French President Emmanuel Macron has prepared a referendum on the powers of parliament amid the "yellow vest" protests, the Journal du Dimanche writes, citing sources close to the head of state. In particular, the referendum plans to include questions about reducing the number of parliamentary mandates and limiting the number of times the same person can be nominated for parliament.

Virginia Governor Ralph Northam announced that he did not wear a racist costume for a photo from his student graduation album. One of the photos on his personal page shows two people: one is dressed in a Ku Klux Klan suit, the other wears black makeup, portraying an African American. Northam's speech at Saturday's press conference contradicts his earlier statement the day before.

In dozens of Russian cities, protests were held against the reform of waste disposal under the general title "Russia is not a garbage dump." The largest rallies, according to MBKh Media, were held in the Arkhangelsk region, where they plan to take garbage from Moscow to the Shies landfill. Actions in various forms were also held in other large Russian cities - from Krasnoyarsk to Kaliningrad . Approximately 200 people came to the rally in the Specific Park in St. Petersburg.

Three new unusual series that should wait The American Festival of Independent Cinema "Sandance" in Park City after Berlin and Toronto continues to develop a serial program. This year, three especially interesting television shows were shown here - the Indian detective “Crime in Delhi”, the British Romk “Regulation in the Country” and American fiction “And now the Apocalypse”. The series will be released on Netflix, Sundancetv and Starz since March 2019.

MSU postgraduate student Azat Miftakhov said that after being detained in a case of making explosives, he was beaten at the Balashikha police department. His words were relayed by lawyer Svetlana Sidorkina. Miftakhov was asked to confess, and when he refused and asked to call relatives or a lawyer, one of the officers put an object similar to a screwdriver (with a nozzle , but without a screw) to his chest. "Then he wanted to put the same screwdriver in his anus," the lawyer said.

On February 3, after a concert in Izhevsk, rapper Kirill Tolmatsky died , who performed under the pseudonym dezl. He was 35 years old. He became the first Russian musician to make a rap part of pop culture-with expensive video clips, a heavy rotation of songs on television and radio. Decl inspired many modern rappers, gave them popular quite quickly, but he experimented and searched for himself until the last album. "Medusa" recalls the main songs of the musician. Sergey Nikolaev / TASS "Who?

EMERCOM of Russia / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Rescuers at the site of an accident with a bus in the Kaluga region On Sunday morning, on the Vyazma -Kaluga highway, the MAN passenger bus went to the ditch on its side of the road and rolled over. According to operational services, this happened at 9:15 in the area of ​​the village of Izvekovo. The Ministry of Internal Affairs reported that three children and four adults were killed.

Canadian CBC journalist Kate McKenna figured out how the creators of a giant bear painted in the snow in Montreal made him a navel without leaving any traces around. The editors contacted Valerie Duhamel, who trampled a huge bear in a snowdrift. “Yes, [the belly button is] five snowballs thrown at one place,” she said, adding that she did not expect such media attention to her bear.

"Medusa" chose the ten best songs and clips of the week Every week, Medusa employees listen to new songs, watch new clips - and take the best. In this issue: exemplary (as it should not be) pop albums from Matrang and Tima of the Belarusian, the main rising world star Billy Ailish, as well as rapper Face, is again apolitical. Subscribe to our updated playlists in Apple Music and Yandex.Musik ! Matrang "Name" The new album of Alan Hazaragova has already abruptly divided the fans into two camps.

Update. The press service of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for the Kaluga region told Interfax that four people were killed, including one child. In the Kaluga region, a bus carrying children overturned, they said in the local department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. According to preliminary data, two adults were killed, 16 children were injured. The bus was carrying children from Yartsevo to Kaluga for competitions. There were 48 people on the bus, including 33 children.

Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro proposed holding early elections to the country's parliament, whose leader Juan Guaido declared himself acting head of state. “Do you want elections? Do you want early elections? We will hold parliamentary elections,” Maduro said at a rally in Caracas on February 2. Earlier, Guaidó gave Maduro until February 3 to call early presidential elections. The powers of the current parliament expire in 2020.

Rapper Kirill Tolmatsky, who performed under the pseudonym Decl, has died. His father Alexander Tolmatsky wrote about this on Facebook. Decl was 35 years old. According to concert director Decl Pavel Belents, the artist became ill on the night of February 3 after a concert in the Izhevsk club "Posh". He lost consciousness in the dressing room, the paramedics arrived and pronounced him dead. Belenets said that, according to preliminary data, Decl died of cardiac arrest.