Vasily Baburov The Tsentrosoyuz Building designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Nikolai Kolli. Prospekt Sakharova, Moscow April 25 marked the centennial of the Bauhaus. The design school Walter Gropius founded in Weimar in 1919 went on to change how we think about what a modern building should look like inside and out and, more importantly, what principles should guide its construction.

Russian officials in Arkhangelsk have filed the country’s first police report against an individual for spreading illegal “fake news.” According to the news website 29.ru , the activist Elena Kalinina used her VKontakte account to promote an unpermitted protest against a local landfill.

At VDNH there was a smoke in the area of ​​the Stone Flower fountain. Photos from the scene on Facebook were published by the user Fedot Pyukhlov. Judging by the pictures, smoke comes from the engine room, where the fountain control panel is located. Artem Geodakyan / TASS / Scanpix / Leta According to the sources of Medusa at the Moscow City Hall, in equipment that ensures a fountain illumination, a short circuit occurred. According to eyewitnesses, at 20:35 the fountain continued to smoke.

In Arkhangelsk, an administrative protocol was drawn up against activist Elena Kalinina, who is speaking out against the construction of a landfill , for disseminating fake news . The reason for drawing up the report was a post on VKontakte announcing an uncoordinated protest action. The police considered that since the action was not coordinated and was not supposed to take place, the information about the time and place of its holding was fake.

Mercedes-Maybach luxury car maker Daimler has said it has no idea how the cars of this brand got into the garage of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. “We have no idea how these vehicles ended up in North Korea,” a company spokesman said. Daimler stressed that they comply with the sanctions legislation of the European Union and the United States and that they have not dealt with the DPRK authorities for 15 years.

The organisers of the London Porn Film Festival have decided to change the venue after complaints to local authorities, The Guardian reports. The new location will only be revealed to those who have bought tickets to the event. The festival was scheduled to take place April 26-28 in the London borough of Camden. According to the organizers, a "transphobic group" spoke out against it.

Human rights activist Oleg Orlov - about how Oyub Titiev lives in a colony Said Tsarnayev / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Oyub Titiev in court. March 18, 2019 On March 18, 2019, the court in Chechnya sentenced the head of the Chechen Society “Memorial” by Oyub Titiev to the four years of the penal colony-the human rights activist found guilty of drug storage. Titiev did not plead guilty and stated that the narcotic substance - 200 grams of marijuana - was thrown back to him.

Valery Matytsin / TASS / Vida Press A military court in Moscow has jailed the head of a local Federal Security Service (FSB) office for two months, pending the results of a criminal investigation. Colonel Kirill Cherkalin was arrested on April 25 and faces up to 15 years in prison on charges of receiving tens of millions of rubles in bribes. The details of the case haven’t been disclosed, and journalists only learned about Cherkalin’s arraignment after it happened.

The Ministry of Culture of Russia has issued a rental certificate for Francois Ozon's film "By the Will of God", the Moscow agency reports, citing the press service of the Ministry of Culture. The film will be released on April 29 with an age rating of 18+. Initially, the film by Francois Ozon was supposed to be released on April 25, but the Ministry of Culture did not issue a rental certificate to the tape.

We asked readers to send us their favorite emoji - and received almost nine thousand messages! There were many options: from a unicorn to a cable car . We have selected three winners from them. Here they are, the most favorite emoji according to Meduza readers: tears of laughter - 😂, thoughtful face - 🤔 and facepalm - 🤦‍♂️. Our result is at odds with the study by the analytical organization Noosphere Technologies.

Three explosions occurred in the city of Kalmunai in the east of Sri Lanka, reports News 1st. There is currently no information on casualties. Earlier it was reported that the special services were conducting a counter-terrorist operation in the city. In Sri Lanka, on April 21, a series of terrorist attacks were carried out in hotels and Catholic churches. The victims of the explosions, according to updated data, were 253 people.

A court in Washington sentenced Russian woman Maria Butina to 18 months in prison, reports The Washington Post. She will be deported to Russia after serving her sentence, clarifies . Reuters The prosecutor asked to sentence 30-year-old Butina to such a term. The defense of the Russian woman insisted that the prison term be nine months, which she had already spent in custody. Maria Butina asked the court to be lenient and give her a chance to return to Russia.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed an order that contains criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of the country’s regional governors. The document contains a list of indicators, the first of which is the governor’s level of faith in the government and in the president specifically. Productivity, income, environmental conditions, infrastructure, and population growth are also among the 15 points on the list.

A week after low-quality Russian petroleum was first reported in Belarus, Russian investigators have opened a criminal case to look into the matter, Interfax reported . The Russian company Transneft argued that the contamination of petroleum in the Druzhba pipeline was intentional, saying that an organochlorine compound was added to the pipeline at the Samaratransneftterminal junction in Samara. An investigation is ongoing in several private offices in the city.

The Government of the Samara Region Visualization of the project of the bridge across the Volga in the Samara region The company Mostotrest Arkady Rotenberg can receive an order for the construction of a bridge across the Volga bypassing Tolyatti (in the area of ​​the village of Klimovka Samara region), Vedomosti found out .