Ten police officers have been suspended from work as part of an investigation into possible abuse of power during the dispersal of protesters in Tbilisi, Rustavi 2 TV channel reported , citing Mamuka Chelidze, acting director of the Central Criminal Police Department of Georgia. The department added that signs of a criminal offense are being established against two law enforcement officers.

The number of viewers who watched the direct line with President Vladimir Putin in 2019 was 5.3 million people, according to data from Mediascope. This is the lowest figure since 2011, when the event, then called "A Conversation with Vladimir Putin," was watched by 4 million people. In 2012, the direct line was not held, and in 2013, the number of viewers was almost 6 million. The highest number of viewers was for Direct Line in 2015 – 8.3 million. After that, the figure began to fall.

Mexico has deployed about 15,000 troops along the northern border with the United States to stem the flow of migrants from Central America. The country's Defense Minister Luis Sandoval told reporters about this, reports . AFP Read on vedomosti.ru He noted that illegal border crossing is an administrative offense, not a crime. Therefore, illegal immigrants are detained and handed over to the authorities.

June 24, 2019, 10:23 pm / Business Exclusively by subscription The government will not renew the agreement on gasoline price control But this will not lead to higher fuel prices, officials and oil workers are sure Vitaly Petlevoy Elizaveta Bazanova Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti The government will not renew the agreement with oil companies to control gasoline prices. But this will not lead to higher fuel prices, officials and oil workers are sure.

Chairman of the Turkish Central Election Commission (CEC) Sadi Guven announced the victory of Ekrem Imamoglu, a representative of the opposition Nation Union Party, in the Istanbul mayoral elections, Anadolu News Agency reports . Imamoglu won the repeat municipal elections with 54.2% of the votes. His competitor, Binali Yildirim, a representative of the ruling Justice and Development Party, received 44.9% of the votes. According to Guven, the turnout in the elections was 84.5%.

President Vladimir Putin extended the food embargo until December 31, 2020; the corresponding decree was published on the official legal information portal. Russia banned the import of certain types of food products from the United States, the European Union, Australia, Canada and Norway in 2014 in response to sanctions over the annexation of Crimea. The embargo was later expanded to include a number of other countries that supported anti-Russian sanctions, including Ukraine.

June 24, 2019, 16:39 / Updated June 24, 2019, 23:12 / Business The obligations of the Tsvetnoy department store to Sberbank will be purchased by Bonum Capital The group submitted the only application for participation in the auction Natalya Ishchenko Irina Sinitsyna Evgeny Razumny / Vedomosti The only participant in the auction for which the rights of claim to the companies owning the Tsvetnoy department store were put up was Bonum Management, a representative of the Russian Auction House (RAD)

Mail.ru Group and Beeline have resolved a conflict in which the operator's users complained about the slowdown of the Internet company's services. The companies reported this on their VKontakte pages. The companies reached a compromise on the contentious issues, their reports noted. "Subscribers have full access to Mail.ru Group services," Beeline emphasized. They did not provide details on how the conflict was resolved. Vedomosti asked the companies for a comment.

The American legal organization Law Works has turned the report of the US special prosecutor Robert Mueller on Russian influence on the US elections into a ten-act play. The adapted text will be read and acted out on stage in New York by 20 actors, including Hollywood stars Sigourney Weaver (Alien), Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda) and Zachary Quinto (Star Trek). This was reported by Reuters and CNN .

June 24, 2019, 21:01 / Finance A minority shareholder of Vostochny Bank filed a claim against Avetisyan for 1.7 billion rubles undefined Vedomosti A minority shareholder of Vostochny Bank and a former employee of the Baring Vostok investment fund, Marina Ushakova, filed a lawsuit in the Arbitration Court of the Amur Region against the former co-owner of Uniastrum Bank Artem Avetisyan and the ex-chairman of the bank’s board Alla Tsytovich, according to the court’s website.

Journalist Roman Babayan became editor-in-chief of the radio station “Moscow Speaks” instead of the deceased Sergei Dorenko. Babayan reported this in his Telegram channel. “I accepted this offer and am grateful to those who believe in me,” the journalist said. According to him, Dorenko made this station the brightest radio station in the country, so accepting such a post after Dorenko is a separate challenge.

In Kazakhstan, 71 people were injured as a result of an explosion at an ammunition depot, the head of the national emergency medicine center Birzhan Ospanov said, Kazinform reports . Of these, 23 sought medical attention on their own, 48 were taken to clinics in Shymkent and Ordabasy. Another person was killed when a shell hit his car, the head of the Turkestan region, Umirzak Shukeyev, clarified during a briefing.

Finvision, through the court, achieved the right to vote 9.99% of the shares of Vostochny Bank, which it received when another shareholder of the bank, the Baring Vostok fund, exercised the option - also by court decision. Now Finvision and the bank’s friendly shareholders will be able to elect a majority on the board of directors. Read on vedomosti.ru Until June 19, Baring Vostok, through Evison, owned 51.6% of Vostochny, and Finvision – 32%.

The head of Ingushetia, Yunus-Bek Yevkurov, announced his intention to resign. His appeal was published on the republic’s website. Read on vedomosti.ru According to Yevkurov, the unity of the Ingush people is being tested for strength. He placed responsibility for this on the authorities, public and religious organizations.

Russia will have a strategy for military-technical cooperation. Its draft was discussed on Monday, June 24, by the commission on military-technical cooperation headed by the country's president, according to a report on the Kremlin website. There was no such document before, and its development is explained by the changed conditions for Russian arms exports after the introduction of sanctions, two federal officials say.