The Moscow Metro filed a lawsuit against Igor Kolesnikov, the grandson of veteran Ignat Artemenko, who was fined politician Alexei Navalny in a libel case. This is what Open Media writes about. As part of the lawsuit, the metro demands to recover 83,117 rubles from Kolesnikov. What is the essence of the claim is not clear. Kolesnikov himself refused to comment to journalists. According to Open Media, Kolesnikov is an individual entrepreneur.

Putin’s new science adviser to Russia’s National Security Council is a military intelligence agent accused of spreading disinformation about the coronavirus Alexey Druzhinin / Press Service of the President of Russia / TASS Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin during a meeting of Russia’s National Security Council In recent years, Russia’s National Security Council (or Sovbez) has come increasingly to resemble the USSR’s Politburo (the Soviet Communist Party’s powerful executive committee).

The VKontakte social network will launch free group video calls, in which 2,048 people will be able to participate at the same time. There will be no time limits on group calls, and all standard features of corporate video conferencing services will be free, including screen sharing, call recording, and call broadcasting.

Apple has announced a major update to Apple Music. The press release is published on the company's website. The main innovation will be the ability to listen to music in Lossless Audio (ALAC) format without quality loss. Initially, this feature will be supported by 20 million tracks from the Apple Music catalog, and by the end of the year it will be extended to all 75 million songs in the database.

On May 17, Moscow’s Tverskoy Court terminated the criminal case against Russia’s Accounts Chamber auditor, Mikhail Men, due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, reports the state news agency TASS. Men stood accused of embezzling 700 million rubles (nearly $9.5 million by today’s exchange rate) from the Ivanovo region in 2011; he served as governor of the region from 2005 to 2013. Under the criminal article for embezzlement, the statute of limitations is 10 years.

In St. Petersburg, due to the increase in the number of infected, 459 additional beds will be installed for patients with coronavirus. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the city administration. As Vice Governor Oleg Ergashev explained, over the week, the number of new cases of the disease increased by 3.5%, and hospitalizations - by 27%.

At the beginning of May, a new advertising video for the Vologda Plombir brand, produced by the Iceberry company, was released in Russia. In this video, actor Viktor Khorinyak, wearing a white shirt, holds an ice cream cone and enters a barn with the words: "Great things await us. Is my snow-white horse ready?" But instead of a white horse, he sees a unicorn with a purple-blue mane.

Bonus: What does the “Kino” group think about what happened Alexander Kazakov / Kommersant After several years of preparation, the Kino group still reunited on the big stage: on May 14, 15 and 16, concerts took place in the Moscow “CSKA Arena”. Every day, the group consisting of Yuri Kasparyan, Alexander Titov and Igor Tikhomirov performed for more than two hours.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Product prices are rising in Russia, and it is to blame for this (according to officials) “greed of retail chains”. Is that so? What do networks really influence? One of the reasons for the growth of food prices was the greed of manufacturers and retail chains, Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin said , speaking on May 12 in the State Duma with a report on the work of the government.

Has the third wave of the pandemic arrived in Moscow? Roskomnadzor changed its mind about blocking Twitter. Why did Bill and Melinda Gates divorce? Good evening, This is Meduza's daily newsletter about the important news of the day. And on Mondays we also talk about what happened over the weekend. For starters, the best 15 seconds of the day. Watch the baby rhino show off (and not be afraid at all) while being groomed with a large brush . And then he gets well-deserved strokes for his courage.

Russia’s Komi Republic declares emergency after 90-ton oil spill Komi Republic’s Press Service / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Clean-up of the oil spill on the Kolva River in Usinsk. May 14, 2021. Authorities in Russia’s far-northern Komi Republic have declared an emergency over a 90-ton oil spill affecting local soil and waterways. The leak originated from a Lukoil pipeline located in the neighboring Nenets Autonomous Okrug.

In Latvia, a beaver scratched the door of the Valmiera theater with its paw, but no one opened it for him. But the animal met the actor Ingus Kniploks passing by (he graduated from the Ogre forest technical school). The one from the car noticed the animal and got out to show the beaver the way to the nearest river, which just flows behind the theater. Apparently, Kniplox managed to find a common language with the beaver - under his leadership, the animal still got to the water.

The Presnensky Court of Moscow sentenced the defendants in the case of the kidnapping of singer Abraham Russo to long terms of imprisonment, but released them from punishment due to the expiration of the period of prosecution. The bodyguard of the nephew of businessman Telman Ismailov, Vladimir Gusakov, received six years in prison in a strict regime colony, and businessman Elyar Damirov received five years.

One of the founders of the Ethereum cryptocurrency, Vitalik Buterin, burned 90% of the Shiba Inu “meme coins” that were given to him, and promised to donate the remaining 10% to charity. According to Etherscan data, Buterin sent more than 410 trillion Shiba Inu tokens to an address that no one has access to, thereby removing them from circulation. The value of the burned coins is estimated at $6.7 billion.

Moscow's Tverskoy Court has closed a criminal case against the Accounts Chamber auditor and former head of the Ivanovo Region, Mikhail Men. This was reported by TASS. The case was closed due to the expiration of the statute of limitations, which under the article on embezzlement, which was charged to Men, is 10 years.