Since last year, the Greater Moscow Area has operated a website called Dobrodel (Good Deeds), where locals can file complaints with the authorities about problems regarding landscaping, street cleaning, and other neighborhood matters. Officials also use the site to show the public all the great stuff they're doing, in response. Despite this charming arrangement, the public isn't always left fully satisfied with how the authorities choose to respond.

Foreign Ministry official Maria Zakharova as the main stand-up comic of the country Photo: Reuters / Scanpix / Leta The official representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry Maria Zakharova appears in the news every day. Previously, it was called the “Russian Psaki”, but everyone forgot about Jen Psaki for a long time, and Zakharova’s statements sound louder every day.

On the official website of the Government of the Orenburg Region, on May 20, a message was published on an emergency meeting, which took place on May 23 “In connection with tragic events” in the north of Kazakhstan. The reception of the Governor of the Medusa region reported that the site was hacked, and the information published on it is not true. It is not known who hacked the site.

The editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, Dmitry Muratov, dismissed his deputy Sergei Sokolov from work. This happened after the publication of Lenta.ru, in which the administrator of the Sea of ​​​​Whales group on the VKontakte social network said that the producer of Novaya, Natalya Sokolova, threatened him.

How Mikhail Prokhorov tried (and failed) to reshape Russian politics and media Photo: Ilya Naimushin / Reuters / Scanpix Sources close to the billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov tell Meduza that the Russian authorities are putting serious pressure on the entrepreneur, with particular focus on the independent news organization RBC , which just fired its top three editors.

The State Duma adopted in the third reading a bill clarifying the concept of political activity for non-profit organizations. According to the amendments, charitable activities will not be considered political, which will allow such organizations to avoid being included in the register of “foreign agents”. In general, the bill is devoted to clarifying the definition of political activity for NGOs.

Center E did not detect extremism in the videos of Kursk Regional Duma deputy Olga Li, who recorded an appeal to Russian President Vladimir Putin criticizing his actions. The defense of the deputy received a corresponding response from the head of the Kursk Center for Combating Extremism, Dmitry Dymov.

Galina Yuzefovich - about a new book about the poet. And five more biographies A weekly literary critic Galina Yuzefovich tells at Medusa about the most interesting book novelties published in Russia. In the current review - “The Thirteenth Apostle. Vladimir Mayakovsky: Buff tragedy in six actions ”Dmitry Bykov and five more good books about poets. Dmitry Bykov. The thirteenth apostle. Vladimir Mayakovsky: Buff tragedy in six actions.

The State Duma in the third reading approved a bill banning the import into Russia of potent drugs for personal use without a prescription. For the importation of potent and toxic substances (included in the relevant government-approved lists), certified copies of documents or extracts from them are required confirming the prescription of these drugs to an individual. The Ministry of Health claims that the ban will affect a narrow group of drugs.

Journalist Sergei Parkhomenko gave an explanation to the police about the activities of the Dissernet community. Parkhomenko was summoned to the Department of Economic Security and Anti-Corruption of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow. The reason was the statement of the Moscow City Duma deputy Alexander Smetanov, who asked to check the financial activities of Dissernet.

The buyer offered the seller Kebabov in the Kebabbque institution in Queenan (Australia) to fight to get the dish for free. Dolls that stood at the window came across this idea of ​​this idea. The seller did not want at first, but then agreed. The men staged a duel next to the institution - the guard of the shopping center did not interfere with them. As a result, the buyer lost - apparently, the seller was not the first time fighting interested in free Kebab, and is already quite strong.

The FSB refused to open an investigation into the application of Alexei Navalny, who asked to check the materials from the film of the Rossiya 1 TV channel about his work for foreign intelligence. The FSB's response to Navalny's request states that these materials have been handed over to the prosecutor's office, and Navalny's appeal has been sent to the Investigative Committee. Earlier, Navalny said that the Investigative Committee refused to investigate his statement, sending him to the FSB.

Scientists from Harvard studied who fills the “positive agenda” of the PRC social network Photo: AP / Scanpix / Leta Every year in Chinese social networks, someone leaves hundreds of millions of publications that are designed to distract users from criticism of the government. It was previously believed that the posts were written by the Army of the trolls hired by the Chinese government, but the study of Harvard University proved that this was not so.

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications has published a draft amendment, which, according to Kommersant, will limit the possibilities of IP telephony. According to the market participant, it follows from the document that data transmission operators for the purpose of transmitting voice information will not be able to connect to telephone networks.

The Turkish parliament approved a bill to remove immunity from 138 deputies by a majority of votes. 374 deputies voted for the document introducing temporary amendments to the Constitution. In order for a law to be passed without a referendum, it had to receive at least 367 votes. 136 MPs voted against the bill (English).