In St. Petersburg, during the court hearing in the case of the Network, one of the defendants, the 27-year-old anti-fascist Julius Boyarshinov, confirmed the confession given to them at the investigation stage. Boyarshinov emphasized that he gave the testimony voluntarily, said that he was a member of the regional unit of the "network", where he performed the functions of the sapper, and noted that he agreed with the charges of participating in the terrorist community and storage of explosives.

The Central Election Commission allowed to vote on amendments to the Constitution in electronic format in Moscow and the Nizhny Novgorod region. This was reported by the RIA Novosti agency. In addition to these two regions, St. Petersburg, Karelia and the Krasnoyarsk Territory planned to vote electronically. The CEC refused this. For the ability to hold remote voting in St. Petersburg, only two members of the CEC of 11 participated in the vote voted, reports the telegram channel Rotonda.

The diesel fuel entering the Pyasino Lake near Norilsky after the spill at the Norilsk Nickel CHP was not prevented, Kommersant writes . At the lake several lines of bonal barriers were organized, including in the area of the source of the Pyasina River. But this fence on the night of June 3 was broken by an ice drift, and until it ends, it is impossible to restore the fence.

The court in the Leningrad Region ordered the Ministry of Defense of Russia to pay four million rubles to the mother of a 20-year-old ordinary who died at a training ground during tank shooting. Radio Liberty was reported to the human rights organization “ Zone of Law ”. The incident occurred on September 7, 2017 at a military training ground in the Leningrad region.

On Thursday, the first of the three memorial services in memory of the African American, George Floyd, whose death after the police detained mass protests on all the united state and reform of the police , as well as against racism and social justice, was held in Minneapolis on Thursday. The service was conducted by a famous fighter for civil rights Pastor Al Sharpton.

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The speaker of the Moscow City Duma Alexei Shaposhnikov explained the origin of 1.9 billion rubles of income in 2019. According to the Moscow official, he received them after the sale of his shares of Severovyan OJSC in 2018-2019. Shaposhnikov claims that he bought stocks before he became a municipal deputy, and then a deputy of the Moscow City Duma.

Human rights activists declare the illegality of the military service in Russia of recruits from Crimea *** Russian doctors urge the government to provide all medical workers with personal protective equipment to a possible second wave of coronavirus pandemia *** The new prime minister of Belarus, the graduate of Mgimo Roman Golovchenko.

The lawyer community demands to hold the police who applied force and threatened to “let in a circle” of their colleagues in Kabardino-Balkaria. But while the criminal case has been instituted against the defenders themselves

US Minister of Defense Mark Espper US Secretary of Defense Mark Espper spoke out against attracting the army to suppress the continuing mass protests in the country for more than a week. Their cause was the death of African American George Floyd after a harsh detention by the police. Donald Trump, President Donald Trump, insisted on using the army to disperse demonstrators and restore order.

The State Duma deputy from Yakutia Fedot Tumusov asked the General of Russia General Igor Krasnov to intervene in the case of the Yakut shaman Alexander Gabyshev, who was forcibly hospitalized in a neuropsychiatric dispensary. Tumusov reported this to Kommersant. According to the deputy, "the great doubts of the competence of the Commission" and compliance with all the norms during the trial cause. "Residents of Yakutia are outraged by this loud business," Tumusov told the publication.

James Mattis Former Pentagon head James Mattis accused US President Donald Trump of trying to split American society. The statement of the ex-Minister of Defense is published by The Atlantic magazine. Mattis notes that Trump completely unnecessarily split the country and “militarizes” America’s reaction to protests. "Donald Trump is the first president in my life, who is not trying to unite the American people and does not even pretend to be trying.

Loading the Aeroflot Airflot Airflot aircraft after the resumption of flights on May 31 exceeded 90 percent, which corresponds to the indicator for the entire 2019. For other airlines, flights are uploaded about half. This is stated in the reports of the analysts of VTB Capital and Gazprombank with reference to the top managers of Aeroflot, Vedomosti write . At the same time, today - after downtime in April and May - "Victory" is operating only a quarter of the park, notes the publication.

Greenpeace experts call an accident at thermal power plants in the Krasnoyarsk Territory the first large in the scale of the spill oil products in the polar Arctic. More than 20 thousand tons of diesel fuel fell into the soil and rivers.