A walking catamaran ran into a barge in the Volga waters in Volgograd, there are dead and injured, Interfax reports. "According to operational data, the walking catamaran, on which there were 17 people, collided with the barge on the Volga and partially sank. According to the ambulance, a request for seven victims and one deceased," a source in the ambulance service told the agency of the city.

The best dramatic performance during the 72nd awarding ceremony of the prestigious theater prize "Tony" in New York on June 10 was the production of the Broadway Theater "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child". The prize in the nomination "Best Musical" received "The orchestra". Actor Robert de Niro at the ceremony did not miss the opportunity to once again express his rejection by US President Donald Trump.

Russian TV presenter and showman Ivan Urgant became a citizen of Israel. He received the corresponding identity card directly at the Ben-Gurion Airport, where he flew on June 10 with his wife Natalya Kiknadze and daughters. The whole family was repatriated. The artist himself assured that he was not going to emigrate from Russia.

In the capital of Armenia, shares have been continuing for several days with a demand for the resignation of Catholicos of all Armenians Garegin II. According to News.am , on June 11, participants in the next action gathered near St. Anna’s church and held a rally, which grew into a procession along the streets of Yerevan with the requirements of the "new Catholicos in New Armenia." As TASS reports, on the eve of a similar action grew into a fight.

Russia refuses to accept Tokyo’s claims for southern Kurils, and at present it is discussing the prospects for concluding a peace treaty, but not a territorial issue in any way. This was stated by the Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Japan Mikhail Galuzin. "We do not accept territorial claims to any direction, including in Yuzhnokurilsky.

At least 13 people were killed, even more than 25 were injured as a result of the explosion, which thundered on Monday, June 11, at an hour of peak near the building of the Ministry of Development of rural regions in the capital of Afghanistan Kabule. This was reported by Reuters. Tolo News reports 26 wounded. According to media reports, the suicide bomber has brought the explosive device at about 13:00 local time (11:30 in Moscow), when the employees of the ministry left the building.

The Ruban refugee camp, located near the US military base in the south of the Homs province, became a refuge for militants from all over Syria. Such a statement made the Russian Center for the reconciliation of the warring parties (CPVS) in Syria, RIA Novosti reports.

The inhabitants of Rostov-on-Don complained that during the World Cup, they would have to constantly carry a passport with them, as law enforcement officers are increasingly asking to present it. "Why did police officers start stopping ordinary citizens on the streets and asking for a passport? I understand, the World Cup, but we do not have a passport regime!

In Georgia, police officers on Monday morning, June 11, on the square in front of Parliament in Tbilisi, detained three participants in the protest that began on the eve of the protest under the demand for "restoration of justice", Interfax reports. Later it became known that the Tbilisi City Court appointed all the detainees 14 days of administrative arrest. Earlier it was reported that the participants in the action decided to install tents on the roadway of Rustaveli Avenue.

The Chertanovsky court of Moscow on Monday, June 11, decided to arrest the Minister of the Government of the Tver Region Viktor Shaforost, who is accused of arson of a car in the south of Moscow. The accused will be in custody until August 7, the Moscow Agency reports.

The daughter of the US ambassador to Russia John Huntsman , the host of Fox & Friends, Ebbi Huntsman, called Donald Trump a dictator on the air. Discussing with the former Public Relations Director of Anthony Scaramucci the upcoming meeting of US President Donald Trump and DPRK leader Kim Jong -un, Huntsman called her a meeting of two dictators, reports Huffington Post . “This is a story,” commented the TV presenter video in which Trump arrives in Singapore for the summit with Kim Jong -un.

Beijing and Moscow are discussing the possibility of entering the Chinese CNPC into the construction project for the plant for the liquefaction of natural gas "Arctic LNG - 2". This was announced on Sunday by the head of the Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation Alexander Novak on Sunday . "Now the issue of the development of the Arctic LNG project is being discussed. This is a new project for the construction of a gas liquefaction plant.

The White House employees are forced to glue the official documentation, which US President Donald Trump is tearing to shreds with scotch tape. This was reported by the Politico newspaper with reference to former employees of the Chancellery of the Head of State. The first five months of Trump’s presidency, the documentary turnover analyst Solomon Lart spent standing at the desk, on which paper scraps were laid out, the article quoted by Inopressa said.

The Government of the Russian Federation has submitted to the State Duma a draft law on the possibility of reducing part of the term of an actually served criminal sentence in the form of imprisonment when replacing it with forced labor, reports the official website of the lower house of parliament. The bill proposes to establish that forced labor may be imposed instead of imprisonment for crimes of minor or moderate gravity after serving at least 1/4 of the term.

The decision to hold the World Cup in Russia, on the one hand, seems far from life, since it is strange to arrange it in a country against which sanctions are imposed due to the annexation of Crimea, but, on the other hand, it can become a reason to influence the Russian authorities in the right direction. This was written by the Swiss edition of Tages-ANzeiger .