Lokomotiv Moscow won the Russian Football Cup. In the final match, which took place in Astrakhan, the capital club defeated "Kuban" from Krasnodar. The main time of the match ended in a draw - 1:1, and in extra time Lokomotiv scored twice. The broadcast of the final was conducted by the TV channel "Russia 2". In the course of the match, Lokomotiv had to recoup - the first goal in the match was scored by Kuban football player Vladislav Ignatiev.

Sergei Udaltsov, sentenced to 4.5 years in prison in the case of organizing mass riots on Bolotnaya Square in Moscow in May 2012, was sent to the place of serving his sentence. This was reported to Interfax by Dmitry Agranovsky, the lawyer of Udaltsov's associate Leonid Razvozzhaev. Violetta Volkova, Udaltsov's lawyer, also confirmed the information about the transfer. “According to my information, he was transferred yesterday or today.

The artist Marina Abramovich, in an interview with Spike Art Quarterly, said she was never going to work with show business stars again because she had unpleasant experience in cooperation with American rapper Jay-Szi. In 2013, Jay-Ji shot Picasso Baby based on performance Abramovich “in the presence of an artist”, which she arranged in 2010 during her retrospective. As planned by Abramovich, every visitor to the exhibition could look in her eyes.

Studio Warner Bros. Published a trailer for the documentary “Batkid Begins” about five -year -old Miles Scott, a patient with leukemia, who became a superhero for the day. The film is dedicated to the events of November 15, 2013: then 25 thousand volunteers “turned” San Francisco into Gotham and allowed the boy to defeat crime and save the city. The documentary also tells how this story became viral and around the whole world.

Shot: The Silence of the Lambs A court has fined a Moscow psychiatric hospital for showing the 1991 American film The Silence of the Lambs to a group of mentally ill children. The amount of the fine remains unknown, but the law allows a maximum penalty of 50,000 rubles ($1,000). The hospital in question was recently at the center of another scandal, when photographs leaked showing some child patients tied to their beds.

The American corporation Cisco, which produces network equipment, supplied its products to Russian law enforcement agencies and special services in circumvention of sanctions. This conclusion was reached by BuzzFeed journalists, who conducted their own investigation into the company's activities. At the disposal of journalists, among other things, was the internal correspondence and documentation of the Russian representative office of the company.

Frame: 5 Channel Residents of a high-rise building in St. Petersburg are forced to listen to Chopin's funeral march every day from morning to evening. This is described in the plot of "Channel 5". According to tenants, classical music includes an entrepreneur who has a dispute with HOAs due to the basement. The businessman, apparently, decided to “punish” the chairman of the HOA with music-the latter lives directly above the basement from which Chopin is heard.

Report on the work of the investigation a year after the ban on abortion in the USSR Photo: Stopgulag.org The State Duma has submitted a bill on the ban on free abortion, as well as retail sale of drugs intended for artificial termination of pregnancy. A similar ban was in force in the USSR from 1936 to 1955. At that time, the Soviet Union flourished the business of underground abortions, which were carried out with the help of metal “buja”, spanks, poisons and plant seeds.

The Polish studio announced the game about the Russian submarine Kursk, which sank in 2000. It will be an action in the first person. When the game comes out, it is unknown. The studio plans to release it on PC, Mac, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. YouTube posts a teaser game. It is difficult to judge by it what gameplay will be. Jujubee Sa Kursk - Reveal Teaser - First Person Perspective Adventure & Survival Game by Jujubee! There are still questions about the fate of the submarine.

The Nagatinsky District Court of Moscow fined City Psychiatric Hospital No. 15 for showing underage patients the thriller The Silence of the Lambs. This was reported to Interfax by Yulia Sergeeva, adviser on information policy to the Commissioner for Children's Rights under the President of the Russian Federation.

Students and faculty at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) staged a protest today at a lecture by Nikolai Starikov, one of the leaders of the Anti-Maidan movement. Starikov and his group are well known for their fervent support of the separatists in eastern Ukraine and their intense campaign against Russia’s democratic opposition. Starikov came to RGGU to deliver a “briefing” about the West’s conspiracy against Russia and Ukraine.

Near the building of the Verkhovna Rada, foreign exchange borrowers on the evening of May 21 staged a brawl with the police. In addition, they set fire to about 10 tires. Judging by the live broadcast of TV channel 112, the burning has already stopped. During the day, protesters blocked Hrushevsky Street twice. They walked up and down the sidewalks. Activists also blow pipes and whistles. According to law enforcement officers, about 300 people gathered for the protest.

Pavel Fradkov, the youngest son of ex-Prime Minister Mikhail Fradkov, has been appointed to the post of Deputy Chief Executive Officer of the President of the Russian Federation. Prior to his appointment to this position, Fradkov Jr. had served as head of the Federal Property Management Agency since August 2012. Prior to that, Pavel Fradkov, who has been in the civil service since 2005, worked in the system of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Federal Security Service.

Patriarch Kirill said that if Russian singer Polina Gagarina wins Eurovision, the contest will come to Russia "with all these bearded singers." The head of the Russian Orthodox Church believes that these singers are imposing what is "disgusting to our soul and our culture." The patriarch noted that Russians need to promote national competitions and their culture. According to Cyril, lullabies, patriotic and spiritual songs should be supported.

‘Meduza’ interviews the author of Russia’s new law against ‘undesirable’ organizations Photo: Sergey Karpov / TASS On Tuesday, May 19, the Duma approved the third and final draft of legislation against “undesirable” organizations . The document allows the Attorney General along with the Foreign Ministry to declare any foreign organization—commercial or civil—to be “undesirable” within the Russian Federation.