Andrei Kondrashov, a VGTRK presenter, head of the Vesti information programs directorate and the author of the film Crimea. The Path to the Homeland, will become the press secretary of Vladimir Putin's election headquarters. This was reported by RBC, citing two sources in the headquarters. Kondrashov himself has not yet confirmed this information.

Opera singer, former soloist of the Bolshoi Theater Alexander Vedernikov died. He was 90 years old. A post on the Bolshoi Theater website called Vedernikov "one of the most celebrated basses of the 20th century." TRIACETATE TV Alexander Vedernikov. "Dubinushka" From 1958 to 1990 Alexander Vedernikov was a soloist with the Bolshoi Theatre. From 2006 to 2009 he was a vocal consultant at the Bolshoi Theatre. Since 2008, he has been the artistic director of the Russian Opera Theater in Moscow.

The Washington City Council voted to name a block near the Russian Embassy named after Boris Nemtsov. This was announced by Russian journalist and oppositionist Vladimir Kara-Murza Jr. “The renaming will take effect by February 27,” he said. It's about the 2600 block of Wisconsin Avenue, between Davis Street and Edmunds Street. It will be called Boris Nemtsov Plaza. The decision was made on an emergency basis.

Five years since Russia banned adoptions by U.S. families, this San Diego couple is still fighting to bring home their girl Elena Lukyanova / Novaya Gazeta Lera at the Petergof orphanage on December 28, 2017 In December 2012, thanks to the Dima Yakovlev law , the Morris family of San Diego, California, didn’t have enough time to complete the paperwork to adopt Lera, a Russian girl with Down syndrome. The law, which bans U.S.

The website 47news.ru published a photograph of a bomb which, according to the publication, exploded in the Perekrestok store in St. Petersburg on December 27. The explosive device is a fire extinguisher covered with nuts, the publication writes. The photograph was on one of the flash drives found by investigators after the explosion.

Sergei Semyonov, who was convicted of raping Diana Shurygina, will be released early. A message about his imminent release appeared in the VKontakte group in support of him. When exactly Semyonov will be released has not yet been specified. Which court and when decided to release him, is not reported. According to Semyonov's sister Ekaterina, he will be released on parole.

An unknown man brought a note with the words “Kill. Eat. Repeat". This was announced by the coordinator of the headquarters Nikolai Artemenko. The paper, on which the phone number was also written, was in a bag with books by Victor Pelevin and Carlos Castaneda, which the man left. According to Artemenko, he also uttered the phrase “We will endure you all” and said that it was he who left the inscription “Zhidovka is not the president” on the facade of the building.

Page of Oyub Titiev in "Unlacers" On the morning of January 9, in Chechnya, the head of the branch of the Human Rights Center "Memorial" Oyub Titiev was detained. By the evening, it became known that the police allegedly found a bag with marijuana in his car, before that for several hours in the Chechen Ministry of Internal Affairs they denied that Titiev was with them. A criminal case of drug storage was instituted against the human rights activist.

January 9. Capybaras and lemurs are in commotion. And also some serious news Main The head of the Grozny branch of Memorial, Oyub Titiev, was detained in Chechnya. A criminal case has been filed against him for possession of drugs. Previously, Memorial employees in the republic were repeatedly threatened, and their office was attacked. Ilya Yashin decided to hold a march in memory of Boris Nemtsov on February 25 .

Michael Liedtke / AP / Scanpix / Leta Engineer James Deimer, fired from Google for criticizing her course for gender diversity, sued the company. In his lawsuit, Deimer and another former Google employee claim that the company infringes on the rights of white men of conservative views - and they themselves became victims of this discrimination. Medusa tried to figure out what the essence of James Damor’s claims is and how things really are equal to Google. Who is James Deimer?

Tim Goode / Pa Wire / Pa Images / Scanpix / Leta On the website of the popular mass-market of the H&M brand, a photograph of a black boy, dressed in a sweatshirt with the inscription "The coolest monkey in the jungle," appeared. Twitter users accused the brand of racism. The Canadian musician of the Ethiopian origin of The Weeknd also supported the universal indignation, which said that he was “deeply offended” by the way that used H&M.

Hundreds of recruits from the military units of the Leningrad Region have been hospitalized in recent weeks with diagnoses of acute respiratory infections, bronchitis, tonsillitis and pneumonia, the regional edition 47news reports. According to the publication, from December 15 to December 31, 293 military personnel were admitted to the Solovyov military hospital, "a considerable part" of whom had pneumonia, in the first week of January - 70 military personnel.

In early January, the Puma cubs were born in the Novosibirsk Zoo - terribly cute ( see for yourself). In search of a video with the Pumy of Medusa, I came across the channel of the local pensioner Nina Kurbatkina, who regularly removes the animal zoo. These rollers have simple installation, touching sunlight comments, very honest headlines - and most often several dozen views. "Medusa" talked with Kurbatkina and chose the best videos from her channel on Yetube.

In the car of the head of the Chechen branch of "Memorial" Oyub Titiev, who was detained on January 9, a package with 180 grams of a substance "with a specific smell of marijuana" was found. This was reported by the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Chechnya. Earlier, his lawyer said that a criminal case was initiated against Titiev for illegal possession of drugs (Article 228 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation).

Update. A case has been opened against Oyub Titiev for illegal possession of drugs (Article 228 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation), his lawyer told Novaya Gazeta. Oyub Titiev, head of the local branch of the Human Rights Center "Memorial", was detained in Chechnya, the organization reports. According to a friend of Titiev, who was supposed to meet him in the Kurchaloy district, the human rights activist was detained by people in the form of traffic police.