The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation has significantly updated the composition of its four expert councils, which are engaged in the selection of feature, documentary, children's and animation films that apply for state support. to the corresponding order , published on the website of the department .

A group of 400 State Duma deputies have backed a package of amendments to Russia’s healthcare and public-records laws, designed to ban gender-affirming surgeries and legal gender changes in Russia. If passed, the amendments will make it only possible to have a gender-affirming surgery in cases involving “congenital physiological anomalies.” Surgeries will have to be approved by a committee of specialists from the state healthcare system.

A Donetsk court sentenced a 23-year-old citizen of Kazakhstan to nine years in prison for fighting as a mercenary, reports the Ukrainian outlet Grati. According to the court documents, the Kazakhstani citizen was serving a prison sentence at a penal colony in Tyumen when he was recruited into Wagner Group to fight in the war in Ukraine. He completed military training at a camp in Russia’s Rostov region, before he was sent to the annexed “LNR” territory in December.

Military expert briefly answers the main questions about the attack Kirill Kudryavtsev / AFP / Scanpix / Leta, a policeman protects the territory near the damaged multi -storey residential building after a message about the drone attack in Moscow. May 30, 2023 On the morning of May 30, several drones attacked three residential multi -storey buildings in Moscow. A few more drones were shot down in the suburbs.

The court of the city of Druzhkovka in Donetsk region sentenced 23-year-old citizen of Kazakhstan Shyngys Seipiev to nine years in prison on charges of mercenarism, the publication "Grati" reports . According to the verdict, Seipiev was recruited by the Wagner PMC in October 2022 to fight in Ukraine while serving his sentence in Correctional Colony No. 2 in Tyumen. He first underwent military training at a training camp in the Rostov Region, and then ended up in the annexed LPR in December.

A Ukrainian woman who came to Russia “on the orders of the Save Ukraine foundation” was detained in Moscow, reports Russian state news agency RIA Novosti. One of the news agency’s sources claims that the Save Ukraine foundation works with Ukraine’s Security Service (SBU) and that the detainee arrived in Russia to bring back orphans who had been deported from the occupied territories.

South Africa's Foreign Ministry has announced that participants in the BRICS summit in Johannesburg in August 2023 will be granted diplomatic immunity, but it will not protect them from arrest on a warrant from "any international tribunal." The Foreign Ministry issued a corresponding additional clarification shortly after it announced that immunity had been granted to summit participants.

State Duma deputies proposed amendments to the laws "On Health Care" and "On Civil Status Acts", which introduce "a complete ban on surgical sex change." According to the telegram channel of the lower house of the Russian parliament, about 400 deputies were the authors of the bill. Initially, its screen was published in a telegram by deputy Pyotr Tolstoy, later the document was posted in the State Duma database.

The State Duma excluded from the list of aggravating circumstances the circumstance that the crime was committed by an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. SOTA and the Moscow agency report that the relevant law was adopted on May 30 immediately in the second and third readings. in the bill card . At the time of the writing of Meduza's news, the voting results in the third reading were not indicated The law amends Article 63 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation.

Vyacheslav Gladkov, governor of Russia’s Belgorod region, says that the Armed Forces of Ukraine have shelled a temporary civilian shelter for citizens evacuated from the Shebekinsky district. According to Gladkov, casualties include both wounded and killed. He promised to share details of the events later, after visiting the site of the incident. The Telegram channel 112 reports that one person was killed and another two injured in the shelling.

The market value of the American technology company Nvidia, which specializes in the development of chips, has exceeded a trillion dollars, according to Reuters. At the opening of trading in the US, the company's shares rose 7.7% to a record $419.38 apiece. Nvidia's stock jumped sharply after the company released a quarterly revenue growth forecast amid demand for processors needed to run and develop artificial intelligence services, including ChatGPT chatbots.

Medusa collected and analyzed all available objective data (and applied them to an interactive card) Alexander Kazakov / Kommersant / Sipa USA / Vida Press Place of Drono fall in the courtyard of house 92 on Leninsky Prospekt in Moscow On the morning of May 30, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) were seen at several points in Moscow and the Moscow region. Which UAVs were used to attack, it is definitely unclear; Some of them are outwardly similar to the Ukrainian brews-Kamikadze Bober .

Archpriest Leonid Kalinin, who was banned from serving and dismissed from all posts by order of Patriarch Kirill, was hospitalized. This is reported by BBC Russian Service, citing sources close to the priest. “He is on a drip, his heart is bad,” one of the sources said. Leonid Kalinin headed the expert council of the Russian Orthodox Church on church art, architecture and restoration, was rector of the church of the Holy Martyr Clement and was a member of the patriarchal council for culture.

Russian president Vladimir Putin blamed Ukraine for a Tuesday morning drone attack on Moscow, calling the attack retaliation for a Russian strike on Ukraine’s military intelligence headquarters reportedly carried “two or three days ago.” “We were already talking about the possibility of striking decision-making headquarters, decision-making centers. It stands to reason that Ukraine’s military intelligence headquarters, which we hit two or three days ago, would belong in that category.

Moscow's Zelenograd District Court fined two local residents under the article on the demonstration of "extremist symbols" (Part 1 of Article 20.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses of the Russian Federation) because of their license plates with, allegedly, white-blue-white flags. This was reported by Mediazona, citing the court's rulings . Both decisions were made on May 24.