Four-time world champion in swimming Yulia Efimova passed a positive doping test for meldonium. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source in the All-Russian Swimming Federation. The sample from Efimova was taken in the out-of-competition period. Since the athlete has already served a disqualification for doping, if doping is confirmed, she faces a life ban, writes .

Remember how in Back to the Future 2, Marty McFly went to the future and got sneakers that lace up on their own? Nike has finally introduced the real version of such sneakers. NikeNike HyperAdapt 1.0 The Nike Hyperadapt 1.0 was created by designer Tinker Hatfield and Nike Senior Innovator Tiffany Beers. According to Beers, the laces tighten automatically when a person's heel touches a special sensor. There are two buttons on the side of the shoe that allow you to tighten or loosen the lacing.

Former Brazilian President Luis Lula da Silva, who was charged with money laundering on March 10, has been appointed chief of staff of incumbent President Dilma Rousseff. The appointment of da Silva will make it difficult to investigate him, since the prosecution of a member of the government is possible only with the approval of the Supreme Court, according to the Associated Press.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of Chechnya is conducting a check on the statement of the head of the "Committee for the Prevention of Torture" Igor Kalyapin about the attack on him in Grozny. Apti Alaudinov, Acting Interior Minister of Chechnya, told Interfax about this. “It has been previously established that several young people threw cakes and eggs at I. Kalyapin,” he said.

Commissioner for Human Rights in Chechnya Nurdi Nukhazhiev turned to the local department of the RF Investigative Committee with a request to open a criminal case under the article "Slander" against the correspondent of "Novaya Gazeta" Elena Milashina. This is reported by Grozny-inform.

What historians say about the resignation of the head of the state head Sergey Mironenko Photo: Alexander Nikolaev / Interpress / TASS On March 16, it became known that Sergei Mironenko left the post of director of the State Archive of the Russian Federation, which he occupied for almost 25 years. Mironenko will remain the supervisor of Garf, but his deputy Larisa Rogovaya will now lead the archive.

Igor Kalyapin, the head of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, was attacked today in Grozny, according to one of his colleagues, Dmitry Utukin. Kalyapin was reportedly beat up and pelted with eggs outside the “Grozny-City” hotel. Immediately beforehand, Utukin says the hotel manager and several armed police officers came to Kalyapin's room and evicted him from the hotel. As he was exiting the building, Kalyapin was attacked.

Moscow city officials have ordered the takedown of advertisements featuring fragments of a picture by the 15th century Dutch painter Hieronymus Bosch, arguing that the artwork is “morally unacceptable.” Moscow's ARTPLAY Design Center is opening a new exhibit to Bosch on March 19. According the radio station Govorit Moskva , ARTPLAY's advertisements featuring Bosch's work started being dismantled without any warning earlier this week.

In Grozny, the head of the Committee for the Prevention of Torture, a member of the Presidential Council for Human Rights, Igor Kalyapin, was attacked. As Dmitry Utukin, an employee of this organization, said , the attack took place near the Grozny City Hotel. Kalyapin was beaten and pelted with eggs. As Mediazona notes , judging by the photographs, they threw a cake at Kalyapin and doused him with brilliant green.

has begun on the Internet Fundraising for Bashir Pliyev, the driver of a minibus burned in Ingushetia during an attack on journalists and human rights activists. Pliev suffered more than others as a result of the attack - he was diagnosed with a concussion, broken arms, legs and ribs. Money is collected for a new minibus for Pliev and to help his family.

Philologist Andrei Rossomakhin about the emergence of a "Russian bear" From the Assembly of State Hermitage George Krukshenk. “The Boni’s baby bursts for the last time” (fragment), January 1, 1813. This colorful sheet is a digest of the events of 1812 - from the fire of Moscow to the crossing of the remnants of the French army through Berezina. In the center of the sheet, the Bear-Aleksandr and the Russian Frost are dealing with Napoleon We continue our series with the European University in St.

Russia's Federal Anti-Monopoly Service has removed any mention of an individual named “A.Yu. Chaika” from its records on the service's approval of the sale of the “East-Siberian Commercial-Industrial Company,” which produces salt. The original version of the agency's documents listed the company's contact person as someone named A.Yu.

US President Barack Obama has nominated a candidate for the US Supreme Court. He chose Merrick Garland, who is now Chief Justice of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia District of Columbia. As The New York Times points out , Obama needed to find a candidate that Republicans have already supported in the past, and at the same time one that could make the US Supreme Court more liberal.

Crimea, the contested peninsula Russia grabbed from Ukraine two years ago, has a new “brand,” according to the man in charge of its Russian government. Sergei Aksenov says development of the Crimean republic will now take place under the trademark “Polite Crimea”—a reference to the “people people” euphemism used to describe the unmarked Russian soldiers who seized the peninsula from Ukraine in 2014.

The Lefortovo Court of Moscow authorized the arrest of Deputy Minister of Culture Grigory Pirumov in the case of embezzlement of budgetary funds of the Ministry of Culture. The suspect was taken into custody until May 10. Pirumov refused to plead guilty in court. At the meeting, his lawyer asked to add to the case a positive reference, which was given to the suspect by the Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky.