Belarus tightens the law on martial law, expanding the powers of the security forces. According to the amendments adopted by the lower house of the Belarusian parliament, martial law can be introduced not only with a military threat, but also with "encroachments on the constitutional system of Belarus," Reuters reports.

On June 19, the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine at the meeting was appointed head of the National Bank (NBU) by the former head of the Board of Directors of the Investment Capital Group of Companies Valery Gontarev. She will replace Stepan Cubiva in this post, whose resignation approved the parliament.

The UK real estate market in 2014 was recognized as the most transparent market based on the results of the study of JLL experts. The United States sank to the second line of the rating. In addition, the ten most transparent countries include Australia, New Zealand, France, Canada, the Netherlands, Ireland, Finland and Switzerland.

In Russia, the application of criminal punishments without imprisonment began to develop so rapidly that the Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) of the Russian Federation began to feel the lack of personnel.

The DPRK successfully conducted a missile test, designed to check the possibilities for overcoming the anti-missile defense means of South Korea, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the Japanese Kyodo news agency. This conclusion was the specialists of the South Korean Armed Forces, analyzing the launch of the Nodon ballistic missile, held by Pyongyan in March of this year. "Nodons" have a range of 1.3 thousand km and can hit targets almost throughout Japan.

Against the backdrop of exacerbation of relations between Moscow and Kiev, more and more Russians state the improvement of the situation in the North Caucasus, noting a calm atmosphere in the region. This is shown by the research of sociologists, as Interfax reports with reference to the Levada Center.

According to the results of research, in the last 10 years, the inhabitants of Berlin have been dying too rarely. In this regard, the authorities decided over the next 30 years to transfer the free area of ​​cemeteries for residential development or parks, EUROMAG reports. Among other arguments in favor of this solution - the fact that many bodies today prefer to expose to cremation, and an urn with dust requires much less space for burial.

Peugeot presented photos and information about the updated 508 family, which debuted in 2010. The world premiere of new products will take place at the end of August this year at the Moscow International Motor Show, and sales will start in the fall.

On Thursday, a meeting of the Holy Synod of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church of the Moscow Patriarchate (UOC MP) was held in the Kiev-Pechersk Lavra, chaired by the locomotive of the Kiev Metropolitan Department of the Metropolitan of Chernivtsi and Bukovinsky Onufry. The Synod accepted appeals to the President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, as well as the Interfax-religion , the synod calls for him to stop the armed confrontation in the Lugansk and Donetsk regions.

On the territory of the Siberian Federal District, 31 forest fires were recorded on an area of ​​466.7 hectares, the press service of the Rosleskhoz Department for the Siberian Federal District reports. Thus, over the past two days, the area of ​​forest fires in Siberia has almost doubled - on the morning of June 16, 251.9 hectares were covered in the Submissions.

In the self -proclaimed "Donetsk People’s Republic" (DPR), the Orthodox battalion "Sunrise" was created. His mission is to provide various assistance to the militias, including the protection and accompaniment of those who want to leave the military operations of civilians and refugees. This was announced the day before by RIA Novosti by the head of the Union of Orthodox Citizens of Novorossia Valery Kaurov.

The new head coach of the Moscow basketball club CSKA was appointed Greek specialist Dimitris Itdis. According to the official website of the army, a contract with a 43-year-old mentor is concluded for a period of two years. In this post, Itdis replaced the Italian Ettor Messin , who left the team at the end of the season, led her to victory in the Unified VTB League and to the fourth place in the Euroleague. “It is very proud that I ended up in Moscow, that on my chest is the CSKA emblem.

President of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, said that he was not going to publish information about his income and income of Russian Railways on the company's website, Interfax reports. "Everything was delivered to the tax, to the government. If they want, let them publish," Yakunin said.

Surgeon Jose Karlush Noronya, advising the striker of Madrid Real Madrid and the Portuguese national football team Cristiano Ronaldo, insists that the striker ends his performances at the World Championship in Brazil. If the owner of the Golden Ball - 2013 will continue to go out on the field, it can put an end to his career, El Confidencial reports. - World Cup 2014: Schedule and competition results According to Noronya, the football player needs complete peace for two months.

Starting from June 18, the Twitter microblog service allows users to attach animated images in GIF format to records. The message about this was published on the Twitter account of the technical support of the service and was accompanied by a GIF file. The new function is available to all users and is supported by Twitter applications for Android and iOS. Attached animated files are not played automatically - users should start them in the same way as ordinary videos.