The speaker of the State Duma Vyacheslav Volodin announced the death of the director Stanislav Govorukhin died at the age of 83. According to Interfax, citing State Duma Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin, the director passed away in the Barvikha sanatorium after a serious illness. State Duma deputies honored the memory of Govorukhin, who was also the head of the Duma Committee on Culture, with a minute of silence.

The Preobrazhensky Court of Moscow seized the shares of the Summa group of companies. This was done as part of a criminal case initiated against co-owners of the holding Ziyavudin and Magomed Magomedov. Interfax was told in court that the security arrest had been imposed on April 28. The decision was appealed and today the Moscow City Court will consider the complaint. The Tverskoy Court of Moscow arrested the Magomedov brothers on March 31.

Law enforcement officers put pressure on the doctors of the detainee on the eve of the head of the Serpukhov district of the Moscow region. This was announced by the wife of Alexander Shestun Julia. Yulia Shestun handed TV channel over copies of the ambulance call card to Dozhd . On June 13, it was filled with doctors who arrived at Shestun's house in response to a call, where a search was taking place at that time.

British LGBT activist Peter Tatchell was detained on Red Square in Moscow. He held a solo picket near the Kremlin against the persecution of gays in Chechnya. Tatchell, 66, was taken to a police car, The Guardian journalist Sean Walker tweeted. On the activist's Twitter page, they reported that he was taken to the Tverskaya police station. Peter Tatchell has been fighting for LGBT rights since the 1990s. In the 2000s, he attempted to hold a gay parade in Moscow.

Alexei Navalny left the special detention center, where he spent 30 days for the action "He is not our king." Politician Alexei Navalny left the special detention center. There he served 30 days of arrest for organizing the action "He is not our king", which took place on May 5. The photo of the oppositionist leaving the special detention center was shared by the radio station Ekho Moskvy on its Telegram channel.

The European Court of Human Rights has published a decision on 114 complaints from Russians. Only 3 of them were not satisfied by the ECtHR. According to Mediazona, 11 complaints were satisfied for a total amount of compensation of €641,000. With regard to most of the applicants, the Russian authorities violated Art. 3 of the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Freedoms, which prohibits torture.

South Korea and North Korea begin military talks. They became the first in 10 years. According to TASS, the parties plan to discuss the reduction of military tension between the North and the South and preparations for a meeting of the defense ministers of the two countries.

All we can do is thank Putin and Medvedev for the country's missed opportunities. A dead end, as was said. In the not so distant year of 2012, our article about the future of pension reform was published in Vedomosti. It is unpleasant to be Cassandra, but now, rereading it, one can say that everything happened exactly as predicted - and not a single constructive (who asked for constructive criticism here?) proposal was taken into account.

The Belorechensky District Court of Krasnodar ordered the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation to pay compensation for the torture of teenagers in a colony in 2015. The total amount of payments should be 4.5 million rubles.

The President of the United States called Crimea Russian territory. He made this statement in a conversation with the leaders of the G7. According to Buzzfeed, citing two diplomatic sources, Trump explained his words by saying that “everyone on the peninsula speaks Russian.” Also during a dinner with G7 members in Quebec, Canada on June 8, he called Ukraine "one of the most corrupt countries in the world." The White House did not comment on the publication of these statements.

Forbes magazine published a list of the richest wives of Russian officials and deputies. The first places were taken by the spouses of members of parliament. The first place was taken by the wife of State Duma deputy Alexander Nekrasov Elena. She is a co-owner of Leader Group holding companies and in 2017 earned 78 times more than her husband - more than 2.3 billion rubles. The second line in the ranking is occupied by the wife of State Duma deputy Dmitry Sablin Alla.

Germany and Brazil are favorites for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. They share the first place according to bookmakers. According to Interfax, France, Spain and Argentina are behind Germany and Brazil in the list of favorites. The probability that Russia will win the 2018 World Cup, the bookmakers estimated at 1.5-2%. The teams of Saudi Arabia and Panama have the least chance of winning the World Cup.

The court upheld the decision to block the Telegram messenger. Representatives of Roskomnadzor said in court that the creators of the program need to change its code in order to comply with Russian laws. The online broadcast from the hall of the Moscow City Court was conducted by Mediazona. At the meeting, they considered a complaint against the verdict on the immediate blocking of the messenger, which was filed on May 8 by lawyers for the international human rights organization Agora.

Members of the European Parliament demanded the release of Oleg Sentsov. The director is on a hunger strike for 32 days. Members of the European Parliament adopted a resolution demanding the release of director Oleg Sentsov and other Ukrainian political prisoners in Russia. The resolution also calls on European countries to extend sanctions against Russian officials and businessmen.

Activists from Navalny's headquarters in Vladivostok held a series of one-man pickets against rising gasoline prices. Residents of the city also joined them. “We do not agree to silently tolerate an endless increase in fuel prices in a country where oil and gas are national treasures,” Navalny’s headquarters page on VKontakte says. The shares were held at Rosneft gas stations.