A photo of the Russian Minister of Agriculture was retouched on a Serbian business jet The image of a business class aircraft was removed from the official photograph of Russian Minister of Agriculture Nikolai Fedorov. Novaya Gazeta reports this.

Speaking at CES, American film director Michael Bay was at a loss for words to describe the Samsung TV. This was reported by The Verge . Transformers director Michael Bay did something unusual for himself and took part in the CES 2014 technology exhibition. According to the organizers of the event, Bay was supposed to talk about his experience using Samsung HDTVs with a curved screen, but something went wrong in his speech.

Iranian authorities have banned correspondence on the Internet between unknown men and women. reports this RIA Novosti with reference to the Al Arabia TV channel. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, the Supreme Leader of Iran, issued a special decree (fatwa) prohibiting communication on the Internet between people of the opposite sex who do not know each other. Given the immorality that is often associated with this, [correspondence] is not permitted.

Actor Ivan Okhlobystin called on Putin to reintroduce criminal penalties for sodomy Actor Ivan Okhlobystin asked Russian President Vladimir Putin to return punishment for sodomy to the criminal code. After the letter caused a strong reaction, it disappeared from the blog, but Okhlobystin said that he did not delete it.