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In the Krasnodar Territory, a bus with people fell into the sea , 18 people were killed . The bus was carrying workers to their shift, they were supposed to carry out repairs on the pier. But on the descent from the mountain, the brakes of the car failed, and the bus fell off the pier into the Kerch Strait. In total, there were more than 50 people on the bus, rescuers managed to lift it out of the water , 34 survivors were hospitalized.

In Chechnya, was killed a deputy of the republican parliament from the Communist Party . The IC report says that Makhmud Askhabov’s car was fired upon when he was driving from home to work, “which caused a traffic accident, as a result of which the deputy died.” The UK opened a murder and arms trafficking case.

Filming of Kirill Serebrennikov's film about Viktor Tsoi will be stopped . “The filming of the film “Summer” will be frozen immediately after the filming of technical scenes and scenes that the actors and the group managed to rehearse with the director and according to his notes,” said the producer of the film, Ilya Stewart. Meanwhile, the Gogol Center did not cancel the premiere of the play "Little Tragedies" staged by Serebrennikov, it will take place in September. And Serebrennikov's lawyers appealed against his house arrest.

Ivan Nepomnyashchikh left the colony after serving 2.5 years in the Bolotnaya case

Our correspondent Pavel Merzlikin spoke to him. about the beatings in the colony Ivan turned out to be an incredibly calm and reasonable person, he even talks without any special emotions. “There are approximately the same rules as in the whole country, the same relations between people. Everything happens the same as in the wild. The administration is not subject to the law, but to some of its own orders. There are people who are trying to fight this arbitrariness, the majority are indifferent, there are those who are sharply against those who complain about something. The same is true in Russia,” he says. Ivan does not regret that he went to Bolotnaya Square on May 6th.

Where are the Islamists in Surgut

Last Saturday, a young man in Surgut set fire to a shopping center and attacked passers-by with a knife and an axe. The Islamic State claimed responsibility for this, and according to unofficial information, acquaintances of the attacker are being arrested under terrorist articles, but the authorities still refuse to call the incident a terrorist attack. One way or another, many, including us, had a question: where, in fact, did the Islamic radicals and IS supporters come from in Surgut? We talked about this with Igor Bobrov , a man who for several years was involved in the “prevention of extremism” in the Tyumen region (which is part of the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug).

Bastrykin writes poetry about Navalny, Malakhov recalls his youth

Today, two materials have been released that have something subtly related. Firstly, it turned out that the head of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, Alexander Bastrykin, writes poetry under a pseudonym . Among them there are odes (for example, dedications to Mireille Mathieu), and there is satire - about a dozen poems about Alexei Navalny. Rhyming and images are very amateur (the author rhymes "Hodor" and "motor"), but it's impossible to break away. Readers did not appreciate Bastrykin's poetry, but in this way the head of the Investigative Committee managed to temporarily paralyze the work of the Anti-Corruption Foundation .

Secondly, Andrey Malakhov made his debut on the Rossiya channel and had an incredible broadcast with the participation of his predecessor Boris Korchevnikov. The presenters discussed each other and their way on television. Here is a brief (but atmospheric) retelling. A hedgehog in the fog, a song by the Lyube group and the relics of St. Matrona are included.

Two stories about the misconceptions of journalists

The news about the “first official travel agency of the DPRK” turned out to be fake. The NKOREAN travel agency, which many media outlets (including Meduza) wrote about the day before, turned out to be a Russian company that is not associated with North Korea, but simply received a license to organize tours to the DPRK. We apologize to our readers for the misinformation.

Our BBC colleagues wrote about an amazing person named Anatoly Aronov , who has been registering brands with crazy or deliberately defiant names for several years now and tells reporters about them. And they believe . On account of Aronov, the fictional cafes Zhirtrest, Siski-bar, the Ladoshka sperm bank, the LPR and DPR cafes in Moscow, as well as tours to Syria and the East of Ukraine. Admittedly, once we fell for this bait, writing about the Italian wine Dimon. Sorry again.

Two mirror "Top"

has been released The teaser trailer for the fourth season of Black Mirror . The season will have six episodes in total. Judging by the teaser, the action of one of the series will take place on a spaceship stylized as Star Trek. The season will be released before the end of 2017.

An iPhone was found in a 1937 painting. But there are versions that this is still not a gadget, but a mirror or a book. However, see for yourself .

Audio version of Vera Shengelia's text about people locked in PNI

We already (not without pride) reported that this report received the Editorial Board award, and now you can not only read it , but also listen to it . Inside, there are several rather scary stories at once, sometimes it’s hard to imagine that this is happening very close to us - outside the walls of neuropsychiatric boarding schools.

Good weekend! Your author of "Evening Medusa" Alexey Ponomarev