Spotlight

The former French President praised Putin’s leadership and called for Europe to work “hand in hand” with Russia.

The Russian Federation Council approved a law restricting news aggregators which provides for heavy fines if material inciting terrorism, promoting pornography or cruelty or containing swear language is published.

Ukraine reports 58 attacks yesterday.

Yuriy Soloshenko and Hennadiy Afanasyev are expected to arrive in Kiev shortly.

Moscow police detained two people who had come to the US Embassy in Moscow to lay flowers in an expression of their condolences over the terrorist killing of 49 people in Orlando.

A French prosecutor says Russian hooligans were behind the violent clashes between English and Russian soccer fans in Marseilles on June 10.

At least 4 volunteer fighters were killed and 12 wounded.

Under heavy police presence, the gay parade today in Kiev proceeded without major incident, although some 50 arrests were made of some unruly counter-demonstrators.

An 11-year-old Ukrainian boy was struck in the leg today from gunfire in the town of Avdeyevka.

Parnas opposition party candidate Pivovarov was sentenced to a fine of $23,135, and his co-defendant policeman Niknorov was sentenced to 3 years and 9 months of standard-regimen labor camp.