Due to scandals, the founder of the most expensive startup had to go on an unlimited vacation. And now resigned Travis Kalanik. Photo: Robert Galbraith / Reuters Only last week, the head of Uber Travis Kalanik announced that he was going on vacation for an indefinite period. Today it turned out that he resigned. This was written by The New York Times with reference to unnamed sources. We remind you that it led to this. Uber, created in 2009, became the most expensive startup in history.

Russian President Vladimir Putin in an interview with Oliver Stone Oliver Stone on Showtime told what the Russian opposition problem is. “But the problem of opposition forces is not just to fight the authorities, but to show citizens to show voters that the programs that they offer are more winning from the point of view of the interests of voters,” the president ( quote for RIA Novosti) said.

The US Senate approved the bill on the tightening of sanctions against Russia. It is reported by The Washington Post. New sanctions are associated with the alleged intervention of Russia in the US presidential election. According to Interfax , the bill was supported by the vast majority of senators, two opposed. Now the bill should be considered by the House of Representatives of the US Congress.

The Minsk Tractor Plant (MTZ) will launch the tourist program "Collect Tractor", the representative of the enterprise Pavel Tukhto told TASS. It will be possible to take part in the assembly of the tractor for $ 5 (9 Belarusian rubles). Tourists will be given out overalls and instructions on how to carry out some production operations. Everything will be done under the control of the factory employee.

Businessman Sergei Mikhailov filed a lawsuit to protect honor and dignity to Alexei Navalny and the Corruption Fund (FBK). This was reported to TASS in the press service of the Lublin court of Moscow. Mikhailov demands to recover 500 thousand rubles and refute the information from the film "Seagull", in which he is called criminal authority, the agency reports. He demanded to recognize the information defamatory and remove them from the Internet.

Russia's loss of several hundred pilots is not terrible only at first glance. What is behind this? Photo: Maxim Shemetov / Reuters Last week, Kommersant said that Russian airlines are concerned about the personnel leak in Asia. For two and a half years, over 300 of the most trained pilots-aircraft commanders (KVS) and ICS instructors left for Asian airlines. This figure is confirmed by the Avia Personal Agency: 200 more pilots are at different stages of selection.

In a fire in the London skyscraper, 12 people died. This was reported in the police of London, reports CNN. According to BBC, 68 victims are in the hospital, 18 of them are in critical condition. Several residents are listed as missing, the exact number in the police was not named. The fire in the 27-story building of Grenfell Tower in North Kensington began on the morning of June 14.

The Moscow Patriarchate is going to publish about 60 theology textbooks. This was announced by the head of the Synodal Department of External Church Relations by Metropolitan Hilarion of Volokolamsk, his words are given by Interfax . “I hope that they will be no less in demand at the department of theology at secular universities,” Metropolitan said. He also called for the creation of a “high -quality and modern system of theological education” in Russia.

The Uritsky District Court of the Oryol Region refused to mitigate the punishment of Oleg Navalny, convicted of the Yves Rocher case. This was reported on Twitter by the press secretary of Alexei Navalny Kira Yarmysh. https://twitter.com/kira_yarmysh/status/874920936784441345 Navalny asked to replace the rest of the term with a milder type of punishment. “So they don’t let me go on parole.

Simulation of electrical activity in the "Slices of the Virtual Brain". Photo: Bluebrain.epfl.ch On June on June on the Frontiers in Computation Neuroscience, an article has appeared, the authors of which claim that they took an important step towards how the work of neurons in the human brain - the most complex structure of the known to us - determines the functions of this organ.

Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow sentenced the ex-head of the Federal Penitentiary Service Alexander Reimer to eight years in prison. It is reported by Interfax . The court also ordered him to pay a fine of 800 thousand rubles. He was found guilty of the theft of 1.3 billion rubles when the purchase of electronic bracelets. The prosecutor asked for him 9 years in a colony.

From July 1, the National Bank of Belarus will cease to take into account the Russian ruble in gold and foreign exchange reserves. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the press service of the Belarusian regulator. The agency clarifies that from this date, the National Bank of Belarus will completely switch to international standards.

With the participants of the "Direct Line" with Russian President Vladimir Putin conducted briefing and rehearsal. About this RBC was told by the two persons present at the event. Participants were invited to the Petrovo-Dalno more boarding house, which is part of the Rublevo-Uspensky recreational complex of the Presidential Affairs. According to the estimates of the publication, about 100 people participated in the event, held on June 13.

In the place of the burned house, in which the arranged firing in the village of Kratovo Igor Zenkov lived in the village of Kratovo, found human remains. This was reported on the website of the Investigative Committee (SK). The department explained that they discovered a “bone fragment with signs of thermal impact” in the place where Zenkov’s mother’s room was located. SK appointed a molecular genetic examination to compare the DNA of the found remains from the DNA of the mother of the firing.

The State Duma deputies in the third reading adopted a draft law on the demolition program for five -story buildings in Moscow. 399 deputies voted, against two deputies, one abstained. The broadcast of the meeting was on the State Duma website. Before the State Duma meeting near her building, a spontaneous action of protest was held, several people were detained on it, including the leader of the Moscow “Yabloko” Sergei Mitrokhin.