The film crew of the Rossiya TV channel came under fire from the Ukrainian military on the Donetsk-Gorlovka highway. This is reported by the website "Vesti". None of the journalists were hurt. According to VGTRK correspondent Stanislav Nazarov, the fire was from mortars, grenade launchers and small arms. There are no comments from the Ukrainian side regarding the incident yet.

Moscow CSKA became the winner of the basketball Euroleague. In the final, which took place on May 15 in Berlin, the Russians defeated the Turkish Fenerbahce with a score of 96:101. The match ended in overtime. During the meeting, CSKA had an advantage of 20 points, but lost it by the end of regular time. The last quarter ended with the score 83:83. In the second quarter of the match in one of the sectors there was a skirmish between Russian and Turkish fans.

In St. Petersburg, conductor Svyatoslav Luther was found dead in his apartment. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in law enforcement agencies. According to unconfirmed reports, the conductor was found hanged. Fontanka reports that he left a farewell note to his parents on his computer. Earlier it became known that the police began searching for Luther at the request of his father.

The head of the Supreme Court of Chechnya Magomed Karataev agreed to resign. “After these critical remarks [the head of Chechnya Ramzan Kadyrov - approx. Jellyfish ] I concluded for myself that I could not properly control the work. I accept the head's proposal to resign and apologize to him and the Chechen people. I wrote a statement on the termination of powers, ”the State TV and Radio Company Grozny quotes Karataev.

St. Petersburg "Zenith" in the penultimate round of the championship of Russia on football played at home in a draw with the Moscow "Locomotive" and lost the chance to win in the Premier League. Now only two teams can win the championship - CSKA and Rostov. The match in St. Petersburg ended with the score 1:1, both goals were scored from the penalty spot. In the 10th minute, Hulk (Zenit) scored, in the 45th - Alexander Samedov (Lokomotiv).

The largest cruise airliner in the world - Harmony of the Siz (Harmony of the Seas) - went on May 15 on the first journey. The ship left the harbor in the French Saint-Sazer, where he was erected, and went to the English Southampton. Before the exit of the liner from Saint-Nazer, tens of thousands of people were observed. LʼEcho de la Pressqu'le départ Harmony of the Seas The ship was ordered by the American company Royal Caribbean Cruises and cost approximately a billion euros.

The fight for the World Boxing Council (WBC) world title between Russian Alexander Povetkin and American Deontay Wilder has been postponed. Initially, it was supposed to take place on May 21 in Moscow, but a week before the fight it became known that a prohibited drug, meldonium, was found in Povetkin's blood. The organizer of the fight Andrey Ryabinsky announced the postponement of the fight. When the battle will now take place is unknown.

A 23-year-old resident of Canada joined the ranks of people who paid the price for blind faith in a GPS navigator. According to ABC, on the evening of May 12, the girl was driving through an unfamiliar area in the province of Ontario in very bad weather. Turning at some point to the right at the direction of the navigator, she moved down the platform for launching boats into Lake Huron - one of the Great Lakes.

The police are looking for the alleged instigator of the fight at the Khovansky cemetery in Moscow, the 360° TV channel reported on the evening of May 14. According to the channel, the suspect is a 42-year-old native of the Astrakhan region, Lechiy Yakhyaev. A person with a similar name (Lechi Yahyaev) appears on the list of victims of the fight, published by the Life website. There is no official confirmation of this information.

Many representatives of the Russian authorities considered it necessary to speak out about the victory at Eurovision 2016 of the Ukrainian singer Jamala, who sang about the deportation of the Crimean Tatars (Russian singer Sergey Lazarev took only third place).

Manchester United's Old Trafford stadium was evacuated ahead of the English Premier League match between Manchester United and Bournemouth because of a suspicious item. Spectators from the north and west stands were evacuated first. Soon the rest of the spectators were withdrawn from the stadium, and the match was cancelled. Local police later said bombers had carried out a controlled explosion at the stadium. Whether the suspected item was an explosive is unknown.

Dutch Formula 1 driver Max Verstappen, who replaced Russian Daniil Kvyat in the Red Bull team, took first place in the Spanish Grand Prix. Ferrari's Kimi Raikkonen (+0.616 seconds) and Sebastian Vettel (+5.581 seconds) took second and third places. Daniel Ricciardo of Red Bull came fourth, 43.95 seconds behind Verstappen. Daniil Kvyat, playing for the Toro Rosso team, took 10th place.

Türkiye, Georgia and Azerbaijan may hold joint military exercises. This was stated by the head of the Azerbaijani military department Zakir Hasanov following a meeting with colleagues from Turkey and Georgia. According to him, the countries intend to sign a memorandum of understanding in the field of defense. “This will serve as the legal basis for our trilateral cooperation, will become the basis for a new stage of our trilateral cooperation,” said .

How they voted for Jamalu and Lazarev - and what does Australia have to do with it Photo: Vyacheslav Prokofiev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On the night of May 15, in Stockholm, the Ukrainian singer Jamal won Eurovision with the song “1944” dedicated to the deportation of the Crimean Tatars. Based on the results of the joint vote of judges from the national jury, she participated in the Eurovision and viewers' countries.

Photo: Vitaly Belousov / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta on May 15 on Red Square in Moscow, a solemn line was held in honor of the 94th anniversary of the education of the All-Union Pioneer Organization with the participation of the Communist Party leader Gennady Zyuganov and more than four thousand children, which, according to the party, arrived from all over Russia, as well as from Donetsk and Lugansk. During the holiday, the children brought a pioneer oath.