Spain's Supreme Court has approved the extradition to the United States of Russian programmer Pyotr Levashov, who is accused of cybercrime, Reuters reports . The U.S. prosecutor accuses Levashov, 36, who was arrested in Barcelona in April 2017, “of operating the Kelihos botnet, a network of more than 100,000 infected devices used by hackers to spread viruses, ransomware, phishing emails and other attacks with using spam,” Reuters clarifies.

Russian Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky may resign on the eve of the Russian presidential elections scheduled for March 2018, Vedomosti writes, citing the opinion of political scientist Nikolai Petrov and a source close to the Kremlin. Medinsky, who has many opponents in the Kremlin, may be sacrificed before the elections, the newspaper's sources believe. At the same time, it is possible that he will resign along with the entire cabinet of Dmitry Medvedev.

Congressman Dina Roratker. Photo: Commons.wikimedia.org The Republican of Dina Rorabaker met in Moscow with Russian lawyer Natalya Veselnitskaya two months before her arrival in the United States in the summer of 2016 for a meeting with Donald Trump Jr., the American magazine Foreign Policy .

As TV presenter Vladimir Pozner, one of the founders of the TEFI award and president of the Academy of Russian Television, wrote in a column on his website , after yesterday's announcement of the winners, the award should be renamed and its Orpheus statuette, created by sculptor Ernst Neizvestny, should be replaced with some other symbol . Posner stressed that in a conversation with Neizvestny in 1994, he promised "democracy of choice" for TEFI nominees.

Attacks with cold weapons for random passers -by, car attacks on nothing suspecting pedestrians - international terrorism clearly changed tactics. Is there an antidote - The New Times asked experts At the site of the attack in Stockholm, April 7, 2017.

Tips for those who are gathered for mushrooms Quiet hunting more than captivity. Who loves mushrooms and who - collect them. Real fans begin to go to the forest in early spring and do not calm down until the first snow. And what is surprising - almost never returned without prey. Who prefers any mushrooms and why - found out The New Times Photo: Oleg Dyachenko/ITAR-TASS The past summer-at least in the meteorological sense of the word-turned out to be some kind of nervous. Excessively changeable.

The potassium tycoon Dmitry Rybolovlev, who turned the business in Russia after a dispute with Igor Sechin, had problems in the West The president and owner of the Monaco club Dmitry Rybolovlev (in the center of the picture) watches the training of his wards before an important match, February 2016. Photo: asmonaco.com The news that the Russian billionaire fell into disgrace in the principality of Monaco made a lot of noise last week.