On June 7, a regular meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Russian President Vladimir Putin took place in Moscow. And it suddenly became the number one event. What happened? Strictly speaking, nothing new.

All May was filled with the expectations of the Plenum of Economics* - a meeting of the Presidium of the Economic Council with the president, which, experts believed, will adopt the country's development strategy in conditions of sanctions and low oil prices. Observers awaited the battle of two fundamentally different approaches - liberal and conducting. The most amazing thing is that nothing happened at all.

17 dead, about 40 wounded-on June 5 in the West Kazakhstan city of Aktobe (formerly Aktobe), the law enforcement forces fought a real battle with an unknown group of armed persons. What it was and who can stand behind it - analyzed The New Times Special forces storm the store where the militants, Aktobe, Kazakhstan, June 5, 2016 disappeared It seems that they had everything according to plan: at first - an attack on the Pallas and Panther weapons stores (their owners are Russians).

On June 7, the largest NATO maneuvers since 1989 began in Poland: 31,000 soldiers from 18 member countries of the Alliance and 5 partner states After the collapse of the Eastern Bloc and the termination of the Warsaw Pact, the priority role of NATO, as a counterbalance to the threat from the USSR and its satellites, weakened. But this does not mean that it was completely leveled - it was necessary to decide on the new format and goals of the Alliance. And this process was not easy.

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In the Donbass - another exacerbation of hostilities. For the first time in a long time, mines and shells were torn in residential quarters. Among the dead and wounded are civilians.

On June 12, on the Day of Russia, the Boris Nemtsov Foundation Prize was first awarded in Bonn. The first laureate of the award, which is awarded for personal courage, was the politician, founder of the Pskov Province's newspaper Lev Schlosberg. At the presentation of the award, the politician said that he transfers the monetary part of the Prize to Group 29 - a community of lawyers, led by Ivan Pavlov, who provide assistance to those whose rights are selected by the state itself.

*“Chronicle of current events”-a typewritten human rights newsletter, spread in Samizdat in 1968-1983 “It doesn’t matter how this process ended, it is important that we could show reality: the power is held by the methods of terror. We must be attentive.

In Russia, it’s interesting-you always discover something new for yourself. And often - you are scared of what you opened. The main revelations of the week were collected (and scared) The New Times He is not a genius Scared to be scared, let's start with the most terrible.

On June 7, Kyiv turned to Gazprom with a request to resume gas supplies. Gazprom was just waiting for this Exactly a week before, on May 31, it became known about Poland's intention to stop buying Russian gas after 2022. Warsaw believes that it is easier and cheaper to buy gas on the free market.