On Wednesday, June 13, a vandal defaced Pablo Picasso's "Woman in a Red Armchair," which hung in the Menil Collection. According to Artinfo, the man, using a stencil, left on the painting an image of a bull and the inscription Conquista ("conquest, conquest"). The act of vandalism was filmed on the phone by one of the museum visitors, who then posted the video on YouTube.

Italian prosecutors on Monday, June 18, asked to sentence former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi to three years and eight months in prison in the case of financial fraud of the Mediaset holding, of which he is the founder, reports Reuters . The prosecution also demanded that the chairman of the Mediaset holding, Fedele Confalonieri, be sentenced to four years in prison.

In the United States, the NewsDiffs website has appeared, which allows you to track all changes made to online news articles. The site, created during the Knight Mozilla MIT programmers' workshop, opened on June 17. For now, NewsDiffs only tracks changes in articles that have appeared on The New York Times and CNN websites since the night of June 17.

The Japanese company JATCO is considering the possibility of producing its automatic transmissions in Russia if Lada Granta cars equipped with them sell well. reports this Interfax with reference to the company's president, Takashi Hata. The start of sales of the Granta budget sedan with automatic transmission is scheduled for August 2012. Every year AvtoVAZ plans to produce about 80 thousand Granta cars with automatic transmission.

The National Bank of Denmark placed bonds maturing in 2014 at a negative yield. Bloomberg reports this. The Central Bank sold bonds worth DKK 3.35 billion ($567 million) with a yield of minus 0.08 percent per annum. A negative interest rate means that demand for securities is high, and investors are willing to pay the government to invest in its debt obligations. bonds with a negative yield In January of this year, for the first time in history, the German government issued .

Sharp introduced a 90-inch Aquos TV with LED backlight. It is the world's largest TV of its type, reports PCMag.com. The TV is capable of displaying images in 1080p resolution. The refresh rate is 120 hertz. The TV comes with two pairs of glasses for viewing 3D images. The TV has a Wi-Fi module, and several applications for working on the Internet are preinstalled in the device’s memory, including a browser and Skype and YouTube clients.

The Russian Ministry of Finance has abandoned the idea of ​​raising the retirement age. stated this in an interview with The Financial Times The head of the department, Anton Siluanov, . He noted that the reform of the pension system in the Russian Federation will take place, but such a measure as raising the retirement age will not be adopted as part of it.

In Yaroslavl, a traffic police officer used his service weapon, resulting in the death of a 26-year-old Mazda driver. This was reported on the website of the regional department of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on June 19. According to the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper, the deceased is the only son of the judge of the Zavolzhsky district of Yaroslavl Lyudmila Dobrovolskaya. The incident occurred at approximately four o'clock in the morning on June 19.

Italian Ettori Messina has become the new head coach of the Moscow basketball club CSKA. The official website of the army team reports this. Messina already led CSKA in 2005-2009. Then the team under his leadership won the Euroleague twice - in 2006 and 2009. Also, the army team, led by the Italian, became champions of Russia four times and won the national cup twice.

Senator John Kerry will help US President Barack Obama prepare for a debate with former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney , who is seeking the presidential nomination. This was reported by The Washington Post. Kerry is considered one of the leading speakers in the US Democratic Party. As a presidential candidate in 2004, he often received applause during his speeches. In addition, as a senator from Massachusetts, he is well acquainted with Romney's performance as governor of that state.

The London district of Croydon (south of the British capital) was forced to rewrite guides to local attractions and a number of official documents due to a historical error. According to The Daily Telegraph, they had to exclude information that the famous poet George Byron was born in Croydon. The district council took this step after it became clear that Byron was not born in south London, but in the north, in the Marylebone area.

The results of the first Eurasian award in the field of production and packaging design Part Awards in the category “Design of the Year” have been announced. The winners can be seen on the What The Pack? The main winner was the Kian agency, which received awards in three categories at once: “Soft Drink” for the design of a bottle of Noringa mineral water, “Desserts and Snacks” for the packaging of Fluida sweets, and in the “Concept” category for the innovative packaging of an egg.

Kazakh border guards who disappeared on the morning of June 18 from the Tersairyk border post were found 18 kilometers from the place of duty. reports this Tengri News with reference to a message from the National Security Committee of Kazakhstan (KNB).

In Perm, the performance of “Citizen Poet”, which was supposed to take place on Tuesday, June 19, as part of the “White Nights in Perm” festival, was canceled . wrote about this in his LiveJournal blog Curator and director of the Museum of Contemporary Art PERMM Marat Gelman . According to Gelman, the new Perm authorities decided that the city did not need the project of Mikhail Efremov and Dmitry Bykov , and the Perm Regional Philharmonic, which had money for the project, listened.

Let’s admit it, we didn’t expect this after all. And if they waited with some apprehension, they attributed such expectations to a complex that had accumulated over the years... As it was said in Kirill Serebrennikov’s film “Playing the Victim”, for 26 years, ahem... this football team has let me down.