Vladimir Putin awards Elena Isinbaev. Hard of news At least until November, the Russian anti -doping agency will not be able to independently test athletes. Such a decision was made at a meeting of the Council of Founders of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) in Montreal, TASS reports . Nevertheless, WADA noted "significant progress" in the issue of restoring the rights of Rusad.

Sergey Lavrov and Donald Trump. Photo: Foreign Ministry of Russia US President Donald Trump at a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and ambassador Sergei Kislyak commented on the dismissal of the head of the FBI James Komi. “I just fired the head of the FBI. He was crazy, real crazy,” the new York Times quotes the official transcript of the meeting, which one of the White House employees read to reporters. “I experienced tremendous pressure because of Russia.

Rustam Aselders (Abu Muhammad al-Kadari). Photo: kavkazpress.ru In Dagestan, the security forces killed four militants of the so -called Kadar group, including the formation commander. This was reported by TASS with reference to the National Anti -Terrorism Committee (NAC). At one time, the group was headed by the Amir Vilayat of the Caucasus of the Islamic State, who was killed in December, Rustam Aselders.

US aircraft over Syria. Photo: AFCENT.AF.MIL In Syria, US aircraft, which are part of the international coalition, struck the column of troops of the dictator Bashar al -Assad, Fox News reports . It is emphasized that the column moved towards the de -escalation zone and ignored the warning fire. The statement of the International Coalition says that the column, which included at least one tank, was moving towards the ET-Tanf air base in the south of Syria near the border with Jordan.

Julian Assange. Photo: usasnich.com The Swedish prosecutor's office closed the criminal case of rape, initiated against the founder of the Wikileaks site Julian Assange, BBC reports . In the Stockholm district court, a request was filed to cancel the warrant for his arrest. As noted on the website of the supporters of Assange, this became possible due to the decision of the UN working group on issues of detention.

60 years ago, on May 19, 1957, the first secretary of the Central Committee of the CPSU Nikita Khrushchev and other party and state leaders met with participants in the plenum of the board of the Union of Soviet Writers.

Vitaly Portnikov The President of the United States Donald Trump calls the investigation of the connections of employees of his election headquarters with the Russian Federation the reason for the split of the country and "witch hunt". So he responded to the appointment of a special prosecutor who will oversee this investigation. With the conclusion of Trump, it should be agreed - the United States is really split.

Evgeny Prigozhin. Photo: Restoranoff.ru Entrepreneur companies Evgeny Prigozhin organized the largest cartel, which received state orders from the Ministry of Defense. This is stated in the new investigation of the Corruption Fund, its founder Alexei Navalny reports . “In total, more than 23 billion rubles have been mastered, at least a third of which, according to our assessment, was stolen,” Navalny notes. “Cartel for 23 billion is that we were able to prove documented.

Russian soldiers in Syria. Source: NV.UA The Moscow District Military Court sentenced to a fine of the ordinary contract service Artyom Hilko, who lost the machine in Syria, Kommersant reports . This is the first sentence to a Russian army for a crime committed during the fighting in this country. According to the sources of the publication, Khilko, together with other military personnel of the 2nd Guards Taman Division, accompanied the goods entering the Navy base in Tartus.

The Russian Guard intends to expand the preparation of IT specialists in the field of social networks monitoring in order to "counteract terrorism." This was stated by the first deputy director of the special services Sergey Melikov at a briefing at the Military Institute of the Russian Guard in Saratov, reports Rambler News Service.

State Duma. Photos of faces The State Duma accused the American media of attempts to interfere with the internal affairs of Russia, TASS reports . The deputies intend to create a special commission to investigate this issue, the head of the FSB Alexander Bortnikov was invited to the lower house.

Mikhail Halperin. Photo: minjust.ru President Vladimir Putin has appointed Deputy Minister of Justice Mikhail Halperin an authorized person in Russia under the European Court of Human Rights. The decree on this is posted on the Kremlin website. In 2005, 33-year-old Halperin graduated from the Peteurg State University with a degree in jurisprudence, has been working in various positions since 2010, in September 2015 he was appointed Deputy Minister.

Dmitry Sttyblikov. Photo with personal FB page One of the defendants in the second case of "Ukrainian saboteurs" Dmitry Shtyblikov concluded a pre -trial agreement with the investigation. It is reported by "Mediazona" with reference to the journalist Anton Naumlyuk. “This means that he (Spear. - Ed.) Cooperates with the investigation, his case will be considered separately and in a special order without studying evidence of guilt, which he turns out,” Naumlyuk notes .

Russian passports. Photo: Grani.ru The State Duma adopted in the first reading a bill on deprivation of citizenship of convicts under the "terrorist" and "extremist" articles of the Criminal Code. Information about this appeared in the card of the bill on the State Duma website. 398 deputies voted for the bill, there were no opponents of the initiative and abstained.

Moscow rally against the demolition of five -story buildings, 05/14/2017. Photo by Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru The Moscow City Hall agreed on May 28 by the march and a rally of the United opposition against the demolition of five -story buildings. This was reported by Interfax with reference to one of the organizers of the action, the leader of the Moscow "Yabloko" Sergey Mitrokhin. The Department of Regional Security of the city confirmed the coordination of the city.