Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro announced his intention to start a trial against the leadership of the National Assembly of the country (parliament), which is under the control of the political opponents of the head of state.

Archpriest Nikolai Balashov, Deputy Chairman of the Department of External Church Relations of the Moscow Patriarchate, who spoke on Friday at a round table in Moscow, said that the Cretan Inter -Orthodox Forum could not, according to the regulations, discuss the church issue in Ukraine, and hopes that Constantinople will not interfere in it. "An agreement was reached that only six issues will be the subject of the study of the message to the flock.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will perform in the State Duma on June 22, Kommersant reports with reference to the press secretary of President Dmitry Peskov, who did not exclude this. Before that, he came to "close" the convocation only once - November 23, 2011. The current performance, as they hope in the Duma, will help to mobilize the electorate and increase the status of the lower house before the parliamentary elections designated on September 18.

Rosstat explained why for holding All -Russian agricultural census purchased cars Business and premium class, in which the counting chamber of the Russian Federation repaired him last week. Recall, the auditors found that for Delivery of scribes to the scenes of the census was purchased 106 cars for 145.8 million rubles. And them - 54 business cars and Premium class, including the Audi A6 Limousine, Audi A6 and Mitsubishi Pajero Sport.

The American developer of innovative Local Motors and IBM company introduced an unmanned Olli electric bus for 12 passengers, which is controlled by a Watson supercomputer. As planned by the developers, this vehicle "on demand" will be able to deliver passengers from large transport hubs to the house. The mini-automatic one can wait for a stop or call using a mobile application, reports N+1 . Most details for Olli are printed on a 3D printer.

“I really miss socialism. Under socialism, I was truly happy. I rushed from school on a titanium Kalashnikov bicycle, every student had one. The kind guard uncle Volodya was distracted from Tsvetaeva’s volume and smiled at me with a Gagarin smile. At home, I opened the refrigerator, which occupied half of the huge kitchen, and thought about what to eat - Tula pizza, couscous with sturgeon or Gus Khrustalny foie gras.

The Prime Minister of Australia Malcolm Turnbull had to make official apologies for invitation to the dinner of the president of the local National Council Imam Sheikh Shadi Alsuleiman. The policy had to go to such a step after journalists and public representatives told Ternbull about Sheikh's homophobic statements made back in 2013, writes The Telegraph . On Thursday, June 16, the residence of the Australian prime minister took place a dinner, which was present by more than 60 guests.

Opposition politician Alexei Navalny demanded that an unregistered part of progress to participate in the parliamentary elections. He announced this on his blog on the day of the official start of the Duma campaign, which was given by Russian President Vladimir Putin, signing a decree on the appointment of elections on September 18, 2016.

The Ministry of Economic Development proposed large Russian participants in the online retail market to create a domestic analogue of the Chinese company Alibaba. The corresponding draft report, Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev sent Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. It follows from the document that large players of this market will create a channel of Internet sales of Russian goods, and the state will provide them with administrative support, the Kommersant newspaper writes.

The Ministry of Transport has advocated a speedy increase in tariffs in the Plato system, introduced in November last year for travel of heavy vehicles along the federal routes of the Russian Federation. The department believes that the time of the test period during which the preferential reducing coefficient was taken should be taken to an end.

The shooter from Orlando Omar Matin, during the execution of visitors in the Pulse club, actively wrote on Facebook, in one of the messages demanding from the United States and Russia to stop the bombing of the Islamic State (IG, the organization is prohibited in the Russian Federation), which took responsibility for the largest terrorist attack on the territory of the United States since the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Together with the "Baturcar" Rolls-Royce at a celebration in London dedicated to the centenary of the BMW Group, the Mini brand also presented its version of the future car. The Mini Vision Next 100 concept is a personalized car for the city. The driver of such a smart Cicar will be able to configure various functions for himself right while driving.

Released by Russia this week in exchange for two Odessa journalists Elena Glishchinskaya and Vitaly Didenko, who were in custody in Ukraine, Yuri Soloshenko and Gennady Afanasyev gave an interview with Ukrainian Pravda . The 25-year-old Afanasyev told about torture, and the 74-year-old Soloshenko-about the pressure on him in "captivity". Journalists talked with compatriots in the hospital, where they were delivered after arriving in Kyiv.

The European Union extended for a year of sanctions against Crimea, TASS reports citing the EU Council. The current package of restrictions for the peninsula expires on June 23. Thus, the sanctions were extended until June 23, 2017 "as part of the non -recognition strategy" to join Crimea to Russia, the EU Council is said. Sanctions prohibit European entrepreneurs with all types of trade activities with the Crimea if transactions are not executed through Ukrainian customs.

Nikolay Travkin “The issue of naming a bridge in St. Petersburg after Akhmat Kadyrov is the exclusive prerogative of the city authorities,” said President Putin’s press secretary Dmitry Peskov, Interfax reports. We managed to put together a good structure for the state! Naming a bridge in St. Petersburg after Kadyrov is an internal matter of St. Petersburg, trolleybuses and trams stopped due to lack of money - an internal matter of Saratov...