The Islamic State group recruits highly qualified specialists for the production of chemical weapons, said Australia Foreign Minister Julia Bishop, reports The Australian . According to the head of the Australian Foreign Ministry, extremists are primarily interested in attracting technical specialists and scientists from Western countries.

The head of the NATO information bureau in Moscow, Robert Pshel, leaves his post in connection with the end of the term of office, RIA Novosti reports. According to Pshel, he leaves Russia exclusively in connection with the end of authority, there are no other reasons. The NATO bureau in Russia will continue its work, and the decision to appoint a new chapter will be publicly voiced, Robert Pshel said.

In the absence of real political competition, and most importantly, public rivalry of more or less intelligible political projects, programs, ideologies may seem that the Russian political culture is equally homogeneous today that the political values ​​and attitudes of the vast majority of our fellow citizens are similar to indistinguishability. Polls that attract the most attention of the media usually reinforce this impression. However, it is deceptive.

At the awarding ceremony of the 13th annual Russian award in the field of popular music “Muz-TV”, Nursultan Nazarbayev received a award ceremony, TASS reports. The President of Kazakhstan was awarded a special prize “For contribution to life”, Nazarbayev received it from the hands of the singer and deputy Joseph Kobzon.

The Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko did not rule out the likelihood that he could lead the Russian football union. He stated this on the air of the Russia 1 television channel. “I think that we must move to this, most likely, this will happen, and I do not exclude such a solution (to head the RFU), although it is complicated for me,” Mutko said. He also noted that his two successors - Nikolai Tolstoy and Sergey Fursenko - failed to achieve significant results as presidential President.

Pancers Pussy Riot and civilian activists appealed to the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg with a complaint about the inaction of the Russian police in Sochi, where the Cossacks and Nagikes dispersed the rally of girls. This was stated by Interfax Activist Lawyer Natalya Dobreva.

Four residents of Canada divided the maximum jackpot of the Lotto Max lottery in the amount of 50 million Canadian dollars (40 million US dollars), reports The Province . It is known that two winning tickets were bought in Ontario and British Colombia, two more in the provinces of the Prairie area. The organizers divided the same amount among the 50 other lottery participants. Each of them will receive a million Canadian dollars.

The Ukrainian military “for the first half (last night” recorded about 30 shelling of their positions from the separatists, “in most cases using artillery systems,” the ATO press center on Facebook reports . According to the ATO summary, the settlements of the sands, experienced, a Butovka, Berezovka, Krasnogovka, as well as the positions of Ukrainian troops near Starognatovka, were fired from artillery and mortars.

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov said that there are fewer the chances of peaceful resolution of the Ukrainian conflict. It is reported by Interfax . “Firstly, a violation of the ceasefire, then a large -scale violation of the ceasefire regime leads to the fact that hopes for the implementation of the Minsk plan are becoming less and less, and more and more concern,” Peskov said.

In the laboratory of the professor of Japanese University of Nagoy, the Nobel Prize in Physics of Hiroshi Amano, a technology for water purification using LEDs has been developed. The scientist introduced the novelty in Novosibirsk, where he took part in the Technoprom-2015 forum, Interfax reports. Water in its technology is cleaned with ultraviolet radiation.

Russian President Vladimir Putin dismissed the first deputy manager of the President Sergei Kovalev. The presidential decree is posted on the portal of legal information. The decree comes into force from the day of its signing. Kovalev held this position since 2001. On May 21, Putin appointed the son of a former prime minister and current foreign intelligence head Mikhail Fradkov as deputy manager of the President of the Russian Federation.

The number of victims of the crash of the Passenger Liner "Star of the East", which sank on the Yangtze River, increased to 396 people. It is reported by Reuters . Previously reported 331 deceased. In total, 14 people were rescued to date. The ship was raised to the surface on June 5. The liner crashed on June 1 in the province of Hubei. The ship was heading from Nankin to Chunzin in the south-west of China.

Prime Minister of Canada Steven Harper and Japan of Japan Shinzo Abe arrived in Kiev with visits, Ukrainian Foreign Ministry reports on his Twitter page. The official visit of the Japanese Prime Minister is the first in the history of Ukrainian-Japanese relations, the report said.

The deputy of the city council of Omsk from the Fair Russia faction Yevgeny Mavlyutov, who shot a schoolboy from a traumatic pistol, was exempted from punishment in connection with amnesty. It is reported by Flashsiberia . According to investigators, on June 6, 2013, a conflict occurred between the deputy’s brother, 25-year-old Ruslan Mavlyutov and students of the 11th grade.

The Ministry of Culture prepares a bill for publication, allowing institutions subordinate to it not to justify the prices of contracts with directors, artists and other creative figures, Izvestia reports. Currently, each state cultural institution should carry out all its expenses through the official procurement portal in detail, including indicating, for example, the size of fees for directors or artists.