The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov, allowed the head of the Nozhai-Yurtovsky District Department of Internal Affairs, Nazhud Guchigov, to take a 17-year-old schoolgirl as his second wife. According to Novaya Gazeta, Kadyrov said on local television that he had instructed to ask if the girl's parents agreed to the wedding, and found out that they had no objections. Whether the opinion of the girl herself was asked, the head of Chechnya did not specify.

The head coach of Russia’s national soccer team, Fabio Capello, says he is “deeply troubled by the impropriety and wild remarks” by Russian Soccer Union President Nikolai Tolstykh, who said it would be ill-timed to discuss raising Capello’s salary ahead of the Victory Day celebrations. “My father spent more than a year in a concentration camp and came out after the war weighing just 48 kilograms [105 pounds]! So, please, Mr. Union President, don’t lecture me about the May 9 holiday.

The head of Russian Railways, Vladimir Yakunin, said that his salary ranges from 4.5 to 5.5 million rubles per month. According to him, the final amount depends “on business trips and other indicators.” Yakunin did not say whether he is entitled to bonuses at the end of the year, as is customary in large companies. As the head of Russian Railways stated, he decided to talk about his salary because he was tired of speculation on this matter.

Anonymous International (Humpty Dumpty) has published letters that allegedly contain reports from Vladimir Putin's dinners with top officials from other countries. The reports convey not only the set of dishes served, but also the content of the conversations. The letters are dated 2010-2013. The correspondence contains stories about Vladimir Putin's meetings with Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Finnish President Tarja Halonen and other politicians.

The current crew aboard the International Space Station will return to Earth roughly a month later than planned, following the accident with ISS Progress 59 , the unpiloted Russian spacecraft that went haywire and disintegrated over the Pacific Ocean on May 7. According to a source in Russia’s space industry, the three ISS members are now expected to return on June 11, not May 14.

Apple has patented the principle of organizing a social network. The company proposed the following method: social groups will be created automatically based on information collected from the user's iPhone. The Company collects user search history, browsing history, application installation and launch information, and location information. For example, Apple may find that a person is constantly looking for something about bicycles and uses an application that counts calories.

Photo: MCST Russia’s commitment to “import substitution” has helped domestic computer manufacturers achieve a new feat: the first-ever personal computer built with a Russian processor. The machine, named the ARM Elbrus-401 , first went on sale on May 5 for the low price of 200,000 rubles (about $4,000). ARM (Russian: АРМ) stands for “automated workplace”.

Shot: Complex / YouTube The journalist of the Complex publication Sean Evans tried one day to eat like a duine Johnson, nicknamed the rock - that is, to survive seven full meals. Half of Johnson's diet includes fish that Evans cannot stand, and this only complicated his experiment. Complex The Rock Diet Plan Attempted by a Real Person Spoiler: A simple mortal failed with Dwin Johnson’s diet, despite attempts to burn more food eaten with the help of physical exertion.

Retelling of the case, which ended in a five -year period for the main accused Photo: Sergey Fadeichv / TASS / Vida Press Evgenia Vasilieva is one of the most striking defendants in recent history. “Amazon Serdyukov”, a poet, a collector, owner of a jewelry salon, a star of “yellow” media and at the same time a fraudster who caused the state for hundreds of millions of rubles.

Mouse, diaries, underground, psychosis and war - in the review of Galina Yuzefovich A weekly literary critic Galina Yuzefovich tells at Medusa about interesting and important books published in Russia.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation ordered expertise in the case of Evgenia Vasilyeva from incompetent specialists, and therefore it was not possible to establish the real amount of damage. This was stated by the judge of the Presnensky Court of Moscow, Tatyana Vasyuchenko, who considered the case of Oboronservis. In a private ruling, the judge emphasized that the Investigative Committee of Russia paid more than 4 million rubles for the examination.

How Moscow prepared for May 9: photo gallery Photo: Andrey Lyubimov / "Medusa" The 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War is celebrated as the main holiday of the year. Georgian ribbons, which until 2005 rarely could have been found, are now everywhere - on clothes, cars, even on dogs. In the colors of the St. George tape, shops, cars and anything you want.

A judge has sentenced Evgeniya Vasilyeva to five years in prison, ignoring prosecutors’ request to give the former high-ranking Defense Ministry official an 8-year suspended sentence. Vasilyeva was recently convicted of real estate fraud that cost the government roughly 3 billion rubles (about $60 million) in damages. Vasilyeva was taken into police custody in court, immediately after sentencing. Another four suspects in the case received similar prison sentences.

How a Russian engineer became a NASA developer Photo: Final Frontier Design By 2017, SpaceX and Boeing are planning to be the first private companies sending tourists to space. The US, China and India expand their space programs, their plans also include flying to Mars. Final Frontier Design intends to help them with this, a tiny company of four and an office in Brooklyn.

The official website of Chechnya’s head, Ramzan Kadyrov, has published a condemnation of Mikhail Khodorkovsky by the republic’s Civic Chamber, a state oversight committee that accuses the former oligarch of libel and “ideological subversion,” citing his interview with this website, Meduza , published earlier this week .