Nyuta Federmesser on Sunday, June 15, announced that she was withdrawing her candidacy from the elections to the Moscow City Duma in the 43rd district of the capital. This was preceded by harsh criticism of Federmesser from the followers of Alexei Navalny, whose ally Lyubov Sobol is running in the same constituency. Now the opinions of observers are divided: some believe that Federmesser made the only right decision, others are sure that she was hounded in vain, and voters will only lose.

The Council of Bloggers under the State Duma proposed to punish officials for insulting citizens on social networks and the Internet. Officials started social networks, but they did not learn how to use them, bloggers say. What's happened? The Expert Council for the Development of the Information Society at the State Duma Youth Parliament (the so-called council of bloggers) at a meeting on Friday proposed punishing officials for insulting society on social networks and the Internet.

Facebook will introduce its own Libra cryptocurrency on June 18, writes The Wall Street Journal. Its launch is scheduled for 2020. At the same time, the creation of a consortium will be announced, which will include Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Uber, Stripe and Booking.com and other investors - each of them will invest approximately $ 10 million in Libra. The consortium members will manage the cryptocurrency independently of Facebook. What is this.

Nyuta Federmesser announced her decision on Sunday on her Facebook page – she wrote that she registered to participate in the elections on June 7, but had already submitted an application to the electoral commission to withdraw her candidacy.

The campaign for the liberation of Ivan Golunov and the inconsistent march on June 12 in resonance, the breadth of involvement and lighting in the media became the largest event in the life of the Russian protest community this year - and possibly from the time of protests in the Bolotnaya 2011-2012. In just a week, people managed to be horrified by a new level of arbitrariness, inspired by victory and quarrel immediately.