The Ministry of Culture revoked the rental certificate for the online screening of Paul Verhoeven's film Temptation about lesbian nuns and fired an employee of the cinematography department who "was negligent in issuing the rental certificate." This was announced by Minister of Culture Olga Lyubimova.

The New Tretyakov Gallery has prematurely closed the solo exhibition of artist Grisha Bruskin, “Change of Scenery,” which was supposed to run until July 24, 2022, the Art Guide publication reports . The announcement of the exhibition has been removed from the website of the State Tretyakov Gallery.

The Ministry of Defense has proposed allowing military registration and enlistment office employees to issue special certificates to relatives of military personnel killed in Ukraine. This is reported on the federal portal of draft regulatory legal acts. The document was brought to the attention of the BBC Russian Service. Currently, officials from local administrations are in charge of processing and issuing such certificates.

Ukrainian Red Cross volunteers Vladimir Khropun and Yulia Ivannikova-Katsemon told Reuters that they were detained at the end of March in the Kiev region and forcibly taken to Russia. Khropun was captured on March 18, Ivannikova-Katsemon the next day. Both helped evacuate villagers in northern Ukraine and were accused by the Russian military of passing information to the enemy, they said.

The American automaker General Motors (GM) has decided to finally leave Russia, reports , citing three market sources. Kommersant “ GM is dismissing employees of the Russian office, and dealers have been sent a notice to stop the supply of cars and spare parts,” the newspaper writes. In 2015, General Motors stopped production in Russia after the annexation of Crimea and supplied only expensive Chevrolet and Cadillac models . due to the invasion of Ukraine .

Tinkoff Bank in its official telegram channel commented on the post of the bank’s founder Oleg Tinkov criticizing the Russian army and calling to stop the war in Ukraine. “Oleg Tinkov has not been a decision-maker in Tinkoff Group companies for many years, he is not an employee of Tinkoff, has not been in Russia for a long time and has been dealing with issues of his health in recent years,” the message says. “Oleg Tinkov is one of our 20 million clients.

The Investigative Committee opened a criminal case for desecration of the symbol of military glory of Russia (Part 4 of Article 354.1 of the Criminal Code) against a foreign woman for “indecent dance” against the backdrop of the Eternal Flame in Khanty-Mansiysk. This was reported on the website of the department's district administration. Ural Mash wrote that a 21-year-old student from Zambia, Rebecca Ziba, is involved in the case.

St. Petersburg State University dismissed Associate Professor Danila Raskov from position his acting . Dean of the Faculty of Liberal Arts. This is stated on the university website. The reasons for the decision are not given. At the same time, the first vice-rector of St.

The Southern District Military Court in Rostov-on-Don sentenced children's coach and Crimean Tatar activist Emil Ziyadinov to 17 years in prison in the Hizb ut-Tahrir case. Interfax was informed about this by the press service of the court. He will serve the first four years of his sentence in prison, and the rest in a maximum security colony.

The Bataysk City Court of the Rostov Region sentenced policeman Filipp Mamonov to three years in a general regime colony in the case of beating a detainee. this . reported The press service of the court Mamonov, who headed the criminal investigation department of the Department of Internal Affairs in Bataysk, was found guilty of abuse of power (clause “a” of part 3 of article 286 of the Criminal Code).

The presidential administration prohibited Yandex from selling to VK its “News” and “Zen” services this to the Moscow Times manager reported . Two unnamed Yandex managers and one VK newspaper . “The information is not true. We have not received any prohibitions from anyone on the sale of our services,” the commented on the publication.

A criminal case was opened against Kemerovo blogger and ex-candidate for the State Duma Vladislav Chernov due to a post on Instagram. This was reported by Network Freedom. Chernov is suspected of inciting hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity (Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code). According to the decision to initiate the case, the reason was the video “When lies are built into the system, dark times come for everyone without exception,” published on Instagram.

Banker Oleg Tinkov on Instagram called the invasion of Ukraine a “crazy war” that has “not a single beneficiary.” “Innocent people and soldiers are dying 🥲. The generals woke up with a hangover and realized that they had a shitty army. How will the army be good if everything else in the country is crap and mired in servility, servility and servility?” - writes the billionaire.

Chairman of the Investigative Committee Alexander Bastrykin ordered to check a post on social networks about USSR Marshal Georgy Zhukov, about which the State Historical Museum (GIM) complained. This is stated on the department's website. The post was posted on April 6 on the page of an unnamed user.

Deputy Chairman of the Synodal Department for Relations of the Church with Society and the Media Vakhtang Kipshidze commented on on the shelves in the Kurgan region. the radio station “Moscow Speaks” on the appearance of Easter cakes with the letter Z According to him, baked goods without traditional Easter symbols “cannot be considered Easter cakes.” “I think it does not involve the consecration of such festive items,” Kipshidze said.