At least 20 people were killed as a result of an explosion at an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester, the American television channel NBC News reports, citing anonymous law enforcement officials. According to the TV channel, several hundred people were injured. There is no other confirmation of this information. The police reported dead and wounded, without specifying their number. Eyewitnesses told the BBC they saw "between 20 and 30 people" lying on the floor at Manchester Arena.

During the concert of Ariana Grande in Manchester in the Manchester Arena hall, an explosion occurred. According to The Guardian with reference to the local police, there are victims. Their number has not yet been reported. According to eyewitnesses, immediately after the end of the concert there was a loud cotton, similar to the sound of an explosion, reports The Guardian. According to some evidence, there were several cotton. The police have not yet confirmed the fact of the explosion.

Egor Moskvitin - about the first, very strange series of the third season Photo: Suzanne Tenner / Showtime / "Amediathek" The third season “Twin Pix” began - the audience had been waiting for it for 26 years. The wigwam is still black there, Lucy again wears a sweater, the prophecies of the logs come true, but the coffee is not yet strong-and it is not known whether it will be damn good. Film critic Egor Moskvitin talks about the first two episodes of the new Twin Pixe.

The Ministry of Education has decided to restrict access to meetings of the Presidium of the Higher Attestation Commission, which, in particular, makes decisions on revoking academic degrees. This was reported by RBC. Now only members of the Higher Attestation Commission with a relevant specialty will be able to attend the meetings, according to a document sent to members of the commission.

A video was sent to Chechens living in Germany, in which a masked man with a gun in his hands threatens to "correct" women and men who "choose the wrong path." The video was distributed on WhatsApp channels where Chechens from the Diaspora communicate. Meduza Project Appeal to the Berlin Chechens. “Here in Europe, some Chechen women and men who look like women do terrible things,” the man in the video says. In particular, he mentions women who marry men of a different nationality.

The anonymous group threatens Chechen refugees in Berlin with death for choosing a “wrong path” and beats them. Report "Medusa" Photo: Christian Marquardt / Getty Images Center for refugees in Berlin. The center accommodates 720 people, mostly refugees from Syria, Afghanistan and Chechnya lived there. On average, everyone spent here for the year - until he found a separate housing.

Photo: Cineberg / Shutterstock.com Every year in the world, three and a half billion Kinder Surprise chocolate are sold. But in the USA it is almost impossible to find them - such products are prohibited by the law that has been operating in the country for 80 years. But in 2018, the situation will change - special versions of Kinder will appear on the American market that do not fall under the ban. True, these will not be quite kinder surgery that children around the world are accustomed to.

What are they talking about in the queue for the relics of Nicholas the Wonderworker. Reporting Sasha Sulim Photo: Natalya Kolesnikova / AFP / Scanpix / Leta On May 21, the relics of one of the most revered Christian saints - Nicholas the Wonderworker were delivered to Moscow from the Italian Bari; For the first time in 930 years, they left the city. From May 22 to July 12, believers will be able to apply to the ark with the shrine in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Governor of the Pskov Region Andrey Turchak was awarded the medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland, II degree. The corresponding decree was signed by Russian President Vladimir Putin. Turchak was awarded with the wording "for labor achievements, active social work and many years of conscientious work." Andrey Turchak has been the head of the Pskov region since 2009.

The Federal Antimonopoly Service discovered a cartel at the auction of the Ministry of Defense, which took place in 2015. Several companies conspired not to cut prices at auctions. The total amount of purchases amounted to about two billion rubles, the FAS said in a statement. The Anti-Corruption Foundation claims that all companies involved in the cartel are controlled by businessman Yevgeny Prigozhin, who is called "Putin's chef" in the media.

On May 22, the Rosneft procurement fund to the fight against corruption of Alexei Navalny published information on May 22. It turned out that the company acquired forks of 11 thousand rubles, napkin - 32 thousand, caviar - 83 thousand. In response, Mikhail Leontyev noted (in addition to the text given in the picture): “No one welds from these amounts, they are reasonable.

The American accidentally bought from NASA a bag of Nile Armstrong. And sells it for millions of dollars: WSJ Photo: Sotheby_ / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta bag for samples of lunar soil from the Apollo-11 ship, put up for the Sotheby= auction Lawyer Nancy Lee Carlson of Chicago is the only person in the world who legally owns moon dust. NASA tried to take her bag from her in which Neil Armstrong brought the breed samples, but nothing happened: the court confirmed that Carlson bought her legally.

At the new stadium of the St. Petersburg "Zenith" began to remove the lawn. Photographs and videos posted on social media show a strip of grass cut from goal to goal in the center of the field. The stadium "Zenith" is scheduled to host matches of the Confederations Cup, which will begin on June 17. So far, only two matches have taken place in the arena - on April 22 and May 7. Another Zenit game was moved to another field in order to save and prepare the lawn for the Confederations Cup.

Sergei Mayfat, a lecturer at the Ural Pedagogical University, asked students who skipped his classes to write essays on the topic “Liberalism as a threat to the Russian Federation” or “The influence of liberals on life safety”. Mayfat leads life safety. The press service of the university told the New Day publication that only three students received the task to write such essays. According to Mayfat himself, he only offered to write essays, and did not force them.

Photo: Benoit Tessier / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta In mid -May, Bitcoin for the first time in its history went up to $ 2,000 - this is twice as much as at the beginning of the year, and five - than a year and a half ago. There is no single version about why there is no cryptocurrency that appeared less than nine years ago, but there are many guesses. "Medusa" lists the main of them. Bitcoin has risen sharply since the end of March.