The Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko said that the program of the American CBS television channel about doping in Russian sports is an information attack. On May 8, CBS plans to air an episode of the 60 Minutes program dedicated to doping in Russia. Among other things, the program, as follows from the announcement, will show an interview with a former employee of the Russian Anti-Doping Agency (RUSADA) Vitaly Stepanov.

Ukrainian servicewoman Nadezhda Savchenko, sentenced in Russia to 22 years in prison, paid a fine of 30,000 rubles imposed on her by the court for illegally crossing the border. This was announced by the mother of Nadezhda Savchenko Maria. About paying the fine, said Maria Savchenko, she was told by one of her daughter's lawyers, Nikolai Polozov. “He said that <…> she was given documents to return to Ukraine.

The official Twitter of the German Foreign Ministry published a fragment of the appeal of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Frank-Walter Steinmeier, which incorrectly indicates the date of the end of World War II. “Seventy-one years ago the Second World War ended,” says Steinmeier in English, published on May 8. The same quote was published on the German Foreign Ministry's Twitter account, which is maintained in German.

The Maine Police Department posted a video on his Facebook page, which is supposed to manage a 12-year-old boy managed a stolen school bus. The bus and his young driver were noticed by the local resident John Jermine III with his girlfriend - the couple was driving a bus in his car. It seemed to the man that the man driving was too young to drive transport. Then the man took off the video bus that was driving in front of him, and announced the incident to the police.

A resident of the Moscow region, Ilya Aseev, who was arrested on charges of killing five people, was with his victims in the same motorcycle club, said the press secretary of the Moscow Regional Court, Natalya Osipova.

The court authorized the arrest of a suspect in the murder of five bikers in the Yegoryevsky district of the Moscow region. Ilya Aseev, a 27-year-old resident of the village of Chelokhovo, was placed in custody for a period of two months. At the meeting, the suspect, according to Interfax, fully admitted his guilt, while saying that his apologies "will not change much," since he understands what he has done.

The construction of the stadium in Samara, which should be built for the 2018 World Cup, has actually stopped, said the Minister of Sports of the Russian Federation Vitaly Mutko. Problems, he said, also arose with the stadium being built for the 2018 World Cup in Kaliningrad. In turn, the head of the press service of the governor of the Samara region, Ilya Chernyshev, said that the construction of the stadium did not stop, but a decision was made to change the contractor .

Plenipotentiary of the President of the Russian Federation in the Volga Federal District Mikhail Babich presented awards to law enforcement officers who distinguished themselves in the investigation of high-profile crimes, including the murder of policeman Andrey Gosht and his family. Among those awarded for investigating the murder of a policeman's family are five employees of the Investigative Committee, two of the FSB and five employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The Russian national ice hockey team won the first victory at the home world championship. In the match, which took place on May 8, Russian hockey players beat the Kazakhstan national team with a score of 6:4 (3:3, 1:0, 2:1). The meeting with Kazakhstan was the second match of the Russian team at the 2016 World Cup. Their first match in the tournament - a meeting with the Czech Republic on May 6 - Russian hockey players lost with a score of 0:3.

Lynn Flynn from Scotland leads a cute Instagram in which he publishes photos of a video with his son Louis and puppies-mops. The woman has several puppies that are of interest to the baby Louis. Now the boy is 1.2 years old. He loves dogs too. They are already rushing around the house. When the boy Louis is not, then pugs play with each other. With Louis, of course, more fun.

Britain's exit from the European Union will make it more vulnerable to international terrorism, warned former head of MI6 (foreign intelligence service) John Sawyers and former head of MI5 (security service) Jonathan Evans. The letter from the former heads of British intelligence services is published by The Times on May 8. Evans and Sawyers, in particular, point out that a UK exit from the EU could disrupt the established intelligence-sharing system.

The author of the book about neurosis is about how to survive: interviews Photo: Andre Chung for The Washington Post / Getty images Scott Stossel is afraid of everything: flights, large accumulations of people, vomiting; He is almost constantly in a state of anxiety. About his neurosis, Stossel wrote the book “The Age of Alarm. Fear, hopes, neurosis and the search for spiritual peace ”(Medusa has already published an excerpt from it).

What games with small balls did people think of Photo: VSTOCK / ALAMY / VIDA Press Recently, a video with balls, in which not only children, but also adults play play more and more often. For these balls, in other words, Marblov, make large labyrinths and come up with various competitions. "Medusa" tells what these balls are, from which they are made and how to play in them. Marbble is a small multi-colored ball of glass, clay, stone or some metal.

Former director of the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) Viktor Ivanov has been expelled from the Security Council of the Russian Federation. The corresponding decree was signed on May 7 by Russian President Vladimir Putin. The decree is said to take effect from the moment it is signed. On April 5, Russian President Vladimir Putin announced a decision to subordinate the Federal Drug Control Service (FSKN) to the Interior Ministry.

Three Spanish journalists who spent about 10 months in captivity in Syria returned to their homeland. A Spanish Air Force plane carrying journalists Antonio Pampliega, José Manuel Lopez and Angel Sastre landed on the morning of May 8 at Torrejon Air Force Base near Madrid. The release of journalists who disappeared in July 2015 near Aleppo in northern Syria became known on the evening of May 7.