Two British banks - Barclays and Standard Chartered - launched an internal investigation to find out if they were involved in the corruption schemes of the International Football Federation (FIFA). This is reported by BBC News, citing sources in the leadership of these credit institutions. Officially, banks have not yet commented on the start of an investigation to identify suspicious transactions related to FIFA.

What are they say about the governor of Saakashvili Ukrainian, Russian and Georgian politicians Photo: Nikolai Lazarenko / TASS / Vida Press On Saturday, May 30, President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko officially introduced the new governor of the Odessa region - former President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili. At the same time, Poroshenko signed a decree on the assignment of Saakashvili citizenship of Ukraine.

The reason for the problems with the issuance of painkillers for cancer patients is the human factor that needs to be dealt with, said Oleg Salagay, spokesman for the Ministry of Health. Not every clinic complies with regulations aimed at increasing the availability of narcotic painkillers, he admitted.

In the United States, 133 people suspected of collaborating with the Nazis, as well as of committing war crimes during World War II, received social benefits totaling more than $ 20 million. About it, informs AP, it is spoken in the report prepared by the chief inspector of management of social protection of the USA. The full version of the report will be made public in early June, but the agency was able to get acquainted with its contents.

The auction house Sotheby merous refused to remove the canvas of Ivan Aivazovsky “Evening in Cairo” at the request of the Russian branch of Interpol. “Evening in Cairo”, the statement widespread by the auction house will, as planned, is put up for auction by Russian art on June 2 in London. According to the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs, the Aivazovsky canvas was stolen from a private collection in Moscow in 1997. Ivan Aivazovsky.

The powers of the head of the Russian Football Union (RFU) Nikolai Tolstykh were terminated ahead of schedule. This decision was made following a secret ballot by the delegates of the conference of the Russian Football Union taking place in Moscow. The Executive Committee of the RFU decided to submit for consideration by the RFU conference the issue of early termination of Tolstoy's powers on April 29.

The first Alexander Solzhenitsyn museum in Russia opened in Kislovodsk. The museum is open in Gorina's mansion. In this house, owned by his aunt Maria Gorina, Solzhenitsyn lived as a child from 1920 to 1924. The house is mentioned in the novel The Red Wheel. In 2008, by decree of the President of Russia, the Gorina mansion was declared an object of cultural heritage of federal significance, and in 2009 it became a branch of the State Literary Museum.

State Duma Deputy Dmitry Gudkov sent a request to the Russian Foreign Ministry asking for a list of persons who are prohibited from entering Russia.

The creators of The Big Bang Theory have established a scholarship for students at the University of California (UCLA) majoring in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. The scholarship fund is four million dollars. The funds were donated by the Chuck Lorre Foundation, the creator of the series, about 50 people involved in the filming of The Big Bang Theory, including the main actors, as well as other representatives of the film industry, including CBS and Warner Bros. television.

US Secretary of State John Kerry has been hospitalized in a hospital in Geneva after falling from a bicycle, according to a statement released by the US Foreign Office. Kerry was injured on the morning of May 31 while cycling near the border with France. The US Secretary of State was evacuated from the scene to a hospital in Geneva by helicopter. During the survey conducted at the university hospital, it turned out, AP reports , that 71-year-old Kerry received a fracture.

England is ready to support the boycott of the World Cup if such a decision is made by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA). This was stated by the head of the Football Association of England Greg Dyke. The Football Federation of England will not boycott the world championships on its own, he stressed.

OSCE monitors in Donbas have recorded the disappearance of heavy weapons from some storage sites in Donbas. The disappearance of weapons, according to the report of the observation mission, was revealed at the sites belonging to both the separatists and the Ukrainian armed forces.

The Swiss prosecutor's office intends to interrogate Joseph Blatter, re-elected to the post of head of the International Football Federation (FIFA), writes The Sunday Times, citing sources close to the investigation. In addition to Blatter, according to the publication, nine other current members of the FIFA leadership will be called in for questioning.

From January to May 2015, police shot dead at least 385 people in the United States, averaging about two per day. Such data is published by The Washington Post, which has collected its own statistics of such incidents. Data from The Washington Post is twice the official statistics on deaths associated with the use of firearms by police officers for the same period of the last decade.

The eldest son of US Vice President Joseph Biden has died at the age of 46. Joseph Beau Biden Jr suffered from brain cancer. Beau Biden's health problems first became known in 2010, when he suffered a stroke. In 2013, the son of the Vice President of the United States was diagnosed with cancer and underwent treatment, after which he began remission. However, in the spring of 2015, the condition of Biden Jr.