President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko said that after the EU Council approved a visa-free regime for Ukrainians, the country "finally formalized its divorce from the Russian Empire." Interfax-Ukraine reports this with reference to the 1+1 TV channel. “This is how we should philosophically perceive it,” he said. “We are talking not only and not so much about visa-free border crossing, we are talking about returning Ukraine to its historical place among European countries,” the president said.

The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation opened a criminal case in connection with the attack of a driver on a woman with children at a pedestrian crossing in Moscow. This was reported by the Moscow agency with reference to a representative of the Moscow department of the department. The case was initiated “on the fact of the use of violence against a woman”; the specific article is not mentioned in the message.

Died screenwriter Galina Shergova. She was 93 years old. Shergova is one of the most famous Soviet documentary filmmakers, the author of television programs and films. Among her works are the documentary cycle "Our Biography" , prepared for the 60th anniversary of the October Revolution in 1977, and the annual program "Minute of Silence", which has been released on May 9 since 1965.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny told the Navalny Live YouTube channel that in order to obtain a passport, which he needs to leave the Russian Federation for treatment, he wrote a letter to the head of the presidential administration, Anton Vaino. This was advised by the head of the Human Rights Council under the President of the Russian Federation, Mikhail Fedotov, to whom Navalny first turned with a request to “stop illegal actions” and issue him a document.

Update. Farkhad Akhmedov confirmed that he lost the trial to his ex-wife Tatyana. The High Court in London has ordered the 61-year-old Russian billionaire to pay his ex-wife £453 million in compensation. It is reported by the BBC. The businessman's wife received, according to the court decision, 41.5 percent of the jointly acquired assets. The court forbade the disclosure of the names of the participants in the process.

The former head of Rosnanotech (now Rusnano) Leonid Melamed has been under house arrest since July 2015. The investigation believes that his company stole 220 million rubles from Rosnano . Another defendant in the case, Sergei Ponurov, a former financial director of a state corporation, was in jail.

Prosecutors in 20 US states on May 11 demanded the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate alleged Russian interference in the US presidential election. They sent a corresponding letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

Representatives of the Russian Orthodox Church about the verdict Ruslan Sokolovsky, found guilty of insulting the feelings of believers On March 11, the court in Yekaterinburg sentenced to 3.5 years in prison, conditionally video blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky. He was condemned under the article on insulting the feelings of believers for playing the Pockemon Go game in the temple.

Photo: Alexander Shcherbak / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On May 10, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met in Washington with US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson. Then, the Russian diplomat was accepted in the oval office of US President Donald Trump; This was their first meeting.

In Chechnya, a police officer mortally wounded a woman in a cafe with a pistol. This was reported by the "Caucasian Knot" with reference to sources. According to the publication, the incident occurred on May 9 in the village of Znamenskoye, Nadterechny district. The woman was taken to the hospital, where she died. The circumstances of the incident are unclear.

The Russian Wikipedia turned 16 on May 11. During this time, users of the project have written almost 1.4 million articles (in total, there are more than 40 million of them in the Internet encyclopedia). It's very easy to get stuck on Wikipedia, jumping from one interesting article to another. But where to start? Meduza has collected five Twitter accounts that offer readers interesting articles, handpicked or automatically selected.

Each year, the Petersburg newspaper "Paper" is conducted by Science Slam - a scientific stand -up, in which scientists give fascinating lectures in front of a large audience and compete in who will talk better and more interestingly about very complex things. At the last Science Slam, the winner was the graduate student of the Faculty of Bioenginery and Bioinformatics of Moscow State University. Lomonosova Arthur Zalevsky.

Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation Yuri Chaika canceled the decision of his deputy Viktor Grin, who sent the criminal case of the former heads of the state corporation Rosnano for additional investigation. According to the official representative of the Prosecutor General's Office of the Russian Federation, Alexander Kurennoy, after "additional study of the materials," the case against Leonid Melamed and Svyatoslav Ponurov was sent to court.

The rector of the St. Petersburg University of Telecommunications named after Bonch-Bruevich Sergey Bachevsky was detained by the FSB in the case of abuse of power. This was reported by Fontanka without specifying the source. The detention of Bachevsky was preceded by searches in his office. What exactly is connected with the investigation, has not yet been reported. Earlier on May 11, Fontanka wrote that there were several defendants in the case and one of them was detained.

It turns out that Vladimir Putin throws pucks more often Alexander Ovechkin Vladimir Putin loves to play hockey The Russian president ascribes to himself the idea of ​​creating a continental hockey league - the main league where Russian clubs play. In addition, he is considered the patron saint of the Night Hockey League, where amateurs participate in the matches, sometimes the president himself. The last time Putin went out on the ice on May 10 and abandoned six goals.