In St. Petersburg, before the starting match of the Confederations Cup in football, lines were formed several hundred meters in front of the entrance to the stadium on Krestovsky Island. According to RBC , fans, volunteers and servicemen are required for about an hour and a half to go inside the structure. Only two out of eight passes operate in the arena.

In the east of Ethiopia, a team of British archaeologists discovered a forgotten city of Harla, built in the 10th century BC. According to the local legend of Harla, the city of giants. They did not find giants there, but found out that the ancient city was one of the centers of jewelry crafts and trade, the Russian Air Force service reports. Excavations are headed by Professor Timothy InSoll from the University of Exeter in Britain.

The White House intends to work with the Republicans in the House of Representatives the issue of amending the previously adopted US Senate to tighten the sanctions regime against Russia, the Politico portal, citing the representative of the US President Donald Trump. According to the source, Trump and his team do not want to lose the right to single -handedly withdraw existing restrictions.

An attempt to approve the mayor of Yekaterinburg Evgeny Roizman, a candidate for governors of the Sverdlovsk region, turned into a scandal: the regional branch of the Yabloko party could not have a vote, and its head and a dozen more members announced the exit from the party. Earlier, in the federal Yabloko, the issue of approving the candidacy of Roizman, who could become a serious competitor to the current governor-uninstall Kuyvashev, was called purely organizational.

Russian President Vladimir Putin recalled acquaintance with the former chancellor of Germany Helmut Kole , saying that he was sharing his ideas and that Russia was ready to be with Europe. But first, it is necessary that our partners be ready for this. " Putin spoke with journalists in St. Petersburg, where he attended a match-opening of the Confederations Cup with the participation of the teams of Russia and New Zealand.

In the event of a victory at the Confederations Cup, the Russian national team players awaits a monetary reward. As the Minister of Sports of Russia Pavel Kolobkov said, the award will be allocated through the Russian Football Union and the Line of the State. “If the team wins the Confederation Cup, and the remuneration will be planned through the RFU and through the state,” said Kolobkov, quoted by R -Sport .

In Kazan, due to problems from the sale of tickets for matches of the Confederations Cup in football, it was decided to distribute tickets to employees of budgetary institutions for free. Only 23 thousand tickets were sold to the game of Mexico-Portugal, which will be held on Sunday, while Kazan-Arena accommodates 45 thousand spectators.

In Afghanistan there was an attack on the US military base in Mazari-Sharif. Initially, it was reported that the Afghan soldier shot four American military there. Later, the American military source Reuters denied the death of US military personnel. In the Shahin camp in the city of Mazari-Sharif, the 209th Corps of the Afghanistan Army is based.

The destroyer of the US Navy Fitzgerald on the night of Saturday, June 17, collided off the coast of Japan with a large containers of the ACX Crystal, which was under the Philippine flag. According to the Japanese media, after the incident it is not possible to establish a connection with seven American sailors, but the American military has not yet confirmed this information, Reuters reports. The collision occurred at about 2:30 local time.

The Crimean military registration and enlistment office demanded that Jehovah have renounce faith, the organization’s website , whose activities were prohibited by the Supreme Court in April. It is reported that the adherent of Vera achieved from the military registration and enlistment office in the Bakhchisarai district of Crimea the right to undergo an alternative civil service. However, he was indicated that the right to pass the AGS will be granted only if you renounce its religious views.

James Hodgkinson, who wounded Congressman Stephen Scalis on June 14 during training on the baseball field, had a list of potential republican victims, Fox News reports. The manuscript list was discovered by employees of the Federal Bureau of Investigations during a search in the van, which belonged to Hodgkinon. Among the names listed in it are members of the US House of Representatives Scott Retzharleis, Trent Frank, Jeff Duncan, Jim Jordan, Mo Brooks and Morgan Griffith, TASS reports.

The chairman of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, instructed the Investigative Department of the Moscow Region to petition for the transfer of a criminal case on the fact of an accident in Balashikha, where a six -year -old child, whom the examination recognized as drunk , died. Investigators near Moscow will send a petition to the prosecutor of Mosoblasti, the official representative of the department Svetlana Petrenko said on Saturday Interfax .

The Armed Forces of Azerbaijan destroyed five military personnel of Armenia, the Ministry of Defense of Azerbaijan said on Saturday. The night before, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the unrecognized Nagorno-Karabakh Republic reported that three NKR defense soldiers were killed as a result of shelling by the Azerbaijani military.

The St. Petersburg human rights activist Dinar Idrisov, who was previously arrested this week for 14 days, has been holding a dry hunger strike for the second day, activist Irina Yatsenko told her Facebook page. Idrisov was previously found guilty of petty hooliganism after the incident in the Dzerzhinsky District Court, where he tried to intercede for several detainees during the anti -corruption rally on June 12. “He suffers a dry hunger for the second day.

The Ministry of Defense announced the liquidation of two IS* commanders in Syria, as well as about 180 militants of the terrorist organization banned in Russia. The press release reports two strikes by the Russian Air Force on the objects of the Islamic State* in Syria, inflicted on June 6 and 8. Extremists planned to break into the city of Deir-Ez-Zor.