Center "E" initiated five administrative cases against opponents of the construction of a landfill in Shies - half of all known cases in the country - under the article on contempt of authority. .

Only 44% of Russians have heard about national projects, while only 7% understand what they are. About this with reference to the study “National projects. Awareness and expectations of Russians,” said Valentina Matviyenko, Speaker of the Federation Council.

Seven regions, the “price tag” for the insult is the same - 30,000 rubles, so far not a single cancellation on appeal All 8 cases of disrespect for the authorities in Russia today: Yuri Kartyzhev, Malaya Vishera, "Putin is fabulous." 30 thousand rubles fine. Entered into force. Yuri Shadrin, Verkhovazhye, "Putin is real, not fabulous." 30 thousand rubles fine. Has not entered into force. Leonid Volkov, Moscow, "Putin is fabulous." The court returned the case to the police.

Today, I submitted a voluntary resignation from MGIMO, where I worked for 11 years. For political reasons, the Institute no longer wants to do business with me. I am sympathetic to this reluctance. And I will be grateful if henceforth they will in no way associate me with MGIMO. I am sorry to part with my colleagues at the institute, the vast majority of whom are decent and nice people.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko personally instructed to lift the ban on entry into the country to Pussy Riot members Olga Kuracheva and Veronika Nikulshina. This was announced in a conversation with Kuracheva by the head of the presidential administration of Belarus, Natalya Kochanova, reports Mediazona . “We are monitoring the whole situation here, and Alexander Grigoryevich, our president, found out about this situation, that there are some claims against you.

The public organization RosKomSvoboda, together with the Committee of Civil Initiatives, is starting a project to monitor incidents related to the persecution of citizens for their statements on the Internet.

Alexandra Koroleva, co-founder of the non-profit organization Ecodefense, has requested political asylum in Germany due to persecution as a “foreign agent.” In an interview with German media, she said that her organization deals with "difficult topics to which the Russian leadership is very receptive." Among them, the Queen names the construction of new nuclear power plants, the transportation and storage of nuclear waste, coal mining and climate protection, DW reports .

Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Leonid Levin said that the law on obvious disrespect for the authorities should not be applied when it comes to local or regional authorities. “The law strictly states that we are talking about the institutions of power - this is the president, the government, the Constitution, the parliament, the courts. It should not be used if it is about any mayor or governor.

Former Minister of Defense of the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, Igor Girkin (Strelkov), declared that the militia was not involved in the crash of the Malaysian Boeing-777 flight MH17 near Donetsk. “I don't give any comments. I can only say that the Boeing militia did not shoot down, ”he told Interfax .

The former head of UEFA, Michel Platini, who was detained the day before in France, was released. Platini has been released from custody after hours of interrogation in connection with a criminal investigation into awarding Qatar the right to host the 2022 FIFA World Cup .

The State Duma sent the government a bill proposing the introduction of a new type of compulsory social insurance for businesses in case of inability to pay wages due to bankruptcy. The author of the bill was the Chairman of the Committee on State Construction and Legislation Pavel Krasheninnikov, Vedomosti writes. The bill proposes to finance the cost of employee benefits from the Social Insurance Fund, which will receive money in the form of mandatory business contributions.

The success of protest in Yekaterinburg shows that the opposition should be prepared not only for street actions, but also for negotiations with the authorities in order to achieve specific goals, according to political scientist Fedor Krasheninnikov Fedor Krasheninnikov. A few days before the “direct line” of Vladimir Putin, the history of the construction of the cathedral in the center of Yekaterinburg and protests against it ended.

Before the publication of the results of the official investigation into the death of the Malaysian Boeing over the Donbass, Dutch journalists named the names of the likely defendants in the case. The NPO 2 story aired ahead of the release of the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) report due today. RBC notes that all the names named by journalists have already been heard in the investigations of the Bellingcat group and Novaya Gazeta.

According to the data on car registrations, the Russian car market in May immediately sank by 18%, to 124.5 thousand cars - this differs from the traditional statistics of the Association of European Businesses, which showed a fall of 6.7%. The discrepancy in the data amounted to almost 9.6%, which is four times higher than seasonality, according to the appeal of the Renault Dealers Association to Renault Russia, and this indicates "artificiality of the AEB data," Kommersant writes .

On the evening of June 18, seismologists recorded an earthquake in the waters of Lake Baikal in the Kabansky district of Buryatia. A magnitude 4 shock was felt in the Enkhaluk village on the shore of the lake. This is a popular summer holiday destination in Buryatia, next to the village there is a well-known source of thermal waters, Interfax reports with reference to the Baikal branch of the Geophysical Service of the Russian Academy of Sciences.