A 10-year-old boy was detained in the center of Moscow for reciting passages from Hamlet. The child’s father, Ilya Skavronsky, told Mediazona about this. “The wife was sitting, reading a book, and the child was reciting Hamlet. A police squad arrived and they were talking about something without her participation. Then they tied him up, there is a video recording of what happened. They started pushing us in - she came up and tried to prevent it,” Skavronski said.

Medusa Podcast Alexey Ponomarev, Evgeny Berg and Lika Kremer discuss the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, searches at Kirill Serebrennikov's, the consequences of the terrorist attack in Manchester, the March 26 case, Sasha Spielberg in the State Duma and the new Twin Peaks series. Subscribe to Meduza podcasts. We have versions for iOS and Android or RSS feed .

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Holy and still holy Alexei Ponomarev, Evgeny Berg and Lika Kremer are discussing the relics of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, searches with Kirill Serebrennikov, the consequences of the attack in Manchester, “Case March 26”, Sasha Spielberg in the State Duma and the new series Twin Pixes.

Film director Andrei Zvyagintsev published on The Question website a text about the searches at the artistic director of the Gogol Center, Kirill Serebrennikov, in which he called "what is happening in recent days" "a completely obvious political gesture of intimidation" and "a blow to free thought in all directions." “Is Serebrennikov really a criminal who needs to burst into an apartment early in the morning, as if he is now darting out the window, like Podkolesin (a character in Nikolai

On May 26, the “Alley of the rulers” was opened in Moscow, on which 33 busts of the Russian rulers of the sculptor Zurab ceres were installed. Monuments erected the Russian Military Historical Society (RVIO), headed by the Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Vladimir Medinsky. Photo: Artem Geodakyan / TASS / Scanpix / Leta At the ceremony, Zurab Tsereteli said that eight more sculptures will appear in the square.

Photo: Svetlana Kholyavchuk / Interpress / TASS Sports commentator Gennady Orlov On May 25, VKontakte published a 10-minute recording of the commentators of Gennady Orlov, Kirill Dementiev and Alexei Andronov, which was not intended for the air. Orlov, who worked for Match-TV, sharply criticized his leadership, which, in his opinion, is guilly in the “bankruptcy” of the TV channel and withdrawal of many commentators for the state.

Photo: Vladimir Fedorenko / spanpix / leta Senator Alexei Pushkov often gets into the news - mainly because he willingly commented on world events. Almost every day in the Top of Yandex.No -Novosti, you can stumble upon the headline with the senior name - in this regard, they even began to criticize ( again ) how the Yandex news aggregator works. "Medusa" explains what is the matter. What is wrong with Pushkov? Everything is so.

In Alabama, on May 26, 75-year-old Tommy Arthur, convicted of the 1982 murder of his girlfriend's husband, was executed. His defense managed to reschedule the execution of the death sentence seven times; because of this, journalists called him "Death Penalty Houdini". In recent months, the defense has tried to cancel the execution due to the possible ineffectiveness of the drug midazolam, which is included in the lethal injection for pain relief. Arthur maintained his innocence.

The story of a former FSB officer convicted of state treason Photo: Alexander Wilf / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta Evgeny Petrin in the Moscow City Court In June 2016, the former FSB officer Yevgeny Petrin was sentenced to 12 years in a maximum security colony for state treason.

Donald Trump during the presidential campaign used the Android phone. Two months after taking office, in March 2017, Trump switched to a safer iPhone . On May 25, Axios reported that the president has only one third -party application on the phone. Of course, this is Twitter. The previous US President Barack Obama said that on his iPhone you can’t do anything but to receive e -mail and use a browser. "Medusa", given these restrictions, imagined what the iPhone of Donald Trump looks like.

Photo: Ints Kalnins / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta RIA Novosti, and then other Russian media published the news that the Diet of Latvia supported an increase in fines for violating the law on state language. The news “Novosti” said that the Latvian parliament adopted in the first reading amendments, strengthening the responsibility for the use of all languages, except for the state (that is, Latvian). "Medusa" figured out whether the law on Gosyazika really tightened in Latvia.

There's just over a month left before the release of Spider-Man: Homecoming. Marvel has already shown us some great trailers for the movie, but something didn't work out: the studio released a poster that everyone is now mocking for its absurdity . What happened to the Spider-Man poster? looks like it was made by a trainee who just started learning photoshop…” Marvel 1 Chief: Who do we need to make a poster for Spider-Man?

Tatyana Moskalkova, Commissioner for Human Rights in the Russian Federation, considers it premature to hold a vote on the demolition of houses as part of a renovation program in Moscow. This is stated in a statement published on the Ombudsman's website.

The Sotsgosproekt Foundation and the Orion Company (the former Management Company of the Dar Foundation), controlled by Dmitry Medvedev's classmate Ilya Eliseev, sent pre-trial claims to the Sobesednik newspaper in connection with the publication of false information. It is reported by RBC.

Photo: Valery Sharifulin / TASS From June 17 to July 2, Russia hosts a large football tournament - the Confederations Cup. This competition is considered a kind of general rehearsal before the 2018 World Cup. For the convenience of fans, the organizers will launch additional free trains between the cities where the matches will take place - only the owners of tickets to the stadium will be allowed there.