The American company Apple has introduced a new mobile operating system iOS 12. It will speed up the work of old smartphones and tablets and make them "more responsive to incoming signals." The update will be free, Apple Vice President Craig Federighi said at the Developer Conference (WWDC). The operating system itself will be released this fall. The acceleration will affect smartphones starting with the iPhone 5.

Igor Vostrikov. Photo: RIA Novosti Igor Vostrikov, who had lost his family in a fire in the Kemerovo shopping center “Winter Cherry”, took first place in the territorial group No. 9 following the results of the primaries of the United Russia party before the elections to the Council of People's Deputies of the Kemerovo region. Two sources in the regional department of the party told RBC about preliminary voting results. The final results will be known on June 5.

The Russian company "M Invest" started searching for gold in Sudan, reports The Bell, citing anonymous sources. According to the newspaper, the gold mining agreement was signed after Russian President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev met with Sudanese leader Omar Bashir back in November last year. Sources familiar with the talks say the firm represents the interests of businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, known as Putin's chef.

First impressions: without Serebrennikov, the film by Alexei Fedorchenko is a contender for the main prize Kinopoisk.ru The Kinotavr opened the summer “In the summer” of Kirill Serebrennikov. Many were disappointed that at the opening of the names of the directors of Serebrennikov and the starving Sentsov, they practically did not call the names of the names of the directors of Serebrennikov.

The Russian Embassy and the Consulate General in the UK recommend that Russians be careful when sending their children to summer schools and language courses, according to the website of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA).

The Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) has asked Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to release Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who went on an indefinite hunger strike on May 14. “His [Sentsov's] detention is unjustified. It negatively affects those who live in Crimea and have the right to freely express their views and opinions. His voice must not be silent, no matter how critical it may be,” said OSCE Representative Harlem Désir.

Former Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich has been appointed Chairman of the Skolkovo Foundation. Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev announced this decision to members of the council today, writes . Interfax “I propose to introduce a new position - the chairman of the fund, and appoint Arkady Vladimirovich Dvorkovich to it, and Viktor Feliksovich [Vekselberg], I hope, will exercise his functions as co-chairman of the fund's board,” Medvedev said.

American tennis player Serena Williams has decided to withdraw from the Roland Garros Grand Slam tournament before her fourth-round match against Russian tennis player Maria Sharapova, Interfax reports . Roland Garros tweeted that Williams withdrew from the tournament due to health problems. "It's a very difficult decision because I love playing with Maria," Williams tweeted at Roland Garosa. Thus, Sharapova reached the quarterfinals of the tournament.

Public and private banks in Switzerland have blocked one billion francs in the personal accounts of the chairman of the board of directors of the Renova group, Viktor Vekselberg, due to the possible threat of sanctions. This was reported by Forbes, citing a source in the Renova group. According to a Forbes interlocutor from Bank of Cyprus, the bank could also block Vekselberg's funds, and the billionaire is a co-owner of Bank of Cyprus.

In Sevastopol, a rally of entrepreneurs and citizens was held on Nakhimov Square, from whom the city government sees land allotments issued under Ukraine. Unlike previous similar shares, which in Sevastopol have been held regularly in the last two years, today representatives of not only small, but also large business have entered the square.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow arrested in absentia the owner of the Museum of Russian Icons in the United States, Gordon Lankton, and put him on the international wanted list, reports . Interfax Lankton was accused of not returning cultural property to Russia. The corresponding article 190 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation provides for up to eight years in prison. Details of the case were not released.

Two activists who came to congratulate him on his birthday were detained near the special detention center where opposition leader Alexei Navalny is being held. One of the detainees, Viktor Kogan, told Novaya Gazeta about this. Kogan, together with another activist Boris Kazadaev, came to the detention center at about 11 am. “I stood up with a poster that said ‘Aleksey, happy birthday’,” he said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Crimea, Sergei Abisov, as well as the head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations for the Kemerovo region, Alexander Mamontov. The corresponding decree was published on the official Internet portal of legal information.

The lie detector showed that the former pilot Nadezhda Savchenko was preparing a coup d'état and an explosion in the building of the Verkhovna Rada, for this she was looking for and transporting weapons. on their page by The conclusions of the experts who analyzed Savchenko's answers were published the Security Service of Ukraine (SBU). The SBU claims that the polygraph confirmed Savchenko's intentions to kill President Petro Poroshenko.

Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov, who holds a hunger strike on the 22nd day, in the White Bear colony in the city of Labytnangi was visited by his lawyer Dmitry Dinze and Director-documentary Askold Kurov. Archbishop of Simferopol and Crimean Clement arrived with them in the colony. Before the colony, I had to fly by a helicopter from Salekhard, because it is not possible to get to Labytnangi on the river - the ice just began to melt.