How did Nadezhda Savchenko meet in Kyiv. Report "Medusa" Photo: Mikhail Palinchak / Press Service of the President of Ukraine / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta On Wednesday, May 25, the Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko, convicted in Russia for aiding in the murder of employees of the VGTRK, was pardoned - on an airplane of the President of Ukraine, she returned to Kyiv.

Lawyer Ivan Pavlov, who defends the director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature Natalya Sharina, published on Facebook the text of a cultural, linguistic and psychological examination of books seized during a search in the library.

The Leninsky District Court of Yaroslavl canceled the fine imposed on the deputy of the regional Duma Vasily Tsependa for installing a commemorative plaque on the house where politician Boris Nemtsov lived. According to Tsependa himself, the court recognized the fine as illegal and canceled the decision to bring him to administrative responsibility. In addition, he explained that the location of the tablet is still unknown. “I wrote a statement to the police after she went missing.

The Investigative Committee for the Novosibirsk Region referred to court the case of a 21-year-old resident of Berdsk, accused of inciting hatred against Christians because of a post on the social network VKontakte. According to the UK, in January 2016, a young man posted on his page “an image of people swimming in an ice hole.” The picture was accompanied by a statement in which "a group of persons belonging to the religion - Christianity" is negatively assessed.

A group of video bloggers, which included the authors of the Rotor Riot channels, Corridordigital and Samtime, shot a short film with the help of drones based on Star Wars. In addition to drones, the creators of the short film used the figures of the Star Wars characters. Corridordigital Drone Star Wars According to the plot, the R2-D2 droid runs away from the imperial attack aircraft on the star on the star fighter T-65 “X-Wing”.

A court in New York sentenced Russian citizen Yevgeny Buryakov, who was arrested in 2015 on suspicion of espionage, to 2.5 years in prison. Buryakov was also sentenced to a $10,000 fine. Two and a half years in prison was a condition of Buryakov's deal with the investigation, which became known in March. Then it was reported that he pleaded guilty to conspiring to work in the United States as an agent of a foreign government without proper registration with the Department of Justice.

The mayor of Kiev, Vitaliy Klitschko, on the air of the Ukrainian Radio Vesti, said that the city authorities would collect in one place all the monuments demolished under the law on decommunization. Thus, the mayor noted, it will turn out to be a museum of lithoto… tolitera… tolitari… tolitorism.

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said that the outflow of population from the Far East for the first time in recent years "practically stopped." “I want to specifically note the gratifying fact that in the first months of this year the outflow of the population from the Far East has decreased by almost an order of magnitude. We can assume that it has practically ceased, ”RIA Novosti quotes him.

Photo: Roman Pilipya / EPA / Leta Nadezhda Savchenko, convicted in Russia for the murder of VGTRK employees in the Donbass, returned to Ukraine. Evgeny Erofeev and Alexander Alexandrov, whom the Ukrainian court sentenced to imprisonment for terrorism, came to Russia. Negotiations about this exchange lasted about a year - and completed successfully. Medusa briefly tells how events developed. Ukrainian Nadezhda Savchenko, Russians Evgeny Erofeev and Alexander Alexandrov did not admit their guilt.

Rocket and Space Corporation Energia presented the project of the reusable manned spacecraft Ryvok for flights to the Moon from the International Space Station. According to the developers, the cost of the Ryvka mission is one third lower than the Federation ship, which is also being developed by the corporation. In particular, the Ryvka project does not require the creation of a super-heavy launch vehicle.

Director Duncan Jones - About the film "Warcraft" Photo: Rich Fury / Invision / Ap / Scanpix / Leta In Russia, on May 26, the rental of the film "Warcraft" begins, the action of which takes place in the same game universe. The picture, telling about the first meeting of people with the orcs, was shot by the British director Duncan Jones, the son of David Bowie, known for the film "The source code".

A member of the UK parliament suspected the spy activity of the Cat Palmerston working in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Foreign Minister Philip Hammond had to deny that the pet is a foreign spy. In the patriotism and political views of the animal, a member of the conservative party Keith Simpson doubted. The politician asked at a meeting on the fight against the rodents: “Did Palmerston check the security service and at the Center for Government Communications?

Renowned Russian poet and essayist Sergey Gandlevsky was detained on Monday after ripping down a portrait of Joseph Stalin that was glued to a wall in Moscow’s Lyubanka metro station. According to Gandlevsky’s interview to news site OVD.info , the police were informed of his “misdemeanor” by an unidentified man.

Russia’s economic crisis has now encroached on summer travel patterns, with 35 percent of Russians intending to spend this season’s vacation time at their dachas, as opposed to elsewhere, according to a study by Russian Public Opinion Research Center, VTsIOM. This is the highest this figure (at just 19 percent in 2011 and 26 percent in 2015) has been over the past 12 years.

The Ministry of Justice of the Russian Federation has appealed the decision of the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) to pay compensation to Alexei Navalny and Petr Ofitserov in the Kirovles case. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the representative of the ECtHR. The interlocutor of the agency did not name the deadlines for considering the complaint of the Russian side, which came to court.