The Budweiser beer brand will be renamed America during the US election campaign. It is reported by Co.Design. The redesigned jars and bottles will be on sale until the November 2016 election. Previously, as the newspaper notes, such actions took place only in the summer - in particular, images of the American flag and the Statue of Liberty appeared on the packaging of Budweiser. As noted by Co.Design, not only the brand name was changed on the packaging, but also other inscriptions.

In Ramenskoye, a court arrested activist Yan Katelevsky for ten days for refusing to stop video filming by the police department. It is reported by Interfax. The court considered the incident that occurred on April 27 at the police station in Ramenskoye. Then Katelevsky was detained for refusing to stop filming the territory, illegally, in his opinion, occupied by police officers for parking. The hearing was scheduled for the next day, but was then postponed.

Republican U.S. Senator John Thune sent an official letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg about alleged censorship of the Trending Topics section of Facebook, which contains the most popular content among users. The fact that the editors of Facebook hid from the section of the article about the Republicans, on May 9, was reported by Gizmodo.

The State Duma adopted in the third reading a bill giving Moscow State University and St. Petersburg State University the right to award, deprive and restore academic degrees without the participation of the Higher Attestation Commission (HAC). It is reported by "Interfax" The change will come into effect on September 1, 2016. By September 1, 2017, it is planned to prepare a list of other scientific and educational organizations that will receive the right to independently award degrees.

In Germany, a court dismissed a lawsuit filed by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan against the head of the Axel Springer publishing house, Matthias Depfner, who quoted part of an offensive poem by comedian Jan Bemermann about the Turkish leader. The court decided that the requirement to ban Depfner from using an offensive epithet from a poem about Erdogan violates his right to freedom of expression, Reuters reports.

Jeff Monson was offended that he was really beaten Photo: Valery Sharifulin / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On May 7, in Yekaterinburg, a battle took place between the American Jeff Monson, nicknamed Snowman and the Russian Ivan Styrovkov. The confrontation ended with a quick victory of the Russian athlete. A few days after the battle, Monson stated that he had been deceived. According to the American, it should have been a demonstration fight, and the Russian really fought.

What did we learn from the publication of the dossier to the marshal in the "Ogok" Photo: Vasily Egorov / TASS Historian Leonid Maksimenkov gained access to the archival case, which for many years remained secret - the dossier of the Politburo of the Central Committee of the CPSU on Marshal George Zhukov. The declassification of documents of this kind is an important event for researchers involved in the history of the USSR. Maksimenkov spoke about some of his finds in the magazine "Spark".

In the county of Devon, the Merlin helicopter of the Royal Navy of Great Britain transported the gun, preparing a piece of land for competitions for schoolchildren and students of Ten Tors. At some point, the helicopter flew up to the ground too low, and the flow of air from the screw demolished a number of dry closets. It is reported that there was no one in the cabins of the toilets, so no one was injured. But the helicopter measured the rolls of toilet paper in the vicinity.

In April 2016, 24,648 Lada cars were sold in Russia, AvtoVAZ said in a statement. This is 7.8% more than in April 2015 and 10.7% more than in March 2016. The best-selling models were Granta, Vesta and XRAY. The company's share in the Russian market, the report says, has reached 20%. At the beginning of May, AvtoVAZ reported a loss for the first quarter of 2016 in the amount of 8.6 billion rubles. This is 47 times more than in the first quarter of last year.

The Chelyabinsk district attorney's office recently audited a school in the city of Zlatoust, after which it brought child abuse charges against a first-grade school teacher. The audit was conducted in response to an anonymous complaint submitted by a student's parents claiming that the teacher assigned homework that is too difficult, including daily assignments to memorize complex poems. The teacher also cut short the class's recess and extended her classes beyond set hours.

Dynamo Moscow terminated the contract with head coach Andrei Kobelev. The decision was made "in connection with the unsatisfactory sports results of the team," according to the club's website. Youth team coach Sergei Chikishev has been appointed acting head coach. Dynamo Moscow is 12th in the Premier League of the Czech Republic with 24 points three rounds before the end of the season. Out of 27 games, the team won five and lost 12, ten meetings ended in a draw.

The State Duma rejected in the first reading a bill prohibiting close relatives of high-ranking senators and deputies from doing business. According to Rustam Ishmukhametov, a member of the State Duma Committee on Constitutional Legislation and State Building, the implementation of the law would lead to a restriction of the rights of deputies and senators, reports .

Alexey Navalny, an opposition activist and the head of the Anti-Corruption Foundation, has filed a complaint with Russia's Constitutional Court in connection with lower courts' refusal to hear his claim against Attorney General Yuri Chaika, whom Navalny wishes to sue for defamation. In his appeal to the Constitutional Court, Navalny is asking the judges to declare it unconstitutional for courts to cite a provision in Russia's Civil Procedure Code to justify rejecting his defamation lawsuit.

Answers economist Evsey Gurvich Photo: Peter Kovalev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta The Ministry of Economic Development published a forecast until 2019, which states that according to most likely scenarios, the real salaries of Russians will decline for at least another two years. Kommersant interpreted these data as evidence that the Ministry of Economic Development is called to save on salaries to help the country get out of the crisis.

What is said in a report on migrant expulsion Photo: Sergey Karpov / TASS / Scanpix / Leta The Civil Assistance Committee, which protects the rights of refugees and migrants, presented the report “Administrative expulsions from Russia - a trial or mass exile?”. It refers to three times the growth-since 2013-court decisions on the expulsion of migrants from the territory of Russia, total violations of migrant rights during court hearings and record holders who manage to make 90 decisions per day.