Kenedy County, Texas, named after 19th-century shipowner Miffin Kenedy, has 259 registered voters. State law does not require voters to indicate their party affiliation, so we don't know how many are Democrats and how many are Republicans. Eight (8) people came to the second round of the Republican primaries for the Senate elections. Six voted for current Senator John Cornyn, two for Ken Paxton, who is actively supported by Donald Trump.

Ilya Traber Businessman Ilya Traber was detained in St. Petersburg, and searches are underway at a number of addresses associated with him. This was reported by the Fontanka publication, according to which, operational activities on June 17 were carried out by employees of the Central Office of the FSB of Russia. According to Fontanka, his business partner Vladimir Danilenko was detained along with Traber.

Radiy Khabirov. January 2026 The last time a missile threat was declared in Bashkortostan was on June 10. The head of Bashkortostan , Radiy Khabirov, at the plenary meeting of the V media forum of the republic's media, explained why sirens do not sound in the region during a missile threat. - When everything is so difficult, when we wake up in the morning, beeping, you have declared a missile and drone danger here...

Baymak, January 17, 2024 The courts have already made at least 20 decisions on the release of convicted ordinary defendants in the “Baymak case” from colonies. The Motovilikha District Court of Perm this week released from the colony three more convicts in the “Baymak case” - Ilnur Ayupov , Sagit Yulmukhametov and Albert Tagirov . Idel.Realii found the relevant information on the court’s website. All three served their sentences in general regime correctional colony No.

The First Western District Military Court in St. Petersburg sentenced Andrei Usachev, a participant in the war in Ukraine, to 20 years in prison, who raped and killed a woman in February 2025. This was reported to Sever.Realii by a source familiar with the convict. Usachev must spend the first five years in prison under special regime conditions, after which he will receive a transfer to a colony.

US President Donald Trump on the sidelines of the G7 summit in Evian, France, June 17, 2026 US President Donald Trump has threatened further military action against Iran if he “does not like” the memorandum. He said this at the G7 summit in France on June 17, write Reuters and Sky News . "This is a memorandum of understanding. If I don't like it, we'll go back to shooting them and dropping bombs on their heads. If they don't behave, we'll go right back to dropping bombs," Trump said.

Ilya Traber Information digest "Time of Freedom with Andrei Sharogradsky." Wednesday, June 17 01:19 G7 countries announced the need to increase pressure on Russia to force it to end the war in Ukraine 02:44 Vladimir Zelensky warned that Russia could face a “hard winter” 03:37 A Russian Navy frigate opened warning fire in the English Channel towards a yacht of British pensioners three days after the British authorities detained a tanker of the Russian “shadow fleet” 05:52 The Insider: The people

Collage: Patrushev and Shoigu Has a new round of struggle between Kremlin clans begun? An assistant and one of the closest associates of the Russian President, former FSB director Nikolai Patrushev, accused the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the deaths of hostages during the storming of the Dubrovka Theater Center in 2003.

We talk about how Putin’s elite has changed during the war years, as well as about the confrontation between clans and groups of the current near-Kremlin elite in the program “Facing the Event” with political scientist Ruslan Aisin.

UKRAINE – A serviceman of Corsar unmanned aerial vehicle battalion of the 38th Separate Marine Brigade carries a Ukrainian-made Leleka reconnaissance UAV before its launch near a front line in Donetsk region, May 22, 2026 How does the Ukrainian economy survive during the war with Russia? According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), Ukraine's military spending has reached a historic high. They amount to $84.1 billion, which is about 40 percent of the country's GDP.

Chisinau Airport, Moldova. Archive photo The US authorities deported to Moldova a 28-year-old resident of Bashkortostan, a participant in the protests in Baymak, Zagir Mukhamedyarov. Before that, he spent two years in an immigration prison in Louisiana seeking political asylum. In a conversation with Idel.Realii, the activist spoke about the circumstances of the expulsion and stated that he intends to try to return to the United States.

In the Krasnodar Territory, due to heavy rainfall, another natural disaster has occurred - dozens of private houses and thousands of hectares of agricultural land are flooded. In the regional capital, a number of streets were blocked by floods: people blocked the road, demanding that water be pumped out of their yards. Why does this situation repeat itself from year to year and how is the inaction of the authorities related to corruption?

Semyon Skrepetsky on Paris Square in Berlin during an event dedicated to Russia Day on June 12 On Monday, in Poland, in the border town of Biała Podlaska, Russian action artist Semyon Skrepetsky was killed at point-blank range by several shots. He was known for his harsh satirical drawings, in which he ridiculed everyone - from Vladimir Putin and Ramzan Kadyrov to Vladimir Zelensky and Alexei Navalny.

The most interesting thing from our common past. An unfinished story. Unhealed wounds. Hopes still alive. Could Russia have taken a different path? Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy selects from our broadcast what is still relevant and has turned out to be eternal.