Presidential candidate of Belarus Viktor Babariko has been charged under a criminal article, lawyer Dmitry Laevsky told Interfax. “I can’t name the article on which the charge was brought as part of a non-disclosure agreement,” he said, adding that Babariko “categorically disagrees with the charge.” The defense insists on complete innocence, Laevsky said.

Architecture historian Sergei Kavtaradze explains how good and the bad temple of the Ministry of Defense, opened in the suburbs, is good and bad Igor Palkin / Patriarch press service / EPA / Scanpix / Leta On June 14, a ceremony of consecration of the main temple of the Armed Forces of Russia was held in Kubinka near Moscow. The rector of the new temple was the Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill.

Evgeny Feldman for Medusa Water at the Leninsky Prospekt metro station, June 20, 2020 On the afternoon of June 20, the south of Moscow was flooded after a rain with a thunderstorm and hail. “Yes, everyone sailed. I don’t remember this yet, ”the author of this video says behind the scenes: According to the Moscow meteoro, to which Interfax refer, over 35 millimeters of precipitation fell in a June monthly rate of 75 millimeters in a few hours.

Additional payments to doctors who work with patients sick with COVID-19 should be maintained in July and August, said Russian President Vladimir Putin. The transcript of the video conference with doctors was published on the Kremlin website. The head of state also said that the allowances will need to be taken into account when calculating vacation pay, regardless of when the medical worker goes on vacation (due to the epidemic, doctors have to postpone their summer vacation).

AP / Scanpix / Leta football players Rostov celebrate a goal against Sochi. Sochi, June 19, 2020 The football championship resumed in Russia, which was interrupted for three months due to the coronavirus epidemic. Sochi defeated Rostov with a record for Russian football with an account of 10: 1, but the match caused a resonance not only because of this. Six players of Rostov found coronavirus, the whole team was locked at the base, but Sochi refused to transfer the game.

Additional beds in Moscow hospitals for patients with COVID-19 should remain in the fall of 2020 or 2021, Russian President Vladimir Putin said. His words are quoted by Interfax. “We agreed with the mayor [Sergey Sobyanin] that we will not close supplementary beds in Moscow, and that the repurposed institutions can be returned to normal operation.

Belarus would cease to exist if quarantine were introduced in the country due to the COVID-19 epidemic. Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said this, his words are quoted by Belta. The agency notes that the head of state called it right, among other things, the decision not to stop the work of enterprises. This made it possible to “save the country,” Belta writes. “I saw many months ago what they want from us. The fact is that we would not have a country by this time.

It was an experiment with a famous psychologist. The authorities knew about him Gert Kreutschmann / Ullstein Bild / Getty images In 1969, in Berlin, an experiment began with the knowledge of the authorities, within the framework of which homeless children and adolescents were given to educated men convicted of sexual relations with minors. The author of the experiment - a German psychologist and sexologist Helmut Kentler - encouraged sex between children and their guardians.

The musician of the Alliance group Oleg Parastaev died on the morning of June 20, according to his page on VKontakte. He was 61 years old. Parastaev is the author of music and the text of the most famous song of the “Alliance” under the name “At the Dawn”. YouTube/Oleg Parastaev Alliance - at dawn. 1987 clip

Vasily Fedocenko / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On the evening of June 19, in various Belarusian cities, protests continued - and the detention of their participants. The pickets were intensified after the presidential candidate Viktor Babariko and his son were detained in Minsk on June 18 in Minsk. The authorities called Babariko the “head of illegal activity” in Belgazprombank, which Babariko headed for 20 years.

Actor Mikhail Efremov, accused in the case of an accident in which a person died, was recognized as sane. This is reported by Interfax and RIA Novosti with reference to sources . “The examination confirmed the legal capacity and full sanity of Efremov,” the interlocutor of Interfax said. On the evening of June 8 in Moscow, a car driven by Efremov drove into the oncoming lane and collided with a van. The driver of the van died in the hospital.

In Tatarstan, due to the epidemic of coronavirus infection, the celebration of Sabantuy was canceled in cities, regional centers and large settlements. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the press secretary of the President of Tatarstan. “In rural areas, we allow them to be held if an appropriate decision is made by local authorities and taking into account the opinion of the population,” said Lilia Galimova. According to her, the rural Sabantuy is “a small holiday in nature”.

On World Medusa Refugees and the Civil Assistance Committee, 12 people who fled to Russia tell stories On June 20, World Refugees Day are celebrated. There are 26 million people in the world. Moreover, in Russia, only 487 people have the status of refugees, although in reality tens and hundreds of thousand are trying to get it - as a rule, in vain.

AP / Scanpix / Leta OMON in Minsk delays the participant in the detention related to the elections of the President of Belarus. Throughout the country on June 19, more than a hundred protesters fell into the police department. The shares in Belarus have been going on from May, during the election campaign, several candidates were detained, including one - in a criminal case.

During the day, 7,889 new cases of COVID-19 were registered in Russia, of which 1,057 were in Moscow, according to the operational headquarters. 161 people died from the disease per day, in total since the beginning of the epidemic - 8002 people. In Moscow, according to the evening of June 19, 52 people died . 10,186 people recovered per day, during the epidemic - 334.5 thousand. In total, by June 20, 576,952 cases of coronavirus infection were recorded in Russia in 85 regions.