Physics, biologists, mathematicians and philologists - about the possible closure of the Dynasty Foundation Photo: George Spikels / PhotoxPress On May 25, the Ministry of Justice was introduced by Dmitry Zimin's charity fund “Dynasty” in the list of “foreign agents”. The next day, Zimin said that he was stopping his financing, and Medusa said that he was “going deep underground”.

At the bottom of the Black Sea in the Crimea near Sevastopol, a Byzantine merchant ship was found with hundreds of whole amphoras on board. Presumably it transported oils and wines. The ship, about 125 meters long, was discovered by members of the Rostov-dive deep-sea research club at a depth of 82 meters.

Photo: @kadyrov_95 / Instagram Ramzan Kadyrov, the eccentric ruler of Chechnya, has released a preview of what he says is an action movie titled He Who Doesn’t Understand Will Understand Soon .

German Chancellor Angela Merkel has topped the Forbes list of the most powerful women in the world for the fifth time in a row. US presidential candidate, former senator and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton took second place in the rating. The wife of former US President Bill Clinton has been included in the ranking of the most powerful women in the world every year since its inception in 2004; a year earlier, she was in 6th place.

A representative of the Russian embassy was able to meet with Russians Yevgeny Erofeev and Alexander Alexandrov, who were detained in Donbass in mid-May on suspicion of terrorism. The embassy notes that the consul called their condition normal, but did not disclose any other details about the meeting. “The Russian consul has just visited (Evgeny - IF) Erofeev and (Alexander - IF) Alexandrov. They feel generally fine.

The head of the Moscow Helsinki Group, Lyudmila Alekseeva, was included in the Presidential Council for Human Rights by decree of Russian President Vladimir Putin. The decree appointing the 87-year-old human rights activist to the Human Rights Council comes into force on 26 May. According to Alekseeva, in the HRC she will concentrate on working with non-profit organizations.

Two billion rubles have been allocated from the federal budget of Russia for the restoration of architectural monuments in Crimea. This was told by the Minister of Culture of the Republic Arina Novoselskaya. The money will be directed to the restoration and reconstruction of palaces - to the Swallow's Nest, Livadia, Vorontsovsky, Massandra, Bakhchisaray palaces and other monuments.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during a closed meeting with business representatives, answered a question about assigning the status of a foreign agent to Dmitry Zimin’s Dynasty Foundation. Several participants in the meeting reported this to RBC on condition of anonymity. The head of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs, Alexander Shokhin, asked Putin about Dynasty.

Russian senators have proposed shortening the Friday workday exclusively for women. According to Valery Ryazansky, the chairman of the Federation Council’s committee on social policy, Russian lawmakers are prepared to consider making such a recommendation to local governments, pending a request from Russia’s Civic Chamber. Vladimir Slepak, a committee chairman in the Civic Chamber, has said he supports the initiative, promising to petition lawmakers soon with a formal proposal.

What's the bad blood between the world's biggest social network and Russia's most prominent opposition figures? Photo: Dado Ruvic / Reuters / Scanpix Ever since December 2014, when Facebook partially conceded to Moscow's demands that it censor an event page advertising a political protest outside the Kremlin, the world's largest social network has been viewed with growing suspicion when it comes to free speech in Russia.

‘Meduza’ interviews a prominent ISIL imam based in Berlin Photo: Welayat Salahuddin / AFP / Scanpix Despite airstrikes from an international coalition, the terrorist group known as ISIL (the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant) is still gaining strength. ISIL fighters recently seized the cities of Palmyra in Syria and Ramadi in Iraq. Many of the militants are recruited from Europe. From time to time, recruiters are arrested.

The Russian Orthodox Church proposes to include the subject "Moral Foundations of Family Life" in the curriculum for senior secondary school students. This was stated by Archpriest Dimitry Smirnov, Chairman of the Patriarchal Commission for Family Affairs, Protection of Motherhood and Childhood.

St. Petersburg State University named after Pavlov paid 15 million moral damages to patient Irina Razina, who suffered from the actions of doctors during childbirth. This is stated in the message of the lawyer Lyubov Duiko, received by the editors of Meduza. The compensation was the largest ever paid to patients who suffered from a medical error in Russia. Irina Razina sued Academician Pavlov St. Petersburg State Medical University in 2012.

Rostrud proposed to introduce a mandatory fee for citizens who do not have an official job, are not registered as unemployed and do not belong to privileged categories, such as pensioners and students. This collection, according to the plan of the federal service, will become a way to combat illegal employment. The amount of the fee has not yet been determined.

Lithuanian citizen Arstidas Tamosaitis has been formally charged in Russia with espionage, said his lawyer Anatoly Abritsov. Earlier, Tamoshaitis's defense appealed against the decision to place him under arrest, reports . RAPSI “My client has been charged under Article 276 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (espionage – IF),” Abritsov told Interfax on Tuesday. Interfax The detention of Lithuanian citizen Arstidas Tamoshaitis became known on May 20.