In Moscow, 500 plots for voting in preliminary elections to the Moscow City Duma organized by the civil initiative "My Moscow", Interfax reports. In total, 1033 candidates participate in the primaries. Among them are 19 current deputies, including the chairman of the Duma Vladimir Platonov.

The United States will push the Czech Republic and Slovakia to close cooperation with NATO, reports The Wall Street Journal. The relevant steps will be taken in accordance with agreements with NATO allies, as well as other international agreements, the American publication writes. The publication appeared shortly after the authorities of the Czech Republic and Slovakia expressed dissatisfaction with the possible placement of NATO units on their territory.

Voting in the parliamentary elections in South Ossetia is over, Interfax reports with reference to the Central Election Committee of the republic. Polling stations closed at 20:00 local time, which coincides with Moscow. Territorial election commissions have begun to count the votes. According to the chairman of the CEC Bella Plieva, the first voting data are expected by 22:00. Then, as new information enters, the data will be updated.

The traditional daily poll "Polit.ru" is dedicated to the prospects for joining the European Union of Ukraine and Russia. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko intends to sign the economic part of the Association Agreement with the European Union no later than June 27; The political heads of the document were signed back in March.

The artillery shell of the Ukrainian army fell into the building of the city executive committee in Slavyansk, as a result of which a fire began. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the press service of the city executive committee. According to the representative of the city administration, the fire at the site of the projectile is weak in nature. Employees of the city executive committee hope to extinguish it on their own.

Maria Blokhina The emblem of the club It only seemed to seem that the Russian businessman Roman Abramovich had not bought anything significant for a long time , as it became known about his intention to buy Malorca. This was reported by RBC- Daily with reference to the Spanish edition of Mundo Departivo. We are talking about the purchase of one of Abramovich’s companies 55% of the shares of a football club from the Balearian Islands.

The Central Election Commission of South Ossetia recognized the parliamentary elections on Sunday, Interfax reports with reference to the words of the Chairman of the CEC of South Ossetia Bella Plieva. According to Plieva, according to the data at 18:00 local time, which coincides with Moscow, 50.47% of voters appeared to the polling stations. This means that the elections are held. The Prosecutor General of the Republic Merb Chigoev, in turn, said that the vote was without violations.

In Japan, at the age of 66, Prince Katsura died, NHK reports. Katsura, who was the emperor of Japan in a cousin and was the sixth in the queue of the heirs of the throne, shortly before his death suffered an infectious disease. On the morning of June 8, the prince was hospitalized in connection with a deterioration in well -being, but it was not possible to save him. Prince Katsuro received the corresponding title and the right to establish a new branch of the imperial family on January 1, 1988.

Vulcan Zhupanovsky in Kamchatka threw a column of ash 6 km high, Interfax reports with reference to the Far Eastern Regional Center of the Russian Emergencies Ministry. According to the Institute of Volcanology and Seismology of the Far Eastern Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, on June 7, ash and gas was released. At the same time, there is no visual confirmation, since at the time of the release of the volcano it was shade of the clouds.

The Russian Embassy in Ukraine demanded that the Ukrainian special services call the reason for the detention of journalists of the Zvezda television channel, the official website of the channel reports. In addition, the embassy spokesman Oleg Grishin said that the Consulate General of the Russian Federation in Kharkov is holding this issue “on constant control”.

The Governor of the Altai Territory Alexander Karlin held on Sunday an operational meeting in the village of Ilyich in Barnaul, where flooding previously began due to a breakthrough of the dam, Interfax reports. On Sunday morning, in a suburb of Barnaul, a dam of arriving water broke through, which was due to which part of the village of Ilyich turned out to be flooded.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko, speaking on Sunday at a meeting of a trilateral contact group according to a plan of peaceful settlement in the east of the country, said that the anti -terrorist operation in these regions should be rolled up within seven days. It is reported by Interfax . “We must cease fire this week,” said the head of the Ukrainian state.

The authorities of the Rostov region will consider the issue of employment of Ukrainian refugees, Interfax reports . The regional information policy department reported that currently 1,335 people are accommodated in 15 municipalities of the region, including 590 children and eight disabled people. About 4,000 Ukrainian citizens have already applied for refugee status in Russia, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev previously stated.

As a result of the artillery of the Ukrainian army in Slavyansk, a gas pipe was damaged, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the words of a representative of the city council. The pipe was damaged in the Mashmet area. A repair team operates at the scene of the accident. At the moment, there is no threat to the explosion. The scale of the problem of gas supply to the city is not reported.

In Kosovo on June 8, extraordinary parliamentary elections will be held. Extraordinary elections were scheduled after the dissolution of the Assembly - the main legislative body of the partially recognized Republic of Kosovo, which proclaimed its independence in 2008. The lawmakers could not bypass the opposition of national minorities and adopt a law on the army. Based on the results of direct elections, 100 deputy mandates will be distributed.