A subsidiary of Rosneft, RN-Aerocraft, refused to purchase 385 interior items worth more than 4.7 million rubles, including forks and vodka glasses worth more than 11,000 rubles apiece. According to the protocol , published on May 23 on the Rosneft procurement website, the decision was made due to the supplier's refusal to reduce the cost of goods. Oppositionist Alexei Navalny drew attention to the competition.

Russian President Vladimir Putin met with FIFA chief Gianni Infantino in Krasnodar on May 23 to discuss hosting the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2017 Confederations Cup in Russia. In Krasnodar, Putin and Infantino visited the academy of the Krasnodar football club and the club's stadium, where matches of these tournaments will not be played.

The Investigative Committee has completed the interrogation of the artistic director of the Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov, in the case of embezzlement of budget funds. Serebrennikov is in the case in the status of a witness, Interfax reports with reference to the UK. The director was released under an obligation to appear before the investigator. "I'm tired. I am a witness,” Serebrennikov told reporters as he left the building.

In the case of embezzlement of budget funds, in which searches were carried out at the Gogol Center and director Kirill Serebrennikov on May 23, the former general director and chief accountant of the theater company Seventh Studio, Yuri Itin and Nina Maslyaeva, were detained. This was reported by the representative of the Moscow department of the RF IC, Yulia Ivanova. They are suspected of fraud on an especially large scale.

The Russian mixed martial arts fighter Gadzhimurad Hiramagomedov, who broke the jaw of the vice-president of the MMA Union of Russia Radmir Gabdullin in Astana, was fined more than 20 thousand tenge, the press service of the city's internal affairs department reported. The same punishment was imposed on his brother Gamzat, who also took part in the beating.

In the book about Simferopol during the Great Patriotic War, published in 2016 by order of the city administration, the reproduction of the Soviet poster replaced the fascist symbols with the Russian flag, and the word “fascist” with the word “Moskal”. This was announced on Facebook by local activist Alexander Talipov. We are talking about the Kukryniksy poster “Debt in payment is red”, created in 1941.

In the Gogol Center and the house at the art director of the theater, Kirill Serebrennikov, on May 23, searches were held in the case of the theft of 200 million rubles of budget funds. Later, the theater’s staff called on the audience to come to the Gogol Center building to support the troupe-Medusa recorded the remarks of some participants in the spontaneous action. Meduza Promotion of support from Kirill Serebrennikov at the Gogol Center.

Director of the Russian Academic Youth Theater Sofya Apfelbaum was interrogated by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation in the case of embezzlement of budget funds, Interfax reports citing its correspondent. Apfelbaum left the department building in Moscow, refusing to comment. Kirill Serebrennikov, the artistic director of the Gogol Center, is under interrogation in the Investigative Committee, who, like Apfelbaum, was searched as part of the case on May 23.

Says Evgenia Shermenev, former director of the Territory festival and deputy Kapkov at the Moscow City Hall Photo: Stas Vladimirov / Kommersant On May 23, in the Moscow apartment of Kirill Serebrennikov and the Gogol-Center Theater, searches were held. Investigative actions are related to the criminal case of the theft of 200 million rubles, which were allocated in 2011-2014 of the Seventh Studio.

A resident of the Moscow district of Perovo filed a lawsuit with the Moscow City Court against the city authorities in connection with the renovation law adopted by the Moscow City Duma on May 17. According to RBC, this is the first such lawsuit.

Fedor Bondarchuk came to Gogol Center. Video On May 23, searches were held at the Gogol Center and the house at his artistic director Kirill Serebrennikov; Later, the director was taken away for interrogation in the UK. During the searches, the theater’s staff called on the audience to come to the Gogol Center building to support the troupe. Film director Fedor Bondarchuk responded to the call, among others. Why did I come? Firstly, Cyril Serebrennikov is my friend.

The Onion satirical news site has published a series of materials about a leak of documents from the environment of US President Donald Trump. For this project, the authors of The Onion had to prepare hundreds of fake documents on various aspects of the president’s life.

Russian President Vladimir Putin at a meeting of the Council for Physical Culture and Sports supported the proposal to ban the performance of foreign football players for Russian clubs. According to Interfax, the governor of the Krasnodar Territory, Veniamin Kondratyev, proposed, with the support of the president, to carry out "import substitution - one hundred percent - in Russian football," despite criticism of the existing limit on foreign players.

Chulpan Khamatova read out the appeal of the actors in support of Kirill Serebrennikov. Video On the evening of May 23, near the Gogol Center, an action was held in support of the theater and its artistic director Kirill Serebrennikov.

The head of Nizhny Novgorod, Ivan Karnilin, wrote a letter of resignation. Karnilin explained that he was already 60 years old, and he had been working in the civil service for more than 25 years. “Therefore, I made a decision for myself to leave the post of head of the city in order to give way to the young,” Karnilin said in a statement. The issue of resignation will be considered by the Nizhny Novgorod Duma on Wednesday, May 24.