The door to the headquarters of Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB), situated in the vicinity of the Lubyanka metro station in Moscow—which was set on fire by the artist and activist Petr Pavlensky—was not a historically valuable artifact, according to Aleksandr Popov, the head of art restoration service RTS APO, while speaking at a hearing at Moscow’s Meshchanskiy Court. “In 2008, the door to the building was replaced and restored.

Dmitry Pestkov, Vladimir Putin's official spokesperson, commented on the presumptive Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton’s recent declaration that electing presumptive Republican candidate Donald Trump to the American presidency would be a motive for celebration in the Kremlin, which would welcome the prospect of a weaker United States.

Photo: Zsolt Czegledi / MTI / AP / Scanpix / Leta On June 3, competitions in digging graves at speed were held at the cemetery of the Hungarian city of Debrezen. The event was attended by 18 teams from different cities of Hungary, two people each. Participants needed to dig holes 2 meters long, 80 centimeters wide and 1.6 meters deep. The team from Debrezen managed the fastest: the men dug the grave in half an hour. For almost an hour, the youngest went to do this.

A three-volume book chronicling the speeches of Russian President Vladimir Putin was unveiled at the Krasnay Polshad book festival in Moscow. The book, titled “Direct Speech,” was released by publishing house Zvonnitsa. Zvonnitsa's head, Georgy Zaytsev, declared the book to be a “table of sorts” of the 21st century and said that the volumes contained the entirety of recent history.

The chief investigator of Russia was admitted to the Writers' Union Photo: Zurab Javahadze / TASS / Scanpix / Leta In early June, it became known that the head of the Investigative Committee, Alexander Bastrykin, was officially admitted to the Union of Writers of Russia. Bastrykin is an incredibly prolific author. "Medusa" briefly tells what is known about his books. Bastrykin is not the only writer in the Russian government.

The representative of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Maria Zakharova, said that by publishing a letter from the department, the Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun committed "informational hara-kiri." “Now everyone knows: she not only writes mystically about the“ theft of the Kuriles ”, but also, in practical terms, appropriates to herself what does not belong to her. Not samurai,” Zakharova wrote on Facebook.

Gifs with rafts will talk about our pain Photo: Photoxpress Yuri Loza began to comment on everything. Every day, the media discuss either the next statement of the once -famous musician, or the reaction of other celebrities to his words, or the statements of the vine in response to the reaction of those who were asked about his statement. "Medusa" tells why everyone urgently needs to stop reacting to the statements of the author of the song "Raft". On gifs with rafts.

The novels of Irwin Welsh and Anne Tyler about modern America. Reviews of Galina Yuzefovich A weekly literary critic Galina Yuzefovich tells at Medusa about the most interesting book novelties published in Russia. In the current review, there are two novels about modern America: “Sexy Life of the Siamese Gemini” Irwin Welsh and “Blue Little Coil” Anne Tyler. Irwin Welsh. Sexy life of Siamese twins. Translation from English by M. Shera edited by D. Simanovsky.

An Alabama teacher on her last day before her retirement gave her students tasks about criminals, drugs, and prostitutes. Her parents immediately complained about her, who did not like such tasks. Joan Bolser handed out problems from the so-called " Los Angeles Math Test " to the students. This document has been circulating on the Internet since at least 1999. The media that writes about the incident give this example from a selection of tasks: Devane is a pimp and has three prostitutes.

Senator Lyudmila Bokova has amended a bill requiring telecom operators to store almost all Internet traffic, including the content of customer conversations, for three years. She believes that only information about the facts of the connections themselves should be stored. The shelf life remains the same - three years. As Senator Bokova told Interfax, the amendments were agreed with the industry.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko called the publication of the data of journalists accredited in the DPR and LPR a mistake. “I publicly condemn the publication of the list of journalists on the Peacemaker website,” he said. The list of journalists who received accreditation in the DPR and LPR was published on the Peacemaker website on May 10.

The Cinema Fund refused to allocate money for the shooting of a new film directed by Andrey Smirnov "French", dedicated to the generation of the sixties. The director calls this picture his cinematic testament. Smirnov told Meduza that the Cinema Fund recommended that he seek help from the Ministry of Culture. Their refusal to fund was motivated by doubts about the commercial success of the picture.

FIFA accused former federation president Joseph Blatter and his associates of embezzling $80 million over five years. According to the federation's statement, Blatter, former general secretary Jérôme Valcke and his deputy Markus Kuttner have been increasing their salaries and writing out all sorts of bonuses. In May 2015, FIFA was at the center of a corruption scandal when high-ranking officials of the federation, up to the vice president, were arrested in Zurich.

Watch out, NATO. Here comes a patriotic youth camp to reunite the Soviet space. Photo: Aleksandr Levin On Tuesday, May 10, a congress of military-athletic youth organizations and cadet corps under the banner “Union-2016—Heirs to Victory” concluded in the Russian republic of Tatarstan.

Aytambdel Salem spent several months in detention, although he could get out on $2 bail. But he just didn't know about it! In November 2014, Salem attempted to steal Zara's coat but was thwarted by a police officer. A man went to jail for assaulting this police officer. Back then, the bail for release was $25,000. But the prosecutor ultimately failed to bring charges of assaulting a police officer, and decided to release Salem from prison.