At least seven Russian cities, shares were agreed against raising the retirement age, to which the founder of the Foundation for the fight against corruption Alexei Navalny called. True, the authorities invited the opposition to the opposition to rally on alternative venues. In total, the fighter with corruption announced rallies in 17 cities.

The presidents of Russia and Ukraine Vladimir Putin and Petro Poroshenko held telephone conversations on June 21, during which they discussed the situation in the southeast of Ukraine, and also affected the topic of the exchange of prisoners. This is reported by the sites of the heads of both states. The Kremlin website notes that the conversation took place on the initiative of the Ukrainian side.

The curious details of the first visit to the DPRK Mike Pompeo in April this year became known - when he was still the head of the CIA, but was already nominated by President Donald Trump for the post of US Secretary of State. During a meeting with the North Korean leader in Pyongyan Pompeo, in response to the fears of Kim Jong-un, that the United States actually wants "Kim Jong-un," he joked that he, the head of the CIA, still did not mind killing him.

The Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov , who was convicted in Russia, from May 14, who was holding an unlimited hunger strike, possibly began to feed forcedly. Such an assumption was expressed by the Commissioner for Human Rights under the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine Lyudmila Denisov. “Given the statements of the Commissioner of the Russian Federation Tatyana Moskalkova, there is reason to believe that Oleg [Sentsova] is forcibly fed,” Denisova wrote on Facebook on June 21.

“The European University was recently closed (deprived of its license), and now it’s the turn of the Moscow Higher School of Social and Economic Sciences (aka Shaninka) - they are also revoking the license ,” the publicist writes in his Telegram channel . “There were fewer seditious speeches there than in the EU. But it’s all the same. More evidence that you won’t be able to sit through “education”, “enlightenment” and other forms of noble escapism.

In Volgograd, another scandal flared up, related to the World Cup, held in Russia. A few days after the starting match between the national teams of England and Tunisia, it turned out that the son of a local official participated in the ceremony of the output of the players before the game instead of the pupil of the shelter. One of the first to the incident was reported to the Poal 102 publication.

The UN is concerned about the aggravation of the situation in the Syrian province of Deraa, located in the south-west of the country, on the border with Jordan. According to an international organization, at least 20 people died during the shelling the day before in Muhafaz. Many civilians were injured. In general, under the threat, due to hostilities in the south-west of Syria, about 750 thousand people turned out to be lives. "...

The chief executive director of Rosneft, Igor Sechin, said at the annual meeting of shareholders of the company that the increase in gas prices in the Russian market contributed to a weakening of the ruble exchange rate, RIA Novosti reports. “If you had a dollar before 30 rubles, now it is 64. The company cannot do anything so that this factor is not there, it already exists,” Sechin’s speech quoted the agency quoted.

On June 20, the Brazilian branch of the Latam airline reported the dismissal of Philip Wilson, a man who participated in one of the insulting draws during the 2018 World Cup, which was held in Russia. This happened after a video spread on the Internet, on which Wilson and his friends persuade three Russian -speaking girls to repeat after them in Portuguese, humiliating phrases on sexual subjects.

Alexey Shaburov “Yesterday we visited the show“ Sobchak’s business. ”If I had to characterize the film in one word, I would call it crafty. That's right. There is no direct lies, but there are a lot of underdevelopment, defaults and gaps - completely conscious and thoughtful,” the political scientist from Yekaterinburg in Facebook writes. "The characters of the film, telling about Sobchak, are mostly sincere, but this is the case when sincerity does not mean truthfulness and even more so.

The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) rejected the claim of terrorist Anders Breivik, who complained about conditions of detention in a Norwegian prison. This is stated in the ruling published on Thursday on the ECHR website . Breivik filed the lawsuit under a new name - Fjotolf Hansen. He complained that he was kept separately from other prisoners.

The ambassadors of the G7 countries made a joint statement calling on Russia to agree to the exchange of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov and other Ukrainians imprisoned in Russian prisons. The statement was published on June 21 on Twitter by the Ukraine Reform Support Group in Ukrainian, English and French. "We are deeply concerned about the situation with Oleg Sentsov and other Ukrainian prisoners and detainees in Russia.

In the Omsk State Circus during the evening show "Star Cruise" on June 20, the lights unexpectedly went out - an emergency disconnection occurred at the Southern RES "OmskElektro". At this moment, on the arena, or rather, at an altitude of more than 10 meters above it, the rope was worked by the canine comradeers of the brothers Mahmud and Nursultan and their mother Sairakan Suanbekov. The number was without insurance, and the artists were at the height of about the fifth floor.

The 48-year-old American actress is applying for Swedish citizenship in order to permanently move to the Scandinavian kingdom. To go through all the legal and bureaucratic procedures, Thurman hired the famous Swedish lawyer Thomas Bodström in New York. The actress, who has Swedish roots, has long said that she dreams of leaving the United States and becoming a Swedish citizen. Her maternal grandmother, Birgit Holmqvist, is from the province of Skåne, in southern Sweden.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service of Russia (FAS) opened three cases against the Ministry of Health and the Pharmaceutical Company of the President of Business Russia, Alexei Repik , R-Farm . One of the cases is open under Article 16 of the Law on Competition ("A ban on the competition limiting the competition or the agreed actions of the federal executive bodies"). The second case is open under part 4 of Article 11 ("A ban on the competition limiting the agreement of business entities").