The Moscow Dynamo is removed from participating in the European League of the 2015/16 season for violations of the financial Fair Play Rules of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), additional sanctions on the club are not imposed. This was announced by the chairman of the board of directors of the club Vasily Titov. "The fine on the club was not imposed, only removal from European cups," Titova quotes TASS.

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday, June 19, performed at a plenary meeting of the International Economic Forum in St. Petersburg these days. The head of state touched on the topics of the situation in the southeast of Ukraine, relations with the United States and sanctions, TASS reports.

A trailer for the drama "Boulevard" (Boulevard), one of the last films with the participation of Robin Williams in August, appeared on the Web. The plot of the picture revolves around a single 60-year-old man named Nolan, suffering from depression. His marriage has long ceased to be happy, and work is on an unbearable longing day every day. In addition, he is forced to hide his sexual orientation for years.

A suspect in the murder of nine people in Charleston Dylan Ruf planned a massive shoot six months before the tragedy, his neighbor ABC television company said. Dalton Tyler, who was familiar with Rus for about a year, said that the killer had played for a racial segregation and wanted to start a new civil war. According to Tyler, Ruf said that he was going to do something similar, and then commit suicide.

After the emergence of unofficial information on the announcement of the former officer of the Chechen Battalion of the North, Ruslan Geremeyev, whose possible involvement in the murder of politician Boris Nemtsov has long been discussed in the media, the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov again said that he was not related to this resonant crime. “The fact that he is unacceptable, everyone knows this,” he told Forbes at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum ( PMEF ).

The State Duma adopted on Friday the third reading and in general the law on the procedure for attracting foreign athletes, coaches and other specialists in winter and summer gaming sports for work in Russia, Interfax reports. The law initiated by the Government provides for the Ministry of Sports of the list of posts of foreigners and stateless persons involved in physical education and sports organizations and all-Russian sports federations in team gaming sports.

The State Duma on Friday ratified the allied agreement between the Russian Federation and Southern Ossetia, signed in Moscow in March this year. For the document, introduced by Russian President Vladimir Putin at the end of May, 414 deputies voted, one abstained, TASS reports.

In Europe, the arrests of Russian assets continue, which the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has already called a violation of the Vienna Conventions. On Wednesday, the head of VTB Andrei Kostin said that France was seized in the accounts of Russian companies and diplomatic agents in VTB’s daughter. Two days later, he, speaking at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, announced the blocking of accounts at another French bank.

“One of the objective tasks of today’s agenda - neither opposition nor pro-government, but simply technically necessary - is the emergence in our country of a strong independent acting government. It should arise as a result of the results of the Duma elections. Why presidential elections for this is unknown. Perhaps they needed to once again assert themselves and consolidate power.

“The judge of the Tverskoy District Court made a decision that completely rejected the claim for the protection of honor, dignity and business reputation of Professor Vitaly Peshkov from Irkutsk Technical University. The claim was against Andrei Zayakin (as the author of the conclusion on Peshkov’s dissertation) and against me (as the owner domain dissernet.org at the time of publication of the examination).

The Sports Arbitration Court in Lausanne (CAS) canceled the four-year disqualification of the famous violinist Vanessa May (Vanacorn), imposed by the International Sports Federation (FIS) for the forgery of results in the qualifying competitions among the skiers for the 2014 Olympics in Sochi. This was reported by the press service of CAS .

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Greece Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras held a second meeting since the beginning of the year, at which they discussed the prospects for trade and economic cooperation of the two countries. The leaders of the states agreed that Russian and Greek experts will discuss the possibilities of supplies of agricultural products taking into account the current embargo.

The Swedish authorities dealt with the problem of sexual abuse of representatives of the stronger sex. In Stockholm, in mid-October, the first center for assistance to raped men and boys will open as part of a strategy for providing gender-neutral medical care, the Russian BBC service reports. At the Södersjukhuset hospital, a clinic for women and girls affected by rape or sexual abuse is already operating. A medical institution provides assistance to 600-700 women a year.

During the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Olga Golodets asked Google Vice President for Emerging Markets, Europe, the Middle East and Africa Mohammed Gavdat to teach him how to attract qualified workers. According to her, Google is “the best driver in the world today.” “Our best engineers are Russians, 25% of our engineers are Russians. People from Russia are amazing, with enormous talent,” Interfax quotes Gavdat’s answer.

NATO is seriously concerned about the increase in the military contingent of Russian troops in the Kaliningrad region. Representatives of the North Atlantic Alliance note that Moscow places in the western region of the country "thousands of soldiers, including a team of motorized rifles and marine infantrymen, military aircraft, modern air defense systems and hundreds of armored vehicles." This was in an interview with Radio Liberty on the terms of anonymity was told by one of NATO officials.