The 17th-century Swedish royal regalia stolen in the summer of 2018 from the cathedral in Strängnäs were probably found at night on a trash can in Okersberg near Stockholm. Police said they were working to confirm the authenticity of the find. The regalia - the crown and power of Charles IX and the crown of Queen Christina - were stolen from the cathedral in the city of Strangness on July 31. Later, a 22-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of committing a theft.

Dmitry Kiselyov, director general of the state news agency Rossiya Segodnya and host of Vesti Nedeli, gave an interview to Yury Dudy. Here is a retelling of his words (direct quotes are given in quotation marks). I don't like Russian pop, but rap can give a new cultural impetus. I stood up for rappers and arrange a festival for them . Why do I have only pro-government rallies in the story about Venezuela, but not a word about problems?

Russian authorities submitted 19,192 takedown requests to Google in the first half of 2018. This is stated in the Google report , the output of which drew the attention of RBC. Russia accounted for about 75% of the total number of requests (25534). More than 14 thousand requests in Russia related to the removal of information from YouTube, 3687 requests - from the search. Among the reasons for requests in Russia, the most popular (57%) is “goods and services subject to special laws”.

Fact-checking the supposed ‘Navalny-Prigozhin’ meeting, torturing an anarchist, and Putin's new ‘rule from the shadows’ strategy Tuesday, February 5, 2019 This day in history (19 years ago): On February 5, 2000, Russian federal forces reportedly executed dozens of people in a suburb outside Grozny, Chechnya. The incident is known today as the Novye Aldi massacre.

Journalist Yuri Dud interviewed the host of Vesti of the Week, general director of the Rossiya Today agency Dmitry Kiselev. This is the first release of the Vedud show in the new year - the previous program was released in early December. The interview lasts about an hour and forty minutes. The program says that Kiselev insisted that the conversation be published without bills. Medusa made a retelling of this interview . Vedud Kiselev - brother in the USA, nephew in war, pension / Vdud

A Moscow arbitration court has ordered opposition leader Alexey Navalny to take down an August report that pointed to insider negotiations between Russia’s National Guard and a Crimean meat processing company. Interfax reported that “Druzhba Narodov” (“Friendship of Nations”) sued Navalny after his Anti-Corruption Foundation accused the company of selling food to the National Guard at inflated prices after becoming its only food provider.

The former head of the Serpukhov District, Alexander Shestun, who has been under arrest since the summer, has been charged with taking bribes. This was announced by his wife Yulia Shestun. According to the investigation, from 2012 to 2018, bribes to Shestun were paid by the director of one of the departments of the Serpukhov district, Tatyana Grishina. According to Shestun, Grishina, who was prosecuted under the article on fraud, "feared and went into a slander," reports RBC .

The Moscow Arbitration Court satisfied the claim of the Druzhba Narodov meat processing plant for the protection of business reputation, filed against Alexei Navalny because of his investigation into food supplies to the National Guard. The company demanded that the investigation be removed and a refutation published. FBK lawyer Alexander Golovach announced plans to appeal the decision.

What is Dreams? This is a virtual designer for PS4, in which you can create a video game, song, cartoon and even meme. This does not need knowledge in the field of music, cinema or programming - everything is done inside the application. The main tool in Dreams is a special “drop” that works like a computer mouse cursor. This “drop” is drawn (or is written if you compose a song!).

Jonas Roosens / Belga / Vida Press workers next to the bank BNP Paribas Fortis, February 4, 2019 On February 3, BNP Paribas Fortis was robbed in Antwerp. The amount of the stolen is still unknown, however, according to journalists, from 20 to 30 cells were opened, where money, jewelry and personal belongings of customers were stored. The robbers entered the storage through the sewer early in the morning on Sunday. To do this, they dug two tunnels.

Facebook messenger now has the ability to delete sent messages in chats. As the social network announced, it has been added to the new versions of the Messenger app for iOS and Android. To delete a message, double-tap it on the screen. A pop-up menu will appear in which the user can choose one of the options - delete the message for all participants in the correspondence or hide it only from himself (this is how deleting messages in the messenger worked until now).

The Primorye prosecutor's office drew up a protocol on violation of the right to education against the director of a school in the village of Pervomayskoye because of a conversation “about sex education” for students in grades 5-8. This was told by the official representative of the Prosecutor General's Office Alexander Kurennoy. The student meeting took place in January 2019. Parents of schoolchildren said that the lecture was conducted by criminal authorities.

‘Meduza’ fact-checks reports that ‘Putin’s chef’ met with opposition leader Navalny Alexander Zemlyanichenko/ AP / Scanpix / LETA Evgeny Prigozhin The claim “Evgeny Viktorovich [Prigozhin] said that one of the topics discussed was Alexey Navalny’s offer to put a stop to his [Anti-Corruption Foundation’s] attacks on the school lunch issue in exchange for loyalty to Navalny’s team in St. Petersburg’s municipal elections.

Unidentified persons damaged the headstone on the grave of Karl Marx at the Highgate Memorial Cemetery in London. Vandals smashed a slab with an inscription installed in 1881 with a hammer; the monument on the grave, in which the original tombstone was installed in 1954, remained intact. The cemetery emphasized that no other graves were damaged and that it was most likely a targeted attack on the grave of Marx. Employees believe that it will not be possible to completely restore the tombstone.

The Investigative Committee has published a statement that the head of the department, Alexander Bastrykin, is not acquainted with Senator Rauf Arashukov, who was arrested on charges of organizing murders, or his family. "The only meeting between the Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia and Senator Arashukov took place in the Federation Council when he was detained," said department representative Svetlana Petrenko.