The largest income among employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for 2018 was declared by Deputy Minister Arkady Gostev. The declarations are posted on the official website of the ministry. For the year, Gostev earned 38 million rubles. The official representative of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Irina Volk, explained that this amount included a one-time social payment for the purchase of housing. In 2017, Gostev declared 3.7 million rubles of income.

The US Justice Department has filed 17 new charges against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. All new accusations are related to the illegal receipt and publication of classified data. As noted in the message of the Ministry of Justice, for each item, Assange can receive up to 10 years in prison. The decision to charge Assange with espionage crimes is remarkable and unusual.

Facebook announced that it removed three billion fake accounts between October 2018 and March 2019. This is twice as much as in the previous similar period. According to the company, fake accounts that distribute spam or information that does not comply with the rules of the social network account for approximately 5% of all users who enter the social network per month. Most of them are deleted within minutes of being created.

Russian military specialists will be sent to the Republic of the Congo. According to Interfax, the corresponding contract was signed as a result of negotiations between Russian diplomats and representatives of the Congo in Moscow. As the Russian Foreign Ministry explained, Russian specialists will train the Congolese military and help them repair equipment, including those that have remained in the Congo since the Soviet era.

Russia denied a visa to former Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland. This is reported by Kommersant with reference to the Russian Foreign Ministry. The department noted that Nuland is on the "black list" of persons who are prohibited from entering Russia.

On May 23, the annual Side by Side LGBT Film Festival opened in Moscow with multiple international diplomats in attendance. Within hours of the opening, the organization wrote on Facebook that a group including far-right “activists” from the SERB and NOD movements had attacked attendees as they entered the festival’s first venue.

Reuters / Scanpix / Leta John Walker Lind in Pakistan In the United States, 38-year-old John Walker Lind, sentenced in 2002 by 20 years for armed support for the Taliban terrorist movement, was released. He was released ahead of schedule for good behavior. Lind was captured in Afghanistan in 2001 and became widely known as the American Talib.

In Moscow, on the section of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya metro line, the movement of trains from the Otradnoye station to the Altufievo station was suspended. Trains do not run in both directions. According to an Interfax source, due to a mechanical breakdown at the Altufievo station, the train stopped. Behind him, two trains with passengers were blocked in the tunnel. Updated . Train traffic has been fully restored .

Russia’s Communications Ministry has prepared a set of executive regulations that describe how and under what conditions control over the Russian segment of the Internet might be centralized. That process could entail isolating Russian traffic from the World Wide Web under a new law passed by the State Duma in April.

The Ministry of Telecom and Mass Communications has prepared a draft government decree, which describes how and under what conditions the Russian segment of the Internet can switch to centralized control mode - with a possible disconnection from the World Wide Web.

The Russian national ice hockey team reached the semi-finals of the World Championship. In the ¼ final match, the Russians beat the USA with a score of 4:3. Washers at the Russians were thrown by Nikita Gusev, Mikhail Sergachev, Kirill Kaprizov and Mikhail Grigorenko. In the semi-finals, Russia will play the winner of the Finland-Sweden pair or Germany, if it beats the Czech Republic. Update . In the semi-finals, Russia will face Finland, who beat Sweden 5-4 in overtime.

Interview of the Director of the Perm Gymnasium, where they installed a different passing score for boys and girls Voron77 / Wikimapia (CC-by-SA) Gymnasium No. 4 named after the Kamensky brothers In the Perm gymnasium No. 4 named after the Kamensky brothers, a different passing score was installed for the receipt of boys and girls in the first grade - 65.7 and 69.1, respectively. Parents learned about this from the statement of the decision of the selection committee.

The US Treasury Department has abandoned plans to issue a banknote in 2020 featuring Harriet Tubman , a participant in the anti-slavery movement in America. The design of the $20 bill will not change until 2028, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin announced. In deciding to change the banknote design, he explained, the Treasury Department is primarily guided by considerations of protection against counterfeiting.

The administration of Perm will check gymnasium No. 4, which has set a different passing score for boys and girls entering the first grade. The deputy head of the department of education stated that "there should be no separate approaches to gender differences in admission to an educational institution." Earlier, the Ministry of Education stated that they had contacted the regional education authorities for a detailed verification of the information.

Subscribe to our YouTube in a race of 100 meters, which was held on May 23 at the University of the Chinese city of Inchuan, a wandering dog participated. The dog was just a little behind the winner and eventually took second place. Whether he got any reward for this, is not specified.