Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, accused of committing a terrorist attack at the Boston Marathon, was sentenced to death. The jury reached that verdict unanimously. Earlier, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was found guilty on all 30 counts, 17 of which carry the death penalty. The prosecution demanded that Tsarnaev be sentenced to death; The defense insisted that the defendant deserved leniency because he acted at the urging of his older brother. The Boston Marathon bombing took place on April 15, 2013.

Books about things and materials - in the review of Galina Yuzefovich Every week, the literary critic Galina Yuzefovich tells at Medusa about the most interesting book novelties published in Russia. In the current review, the historical books were found: “Soviet everyday life: norms and anomalies. From military communism to the great style "Natalia Lebin," Storage camera "Alexander Kabakov," Paper. About the most fragile and eternal material ”Ian Sensom.

The governor of the Kostroma region, Sergei Sitnikov, resigned early in order to take part in the election of the head of the region in September 2015. Russian President Vladimir Putin accepted Sitnikov's resignation and appointed him as acting governor. Sitnikov became the fifth governor to resign early in the last four days.

‘Meduza' collects photos of one of the oldest, busiest subway systems in the world Photo: Jon Hicks / Corbis / Vida Press This year, the Moscow metro is 80-years-old. With more riders than almost anywhere in the world today, Moscow's subway system is one of the Soviet Union's greatest lasting achievements. When it opened in 1935, the metro had a single 11-kilometer (6.8-mile) line and just 13 stations.

The Investigative Committee of Russia opened a criminal case in connection with the beating of a 78-year-old pensioner in polyclinic No. 100 of the Nevsky district of St. Petersburg. The case was opened under the article "abuse of official powers with the use of violence." According to the case file, on May 12, the pensioner came to the polyclinic and tried to take her outpatient card without the permission of the employees.

The Sverdlovsk Regional Court overturned the decision of a lower court that ruled to block seven bitcoin websites. Several sites were on the list of banned sites by the decision of the Nevyansk City Court of the Sverdlovsk Region dated September 30, 2014. Roskomnadzor added them to the registry in January 2015. The list of blocked resources included, in particular, the Russian community BTCsec.com, bitcoin.org (the site is supported by the Bitcoin Foundation) and others.

What the entrepreneur did for seven thousand kilometers from Moscow Photo: AFP / Scanpix Sergey Polonsky was arrested in Cambodia - one of the most eccentric billionaires of the zero. Polonsky made a gigantic state at the construction boom, said (supposedly) the famous “who does not have a billion, he goes to the ass,” went bankrupt, moved to Cambodia - and, finally, he was awarded a huge article on Lurke.

In Naples, a man armed with a shotgun shot his wife dead in his home, and then opened fire on passers-by from the balcony. The culprit was 48-year-old nurse Giulio Murolo. He shot four people and wounded five more before surrendering to police. Among those killed was a policeman who lived next door to Murolo and was the first to try to stop the criminal. Murolo threatened to blow up the house - they found cans of gasoline on him.

Sergei Galitsky, the founder of the Magnit supermarket chain, has been included in the list of candidates for the VTB Supervisory Board. The annual meeting of shareholders, which will elect the composition of the new supervisory board, will be held on June 25. Sergei Galitsky started doing business in 1994. He opened his first Magnit store in 1998. By 2015, his network became the largest in Russia. The businessman controls 40 percent of the company's shares.

An artist in Latvia has erected a statue in the inner courtyard of Riga’s former KGB headquarters depicting a crucified Vladimir Putin. Passersby are invited to hammer a nail into the Putin dummy. According to the local news media, the creator of the exhibit wishes to remain anonymous. Dmitry Peskov, Putin’s spokesman, told reporters today that he hasn’t seen the statue, but said, “This is bad. This is on the conscience of whoever did this.

The mayor of Riga, Nil Ushakov, said that the installation of the art composition "crucified Putin" indicates drug use. “Looking at the exhibition, you understand that you can still buy spice somewhere in Riga,” he wrote on Facebook. According to Ushakov, the organizers of the exhibition, in which the figure of the Russian president was installed, are not required to coordinate their actions with the city authorities. "Art to the masses, money to the box office"...

The State Duma of the Russian Federation adopted in the second reading a draft law on undesirable foreign and international organizations. The relevant list will include organizations whose activities may pose a threat to the constitutional order, defense or security of the state. The list will be compiled by the Prosecutor General's Office in agreement with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

The State Duma adopted in the third, final reading a bill obliging members of the government to provide information about their expenses, as well as about the expenses of spouses and minor children for each transaction for the acquisition of land, real estate, vehicles, securities, shares.

The crew of the International Space Station suffered from a Russian food embargo imposed in response to Western sanctions in 2014. This is stated in the report of the Energia Rocket and Space Corporation. The embargo applies to products that must be delivered from the US to the ISS by Russian ships. The imposition of sanctions affects the fulfillment by the corporation of contractual obligations to provide food for the ISS crew.

Vadim Pokrovsky, the head the Russian Federal AIDS Center, announced today that Russia’s HIV epidemic has become a national security threat. Pokrovsky says 933,000 Russians have been infected with the disease since 1987. As many as 192,000 of these people have died, according to data from Rospotrebnadzor, a state monitoring agency. “In our country, there are 300 new cases of infection every day. I think we’ll get our millionth officially recorded case of HIV infection by the end of the year.