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May 11th. The Duma proposed to imprison for compliance with anti-Russian sanctions

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Duma deputies want to introduce criminal penalties for compliance with anti-Russian sanctions - the Criminal Code can be supplemented with an article that provides for up to four years in prison for this. For a period of up to three years, parliamentarians propose to imprison those who provide other states with information that "led or could lead" to the introduction of restrictive measures.

The Ministry of Education and Science will be divided into two departments - the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Science. The latter will be assigned the functions of the Federal Agency for Scientific Organizations, which will be liquidated. The sphere of education in the new structure will probably continue to be supervised by Olga Vasilyeva, and her current deputy, Grigory Trubnikov, will be in charge of science.

was removed from the bill on retaliatory sanctions against Russia against the United States The ban on the import of medicines , as well as food, tobacco and alcohol, . At the same time, in fact, the absence of a mention of these goods in the new version of the document does not change anything - the draft law still contains a wording that allows you to prohibit the import of any goods into Russia, with the exception of vital ones.

In Omsk again froze the construction of the subway

The authorities of the Omsk region have decided to freeze the construction of the subway in Omsk. The metro has been built in the city since the early 1990s: its launch was postponed several times, and construction was repeatedly stopped due to lack of funding, but then resumed again.

Now in Omsk only one station has been fully built, which has been used as an underground passage for seven years. In order to freeze the construction, 480 million rubles are needed - at the same time, the authorities do not exclude that it will be cheaper to complete one of the stations under construction.

Aleksey Malobrodsky remains in the hospital in handcuffs

The former general director of the Gogol Center, Alexei Malobrodsky, who, after a court hearing on May 10, was hospitalized with a suspected heart attack, continues to remain in serious condition in intensive care. In the morning, the head of the HRC, Mikhail Fedotov , said that Malobrodsky was no longer handcuffed to the bed after Fedotov’s conversation with the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow, but after a few hours, employees of the Federal Penitentiary Service, referring to job descriptions, handcuffed the accused again . Now the issue of his transfer back to the pre-trial detention center is being decided.

The actor who played Viktor Tsoi listened to the songs "Kino" for the first time

After the premiere of Kirill Serebrennikov's film "Summer" in Cannes, journalists invited the actor Theo Yu, who played the role of Viktor Tsoi, to listen to the songs of "Kino" and share his impressions. While working on the tape, Theo Yu did not specifically get acquainted with Tsoi's work after 1983, since the plot develops in the film in the early 1980s.

The second main character of "Summer" is the leader of the "Zoo" Mike Naumenko (in the film he was played by Roma the Beast). In this regard, we made a difficult test on the knowledge of Mike's songs.

What else

• The former head of the Russian Pastafarian Church said that the staff of the military registration and enlistment office arbitrarily replaced his photo in the registration certificate. He handed over a document with a photo with a colander on his head to the military registration and enlistment office, and received it back with another - already without a colander.
• Boston Dynamics has released a new video of the upright Atlas robot. He runs around the park and even jumps over a log!
• One of the main indie bands in the world, Arctic Monkeys, has released a new album for the first time in five years, called Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino. Listen to it right now.

Grigory Levchenko