Alisher Usmanov and Alexey Navalny, photo collage The lawsuit about the protection of honor and dignity filed by Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov to the opposition policy Alexei Navalny was agreed with the Kremlin, RBC reports citing a representative of the businessman. The interlocutor of the publication did not specify the details, but emphasized that the video message to the founder of the Corruption Fund (FBK), published the day before, was Usmanov’s personal initiative.

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Can international justice replace the domestic judicial system? What to do to citizens when the courts in Russia are sold, dependent and false? In the program of Alexander Podrabinka “Dejavu”, director Ksenia Gagay, lawyer Vadim Kluvgan, human rights activist Natalya Taubina. Video broadcast on Friday at 18:30

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Thus, in different ways, they remembered in Kyiv, St. Petersburg and in Simferopol victims of the deportation of the Crimean Tatars on May 18, on the 73rd anniversary

The works and days of the President of the United States are discussing: Radio Observer Freedom Efim Fishtein, political analyst Maria Snegova, diplomat Fedor Shelov-Kovedyaev, American journalist Mikhail Taratuta, political scientist, American, head of the North American research center of the Institute of General History of the Russian Academy of Sciences Vladimir Sogrin. Mikhail Sokolov is broadcast. Video and text by link https://www.svoboda.org/a/28497780.html

The chief representative of the European Union at the Brekzit negotiations Michel Barnier set the date of the first official consultation on the conditions of the UK exit from the EU for June 19. This was reported by The Guardian newspaper. On this day, Barnier will meet with the British Minister of Brexit David Davis. Negotiations will last about 15 months. Earlier it was reported that the EU financial requirements for the UK can grow from the previously claimed 60 billion euros to 100 billion.

The rebuilt historical building of the Volkonsky House in the center of Moscow belongs to the Fund "Center for the Development of Interpersonal Communications", presumably related to the former wife of Russian President Vladimir Putin Lyudmila, the Reuters investigation said on Friday. At the same time, according to the agency’s source, part of the premises in the building is rented by a large Russian VTB Bank, which pays the owner of more than $ 2 million a year.

The incident on New York Square Times Square, as a result of which one person died and 22 were injured, was not a terrorist action, representatives of the New York authorities said on Thursday evening. The 26-year-old Richard Rohas, who committed passers-by in the center of Manhattan on Thursday, was detained after he got out of the car stalled on the sidewalk. According to preliminary data, he is a man with a frustrated psyche who wanted the police to be shot.

The Greece parliament voted for new measures of rigid savings. This was required by international creditors. Greece must be paid more than seven billion dollars to repay part of the debt. The repayment period expires in July. During the voting in parliament in the center of Athens, mass demonstrations were held against budget reduction. About ten thousand people took part in them. The protests grew into disorder.

The most interesting of our common past. Incomplete story. Unjust wounds. Still live hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago. Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy chooses from our ether still relevant and turned out to be eternal.

Kharkov Last year, the “Odessa language” was heard in “On top of the barriers”. In early May of this year in Kharkov, I was offered to talk about the "Kharkov language". Teachers of the Kharkov National University and a popular musician participate in the conversation. Once Boris Slutsky wrote such verses about Kharkov: How did you say in the horse bazaar? What kind of tongue did I find out under the carts? ………………………………… ..

The fourth day in the Moscow branch “Absolute Bank” on Vorontsovka Street, a hunger strike of foreign exchange borrowers continues. Participants in the action demand to recalculate debts to rubles at the course, which was when concluding the contract. They also ask to withdraw court claims and stop enforcement proceedings. According to borrowers, in a critical situation were more than 60 customers "Absolute Bank".

US President Donald Trump told reporters that the former Democrat Senator Joseph Lieberman is “among the finalists” to replace the position of director of the Federal Bureau of Investigations remaining vacant after the dismissal of James Komi.