More than 2.16 million US households still pay for dial-up internet from AOL (formerly America Online). The corresponding figures are given in the company's financial report. The cost of a subscription to a package of services, which includes file storage, antivirus and modem access to the Internet, averages $20.83 per month.

Photo: BBC News / YouTube A wild boar burst into a store of children's clothing in one of the shopping centers of Hong Kong. An animal weighing about 25 kilograms pushed the ceiling and hit the store’s premises. Once inside, the boar began to run around the room, knocking down clothes and mannequins. According to the Chinese media, after some time the beast was euthanized by the veterinarian who arrived at the scene and sent to the “rehabilitation center”.

The Latvian State Language Center will evaluate the speech of Riga Mayor Nils Ushakovs at the celebration of the 70th anniversary of victory in the Great Patriotic War on May 9 in Riga. During the event, Ushakov addressed the Liberators gathered at the monument with a speech in Russian, without duplicating what was said in Latvian. As stated in the State Language Center, this may be contrary to the legislation of Latvia.

The artist and ideologist of “Monstration” Artem Loskutov, sentenced on May 1 to 10 days of arrest for organizing an unauthorized rally, was released. Loskutov left the temporary detention center on Pisarev Street at approximately 18:00 (15:00 Moscow time). The artist was met by his relatives. Anyone who hasn’t sat is not Russian, and anyone who has sat once is a newbie. Posted by Artem Loskutov on Monday, May 11, 2015 Loskutov was found guilty under Part 3 of Art.

As the Victory Day on Brighton Beach celebrated: monologues of the parade participants Photo: Ilya Azar / "Medusa" On May 9, Victory Day was celebrated in New York, on Brighton Beach-a traditional habitat of immigrants from the countries of the former Soviet Union. About a hundred people went along the embankment to the accompaniment of the orchestra, who performed both military songs and the old Jewish melodies (many veterans who took part in the parade are Soviet Jews).

The Donetsk People's Republic agrees to the broadest autonomy without prejudice to its interests. This was stated by the vice-speaker of the People's Light of the self-proclaimed republic Denis Pushilin. According to Pushilin, if such autonomy is granted, the DPR is ready to hold local elections.

Frame: GUVD-TV / YouTube In Belarus, the police are looking for a young man who stole a Winnie-Puh children's electric car from the Minsk shopping center Prostore. The incident occurred on May 6 at about 22:30. CCTV cameras recorded a young man in a blue tracksuit, which sits on a zoobil and, starting his feet, goes to the exit from the shopping center and then hides on the street.

One of the photographs from the action "Immortal Regiment", held in Moscow on May 9, shows an unknown person with a portrait of the Minister of the Interior, Stalin's closest ally and one of the main organizers of the repressions of the 1930s, Lavrenty Beria. The picture was posted on Facebook of the Moscow Department of Culture, but subsequently deleted .

Photo: Alexander Kryazhev / RIA Novosti / Scanpix On May 9, 2015, the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War was celebrated in Russia. The grandiose holiday was preceded by several weeks of active training, hundreds of events held at the initiative of officials and citizens were timed to the country's Day in the country. Patriotic intensity these days was maximum - the number of absurd events dedicated to the anniversary turned out to be incredibly large.

The Moscow Mayor's Office has rejected the proposal of State Duma Deputy Dmitry Gudkov to perpetuate the memory of the former Deputy Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Boris Nemtsov, who was killed in Moscow on February 27. Gudkov offered to perpetuate the memory of the politician in any way: from renaming the bridge where Nemtsov was killed to naming a street in his honor and installing a memorial plaque.

France President in the memoirs of the former lover Photo: Gao Jing / Xinhua / Corbis / Vida Press In the second half of May, the book “Thank you for this moment” , written by the journalist Valerie Tireweiler, the former civil wife Francois Hollanda, is published at Corpus. They parted with the President of France after his photographs with actress Julie Gaya, testifying to their novel appeared in the media.

None of the candidates in the presidential elections in Poland, which took place on May 10, won 50% of the votes needed to win in one round. The second round of voting is scheduled for May 24. Incumbent President of Poland Bronisław Komorowski and oppositionist Andrzej Duda, representing the Law and Justice party, advanced to the second round. According to the results of exit polls, Duda is ahead of Komorowski with a slight advantage: 34.5% against 33.1% of the vote.

Ramzan Kadyrov's press secretary Alvi Karimov denied reports of the wedding of 17-year-old schoolgirl Kheda Goylabieva and 57-year-old head of the Nozhai-Yurt District Department of Internal Affairs of Chechnya Nazhud Guchigov. According to Karimov, Goylabieva has already finished school and has the right to get married, but "there was no wedding" and "there is no subject of conversation." “There was no wedding between this girl and this man in the Chechen Republic. There is no subject matter.

The Swedish Supreme Court upheld the arrest warrant for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Assange's lawyers said they were dissatisfied with the ruling, adding that the court did not allow the defense to make their case. One of the five members of the court did not agree with the decision of the board and insisted on the cancellation of Assange's arrest.

A court in Bali sentenced Russian citizen Alexandra Magnaeva to 16.5 years in prison. Magnaeva was found guilty of trying to bring drugs into the country from Hong Kong. The Russian woman was also ordered to pay a fine of 10 billion Indonesian rupiah (about 770 thousand US dollars). Alexandra Magnaeva, 26, was detained at Bali airport in December 2014. According to media reports, she flew in from Hong Kong with 2.1 kilograms of methamphetamines.