plane French President Francois Hollande's was struck by lightning as he was en route to Berlin for a meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel . This was reported by Reuters . The pilots decided to turn the plane around and return to Paris. Hollande has now changed planes and flew back to Berlin. Francois Hollande took office as President of France a few hours ago. The trip to Berlin was his first foreign visit.

Deputy of the Dnepropetrovsk Regional Council Victoria Shilova sent the head of the Security Service of Ukraine Igor Kalinin an urgent telegram about the possible involvement of the Vice-Governor of the Dnepropetrovsk Region Ivan Stupak in the terrorist explosions in Dnepropetrovsk on April 27.

Sport Coach Ovechkin was drawn to the house Alexander Ovechkin's mentor resigned Rustam Sharafutdinov close 100% Washington coach Dale Hunter left his post after the team's elimination from the Stanley Cup. The specialist joined the team, captained by Alexander Ovechkin, in the middle of the season and was able to reach the second round of the playoffs, knocking out the Stanley Cup winner along the way.

Bulgarian folk singer Emilia, who is the wife of Lokomotiv Plovdiv owner Koko Dinev, has recently begun to avoid tobacco smoke. And after it was announced that after the release of a new album in June, the vociferous diva would go on vacation, local media, which had previously suspected something like this, were confirmed in their opinion - the wife would give Dinev a second child. Meanwhile, quite recently the couple went through difficult times and even separated for a while.

Barbadian singer Rihanna , a former girlfriend of Los Angeles Dodgers baseball player Matt Kemp, continues to do her favorite thing - shocking the public. So the singer presented on her official Facebook page a new video for the song “Where have you been?”, as well as photos from the filming. The piquancy of this news is given by the fact that Rihanna appears to the audience in the image of a snake woman for most of the video, being topless.

Sport "Real has gained stability" Gazeta.Ru expert Vladislav Radimov on the results of the Spanish Championship Vladislav Radimov close 100% Cristiano Ronaldo leads Real Madrid to victory REUTERS Gazeta.Ru expert, ex-midfielder of the Russian national team and Spanish Zaragoza Vladislav Radimov, summing up the results of the Spanish Championship, noted the pattern of Real Madrid's victory and expressed doubts that the head coach of the bronze medalists Unai Emery will be liked by Spartak fans.

May 15, 2012, 20:36 Politics Deputies' immunity is revoked Deputies Ilya Ponomarev, Dmitry and Gennady Gudkov may be stripped of their immunity Olga Kuzmenkova close 100% Ilya Ponomarev and Gennady Gudkov may lose their immunity ITAR-TASS Deputies Ilya Ponomarev, Gennady and Dmitry Gudkov may lose their immunity. United Russia member Sergei Zheleznyak came up with this initiative.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev presented Vladimir Putin with the structure and composition of the new government, the details of which are unknown. RIA Novosti reports this . At the same time, Putin said that he would begin consultations with candidates for ministerial positions on May 16. Until a new government is formed, all members of the previous cabinet continue their work with the prefix and. O.

15 May 2012, 13:05 Cars Barricades are being assembled at the Ford From June 1, workers at the Ford plant near St. Petersburg begin a strike Roman Kondratyev close 100% From June 1, workers at the Ford plant near St. Petersburg begin a strike ITAR-TASS Since June 1, workers at the Ford plant in Vsevolozhsk have declared an “Italian” strike.

Based on the voting results, the “assembly” of the opposition camp on Chistye Prudy decided that activists should remain at the monument to Abai Kunanbayev “until the first person is detained,” a Gazeta.Ru correspondent reports from the scene. The inhabitants of the camp were asked to choose one of three strategies for behavior during the liquidation of the camp: leave before the riot police arrive, hold out until the last minute, or leave after the first arrest.

May 15, 2012, 10:39 Society Indonesia has identified half of the dead 22 victims of the SSJ-100 plane crash have been tentatively identified by fingerprints Daria Zagvozdina close 100% Indonesian experts have tentatively identified 22 victims of the Sukhoi Superjet 100 civil airliner crash. They are now waiting for DNA testing of the relatives of the victims so that they can give an accurate conclusion.

May 15, 2012, 20:15 Society The major sentenced the dogs to death In St. Petersburg, a sentence was passed on the commander of a military unit who shot service dogs Nikita Zeya (St. Petersburg) close 100% The commander of the military unit who shot the service dogs has been sentenced. ITAR-TASS In St. Petersburg, a sentence was passed on the commander of a military unit who shot service dogs. Major Mityashin was fined 30 thousand rubles for cruelty to animals.

US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton will lead the American delegation at the APEC forum on the role of women in the economy, which will be held at the end of June in St. Petersburg, RIA Novosti reports . “The Women in Economics Forum will be held on June 28–30 in St. Petersburg... A plenary session will be held on June 30, which will be attended by ministers and other high-ranking officials.

US President Barack Obama said that the scandal with the reporting of the largest American bank JP Morgan, which unexpectedly revealed a loss of $2 billion, is another argument in favor of the need to reform Wall Street. “JP Morgan is one of the most professionally managed banks. Jamie Dimon, the head of the bank, is one of the smartest bankers we have, and yet they lost $2 billion and they're going to lose more," Obama said in an interview with ABC . “We don't know all the details yet.

Scientists have found in pieces of frozen resin in northern Spain the remains of insects that pollinated plants about a hundred million years ago, RIA Novosti reports , citing a publication in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of the Sciences .