Russian lawmakers have submitted a bill to parliament on strengthening criminal penalties for leading or being involved in a foreign NGO that’s included in Russia’s list of “undesirable organizations.” The authors of the bill proposed that individuals linked to “undesirable” groups should face criminal liability following their first administrative offense, whereas the leaders of such organizations would face criminal prosecution automatically.

Sotheby's auction house has put up for auction a painting by street artist Banksy, "Love Is In The Air", which can be purchased for cryptocurrency - Bitcoin or Ethereum. This is stated in a statement ( .pdf ) by Sotheby's. The auction will take place on May 12 in New York. The estimate for Banksy's work is three to five million dollars. In a statement, Sotheby's said that the auction will be held in dollars, but for the first time, buyers will be able to pay in cryptocurrency.

Journalist Ilya Azar shares a timeline of last month’s crackdown across Russia Evgeny Feldman / Meduza In a post on Facebook, journalist and municipal deputy Ilya Azar compiled last month’s headlines from Mediazona about pressure on activists and journalists across Russia, along with news of new prohibitions the authorities had introduced. “This is a chronicle of repression for just one month and it’s really impressive,” Azar wrote, commenting on what turned out to be a very long list.

A group of State Duma deputies submitted a bill to parliament for consideration that would toughen criminal penalties for participation in and leadership of a foreign non-governmental organization recognized as “undesirable” in the Russian Federation. The authors of the bill proposed that criminal liability for participation in such an organization would occur after a person has committed one administrative offense for a similar act, and for management - immediately.

A group of Russian lawmakers have submitted a draft law to the State Duma on banning people connected to outlawed “extremist organizations” from running for parliament. The proposed ban would apply to anyone involved in the activities of “public or religious associations” that have been outlawed in Russia as extremist or terrorist groups. In particular, this includes anyone who worked for or led these organizations one to three years before a court ruling on banning or dissolving said group.

A group of State Duma deputies submitted a bill to parliament to ban people involved in the activities of a public or religious association that has been banned in Russia as extremist or terrorist from running for the Duma. The deputies proposed extending the ban to ordinary employees and managers of the organization who, respectively, worked in it one or three years before the court decided to ban or liquidate the association.

Danish jewelry house Pandora will no longer use natural diamonds in its jewelry. This was reported in a press release on the company's website. From now on, all Pandora jewelry will use only artificial diamonds. The company emphasizes that in terms of their characteristics they are not inferior to natural counterparts. When creating artificial diamonds, more than 60% of the energy used was obtained from renewable sources, Pandora noted.

How Yekaterinburg became the "capital of the street art." Bill and Melinda Gates part after 27 years of marriage. What Joe Biden managed to do in the post Good evening, This is the daily Medusa newsletter about important news of the day (and long weekend), where we should now also write that the Ministry of Justice has declared us a “foreign agent”. Today's good news is about the puppy of the Bernky Zennenhund breed named Misany, who really wanted to play with his master .

Nikita Uvarov, 15, from Kansk in Krasnoyarsk Krai, was released from a pretrial detention facility where he had been in custody for almost 11 months. This was reported on the Telegram channel by the head of Agora, Pavel Chikov, citing lawyers Vladimir Vasin and Tatyana Galeeva. Earlier, the Krasnoyarsk Regional Court found the decision to extend the teenager's arrest illegal. "No other preventive measure was chosen for him," Chikov noted.

Alexander Lukashenko stripped more than 80 former servicemen and law enforcement officers of their ranks for supporting the protest movement. BelTA reports.

Our readers created the font “Medusa Fried” - with him a warning about the status of “foreign -agent” looks like an alien cuneiform writing Since April 23, our favorite Medusa is hung with ugly dies with a warning about the new status of the publication. The Ministry of Justice declared us “foreign agents” - and we, alas, were forced to put this instruction wherever possible. Even in front of Shapito about a golden retriever, ventilating his ass ...

Everyone is interested in how they will divide the property: 130 billion dollars and the world's largest charity fund Elaine Thompson / AP / Scanpix / Leta The founder of Microsoft, 65-year-old billionaire Bill Gates and his 56-year-old wife Melinda announced a divorce after 27 years of marriage. The same message appeared on the twitter accounts of the spouses. After long thoughts and a lot of work on our relations, we decided to dissolve our marriage.

Angelos tzortzinis / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Western Winging Wing at the entrance to the Acropolis For more than 45 years, Acropolis has been restored in Athens. This is a huge project, which is still very far from the end.

The Russian government temporarily - from June 5 to August 31 - banned the export of buckwheat, coarse buckwheat groats and hulled (peeled) buckwheat grain from the country. This is stated in a government decree published on May 4 on the official Internet portal of legal information. At the end of April, First Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Andrey Belousov invited the ministries to prepare and submit proposals to reduce buckwheat exports in 2021.

First Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of the Interior of the Czech Republic Jan Hamacek planned to visit Moscow in mid-April to propose a deal to the Russian authorities in connection with the case of explosions at an arms depot in the Czech village of Vrbětice . He spoke about this on April 15 at a meeting with representatives of the security forces and diplomats, the Czech newspaper Seznam Zprávy reported, citing the words of the meeting participants.