In Minsk, at the pickets, where they collected signatures for rivals by Alexander Lukashenko in the presidential election, a multi -kilometer queue was lined up, the Belarusian portal TUT.BY reports. This is an action in support of activists and politicians detained during the presidential election campaign, writes Radio Liberty.

Mikhail Ignatiev, the former governor of Chuvashia, has died from COVID-19, officials confirm. He was reportedly hospitalized in early May in St. Petersburg with double pneumonia and placed on life support. In late May, Ignatiev became the first governor ever to challenge a presidential dismissal order by Vladimir Putin. Russia’s Supreme Court planned to hear the case on June 30.

The National Interest — yes, the same international affairs journal run by Dmitri Simes , whose name appears more than 100 times in Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election — has published a new article credited to President Vladimir Putin about the Second World War.

The former head of Chuvashia, Mikhail Ignatyev, has died. This information was confirmed to RIA Novosti by the current head of the republic, Oleg Nikolaev. Ignatiev was 58 years old. According to an Interfax source, he had coronavirus. It was previously reported that Ignatyev was hospitalized in St. Petersburg in early May. He was hospitalized with bilateral pneumonia and was on an extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) machine .

The American publication The National Interest published an article by Russian President Vladimir Putin about World War II. The article is called "The Real Lessons of the 75th Anniversary of World War II." In it, Putin discusses the preconditions for the war, the actions of different countries in its first stage, and the Molotov-Ribbentrop Pact .

Telegram founder Pavel Durov congratulated Russian users of the messenger on unblocking it. “I think that unlocking will be a good signal for IT entrepreneurs and investors. Similar actions by the Russian authorities in this and other areas inspire optimism. I hope that the positive trend will be maintained and Russia will be able to realize its potential in the digital sphere,” Durov wrote in his Telegram channel.

Excerpts from the courtroom speeches of the suspects in the St. Petersburg ‘Network’ case David Frenkel / Kommersant During a hearing in St. Petersburg on June 17, the prosecutor in the high-profile “Network” (“Set”) terrorism case urged the court to find the two suspects on trial — 25-year-old Viktor Filinkov and 28-year-old Julius Boyarshinov — guilty, and sentence them to nine and six years in prison, respectively.

Cyberpunk 2077 has been pushed back to November 19th. The developers announced this on the official Twitter of the project. The creators of the game noted that all levels and quests have already been completed, but they need more time to fix bugs and build balanced game mechanics. Cyberpunk 2077 was previously scheduled to release on September 17th. Cyberpunk 2077 has been delayed for the second time in months. The game was originally supposed to be released in April 2020.

Behind the candidate for the presidency of Belarus, Viktor Babariko, are "puppeteers" involved in his "illegal activities." This was stated by the head of the State Control Committee (KGC) of Belarus Ivan Tertel, his words are quoted by BelTA. “Such persons are, we know, big bosses in Gazprom, and maybe even higher,” said Tertel. He did not name any names or positions. on June 18 Babariko was detained as part of the Belgazprombank case (its shareholders are Gazprom and Gazprombank).

The situation with coronavirus in Moscow is improving significantly, despite the lifting of restrictive measures. This was stated in an interview with the Russia 24 TV channel by the mayor of the city, Sergei Sobyanin. “I must say that, despite the increase in the number of people on the streets, on the roads, at open enterprises, the situation in Moscow is significantly improving every week. Over the past week, it has improved by about 25-30 percent in all key indicators,” Sobyanin said.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. In St. Petersburg, the highest mortality from Covid in Russia. As an epidemiological crisis, it is associated with the Governor of Beglov and Underground Parties in Bars According to official figures , St. Petersburg is in third place in Russia in terms of the number of active cases of coronavirus. In total, as of June 18, 21.5 thousand infected and 756 dead were registered.

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Alla Samoylova, the head of Russia’s public health watchdog, Roszdravnadzor, said that since the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic, 489 medical workers in Russia have died of the disease. (Roszdravnadzor’s press service later issued a statement, claiming these figures were “unofficial”).

Gabriel Grigorov / TASS / Scanpix / Leta In Moscow, four people were killed in Moscow as a result of shooting in an apartment of a residential building . This happened on Priorov Street in the Koptevo area in the north of the city. According to the UK, the shots heard the neighbors, after which they called the police - the arrived employees found the bodies of two women, men and a small child in the apartment.

The main beneficiaries of the garbage reform that Russia’s initiated in 2019 are people from President Vladimir Putin’s inner circle, reveals a new report from the investigative outlet Istories. According to the investigation, companies linked to Putin’s friends received nearly a quarter of all government contracts for garbage collection across the country — contracts with a total value of 423 billion rubles (about $6 billion).