Roskomnadzor demanded that Mediazona remove photos from the news about Alexei Navalny's investigation about businessman Oleg Deripaska, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko and model Nastya Rybka. The same letter was received by Radio Liberty .

Maxim Shipenkov / EPA / Scanpax / LETA While much of the world struggles against sexual assault and homophobia, these two issues remain a hilarious diversion in Russia. At an economic conference on Friday, February 9, billionaire Vladimir Lisin told the audience that state support often isn’t worth it because accepting this help comes with so many strings attached. According to the magazine RBC , Lisin illustrated his point with a joke about a blacksmith being raped.

A spirited group of youngsters and their parents in St. Petersburg has won a standoff against a bulldozer dispatched to demolish a small snow slide erected at a local playground. In an adorable display of civil disobedience, kids pelted the bulldozer with snowballs, refusing to move out of its path to the snow slide. Children and parents rose to PROTECT the snow slide at Ovsyannikovsky Garden, which the Central Gardening Company is trying to demolish right now.

Maxim Shipenkov / EPA / Scanpix / Leta While the world is fighting violence and homophobia, both topics in Russia remain the subject for jokes. At the congress of Russian businessmen, billionaire Vladimir Lisin said that support from the state often does not work, since restrictions are introduced at the same time. As follows from the message of RBC, he accompanied this thesis with a joke about the rape of the blacksmith.

Elon Musk's Tesla, which was launched into space by SpaceX on February 6, has been included in the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory's database of spacecraft and solar system objects. Grist journalist Eric Holthouse drew attention to this. "Tesla" is listed in the database as a spaceship.

Interview with the owner of the Pizzeria Pizzeria network Fedor Ovchinnikov. The Ministry of Internal Affairs suspects that drugs are distributed through the network From the personal archive of Fedor Ovchinnikov On February 7, the owner of the largest network of Dodo Pizza in Russia, Fedor Ovchinnikov, told Facebook that he was called as a witness for interrogation in the case of drugs on a particularly large scale.

More than 24 hours after the story broke, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergey Prikhodko has finally responded to allegations by opposition politician Alexey Navalny that he accepted bribes from the oligarch Oleg Deripaska and met aboard his yacht off the coast of Norway in August 2016, possibly to discuss Moscow’s interference in the U.S. presidential election.

At the Olympics, a pavilion was installed that absorbs 99.9% of the light In PyeongChang, South Korea, the blackest building in the world was built for the Winter Games. The Hyundai pavilion was designed by British architect Asif Khan. The building is covered with Vantablack VBx2, a material that absorbs 99.965% of light. On the walls of the pavilion there are tubes with luminous ends that create the effect of stars.

Deputy head of the Russian government Sergei Prikhodko for the first time commented on the investigation of the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) Alexei Navalny, who accused the Deputy Prime Minister of taking a bribe from billionaire Oleg Deripaska. “The political loser once again tried to arrange a provocation and remind himself of himself, chaotically mixing everything possible and impossible,” Prikhodko said in a commentary to RBC. According to Prikhodko, he is not going to sue Navalny.

February 9. Everyone discusses Deripaska and his “boss” of Deputy Prime Minister. The government is silent Deripaska and Deputy Prime Minister Prikhodko. Reactions to the investigation of the FBK Yesterday, Alexei Navalny told how a businessman Oleg Deripaska went on a yacht with the Russian Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko and a girl named Nastya Rybka, whom the opposition calls an employee of the escort service industry.

The Anti-Corruption Foundation sent statements to the Investigative Committee and the Prosecutor General's Office demanding that they verify information from the investigation about businessman Oleg Deripaska and Deputy Prime Minister Sergei Prikhodko. The Vedomosti newspaper reports this. According to FBK, during a trip on the Deripaska family’s yacht, Sergei Prikhodko was illegally provided with “property services,” which constitutes a bribe.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Why (not) you need to admire Ilon Mask? Medusa journalist Alexei Ponomarev, along with the editor -in -chief of posttnauki Andrei Babitsky and a popularizer of astronautics Vitaly Egorov (Aka Green Cat ), discuss the noise around Ilon Mask and his company Space X. Is it necessary to admire the mask or is he just a hype hunter? Is it true that the launch of the Falson Heavy rocket buried Roscosmos?

In South Korea, the opening ceremony of the 2018 Olympics was held. Representatives of 92 countries take part in the games - this is a record for the Winter Olympiads. The Russian team was not allowed to the Olympics. Russian athletes were allowed to perform only under a neutral flag. Martin Bureau / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Sean M. Haffey / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Sean M.

Carolyn Van Houten / The Washington Post / Getty images In the United States on February 8, a 21-year-old student Belen Aldecosia washed her hamster into the toilet at the Baltimore airport. This happened after Spirit Airlines forbade her to take the animal on board. According to Belen, she specified in advance with the company whether the hamster Pabble, who emotionally supporting her, can be in the cabin of the aircraft.

The election commission of the Novosibirsk region banned the publication of a photograph of a picketer who, on the eve of Vladimir Putin's arrival at Novosibirsk Akademgorodok, went out into the street in a vest with the inscriptions "Putin is Russia's trouble" and "Putin is a bad president." The picket was reported by the local publication Academ.info, which published an article under the heading “A resident of Akademgorodok went on a picket against Putin on the day of the president’s visit.”