Kim Jong-nam, the slain half-brother of North Korea's leader, was a Central Intelligence Agency source who met with the agency several times, the Wall Street Journal reported, citing a source. "There was a connection between the CIA and Kim," the source said.

In St. Petersburg, on June 12, activists are planning a march of solidarity with Meduza journalist Ivan Golunov, who has been accused of attempted drug trafficking. The event will take place at Gostiny Dvor at noon, according to MBKh media. North-West”, referring to an anonymous interlocutor. Earlier it became known that the march is planned to be held in Moscow. “This is the prerogative of the city authorities in the first place.

No fingerprints of Meduza journalist Ivan Golunov, accused of attempting to sell drugs, were found on the items seized from his apartment, his lawyer Sergei Badamshin said. It is reported by TASS . At the same time, the police reported that the experts found the DNA of several people on the drug packages. Golunov was detained on June 6 , accused of attempted drug trafficking. On June 8, the court placed him under house arrest .

One of the initiators of the action in support of arrested Meduza correspondent Ivan Golunov, journalist Ilya Azar, received a phone call from Deputy Moscow Mayor Alexander Gorbenko and invited him to a meeting. Gorbenko wanted to discuss the March in Defense of Ivan Golunov scheduled for June 12, as well as the safety of the event. This was reported on March's Facebook page.

About 60% of Russians who have taken loans experience difficulties with their repayment, preliminary results of a joint study by the World Bank and Rospotrebnadzor showed. Among bank borrowers, 9% of families have overdue debts, 10% were forced to restructure or extend the loan, or received a refusal from the bank to issue a loan, RBC reports .

The Russian Military Historical Society is ready to conduct new excavations in the Sandarmokh tract, where thousands of those executed during the Great Terror of 1937-1938 are buried. According to Kommersant , the director of the Institute of History and Political Sciences of Petrozavodsk State University Sergey Verigin said about the need for repeated excavations. He put forward a hypothesis about the execution of Red Army soldiers in the tract by the Finns in 1941-1944.

Update: Body of third sailor found . As a result of an explosion on a tanker in the port of Makhachkala, two people were killed and three were injured, the Ministry of Health of Dagestan reported. One of the victims has 95% body burns, Interfax reports . An explosion in the engine room occurred during the pumping of oil products of a machine tool in the Makhachkala Commercial Sea Port. The tanker is a Russian vessel and, according to preliminary data, belongs to the Volga Shipping Company.

The history of Ivan Golunov has its own long-standing prototype, a reference model invented in the Big House of the KGB Directorate for the Leningrad Region and implemented by the police I cannot but admire the solidarity of journalists and the best representatives of civil society in the struggle for a good name and the release of Ivan Golunov. Just in case, I want to remind you that the topical issue of falsifying evidence in criminal cases has its own history.

A decision was made to terminate the criminal prosecution of Ivan Golunov due to the lack of evidence of his participation in the crime Russian Interior Minister Vladimir Kolokoltsev announced that the criminal prosecution of Meduza journalist Ivan Golunov, who was previously accused of attempted drug trafficking, has been terminated. According to him, Golunov will be released from house arrest today, the charges against him have been dropped.

Such a large-scale wave of condemnation of police brutality and support for its victims has not been in Russia for a long time. The dividing line between those who support the protest and those who condemn it, which used to divide the media into pro-government and independent ones, has begun to disappear in places.

Sobyanin Sergei Semenovich, the mayor of Moscow, the head of those officials whose activities were investigated by Ivan Golunov, personally puts money in the pocket of a wonderful family from the FSB I think this case, when writing a pathetic introduction and telling what happened, does not make sense. You already know everything. Journalist Golunov ordered. Someone decided this and almost turned the operation, as a result of which Ivan could thunder for 20 years in a colony. Who could do it?

The history of Ivan Golunov has its own long-standing prototype, a reference model invented in the Big House of the KGB Directorate for the Leningrad Region and implemented by the police I cannot but admire the solidarity of journalists and the best representatives of civil society in the struggle for a good name and the release of Ivan Golunov. Just in case, I want to remind you that the topical issue of falsifying evidence in criminal cases has its own history.

Net capital outflow from Russia in January-May almost doubled to $35.2 billion compared to $18.9 billion in the same period last year. “The value of the indicator was formed mainly as a result of operations by banks and other sectors to acquire foreign assets, while the contribution of changes in external liabilities was minimal,” the Central Bank said in a statement, Vedomosti reported.

The police detained a suspect in the defeat of the editorial office of the Snob publication, he turned out to be a 24-year-old resident of neighboring countries, Interfax reports with reference to the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The attack was filmed by CCTV cameras. The recording shows how the attacker takes out a computer from the office. A criminal case has been initiated in connection with his theft. The police estimated the damage at 90 thousand rubles.

After the September regional elections, at least nine senators will leave the Federation Council. writes about this RBC with reference to one of the senators and two sources in the apparatus of the Federation Council. In total, after September 8, there will be grounds for replacing 31 senators, but some will be reappointed for a new term, while for others the issue has not yet been resolved. Among the outgoing senators is the representative of the State Assembly of Mari El Natalia Dementieva.