www.fontanka.ru A St. Petersburg police lieutenant saved a seal pup on an ice floe. An detective from the 85th police department of the Petrodvortsovy district of St. Petersburg rushed into the icy water, saving a seal pup that was dying on an ice floe.

Designer Sergei Poletaev told how on April 1 he managed to mislead dozens of Russian media and bloggers by creating fake photos and videos with a mosaic of Joseph Stalin, which allegedly appeared after the collapse of the plaster at the Arbatskaya station. Author Sergey Poletaev In his blog, Poletaev noted that the most important element of a successful draw had to be careful preparation. The basis was taken from a real mosaic dismantled on Arbatskaya in the mid-fifties.

Photo by @CHPSanFrancisco On the morning of April 3, in San Francisco, California, highway patrol officers closed the bridge leading to Oakland to capture a runaway dog. The patrol posted a video of the chase on their Twitter. According to SFGate , the chase on the bridge took place early Sunday morning. It is unknown how difficult the traffic was. A highway police officer told ABC News that patrol officers set up several road closures, but the little black Chihuahua ran around them all.

The chairman of one of the Nizhny Novgorod HOAs, Mikhail Shvyganov, turned an ordinary panel house at Verkhne-Pecherskaya, 7/2 into a furnished high-rise building only by paying residents at the municipal rate. a story about this . filmed Channel One New elevators, special cleaning equipment, paving stones on the way to the house, the walls inside the entrances are lined with Italian tiles - this is an incomplete list of Shvyganov’s achievements.

Mayor Sergei Sobyanin visited the construction site of the first semi-underground station of the Moscow metro. The work is expected to be completed in 2016. reports this TASS . Photo from the press service of the mayor and government of Moscow The new station is called Michurinsky Prospekt and will be located between the Park Pobedy and Ramenki stations.

On April 4, the Moscow City Court refused to recognize director Ridley Scott’s film “The Martian” as plagiarism, rejecting the appeal of Russian screenwriter Mikhail Raskhodnikov. reports this RIA Novosti . In the fall of 2015, Russian screenwriter Mikhail Raskhodnikov accused the creators of the film “The Martian” of plagiarism, and on January 13, 2016, the Khamovnichesky Court in Moscow refused to accept his claim.

Last Friday in St. Petersburg the Center for Contemporary Art named after. Sergei Kuryokhin. The first krush-mapping performance in Russia “Deconstruction” was timed to coincide with this event, which was carried out by the Russian Engineering Theater AXE with video support from the group of media artists “TE”. The performance consisted of two parts: 3D mapping illustrating the destruction of the facade and the physical destruction of the building.

The first drone race in Russia, Drone Grand Prix, will be held on April 13-15 as part of the RIF+KIB 2016 conference, which traditionally will take place on the territory of the Lesnye Dali boarding house in the Moscow region. The organizers of the event told TJ that it will consist of two parts: a festival and a competition.

www.hollywoodreporter.com Lilly Wachowski: "Love is a Crucial Thing for Transgender People" After making her first public appearance at the GLAAD Media Awards on Saturday, Lilly Wachowski took the stage to speak about her own coming out story and GLAAD's role in the LGBTQ community. On the first weekend of April, director Lilly Wachowski appeared at a public event for the first time since her gender change.

The Arktikugol Trust has opened a vacancy for a guide-translator in the Russian village of Barentsburg on the Spitsbergen archipelago in Norway. attention to her . drew The publication Lenta.ru @kvaazi According to the list of requirements published on the trust’s website, a candidate for the position of guide-translator must have work experience, know English, be proficient in a computer and have a foreign passport.

A traffic jam of people formed near the building of the House of Ministries in Astana due to security checking the presence of smartphones among officials. reports this BNews.kz . According to Erlan Karabaev, an analyst at the RSE “Computer Information Center of the Committee on Statistics” at the Ministry of National Economy, on April 4, a ban on the use of smartphones by Kazakh officials with the functions of recording and transmitting photos and videos came into force.

Selfies on luxury yachts and in front of private jets posted by young heirs to fortunes around the world are attracting more than just envy and ridicule from social media commentators. Such pictures can unwittingly reveal the assets of the parents of the “golden youth”, attract scammers or give rise to a financial investigation. The British The Guardian reports this.

Photo from the page of Georgy Lobushkin Mail.Ru Group Communications Director Georgy Lobushkin, who left the post of press secretary of VKontakte in February 2016, spoke about the social network’s cooperation with Lebedev Studio in 2011. I remembered the design sketches that Lebedev’s studio made for us in 2011 (then I had just joined the company) to show my vision of the future appearance of the social network. This is what I understand - experiments and searches. ***** [Going crazy] just.

Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage stars in a new Saturday Night Live sketch. Together with actress Leslie Jones, he survived in the wild. The sketch parodies the Discovery Channel show of the same name. Naked heroes try to survive and adapt to life in the wild for 21 days. However, Dinklage faced not only the dangers of the environment, but also the complex character of his partner.

Russian journalists discovered on the Airbnb website, which allows you to rent and rent private housing, an account that probably belongs to the founder of VKontakte and Telegram, Pavel Durov. Durov's profile on Airbnb is verified; the owner of the property, who registered in January 2015, provided identification as confirmation. The apartment is located in the Prenzlauer Berg district in the center of Berlin, in an old building. It has two rooms, described as bright and quiet.