On June 17, Russian users of the Battle.net game service, owned by Blizzard Entertainment, complained about problems with access to the games. Messages of gamers appeared in various social networks. The company noted that they know about the problem and are looking for the cause of the failure and possible ways to eliminate it.

The inhabitants of Macedonia entered the protest against the agreement on the renaming of the country. On the afternoon of Sunday, June 17, the movement of the VMR - DPMNE ("Internal Macedonian revolutionary organization - a democratic party for the Macedonian national unity") held a peaceful march of protest in the city of Bitol on the border with Greece, reports A1on on its Facebook page.

The Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug finds out the circumstances of the death of the order of the order, which was found in an office with a gunshot wound. A suicide note was discovered at the scene, the content of which indicates in favor of the version of bringing to suicide. A police officer complained that her boss reproached her for the use of sweets in a public place.

The average maximum interest rate on ruble deposits in 10 Russian credit institutions that attract the largest volume of deposits from individuals in the first ten days of June 2018 decreased compared to the last ten days of May by 0.22 percentage points and amounted to 6.05%. This was reported by the TASS agency with reference to materials from the Bank of Russia. There are no reasons for rates to rise in the near future, financial analysts stated last year.

The International Football Federation (FIFA) has opened disciplinary proceedings against Mexico over homophobic chants from fans at Sunday's 2018 World Cup match against Germany. The meeting of Group F teams at Moscow's Luzhniki Stadium the day before ended with a sensational victory for the Latin Americans over the reigning world champions with a score of 1:0.

Roger Federer has regained the lead in the Association of Tennis Professionals (ATP) rankings , an updated version of which was published on Monday. For the third time this season, he displaced his long-time and principled rival, the Spaniard Rafael Nadal, from this position. Roger Federer's progress in the ATP rankings was facilitated by his victory at the prestigious tournament in Stuttgart. This is the third tournament won by the Swiss this year and the 98th in his career.

All states possessing nuclear weapons, while reducing their stockpiles, are at the same time developing new systems and modernizing their existing arsenal. Experts from the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) came to this conclusion in a new report published on Monday, June 18.

Artist Denis Lopatin, who drew a caricature of State Duma deputy Natalya Poklonskaya, fears criminal prosecution in Russia and intends to seek political asylum in France in this regard. He himself reported this to the Kamchatka-Inform publication. According to the Russian, he has already started processing the documents. The application process may take several months. Lopatin is currently in France. He left Russia a few months ago, reports with reference to the cartoonist of Radio Liberty .

The Ust-Labinsk court of the Krasnodar Territory postponed for July the consideration of the essence of the civil lawsuit by Oleg Deripaska against Anastasia Vyukevich (Nasta Rybka) and Alexander Kirillov (Alex Leslie), filed due to the publication of information about the personal life of the businessman.

The son-in-law of the Spanish King Philip VI, the husband of the Infanta Cristina de Borbon, Iñaki Urdangarin, sentenced to five years and 10 months in prison for fraud, on the morning of Monday, June 18, appeared in the prison of the province of Avila (autonomous community of Castile and Leon) to serve his sentence. The newspaper El Pais reports this. The TASS information was confirmed by the General Secretariat of Penitentiary Institutions.

The Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova and the Ukrainian Ombudsman Lyudmila Denisova, at the meeting on June 18, agreed on the mutual visit of director Oleg Sentsov in Salekhard and journalist Kirill Vyshinsky in Kherson. The exact dates have not yet been defined, reports TASS.

Police officers removed two British citizens from a train en route to Volgograd. The foreigners were traveling to a match organized as part of the World Cup, but on the way they began to hooligan and even attacked a law enforcement officer, trying to take his weapon. The incident was reported by the Ofnews telegram channel (Okolofutbol News) with reference to the Russian Railways chat. According to unofficial data, the British were taken off train N551 on the Moscow-Volgograd route.

"Summing up the saturated twelve-hour tour along the Central Moscow streets and entertainment institutions. Firstly, I am glad that there are still strength on this. Secondly, my position on the topic that the money spent on the World Cup could not have changed much more efficiently.

The terrorist Hamzat Azimov , who committed an attack on passers -by in Paris in May, as a result of which one person died, was buried in one of the settlements of Chechnya. This was reported by Radio "Freedom" with reference to the relatives of the terrorist. It is reported that Azimov’s body was transferred to relatives after the completion of investigative measures.

The head coach of the Russian national football team Stanislav Cherchesov said that preparations for the match of the second round of the group stage of the World Cup against Egypt are on plan. The team has an understanding of how to act against an opponent in general and against the leader of the Egyptians Mohammed Salah in particular. “Like before the first game, we play all the options. We still have time to make the right decision. We play with another team, with another tactics.