Ivan Urgant, Garik Martirosyan, Sergey Svetlakov, Alexander Tsekalo On June 1, instead of the MTV channel (it will go into paid satellite packages), the Friday channel will appear. “This will be the largest relaunch of the channel on the Russian market in the last 5 years,” said ProfMedia President Olga Paskina. Before Vladimir Potanin’s holding, the owners of DTV (now “Peretz”), 7TV (now Disney), MUZ-TV (now “Yu”) decided to completely change the image of the channels they controlled.

On May 23, the search and rescue operation ended in Oklahoma. According to preliminary data, the damage from the tornado, which swept through the state on May 20, is $2 billion. As Sobesednik.ru previously reported, the speed of wind gusts during the tornado that passed through Oklahoma was about 90 meters per second. In the most affected areas, buildings were destroyed to the ground ( read more HERE ). In the city of Moore, tens of thousands of people were left homeless.

Famous Hollywood actor Brad Pitt unexpectedly admitted in a recent interview that he suffers from prosopagnosia. Prosopagnosia is a brain disease that causes a person to lose the ability to recognize the faces of even those closest to them. Brad Pitt told the press that this disease can be either acquired or congenital. According to the actor, the disease has worsened recently. Now Brad Pitt is consulting with specialists who are trying to use various treatment methods.

One day in the fall, specifically in November last year, Putin, at a meeting with athletes, complained that our television does not cover mass sports enough. “Unless you ask directly,” he clarified. Asked - done! The autumn-winter season will bring several projects that strengthen the Olympic spirit. Channel One will celebrate the approach of the Games with the entertainment show Vyshka.

Vin Diesel, Michelle Rodriguez, Paul Walker, Jason Statham, Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson and others will race around London and Rio this time. Explosions, fights, jumping from planes, broken cars and even tanks. But at the same time, the film is about love, about family, about loved ones who search for each other around the world and find each other. – Vin, Michelle, you are together again. How was it like working on set? M.R.: Damn nice.

On May 23, it was reported that a Frenchman posed as South Korean singer PSY for two days at events held as part of the Cannes Film Festival. The French press managed to find out the name of the scammer: he turned out to be Denis Carr , a 34-year-old native of the commune of Clermont-Ferrand in the central part of the country. Franuz, who portrayed PSY, had fun at parties and posed for photographs with celebrities.

Krasnodar communists are opposed to the arrival of Elton John in their city. The musician's solo concert is scheduled for July 14. According to Mikhail Abrahamyan, secretary of the Communists of Russia party, the singer’s work is “controversial from an artistic point of view.” But what the Reds believe is undoubtedly the “propaganda of homosexuality and debauchery” that emanates from everything Elton John does, sings and says. The Communists cannot prevent a celebrity's visit.

On Thursday, May 23, it was reported that Corporal Denis Popov was detained, who is suspected of throwing a 19-year-old Kenyan woman out of a sixth-floor window. According to law enforcement agencies, on May 19, 27-year-old serviceman of the Russian Internal Troops Denis Popov, during a drunken quarrel, threw his friend Fits Sony Ebos, who came to Moscow from Kenya, out of a sixth-floor window. The girl was found near house No. 18 on Volochaevskaya Street.

On June 1, instead of the MTV channel (it will go into paid satellite packages), the Friday channel will appear. “This will be the largest relaunch of the channel on the Russian market in the last 5 years,” said ProfMedia President Olga Paskina. Before Vladimir Potanin’s holding, the owners of DTV (now “Peretz”), 7TV (now Disney), MUZ-TV (now “Yu”) decided to completely change the image of the channels they controlled.

On May 23, it was reported that the State Duma began discussing an unexpected bill that proposes introducing an increased tax for those who have evaded military service.

Fans of “Santa Barbara” have a real opportunity to find out how it all began and how it ended. The RTR television channel (now called “Russia”) broadcast the American series, consisting of 2137 episodes, for 10 long years, but never showed it in full. In nature, the first 216 and final 97 episodes exist, but remain unredeemed by us. During the 11 years that “Santa Barbara” was not in Russia, fans of the series were not idle.

The Russian premiere of Baz Luhrmann's The Great Gatsby took place simultaneously with the world premiere in Cannes. But ours came out more pathetic. Guests were invited to Red Square (the GUM showroom was converted into a cinema hall especially for the premiere). Carpet paths were laid out in front of the country's main department store, along which Russian stars walked straight to the show.

Photo: Asparagus // Global Look Press Jerusalem artichoke and asparagus are the heavy artillery against obesity and diabetes, say British scientists. The focus was on asparagus, garlic, chicory, and Jerusalem artichoke. All of them contain carbohydrates, which can contribute to the production of hormones that reduce appetite. Jerusalem artichoke is nutritionally superior to many vegetables. For example, it is twice as valuable as beets. But asparagus was previously considered a medicinal plant.

According to the head of the situation center of Roshydromet, Yuri Varakin, the cause of the tornado in Efremov, Tula region, was the abnormally long May heat in the Central Federal District and the arrival of a cold front in the region. Yuri Varakin reported that such phenomena are rare in the Central region of Russia. Everything is explained by the fact that the almost July heat lasted for a long time, while in Western Europe, on the contrary, cold weather prevailed.

On May 23, it was reported that British military intelligence was planning, after the end of World War II, to conduct a series of secret operations directed against the Soviet regime. This became known from declassified documents stored in the National Archives of Great Britain.