The Ministry of Culture sent a letter to Rosturism with an order to consider a proposal to ban the activities of the online reservation service of hotels, transfers and airlines Booking.com in the Russian Federation, RBC reports. As it became known to the publication, the assignment was given by the Department of Tourism and Regional Policy of the Ministry of Culture. Rostourism should present his position on the issue of Booking.com in the Russian Federation until June 4.

The day before, the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation published information on the income and expenses of employees for 2017. The documents revealed a super-rich employee: the head of the Stavropol department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations, Alexander Ivanitsky, earned more than 2.5 billion rubles last year. After the media drew attention to this, the ministry said that this was a mistake - the specified employee actually earned a thousand times less.

Business representatives urge to accept legislative measure that would forbid officials and parliament members to conduct a vacation in countries who have imposed sanctions on Russia. This is stated in the initiative directed in the name of the speakers of the Federation Council and the State Duma of Valentina Matvienko and Vyacheslav Volodin.

Transpensers International - Russia, the design and educational laboratory of the anti -corruption policy of the National Research University of the Higher School of Economics (Higher School of Economics) and three organizations for the protection of women's rights called to accept the State Duma and introduce criminal liability for deputies for the actions of a sexual nature in relation to people related to work.

Last week, the microblogging service Twitter announced a tougher fight against trolls: as the company announced, the service will now more often hide messages from suspicious users in dialogues and search results. As The Verge writes, Twitter's new policy led to unexpected consequences: almost immediately, many users from Bulgaria became victims of the innovations, whose accounts were blocked and their messages in dialogues were hidden.

The human rights activist Zoya Svetova turned to Patriarch Kirill with a request to advise Vladimir Putin to let the director Oleg Sentsov, sentenced in Russia, to 20 years in prison. He began an unlimited hunger strike in the Yamal colony 10 days ago. According to the human rights activist, it is necessary to draw as much attention to the hunger strike Sentsov during the St. Petersburg Economic Forum, reports Rain .

“I am doubtful for me in football. I would leave eight teams and looked at them. It is very unpleasant to see medium athletes in mediocre national teams, pumped up by state budgets, with coaches who have only a world -class salary,” writes on Facebook the head of the Law Department of Russia Sitting. “They rarely undergo group selections, but when they are the owners of the championship and do not participate in the classification, here is a fair of vanity. We observe it.

The Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation does not have the authority to ban the Booking.com service and plans to regulate its activities. This was reported by the website of the Ministry with reference to the director of the Department of Tourism and Regional Policy of the Ministry of Culture Olga Yarilova. Thus, she commented on media reports about the possible blocking of a popular hotel rooms aggregator in Russia.

Police officers of the Volgograd region detained accomplices of a large theft of a fish delicacy that occurred in early May. Then the attackers stole a ton of red caviar worth several million rubles. Currently, two suspects are in a temporary detention center, the official website of the regional Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs reports. Investigators went to court with a petition to select a preventive measure in the form of detention.

American writer Philip Roth died on Tuesday in a hospital in Manhattan, New York, at the age of 85. Information about the death of the writer was confirmed by his friend Judith Thurman. According to The New York Times , the cause of the writer's death was heart failure. In total, Roth wrote about 30 books - two trilogies (about David Kipesh and about Nathan Zuckerman) and about 20 novels, many of which were translated into Russian.

Since 1998, the European Court of Human Rights ( ECHR ) recovered 1.95 billion euros with the Russian Federation on the complaints of Russians. Most of the payments were awarded for torture, violations of the rights to a fair court, freedom and personal integrity. These data are brought by researchers of the Public Verdict Foundation to the anniversary of the recognition by Russia of the jurisdiction of the ECHR.

At least six Americans were injured as a result of an unsuccessful landing of the Gulfstream G200 aircraft in the capital of Honduras Tegusigalpe on the morning of May 22. The Business Class reactive two-engine aircraft flew by the N813WM private flight from Austin (Texas, USA), but when landing at the international airport, Tonskontin at about 11:20 local time, touching the Earth, flew out of the runway and collapsed into the ravine, reports La Prensa .

The story with the recalled analytical report of Sberbank CIB about Gazprom, which contained sharp criticism of the methods of the gas monopoly, cost not only its author, but also the head of the analytical unit of the investment company - Sberbank Investment Research, Interfax reports. The head of the Sberbank CIB analytical unit, Alexander Kudrin, was dismissed on May 23, the agency was told in the press service of Sberbank.

Relatives of the Donbass of the Malaysian Boeing MN17 decided to turn to the Russians on the eve of the international holiday - the World Cup, which will be held in Russia. “Let this world championship be held in the spirit of good,” the text of the new newspaper publishes. At the same time, the authors of the letter ask not to forget that the championship takes place in a country whose leadership they consider guilty of the deaths of their loved ones.

The Federal Security Service of Russia (FSB) again reported on the detention of a group of alleged terrorists, who used Telegram messenger for contacts from Syria, which was released on the territory of the Russian Federation by decision of Roskomnadzor. This time, eight immigrants from Central Asia were detained in Kaliningrad.