The US Ministry of Defense is considering hiring transgender people, Reuters writes with reference to a memorandum signed by a high -ranking Pentagon employee. According to the document, the Deputy Minister of Defense Robert Warck instructed each military unit to study their own readiness to evaluate transgender candidates for adoption from July 1, 2017 and submit an appropriate report until May 31. The Pentagon representative confirmed the content of the document, but refused further comments.

The former head of Rusnano Leonid Melamed was again placed under house arrest in the case of a waste of 220 million rubles, Interfax reports. The arrest is raised for three months. For the same period, under house arrest, the court sent the former financial director of the corporation Svyatoslav Ponurov. The prosecutor's office asked for an arrest for a period of six months. Lawyers will appeal the arrest of the ex-head of Rusnano.

In Syria, Russian military Evgeny Konstantinov from Birobidzhan died, the city on the Bire reports . Attention was paid to the publication by Medusa. According to the “City on Bire”, Konstantinov died on May 3, saving from the shelling of a wounded colleague. Konstantinov received six bullet wounds, the military was buried on May 7 in Novosibirsk, where his parents live. The Ministry of Defense has not yet officially confirmed the death of Konstantinov.

The police opened the first criminal case under the article on hooliganism in transport. This was reported in the Ministry of Internal Affairs. The incident occurred on May 19 aboard an airplane following Tel Aviv to Moscow. The aircraft commander said that one of the passengers, who is intoxicated, is trying to open the aircraft door. The passenger was a 50-year-old citizen of Israel.

The head of the Dar Foundation and a classmate of Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev Ilya Eliseev denied the presence of common business structures with businessman Gennady Timchenko. This was said by Eliseev himself by RBC. “The only thing that confuses me is mentioning me in the context of business projects of Gennady Timchenko. We have never been business partners with him.

Employees of the Office “K” of the Ministry of Internal Affairs detained 20 hackers who stole money from bank accounts of users with the help of Trojan. This was reported on the website of the department. The damage from their activities was estimated at 50 million rubles, and more than a million people became victims. A criminal case has been instituted against them under part 4 of article 159.6 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (fraud in the field of computer information).

The structures of the classmate of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev Ilya Eliseev and businessman Gennady Timchenko at a low price were bought by boarding houses belonging to the Presidential Administration (UDP), Vedomosti found out . According to the publication, Eliseev in 2011, through his structures, acquired from the Oddzhonikidze sanatorium in Kislovodsk, as well as the Tuapse recreation center in the village of Olginka.

The appearance near the Ples of the residence of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, about which politician Alexei Navalny spoke about in his investigations, changed the entire district. Three years after the purchase of the estate, the gravity of the Dar Foundation, which is managed by the classmate of Medvedev Ilya Eliseev, Ples got into the federal target program for the development of tourism.

“Monopoly” is perhaps the most popular board game in the world. Only the original versions, not counting the analogues, according to the late 2000s, more than 250 million were sold. The number of players, according to some reports , exceeded a billion people. For a long time it was believed that the creator of the game was a certain Charles Darrow - an unemployed locksmith from Philadelphia.

Eduard Limonov and Alexey Venediktov. Photo: Stanislav Krasilnikov / TASS “Grocery shares” is a loud, but already very old, from the beginning of the zero, the page of the history of the party Eduard Limonov. The National Bolsheviks were thrown by mayonnaise, tomatoes, eggs, ice cream, cakes in Russian and foreign officials, in United Russia and their friends, in the heroes of the television news then from Mikhail Kasyanov to Vladimir Zhirinovsky.

The Ministry of Education and Science limited access to the meetings of the Higher Certification Commission (VAK). This was written by RBC with reference to a document sent to members of the commission. It is reported that now the sessions will be able to visit scientists of the relevant specialization. At the same time, the document also spells out a list of scientists who can visit certain scientific and industrial sessions.

The Association of Feed Manufacturers for Pets (APC) calculated losses from a possible stop of importing meat -bone flour from Europe, writes Kommersant. As follows from the letter of the agricultural sector of the Ministry of Agriculture, the restriction on delivery will lead to the suspension of the work of some sites, and will also reduce the production capacities of some enterprises by 75%. This, in turn, will lead to a reduction in more than 700 people.

The authorities of Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) will transfer $ 100 million to the Fund for Assisting Women-Entrepreneurs in the Middle East, created on the initiative of the daughter of US President Ivanka Trump. It is reported by CNN. In addition to financial assistance, the fund will also provide access to network and financial markets. As the channel clarifies, the Fund is headed by the World Bank, and Trump's daughter is not involved in the organization’s management.

The first vice-mayor of Moscow, Marat Khusnullin, believes that there is no “place for corruption” in the demolition program for five-story buildings. He said this in an interview with RBC. “To date, according to the program of state capital investments, for which our complex is responsible, reducing the cost of the object at the expense of the examination on average by the year - 17%, plus a competitive reduction of 5%. Total from the initially declared price, our construction is 21–22%cheaper.

Residential building in the city of Kem, Arkhangelsk region. Photo: Sergey Ermokhin / RIA Novosti The plans of the authorities to demolish thousands of metropolitan five -story buildings have already caused noisy city protests . But, perhaps, this is only the beginning: the indignation of Muscovites may well be followed by a reaction in other regions of the country, the quality of life in which is most often incomparable with Moscow.