Members of the human rights association "Committee against Torture" decided to liquidate it after it was entered into the register of "foreign agents". The organization reported this to Meduza.

“It seemed to me that this is an accurate diagnosis. Today I think this is a sentence " The artist Timofei Radia published videos and photos of his new work - the words “Live past!” Placed on the roofs of two nine -story buildings on Cosmonauts Avenue in Yekaterinburg. Timothy Radia The houses are located between the monument to the designer Lev Lulia, made in the form of an anti -aircraft missile, and another building on the roof of which a sickle and a hammer are installed.

In Moscow, the former McDonald's was re -opened on Pushkinskaya Square - without ordinary Cola and Bigmak. Report "Medusa" Maxim Shipenkov / EPA / Scanpix / Leta The owners of the former network of restaurants of McDonald's, which at the last moment called the "tasty and point", sought to repeat the famous opening of McDonald's on Pushkin Square in Moscow in 1990.

In the Ukrainian Melitopol, which is under the control of the Russian military, on June 12 there was an explosion. According to local media Ria-Melitopol, which opposes the Russian occupation, the explosion occurred around 17:45 near the monument to the T-70 tank on Heroiv Ukrainy Street. The publication writes that the area of ​​​​the incident is cordoned off and the Russian security forces are checking cars and searching “suspicious” people.

On June 12, police in the Moscow metro detained people who had previously participated in protests against the war in Ukraine, writes OVD-Info . According to the reports, more than 15 people were detained, some of whom told OVD-Info that they had attended anti-war protests in the past. Some of them mentioned that the police used a poster called "Russia Day" and identified people using facial recognition.

Piotr Andryushchenko, an adviser to the mayor of Mariupol, said Russian forces posted messages on damaged houses saying they were "demolished within two weeks." There are no photographs of these messages in Andryushchenko's publication. According to the adviser, Russian forces are demanding residents leave these houses.

The British Ministry of Defense, in another report on the war in Ukraine, said that in recent weeks Russia has probably begun to prepare third battalions of some brigades for participation in hostilities. As a rule, in brigades consisting of three battalions, a maximum of two battalions are used in combat at the same time. Third battalions are often understrength, so British military intelligence believes Russia will have to fill them with mobilized reservists and newly contracted troops.

The head of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Denis Pushilin, said he was not going to pardon foreigners who fought on the side of Ukraine, who were sentenced to death in the DPR. “First of all, I must be guided by the court decision that has been made. By the nature of those articles, those offenses that they committed, I see no reason, prerequisites for me to come out with such a decision on pardon, ”Pushilin said (quoted by TASS).

Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi told reporters that he tried to speak personally with Russian President Vladimir Putin after the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Il Messaggero writes about it. "I haven't heard anything from Putin lately," Berlusconi said, adding that he and the Russian president were once "very good friends." “I made two phone calls [to Putin] at the beginning of this operation and received no response.

Sberbank is reducing interest rates on consumer loans from June 12 - now the minimum rate is 14.9% per annum. “Moreover, now in the first month the loan rate will be only 8.9% per annum, and for owners of the SberPrime+ subscription - 6.9% per annum (with a loan amount of 300 thousand and a loan term of one year),” the credit institution’s website reports. Deposit rates have been reduced by 1.5 percentage points for the main line for individuals. Now the maximum deposit rate at Sberbank is 8%.

In Finland now an unprecedentedly high level of NATO membership support. European Minister Tyutti Tuoppurainen explains why Thierry Monasse / Getty images Shortly before Sweden and Finland, on May 18, they submitted formal applications for joining NATO, a public opinion poll showed that 76% of Finns support membership in the Alliance. This is an unprecedentedly high level of support, and it grew with a phenomenal speed: by 26 points since February 2022.

Journalist, artist, art dealer Igor Dudinsky died at the age of 75, reporters Grigory Nekhoroshev reported on Facebook (access to the record is limited) and Oleg Kashin in Telegraph . Dudinsky, among other things, from 1995 to 2005 worked in the newspaper Megapolis Express.

Fragment of Patty Davis's book about the dementia "How to live when a loved one stopped recognizing you" Olga Bigel In June 2022, the book “Olympus-Business” was published by the book “How to live when a loved one stopped recognizing you. Psychology of the family crisis ” (translator - Sofya Loseva). Its author is Patti Davis, the daughter of the former US President Ronald Reagan, who developed Alzheimer's disease at the end of his life.

On the Frunze Embankment in Moscow, opposite the building of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation on the day of Russia, an anti -war banner was hung in the form of a Russian flag with the inscription "Today is not my day." Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The statement that ideologists were distributed by the actions that wished to maintain anonymity is said (quote for Novaya Gazeta.

In Russia, the identification of a more infectious variant of the omicron strain of coronavirus BA.4 has been confirmed . about this . told Interfax Kamil Khafizov, head of the laboratory for genomic research at the Central Research Institute of Epidemiology of Rospotrebnadzor, The first samples with the new variant of COVID-19 were handed over to laboratories at the end of May, Khafizov said.