Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht was sentenced to life in prison. Ulbricht, 31, had previously said in court that he knew years of his life would be taken away from him, but asked to be allowed at least the rest of his life to live in freedom. In February 2015, the court found Ross Ulbricht guilty on seven counts related to drug trafficking on the Internet, money laundering and hacking. Ross Ulbricht was detained in October 2013 in a library in San Francisco.

Who is Joseph Blatter - the eternal president of FIFA Photo: Sebastien Bozon / AFP / Scanpix In FIFA-a loud corruption scandal: two vice presidents of the Federation and five more high-ranking officials were arrested. Against this background, Joseph Blatter was re -elected by the president of the federation. This is the fifth term of the 79-year-old sports functionary. During his reign, he managed to tame sports officials from poor countries who obediently vote for him in all elections.

The government of Ukraine proposed to President Petro Poroshenko to appoint former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili as governor of the Odessa region. This was announced by the deputy head of the administration of the Ukrainian President Valery Chaly. “There is such an idea from the cabinet of ministers to the president,” Chaly said. Interfax-Ukraine Earlier on May 29, Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine Igor Shevchenko announced the decision of the Ukrainian government.

Minister of Ecology and Natural Resources of Ukraine Igor Shevchenko announced the appointment of former Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili as governor of the Odessa region. An official statement on the appointment of Saakashvili has not yet been made. Another meritocrat has been appointed to a leadership position in Ukraine! Mikheil Saakashvili is the governor of the Odessa region!!! (Ukrainian). Igor Shevchenko Mikheil Saakashvili is an advisor to Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko.

Why were the director of Theater.doc called to the prosecutor's office: Elena Gremina's interview Photo: Sergey Avduevsky / Idr / TASS Moscow Theater.Doc lost a premises a second time in seven months. In mid -October 2014, with the theater, which occupied the premises in Trekh -Pre -Lane, terminated the lease; On May 28, the same thing happened - within a month the team should leave the new building on Spartakovskaya Street.

FIFA President Joseph Blatter has been re-elected for a fifth term. His rival in the election, Jordanian Prince Ali bin al-Hussein, withdrew his candidacy after the first round of voting. In the first round Blatter was supported by 133 national football associations. 73 associations voted for Ali bin al-Hussein. Since no candidate received two-thirds of the votes, FIFA was going to hold a second round, in which a simple majority is sufficient to win.

President of the International Football Federation (FIFA) Joseph Blatter failed to win in the first round in the election of the head of this organization. To be elected in the first round, it is necessary to receive two-thirds of the votes of the national football associations that are members of FIFA. In total, there are 209 such associations. According to the voting results, 206 ballots were recognized as valid.

The official newspaper of the Russian government has mistaken a satirical New Yorker article for a real news report.

Frame: Political Review / YouTube Oppositionist Alexei Navalny discovered the patriotic video “The answer of Russian youth to sanctions and restrictions”, in which a group of young people and girls without outerwear plays sports in the winter forest. The heroes of the video, in particular, exercise on wooden shells and train to beat tires.

Oleg Grishin, a spokesman for the Russian embassy in Kyiv, denied reports that Russian consul Aleksey Gruby had called Russians Yevgeny Erofeev and Aleksandr Aleksandrov detained in Donbass as mercenaries. The words of the consul were conveyed by the lawyer Konstantin Kravchuk, representing the interests of Alexandrov. “This was stated by the lawyer, but he can say a lot of things, his job is to convince someone of something.

The US State Department has removed Cuba from the list of countries that support terrorism. State Department spokesman Jeff Rathke said that the United States and Cuba still have significant disagreements on a number of issues, but these disagreements do not concern the criteria by which the US administration classifies states as sponsors of terrorism. The list of countries sponsoring terrorism now includes only Iran, Syria and Sudan (English).

Traffic police in Yekaterinburg have launched a criminal case against Alexander “the Surgeon” Zaldostanov, the leader of the biker gang “the Night Wolves.” In recent years, Zaldostanov’s group has become internationally famous for hosting “patriotic” events, winning millions of dollars in state contracts, and participating in Russia’s “anti-Maidan,” pro-Putin political movement.

The Moscow Mayor's Office agreed to hold a rally of scientists in defense of the Dynasty Foundation. This was announced by Vasily Oleinik, Deputy Head of the Moscow Regional Security Department. Oleinik said that the organizers of the event were offered Suvorovskaya Square as a venue for the action. The mayor's office, he added, is ready to coordinate the rally with the number of participants up to two thousand people.

Russian police have reportedly charged a prominent and controversial gay-rights activist with insulting two members of parliament. Nikolai Alexeev says he was called in for questioning today by federal investigators, who informed him that he’s being accused of illegally offending two Duma deputies, Elena Mizulina and Olga Batalina. If convicted, he could be sentenced to as many as 12 months of corrective labor. Alexeev says police released him on his own recognizance.

The Yandex company believes that the draft law “on the right to be forgotten” prepared in the State Duma violates the constitutional right of citizens to search, access and receive information. This is stated in a comment from Yandex received by Meduza. If the law is adopted, Yandex pointed out, access to a large array of socially significant information may be difficult.