Photo: Mariam Nikuradze / OC Media Доступно на русском Bidzina Ivanishvili's Georgian regime has become so saturated with its own propaganda about a foreign "deep state" that it has begun to see threats emanating even from within its inner circle. Salomé Zourabichvili, who served as the fifth president of Georgia from 2018 to 2024, said that the current government in Tbilisi is incapable of accurately assessing the scale of real public discontent, let alone of coping with it.

Kerstin Joensson/AP Russians who seek asylum in the EU may be subject to an accelerated processing procedure. This is due to the new migration rules of the European Union and the list of countries with a low level of approval of applications for international protection, which includes Russia. Human rights activists warn that such an approach could also hit political activists, deserters, anti-war Russians and other vulnerable groups whose risks are not always reflected in general statistics.

Russian sites will be fined up to 700 thousand rubles for allowing users to log in through foreign email services or other foreign platforms. The State Duma adopted the corresponding law in the second and third readings.

DeCarlos Brown Jr., who stabbed to death Ukrainian refugee Irina Zarutskaya in Charlotte, North Carolina, last year, was found unfit to stand trial due to mental problems. The court hearing in his case was postponed. CNN reports this. He was sent to a closed, guarded medical facility, where he will undergo treatment for no more than 4 months.

On the morning of June 9, a BMW X3 car exploded in Balashikha near Moscow. As a result, the driver died. This was reported by the Investigative Committee of Russia. According to investigators, the explosion occurred at about 5:30 near a residential building on Koldunova Street in the Aviatorov microdistrict. The driver received multiple injuries and died. His identity has not been officially revealed.

A line of vehicles waiting to refuel at a gas station in Russia’s Krasnodar Region. Photo: Viktor Bogomolov / Typical Krasnodar Доступно на русском Residents of Russia’s southern Krasnodar Region have begun reporting gasoline shortages at filling stations, with local media and Telegram channels saying problems with availability have been observed in the cities of Krasnodar and Anapa, and along highways leading toward the Black Sea coast.

Chinese leader Xi Jinping visited Pyongyang for the first time in seven years and held talks with Kim Jong-un. The parties agreed to deepen cooperation in trade, agriculture, construction and technology. At the official welcoming ceremony, Kim called the visit “visual evidence” of the inviolability of bilateral relations. Xi, in turn, called for strengthening “strategic cooperation” and jointly defending the sovereignty and security interests of both countries.

Available in English The first confirmation of information from the Armed Forces of Ukraine has appeared that the Russian military will begin to use civilian transport to supply fuel to or through Crimea. The Exilenova+ Telegram channel published a video showing the trunks of two cars filled with cans of gasoline. According to the people on the recording, they are transporting about a ton of fuel from Kizilyurt in Dagestan to occupied Tokmak in the Zaporozhye region.

The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court, Karim Khan, has been suspended pending an investigation into possible harassment on his part. As reported on the court’s website, this decision was made by the Bureau of the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute by a majority vote based on an investigation by the UN Office of Internal Oversight Services.

The Ministry of Digital Development of the Russian Federation and Roskomnadzor received guarantees from the Roblox platform of compliance with Russian legislation and have already appealed to law enforcement agencies with a request to unblock the game. This was reported by TASS with reference to the departments themselves. According to Bloomberg, the company's shares reacted with growth to this news.

The Georgian regime of Bidzina Ivanishvili was so imbued with its own propaganda about the foreign “deep state” that it began to see threats even in its immediate circle - the founder of the ruling Georgian Dream party does not trust anyone from his circle. Ex-President of Georgia Salome Zurabishvili stated this in an interview with The Insider.

Analysts with Frontelligence Insight had previously estimated that Russia could produce about 20 military Mi-8 helicopters a year at aircraft plants in Kazan and Ulan-Ude. However, according to the minutes of the Industry and Trade Ministry meeting, a much larger number is planned — all at a single plant.

On June 8, the US House of Representatives passed HR 7668, the Countering Chinese Control of the Caucasus Act. The document obliges the White House administration to prepare a detailed report on Russian and Chinese intelligence assets and influence networks operating in Georgia, on areas of cooperation between Moscow and Beijing within the country, and also to formulate the US strategy towards Tbilisi. The legislation was approved with bipartisan support on an expedited basis.

A criminal case was opened against the Armenian businessman and leader of the pro-Russian Prosperous Armenia party Gagik Tsarukyan. Today he was not allowed to leave Armenia through Yerevan Zvarnots airport. This is reported by the media and Telegram channels. The Ateo Breaking Telegram channel published a photo of Tsarukyan at the airport and wrote that he was prevented from flying out by law enforcement agencies due to a criminal case brought against him for tax evasion.

US President Donald Trump said that the Iranian military shot down an American AH-64 Apache helicopter patrolling the Strait of Hormuz, writes Reuters. According to Trump, the incident occurred on the night of June 8-9. Both crew members were not injured - they were discovered and evacuated by an unmanned surface ship of the US Navy. US Central Command said the helicopter crashed at around 3 a.m. local time.