The Iranian Organized Crime Center has accused Kim Kardashian of corrupting young Muslim women along with Instagram founder Kevin Systrom. According to the representative of the department, Mustafa Alizahed, Systrom provides financial support to Kardashian so that she promotes a lifestyle that is contrary to the foundations of Islam: “Mrs. Kardashian is a popular model.

The US Senate passed a bill allowing relatives of those killed in the September 11, 2001 attacks to file lawsuits against the government of Saudi Arabia if it becomes known about the role of this state in organizing the attack. According to Reuters, the bill would remove the effect of the sovereignty of foreign states from prosecution in US courts if the country is involved in terrorist attacks on US soil.

Vladimir Akhrameiko, a deputy in the Murmansk regional Duma, will compete in primaries for the political party United Russia, to determine the group's party list in elections later this fall. Akhrameiko is famous for once having told the Duma, “I'd rather putin a bullet in my forehead than find myself on United Russia's party list.” Previously, Akhrameiko served as a deputy in the Just Russia party, though he was ejected after publicly criticizing the party's regional leader.

The Russian national team beat Sweden in the final round of the group stage of the Ice Hockey World Championship. The match, which took place in Moscow, ended with the score 4:1 in favor of Russia. The Russians scored the first four goals in this match: two in the first period and two in the second. Evgeny Dadonov, Artemy Panarin, Pavel Datsyuk and Roman Lyubimov distinguished themselves for Russia.

Roskomnadzor gave the police information about several large communities on VKontakte, which allegedly encouraged subscribers to commit suicide, and about their administrators.

The State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill banning the import into Russia of potent drugs for personal use without a prescription. According to the draft law, for the importation of potent and toxic substances (included in the relevant lists approved by the government), certified copies of documents or extracts from them are required confirming the prescription of these drugs to an individual.

Photo: Daniil Turovsky / "Medusa" On May 16, New Gazeta published an article by journalist Galina Mursalieva “Death Group” about VKontakte communities, in which adolescents are supposedly deliberately brought to suicide. During the day, the number of views of the material approached a million, and the content of the text caused a wide discussion on social networks. Roskomnadzor said that together with Rospotrebnadzor would check the facts set forth in the article.

In Moscow, the trial of the artist Peter Pavlensky ends. Reporting Ilya Azar Photo: "Mediazone" On May 16 and 17, in the Preobrazhensky Court of Moscow, the debate in the case of the artist Peter Pavlensky was held, who was accused of vandalism for the Freedom campaign: in February 2014, the state-ownedist arranged for the small stable bridge in St. Petersburg the imitation of the Kyiv Maidan with burning tires.

An NTV film crew came under fire on the territory controlled by the self-proclaimed Donetsk People's Republic, according to the channel's website. The incident occurred on the Donetsk-Gorlovka highway near the city of Yasinovataya. NTV employee Daniil Levin said that the shelling was carried out by the Ukrainian military. “It would not be an exaggeration to say that the bullets flew right over their heads,” he said. In response, the militias were forced to open fire.

A rally in defense of animals was held in Moscow in connection with the mass death of dogs and cats in the Eco Veshnyaki shelter. The action took place on the Yauza Gate Square. According to a Meduza correspondent, about 300 people took part in it. The rally participants came up with the slogans "No to terror from flayers", "No to the law on euthanasia" and "Sterilize, do not kill".

Russia is building a military base in the Syrian Palmyra on the territory under the protection of UNESCO. It is reported by the Associated Press. Satellite images of the base under construction were released on May 12 by ASOR (American Schools of Oriental Research).

Accelerations, blocking, dismissal of Glavreds: how the authorities reformed the media market Photo: Anton Carliner / "Medusa" On May 13, 2016, the editorial leaders of RBC, the largest independent media holding in Russia, were fired. The reason for the dismissal of numerous informed sources call the Kremlin dissatisfaction with RBC publications - in particular, investigations about the closest relatives of President Vladimir Putin and materials about the “Panama archive”.

How the Russians beat the Swedes in the last match of the group stage The Russian national team is completing the group stage of the World Hockey Championship with the Sweden team. The first place in the group Russians can no longer be taken, but for the second it makes sense to compete with the Swedes - it will bring the national team in the quarter -finals to relatively non -nonsense, and not to Canada or Finland, which are considered the favorites of the tournament.

The schoolteacher accused and then excused for lessons so strict they border on child abuse Image: Channel One On Thursday, May 12, the Chelyabinsk district attorney reversed its decision to bring criminal charges against Tatiana Porseva, a primary school teacher in the city of Zlatoust.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation announced a tender for the supply of a batch of flash-noise grenades, which are used to suppress riots and conduct special operations. Two applications have been published on the government procurement website. The first competition is being held by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation - it provides for the purchase of five thousand Bustard grenades for a total amount of almost 32 million rubles.