The athlete insulted the activist Olga Borisova and is not going to apologize Photo: Vladimir Song / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta The volleyball player Alexei Spiridonov, known for his shocking behavior, insulted the activist Olga Borisova on Twitter: he in rude form invited her to provide him with sexual services. Popular bloggers - both independent and procting. "Medusa" tells what happened-and whether this story will have any consequences.

The Italian team lost at the World Hockey Championship the seventh match in a row and lost the chance of staying in the elite World Cup division. On May 15, the Italians lost 0: 2 to the Danes, and they scored the second goal in the penultimate minute for themselves. With a score of 0: 1, the Italian team replaced the goalkeeper with the sixth field player to try to recoup, but the defender Alexander Egger slipped and sent the puck at the empty gate.

In the State Duma, at the exhibition "Industrial Heritage of Donbass", a project will be presented to create a "post-industrial landscape and recreational reserve" on the territory of the self-proclaimed Donetsk and Lugansk People's Republics. RBC writes about this with reference to the draft description of the event.

The Russian Ministry of Justice has proposed amendments to the law on anti-corruption expertise of normative acts in order to limit the list of those who can be involved as experts. The amendments are posted for public comment. The Office proposes to prohibit an independent examination of: citizens with an outstanding criminal record, officials and civil servants former officials dismissed due to loss of confidence, local authorities, international and foreign organizations, "foreign agents".

Photo: Sergey Orlov / Newsvl.ru Leonid Volkov meets the volunteers of the Navalny campaign in the square near the Politician headquarters in Vladivostok, May 15, 2017 On May 15, the headquarters of the presidential campaign of Alexei Navalny was to open in Vladivostok - for this, Leonid Volkov, the head of the campaign headquarters, came to the city.

Gizmodo - about file format that no one needs now Photo: Er Ryan / Shutterstock The MP3 format was heard in the 1990s and 2000s, when the songs still had to be downloaded. MP3 was convenient in that the files weighed a little , and they were able (and can still) lose almost any devices. In addition, MP3 was used on the first iPod - a player that changed the music industry. Now the mp3 is officially dead.

Photo: Ivan Kleimenov for "Medusa" In early May 2017, users of social networks noticed that the trees planted in the center of Moscow in November 2016 did not let fresh shoots. Including 97 LIPs on Tverskaya Street; Each cost the budget in 191 thousand rubles. Citizens blame city services for what is happening - plants were put in winter, in cold and snowfall; At the same time, November is considered a suitable month for planting trees.

The US State Department accused official Damascus of mass executions of prisoners in the Sayednaya prison in the suburbs of the Syrian capital. Nearly 50 prisoners a day are hanged there, according to Assistant Secretary of State for the Middle East Stuart Jones. To hide the mass executions, Jones said, a special crematorium was attached to the prison, which was confirmed by the pictures received by the United States.

On May 15, many foreign and Russian media wrote about the pastor from Zimbabwe, who decided to show the students how he walks on the water, and was eaten by three crocodiles. But this news is a fake. The Russian media referred to foreign, and foreign ones indicated in the sources the Nigerian edition of the Daily Post, which referred to Zimbabwe Herald. However, there are no references to the Pastor and the crocodiles on the Zimbabwe Herald website.

The computers of a small number of US critical infrastructure operators have been infected with the WannaCrypt ransomware virus. This was reported by Reuters with reference to an unnamed official of the Ministry of National Security. According to the interlocutor of the agency, the virus "did not significantly interfere" with the work of departments. What specific infrastructure facilities were infected is not specified.

The Azov-Black Sea environmental prosecutor's office is considering four main versions of the mass death of dolphins near Novorossiysk. The first version is the pollution of the Novorossiysk water area and the commercial port. During the inspection, samples of sea water were taken, which were sent to the laboratory for analysis. The second version is related to the negative environmental impact of sonars and other acoustic equipment in the Novorossiysk region.

Wannacrypt hit China; Microsoft compares what happened to the theft Photo: KACPER PEMPEL / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta On Friday, May 12, tens of thousands of computers around the world were blocked by the Wannacrypt virus. The most difficult thing turned out to be the UK, where the virus infected computers in hospitals, and Russia (suffered at least the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Megafon salons). At the weekend, the situation calmed down, but experts warned: on Monday, a new wave can begin.

As you can see from the title of these cards, Meduza is hosting the Farm School of Journalism. For the second time - in 2016, 50 students came to us in Riga. They seemed to like it . Us too (although that week there was a terrorist attack in Nice and a coup in Turkey, so we were somewhat exhausted). May be! Last year the competition was about 10 people per place.

In the case of an attack on police officers during a protest action on March 26 in Moscow, seven police officers are being treated as victims. This is reported by Open Russia, with reference to the materials of the case, which provided a lawyer to the defendant in this case, Alexander Shpakov. In addition to the previously named police officers Yevgeny Gavrilov and Valery Gonikov, five more names are indicated in the materials.

Photo: Reuters / Scanpix / Leta singer Jamal and Vitaly Sedyuk on the Eurovision stage, May 14, 2017 On May 13, at the Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv, during the performance of the singer Jamala, a man with the Australian flag on his shoulders ran out onto the stage - and took off his pants. Since the competition was shown on the air, it was impossible to cut out shots with a man - and millions of spectators saw them. After a few seconds, the pranker was detained.