose around 19:00 and were associated with the blocking of dozens of streets due to the rehearsal of the Victory Parade on Red Square.

On June 16, when the precinct election commissions (PECs) of Moscow were supposed to hold their first meeting on voting for the new Constitution, it turned out that in some districts there were not enough members of the PEC. Members of territorial election commissions (TECs) and coordinators of observers told Open Media about this.

Football club "Rostov" goes into a two-week quarantine. This was announced by the president of the club Artashes Arutyunyants. Six players of the main team of the club have been diagnosed with coronavirus. 42 club employees were in close contact with them: other players, coaching staff and team staff. According to Sport -Express, the game between Rostov and Sochi, scheduled for June 19, will not take place on this date. What will happen to other upcoming matches of Rostov is not specified.

Telegram founder Pavel Durov has not ruled out litigation with Facebook over fraudulent ads that use his name. Durov announced this on his Telegram channel. The advertisement that Durov is talking about has been published on Facebook since at least June 2019.

Covid discident and fan of Stalin went to the riot against the Russian Orthodox Church Donat Sorokin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Sergius Sergius in the Central Urals Convent. June 17, 2020 The conflict of one of the most famous priests of the Urals with the church leadership on June 16 grew into an open confrontation on the beginning of the coronavirus epidemic.

The United States imposed sanctions on 39 individuals and entities under the Syrian Civilian Protection Act (“Caesar Act”), signed in December 2019. According to the US State Department, on June 17, the sanctions came into force. On the sanctions list are those people and companies that Washington believes are benefiting from the Syrian conflict, funding its continuation and helping Syrian President Bashar al-Assad obtain technology, goods and services that support his regime.

In Yemen, militants attacked a government convoy and seized banknotes worth 64 billion reais (approximately $225 million). According to the official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, the incident took place in the city of Aden. The official noted that the Russian Goznak has been printing banknotes for Yemen since 2017. Goznak supplies its products to more than 20 countries.