Photo: Gennady Gulyaev / Kommersant The “Party of People's Freedom,” better know as “Parnas,” is one of the few political parties in Russia that represents what is called the “nonsystemic opposition”—Russia's generally anti-Kremlin, typically Western-leaning activists and disaffected former government officials. Earlier this month, Parnas tried and failed to carry out a primary to determine its candidate list for parliamentary elections later this year.

Members of the Canadian Parliament did not punish Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for accidentally pushing a deputy. According to Reuters, it was almost immediately clear that Trudeau would escape punishment: in the committee that examined the incident, the majority belongs to his party. On May 18, the Parliament of Canada considered the issue of euthanasia.

On May 7, a annual conference on boring things was held in London. The event discussed banal things, such as paper bags, bricks, quality control of toilet paper and floor lamps. All 425 tickets for it were sold in just a few days. The idea of ​​the event belongs to the British James Ward. He began to hold meetings in 2010. He saw the post of organizer of an “interesting conference”, which canceled his event, and wrote that boring things also deserve his conference.

In the Kemerovo region, the body of a woman was found under the rubble of a collapsed five-story building, the regional department of the Investigative Committee of Russia reported. Three people are listed as injured. The entrance of a five-story residential building in Mezhdurechensk collapsed on May 31 at 17:20 local time. 16 apartments were damaged, eight of them were completely destroyed.

Billionaire Yevgeny Prigozhin filed 15 lawsuits against Yandex under the “law of oblivion.” He demands that links to materials about himself be removed from search results, but it is unknown what publications he is talking about. He filed two more such lawsuits against Mail.ru Group and one against Google. Search engines do not have the right to say which links the plaintiff demands to remove. Prigozhin’s representative also did not tell the media about this.

Nikita Mikhalkov's Russian Union of Copyright Holders has won about 80 million rubles from Dell as a "blank tax." The Ninth Arbitration Court of Appeal sided with the Union, overturning the decision of the Moscow Arbitration Court. RSP insisted that the company does not pay the tax in full. Dell said that it should pay tax only on consumer goods, not on all imports. The Mikhalkov Union filed its first lawsuit in August 2015.

The administration of the Kemerovo region denied reports that two people were killed in the collapse of an entrance to a residential building in the city of Mezhdurechensk. “The most 100 percent verified information is three victims of moderate severity. There are no dead yet. Searches are underway, the rubble is being sorted out, but there are no dead yet, ”said Anton Gorelkin, head of the media relations department of the Kuzbass administration.

Dmitry Medvedev opened the airport, which was immediately closed. Reporting Ilya Zheguleva Photo: Ilya Zhegulev / "Medusa" On Monday, May 30, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev opened the fourth Moscow airport-Zhukovsky, located near the Ramensky near Moscow. In addition to it, Sheremetyevo, Domodedovo and Vnukovo enters the metropolitan knot.

Potovka, riot police, bias of gold medals - and the unexpected noble gesture of the champion Photo: Alexey Filipplev / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta Viktor Lebedev The Russian freestyle wrestling championship in 2016 turned out to be a record for scandalous events - there were judges of judges, a brawl, and the removal of a whole team from the tournament.

The owner of the Swiss company Gunvor Torbjorn Tornqvist paid himself dividends in the amount of $1 billion in order to finally pay off his former partner Gennady Timchenko. The Financial Times suggests that this amount of dividends is a record in the history of oil trading. Timchenko sold his stake in Gunvor in 2014, when Western sanctions were imposed against him in connection with the annexation of Crimea to Russia. The transaction amount was not disclosed.

Members of Rage Against The Machine, Public Enemy and Cypress Hill have announced the formation of Prophets of Rage, which includes members of all three bands. The band included RATM guitarist, drummer and bassist Tom Morello, Brad Wilk and Tim Commerfold, Chuck D and DJ Lord of Public Enemy, and Cypress Hill frontman B-Real. Vocalist RATM Zach de la Roca does not participate in the new group. The team will perform songs from all three groups and new works.

Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs will work to prevent the adoption of Russian children by samesex families, said the Ministry’s commissioner for human rights, democracy, and rule of law, Konstantin Dolgov, according to whom the Foreign Ministry and Ministry of Education and Science are currently in the process of signing bilateral agreements on international adoption with various foreign countries, with an agreement with Israel being on the horizon.

Alexey Venediktov, the chief editor of the liberal radio station Echo of Moscow , announced today on Twitter that police came to the station's office to question him as part of a criminal investigation against the opposition leader Alexey Navalny. Officers inquired about the publication of Navalny's blog posts on Echo 's website.

Deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Maxim Reznik proposed expressing no confidence in the vice-governor of the city Vladimir Kirillov in connection with the vote of the toponymic commission, which recommended naming one of the St. Petersburg bridges after Akhmat Kadyrov. Reznik claims that Kirillov, being the chairman of the toponymic commission, put pressure on its members.

On May 25, a five -meter alligator entered in Florida on the golf field. The animal was headed towards the local lake. At this moment, in addition to him, players were on the field. One of them, Charles Helms, recorded a video with a walk of an alligator. Golf.com Giant Gator Walks Across Florida Golf Course “I was stunned and just silent. I did not know if someone was playing us. He just lay and rested, and then began to move towards the large lake, ”said Helms ABC News.