Former British Foreign Minister Boris Johnson confidently won the second round of the election of the leader of the Conservative Party, BBC reports . Together with him, the ministers of the government of Teresa May Jeremy Hunt, Michael Gow, Rori Stuart and Sajid Javid overcame the passing barrier. The new leader of the conservatives will be headed by the Government of Great Britain.

On the morning of June 18, at the entrance to Yekaterinburg, a sign “City of the Brave” appeared from the side of the Koltsovo Airport. It is reported by E1.ru. On the eve of the same place under the sign with the name of the city appeared the sign “City of Demons”. Like that tablet, the new sign was quickly removed, they write in the community “Typical Yekaterinburg”.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said that the Council of Europe should not forget about violations by Russia, but is advocated for the return of the Russian delegation to the parliamentary assembly. According to 112 Ukraine, she made such a statement at a joint briefing with the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky. Merkel confirmed that Germany is making efforts to return the delegation of the Russian parliament to the work of PACE and expects that this will happen in the near future.

The Soviet District Court of Makhachkala placed in custody for two months of the journalist of the draft "Chernivik" Abdulmumin Gadzhiev. The investigation petitioned for the arrest. The editor of the religion department of the Dagestan newspaper Chernivik Abdulmumin Gadzhiev was detained on June 14. He is suspected of transferring funds to the accounts of the Islamic preacher associated with the Islamic State.

The Penza court arrested 15 out of 28 detained residents of the village of Scheodanovka, Penza Region, suspected of participating in a mass fight. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press secretary of the May Day court Sergey Maslov. “The court granted the investigation and for two months he concluded 15 gypsies into custody,” the court of the court quoted the agency.

Oil quotes began to grow on June 18 after a statement by US President Donald Trump that he would hold an “expanded meeting” with the chairman of China Xi Jinping as part of the G-20 summit in Japan next week, Interfax reports . August Brent futures traded in London at $ 62.49 per barrel. By the same time, the July futures on WTI variety on the New York Modern Exchange were expensive to $ 53.96 per barrel.

Former President of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA) Michel Platini was detained in the case of choosing the country of the 2022 World Cup. It is reported by Mediapart. According to the publication, Platini was taken into custody on June 18 in France. The ex-head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of France Claude Gean is in the status of the suspect. Qatar received the right to accept the World Cup 2022 in 2010, when Platini served as president of UEFA.

48 employees of the Sergiev Posad bakery announced a dry hunger strike, demanding to pay them salary debts in four months. It is reported by the New Gazeta. Workers said that they would not leave the enterprise until they receive money. They will spend the night in the factory dining room. Sergiev Posad Bakers-the property of the agricultural holding "Nastyusha".

In St. Petersburg, 11 people are waiting for a sentence in the case of organizing a terrorist attack in the subway. They were detained back in 2017. Three of them were kidnapped and tortured in a secret prison of the FSB before the official detention, knocking out confessions. They threatened that they would kill their parents, rape wives and scrap all pigs. They kept for many days in the basement on the chain, after which they took out and removed staged detentions on the camera.

On the west coast of Japan, the threat of the tsunami was declared after the earthquake of magnitude 6.8. This is stated in the message of the National Meteorological Service. Seismologists recommended local residents to leave the coastal zone and not go to sea. The epicenter of the earthquake was located off the coast of the Yamagato Prefecture, at a depth of about 10 km. Data on destruction and victims are not yet available.

Former President of Egypt Muhammad Mursi died in Cairo at the age of 67. Mursi became bad after the court hearing, at which he was charged with espionage. In 2015, the former president was sentenced to death, accusing “inciting to violence and feud” and terrorism, but later changing the punishment for life imprisonment. The neighboring east specialist, international journalist Yuri Matsarsky, remembered for The Insider, what role Muhammad Mursi played for Egypt.

The former head of the Serpukhov district, Alexander Shestun, cut his hands at a meeting in a garrison military court. This was reported by Novaya Gazeta with reference to the chairman of the Public Committee "Freedom Shestun" Vlad Rusin. “For more than a year, I have been tortured and beaten, being behind bars without a single evidence of guilt. Therefore, I have only one trump card, one “cartridge” is my life.

The ally of Alexei Navalny Leonid Volkov on the morning of June 18 was released from the isolator, where he was serving a re -administrative arrest for a rally against a pension reform on September 9, 2018. "Hi all. It’s good, very. Thank you very much, friends, for care and support. Soon there will be a book review, and until the end of the week I will answer all letters and messages! ” - Write Volkov.

The authorities of Poland decided to deport the blogger Tumso Abdurahmanov to Russia, who left Chechnya due to a conflict with a relative of the head of the republic Ramzan Kadyrov, Mediazona reports . “In December last year, the border service notified me that she began the proceedings on the case of my deportation. And yesterday I received a decision on this case, ”said Abdurahmanov. In 2015, Abdurakhmanov left Chechnya.

The Constitutional Court of the Russian Federation ruled that authorities cannot refuse to consider applications for rallies due to the fact that security measures are poorly spelled out there. The Constitutional Court made such a decision on the claim of the Irkutsk activist, lawyer Valery Teterin, who several times returned notifications of actions under the pretext that they did not define “forms and methods of ensuring public order and organizing medical care”.