The defendants in the murder of the politician Boris Nemtsov asked the jury collegium to bear the acquittal to them. It is reported by TASS. “I was not at this crime, did not commit it, did not organize it,” said one of the accused Zaur Dadaev, whom the investigation considers the direct executor of the murder. Another defendant Anzor Gubashev said that he changed his attitude towards Nemtsov during the trial and considers him a courageous person.

The General Prosecutor's Office of Russia sent a case to the court against the group of Russian hackers Shaltai-Boltai. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the official representative of the supervisory authority Alexander Kurenny. “Deputy Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Viktor Grin approved the indictment in the criminal case against a citizen of the Russian Federation Vladimir Anikeev.

The struggle of various forces for who will take the actual capital of ISIS RACKU and establish control over the territories held by the Islamists, can lead to a serious international conflict, they write in the Financial Times Rebecca Coekk Coekk, Eric Solomon, Borozmehr Borozmehr and Catherine Manson. The Insider offers a complete translation of the article.

The results of a repeated forensic medical examination of the boy, shot down to death by a woman in a car in Balashikha, coincide with the first results, when data on the presence of alcohol was obtained in his blood. This was stated by the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation Vladimir Kolokoltsev. “As far as I know that the secondary result, it coincides with the first,” Kolokoltsev said on Wednesday on the broadcast of Russia 24.

The Krasnodar court fined the Coordinator of Open Russia Jan Antonov for 15 thousand rubles for the activities of an “unwanted organization”. This was written on Facebook by an employee of Open Russia Maria Baronova. Baronova emphasized that according to the position of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation and the Ministry of Justice, the Russian movement “Open Russia” is not connected with the organizations of the same name, recognized as “undesirable” in the UK.

The director of the Isaac's Cathedral, appointed on June 15, Yuri Mudrov spoke out against the referendum on the transfer of the temple for the use of the Russian Orthodox Church. He stated this in an interview with RBC. “The referendum will not reflect public opinion in full,” Mudrov explained. “And in general this is not a referendum issue.

One of the supporters of the politician Alexei Navalny from St. Petersburg said that about 100 supporters or potential supporters of Navalny took place in a focus group dedicated to the upcoming presidential election in St. Petersburg. This was written on Facebook by the head of the campaign headquarters, politician Leonid Volkov.

A man who suffered during a hurricane, who fell on Moscow on May 29, died in one of the capital's hospitals, a source in emergency services of the city said , Interfax reports. “A 56 -year -old man was in extremely serious condition, doctors unsuccessfully fought for his life,” he said. Thus, the total number of those killed from a hurricane in Moscow grew to 13 people.

Several NATO fighters for the second time in a day accompanied the aircraft of the Minister of Defense of Russia Sergey Shoigu when he was returning from Kaliningrad. This was reported by the correspondent of Interfax. Shoigu was escorted by Russian fighter-bomber Su-34. The Ministry of Defense said that fighters did not attempt to approach the board. However, the video of the Zvezda television channel is captured as the NATO fighter is approaching the board of the Ministry of Defense.

In the case of the theft in the Seventh Studio, Kirill Serebrennikov, a specific performance appeared. According to investigators, the studio leadership stole the money allocated for the play "Sleep on a summer night." It is reported by Rain. According to the prosecutor, the leadership of the “Seventh Studio” stole the money on which the play “Sleep on a Summer Night” was supposed to put up, so it did not take place.

Romanian deputies and senators voted for removing from the post of Prime Minister of the country Sorin Grindanian. It is reported by Reuters with reference to Romanian television. 241 parliamentarians spoke out, “against” - 7. Parliamentarians of the Parties of the ruling coalition took part in the vote: the Social -Democratic Party (SDP) and the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats (Alde). The opposition did not take part in the vote.

The investigation charged the ex-director of the Gogol Center Alexei Malobrodsky in the fraud case in the Seventh Studio. This was announced by the press secretary of the Presnensky court Anastasia Pylina, reports RBC . Recall that Malobrodsky was detained on June 19 as part of the investigation of the case under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code (fraud on an especially large scale).

Parents of Jeanne Friske appealed the decision of the Moscow Court of Moscow, who recovered 21.6 million rubles from the singer’s family, who died of cancer in 2015, at the suit of the Rusfond charity organization, collecting money for her treatment. It is reported by Interfax. “A complaint of Vladimir and Olga Friske about the court decision of May 19 was registered in the Perovsky court,” the court said. The date of consideration of the complaint in the Moscow City Court is still unknown.

Director Oliver Stone rejected the report that the VVS Air Force in Afghanistan was recorded on the video of the Russian Air Force in Syria provided by Vladimir Putin. His words are given by RT. “Bloggers say that, bloggers say this ... Why would he falsify it?” Said the director. According to Stone, the Russian authorities carried out a lot of work to combat the militants of the Islamic State terrorist organization, including the fight against IS's Financial Empire.

In the new ranking of the best higher educational institutions in Europe, the British magazine Times Higher Education (The) turned out to be 24 Russian universities. Only one entered the first hundred of the best - the Moscow State University named after Lomonosov. Moscow State University was in it in 93rd place (188th place in the world), the MIPT was in the interval 151–160 (301–350 place in the world ranking). In the range of 191-200 of the European rating was the third Russian university-St.