Photo: PublicPost Collage June 1 is the day when most people talk about children. PublicPost remembered the children who are constantly visible, but about whom so little is known - the children of politicians. How Saakashvili’s son got into the Guinness Book of Records, Chernomyrdin’s sons got into Gazprom, Medvedev’s son starred in Yeralash, Matvienko’s son became a billionaire.

Unknown Tatarstan: forgotten camps of Tatarstan The report is timed to coincide with Children's Day. There’s nothing special to write about the camps, well, there was once a children’s camp, well, the kids fed the local mosquitoes with their blood, and then the camp disappeared. All these camps remind me of a trip to the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Exclusion Zone .

Ekho Moskvy reports that difficulties arose with the release of the businessman and husband of TV presenter and member of the Constitutional Court of the opposition Olga Romanova. The delay is allegedly due to the sending of a fax: the court order, according to which Kozlov should be released today, did not arrive in full. Olga Romanova told Ekho Moskvy that the head of the FSIN department for the Ivanovo region allegedly personally gave instructions not to release Kozlov.

Photo: Maria Vashchuk/RIA Novosti The mayor of Makhachkala, Said Amirov, was detained by FSB officers, and searches are being carried out in the building of the Makhachkala city administration. A source in the Dagestan government told a PublicPost correspondent about this. The night before, Amirov’s nephew Yusup Dzhaparov, who holds the position of deputy head of the city of Kaspiysk, was also detained. He is suspected of murdering the investigator.

Viktor Goremykin, head of the Main Personnel Directorate of the Ministry of Defense, announced this on air on Ekho Moskvy. The law will soon be submitted to the government. Currently, officers with the rank of lieutenant colonel serve for up to 45 years, colonels for up to 50 years, and generals for up to 60 years. According to Goremykin, it is necessary to extend the service life by five years in order to retain professional personnel.

Istanbul police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse the demonstration. According to the BBC, more than 60 people were detained and dozens were injured. Protesters staged a four-day rally in Gezi Park in the city center to express opposition to plans to redevelop that part of Taksim Square. An Istanbul court decided to temporarily suspend the reconstruction, but protests against the construction resulted in dissatisfaction with Prime Minister Erdogan.