The long road to dismantling Kyiv’s Soviet monument to friendship with Russia Ingus Kruklitis / Shutterstock.com At the end of April, the city of Kyiv dismantled a Soviet-era statue that was meant to symbolize friendship between Russia and Ukraine. The sculpture was part of a complex in the city center that includes the Peoples’ Friendship Arch — a massive rainbow-shaped structure that was recently renamed the Arch of Freedom of the Ukrainian people.

Jonathan Brady / Getty images In Ukraine, Boris Johnson is now one of the most popular Western politicians for his active support for the country in the war with Russia. But the British prime minister’s houses are not going in the best way. On June 7, Johnson experienced an attempt by his own subordinates to shift him from the post of leader of the conservative party of Great Britain and from the post of Prime Minister of the country.

In the Kyiv region, near the village of Mirotskoye, Buchansky district, a burial place with the bodies of seven dead civilians was found, said the head of the regional police Andriy Nebitov. According to him, there are signs of torture on the bodies of the dead, many had their hands tied and their knees were shot, and the cause of death was gunshot wounds to the head. The identities of the dead are being established.

How was Russia's Day in Moscow. Report "Medusa" Agency "Moscow" On June 12, in Russian cities, as well as in the occupied territory of Ukraine, events were held in honor of Russia Day. In the Moscow metro on this day, according to the OVD-Info , at least 43 people were detained according to the person recognition-some of them said that they had previously participated in anti-war shares.

Alfa group veteran Alexander Plyusnin died at the age of 73, according to the website of the Council of the International Association of Veterans of the Alfa anti-terror unit. Hero of the assault on Amin's palace. Master of Sports of the USSR and multiple champion of the KGB of the USSR in sambo. The legend of the domestic special forces. The causes of death are not named.

The shares of IDS Borjomi Georgia, which owns the Borjomi mineral water bottling plant, will be donated to the Georgian government. This was announced on June 13 by Prime Minister Irakli Garibashvili. “Today we have successfully completed negotiations with the shareholders of Borjomi and our state, the government of Georgia, will become a shareholder of the group that owns the Borjomi plant, this is a free deal.

St. Petersburg priest faces criminal charges for condemning Russia’s war against Ukraine Ioann Kurmoyarov’s Facebook Former priest and doctor of theology Ioann Kurmoyarov has been jailed for two months pending trial on felony charges of spreading “false information” about the Russian military. St. Petersburg’s Kalininsky District Court remanded Kurmoyarov in custody on Saturday, June 11.

In Moscow, activist Anton Malgazhdarov was detained for the anti-war banner "Today is not my day", hung on June 12 on Frunzenskaya Embankment near the building of the Russian Ministry of Defense.

The International Football Association Board (IFAB) has made official changes to the rules of the game of football - on June 13 at a meeting in Doha, the organization approved the rule of five substitutions during the match on a permanent basis. The number of substitutions was temporarily increased from three to five in May 2020 amid the coronavirus pandemic to reduce the physical burden on football players. As a result, this measure received the support of the entire football community.

Street artist Timofey Radya's eerie new piece in Yekaterinburg UPDATE : On June 14, just two days after this work was installed, it was taken down by the authorities. The removal process can be seen in a video posted on Telegram by the Yekaterinburg news outlet E1. Street artist Timofey Radya has published a video and photos of his newest installation: the words “Live in the past!” in large block letters on top of the roofs of two apartment buildings on Kosmonavtov Prospekt in Yekaterinburg.

Since March, police officers in the Rostov region have been sent on business trips to the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics, 161.ru reports, citing law enforcement sources. According to them, most often these are business trips to large cities of Donbass: Luhansk, Donetsk, Makeevka, Gorlovka and others. The extent to which these are mass and regular events is not specified. “Someone spends a month there, someone remains as if at a permanent place of deployment.

The Russian authorities are threatening to revoke the citizenship of the country's most prominent climate activist. Arevik Kharazyan Arshak Makichyan is a Russian climate activist and Greta Thunberg ally. On the day the war began, Makichyan was getting married to fellow activist Polina Oleinikova; their wedding turned into a public statement against the war (Makichyan’s shirt had the words “Fuck the War” written on it) and the couple later left Russia.

Russian journalists noticed that an article signed by the first deputy head of the presidential administration of the Russian Federation, Sergei Kiriyenko, appeared on the Izvestia newspaper website, but disappeared from the publication’s website some time after its publication. The text titled "Sergey Kiriyenko's Address on Russia Day" was published on the morning of June 12.

How was the monument of friendship of peoples with Russian and Ukrainian workers in Kyiv demolished? And what is it at all - the friendship of peoples? Ingus kruklitis / shutterstock.com On April 26, a monument was demolished in Kyiv under the arch of friendship of the peoples of Russia and Ukraine. The first during demolition fell the head of a Russian worker. According to the mayor of Kyiv, Vitaly Klitschko, the arch itself will be renamed the arch of freedom of the Ukrainian people.

At least three people died as a result of shelling of the May market in the Budyonnovsky district of Donetsk, representatives of the self -proclaimed DPR said, writes Interfax. The authorities of Donetsk reported 13 people about the injury. Representatives of the DPR previously said that among the dead there are a child. The DPR authorities accused of shelling the Armed Forces of Ukraine. After shelling in the market, a fire began.