Kaya Callas, Ursula von der Leyen and Antonio Costa (from left to right) The leaders of the European Union countries at the summit in Brussels approved the candidates for the leadership of the bloc for the next five years. Ursula von der Leyen remains the President of the European Commission. Former Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa will take over as head of the European Council. This position was previously held by Charles Michel.

Nariman Jelal (center) in court in annexed Simferopol, September 2022 Ukraine returned 10 of its citizens from Russian captivity. This was announced by the President of the country Vladimir Zelensky. He emphasized that they are all civilians and many were held in Russian prisons even before the start of a full-scale war in February 2022.

Donald Trump and Joe Biden before the start of the debate on CNN The first debate took place in the United States between Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and Republican candidate Donald Trump. There has been increased attention to this debate. Four months before the presidential election, the gap between the two parties' candidates is negligible. But the stakes in this debate were higher for President Biden, according to pollsters.

Plan or proposals from advisers: how will Trump force Moscow and Kyiv to come to an agreement? Will Ukraine lose US aid if Trump wins? Will Biden's victory guarantee continued massive US support for Ukraine? Our guests: publicist David Sutter and human rights activist Yuri Yarym-Agaev.

One of the issues of the newspaper "Humanitarian Fund" Thirty years ago, in 1994, the newspaper “Humanitarian Fund” , dedicated to the culture of the avant-garde and underground and which played an important role in the cultural life of Russia in the early 90s, ceased publication. The newspaper was published weekly for more than four years with a small circulation of about a thousand copies.

Communal accident in the freezing town of Borzya (Archival photo) More than 10 inhabitants of the city of Borzia of the Trans -Baikal Territory today begin an indefinite hunger strike until the city receives the necessary 45 million rubles and begins to prepare for the heating season. This was reported by the Chita.ru publication with reference to the initiator of the action Marina Altaeva. Last winter, the boiler room froze in the city.

The South Korean Ministry of Industry said it would add another 243 items to the list of goods that are prohibited from being supplied to Russia and Belarus. As the Yonhap agency reports , by the end of August the list of South Korean goods prohibited for import into these countries will expand to 1,402 items. According to the department, new restrictive measures will affect parts for optical instruments and sensors, as well as metal-cutting equipment.

Writer Alexander Galper and his relatives

Information digest "Time of Freedom", June 28 Information digest "Time of Freedom", June 28 Changes in the nature of hostilities in Ukraine after the lifting of the ban by Western countries on strikes against Russia; What explains the Kremlin's passive reaction to the terrorist attack in Dagestan; Joe Biden and Donald Trump held the first round of election televised debates; St. Petersburg composer Alexander Knaifel has died. Andrey Sharogradsky International observer for Radio Liberty.

Vladimir Sergienko, suspected of contacts with Russian intelligence services, lost his German citizenship. For a long time, Sergienko was an employee of the Russian-speaking Bundestag deputy Eugen Schmidt, who was born and raised in Kazakhstan. The administrative court in Berlin in mid-June recognized the decision to revoke his German citizenship as legal. Spiegel reported this with reference to the court decision.

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.

One of the rooms at the Iranian uranium enrichment plant Iranian specialists have installed half of the new centrifuges for uranium enrichment at the Fordow plant. According to the IAEA, centrifuges have not yet been included in the production cycle. Reuters reviewed the report on nuclear safety at Iranian facilities. Two weeks ago, Iran informed the International Atomic Energy Agency that it would soon expand its enrichment capacity at Fordo.

Whose peace plan will end the war in Ukraine? Against whom Kremlin propaganda agitates in other people's elections? We try to deal with the American Alexandra Filippenko and political scientist Fedor Krasheninnikov.

An illustrative photo On Friday morning, the drone attacked the oil depot in the Michurinsky municipal district of the Tambov region. This was announced by the governor of the region Maxim Egorov. “As a result, a slight fire was formed,” he added. According to him, the fire is localized, it is extinguished by the regional department of the Russian Emergencies Ministry and the fire department of the oil depot, 11 fire bills were involved. There are no victims.