Photo: Evgeny Feldman On May 14, in Moscow, on Academician Sakharov Avenue, a rally was held against the adoption of a renovation law, according to which the mayor's office plans to send 4.5 thousand residential buildings under demolition. The action raised about 20 thousand people (according to the “White counter” movement; the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow estimated the number of participants of 5-8 thousand people).

The Moscow City Hall launched a vote on the demolition of five -story buildings as part of the renovation program. The vote began on the portal and in the “Active Citizen” appendix in the region of 20:00 on May 14, although earlier the city hall announced that the process would be launched on May 15. Voting consists of six questions, it is emphasized that only the owners of the apartments or those who live in them under a social rental agreement can express their opinion on renovation.

The WannaCrypt ransomware virus has an updated version. The virus was taught to ignore the meaningless domain name that stopped it from spreading. Thus, notes Motherboard, an updated version of the virus can continue to infect computers. The security specialist who tweets @MalwareTechBlog has discovered that the version of the virus that began to spread on May 12th is accessing the iuqerfsodp9ifjaposdfjhgosurijfaewrwergwea.com domain.

A python was discovered in the courtyard of a residential building on Dmitrovskoye Highway in Moscow. The snake lay near the garbage cans. TASS, citing sources in the department for civil defense, emergency situations and fire safety, reports that the python was five meters long. Sources of RIA Novosti in the emergency services of the city estimated the length of the python at three meters . The snake was taken away by the employees of the Ministry of Emergency Situations called to the scene.

The Moscow United Energy Company (MOEK) has suffered preventive shutdowns of hot water, Interfax reports. It was previously planned that the hot water supply in Moscow would begin on Monday, May 15. However, a spokesman for MIPC told the agency that "outages are not yet planned." A new date for the start of preventive maintenance has not yet been announced. It was originally planned that hot water shutdowns in Moscow would begin on May 10.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, after a rally against the demolition of five-story buildings, said that the city authorities would heed the "meaningful statements" made at the rally. This is stated in a message posted on Twitter by the mayor of Moscow. “In the course of work on the draft [renovation program], the opinions of Muscovites will be taken into account as much as possible,” Sobyanin wrote.

On May 14, a rally against the demolition of five -story buildings was held on Sakharov Avenue in Moscow. It took part from 8 thousand (data from the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in Moscow) to 20 thousand (data from the Public Organization "White counter). They demanded to stop the program of renovation of the capital's housing; The slogans also sounded about the resignation of the mayor of the city, Sergei Sobyanin. "Medusa" shows how this protest promotion has passed.

Portraits of Joseph Stalin and Lazar Kaganovich were hung on the pavilion of the Sokolniki metro station in Moscow. Published by Alexander Chekmarev on May 14, 2017 A banner with “proletarian greetings” to “the great and dear Stalin” was placed in the station lobby.

Police officers removed Alexei Navalny, his wife and son from a rally against the demolition of five-story buildings. this The politician announced on his Twitter, without specifying the reasons why he was taken away from the rally. Journalist Yekaterina Vinokurova, who was one of the organizers of the rally, had previously tweeted that "Navalny is rushing to the stage." Later, Navalny wrote that, according to his information, they were removed from the rally at the request of Vinokurova.

Photo: Sergey Karpukhin / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta on May 14 on Sakharov Avenue in Moscow, a rally was held against a five -story building program. According to the “White Counter”, more than 17 thousand people came to the rally. According to police, the number of participants did not exceed five thousand people agreed with the mayor.

One of the participants in the protest against the demolition of five-story buildings, which is taking place on Sakharov Avenue in Moscow, was detained, OVD-Info reports. As the detainee, Vladimir Belyaev, told the publication, the police approached him and, without explanation, took him to a paddy wagon, where he is currently located. According to Belyaev, the detention may be related to the content of the poster, which he had in his hands.

Update : The press service of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs for Moscow estimated the number of participants in the rally on Sakharov Avenue at about eight thousand people, Interfax reports . According to the White Counter project, more than 20 thousand people came to the rally against the demolition of five-story buildings in Moscow on Sakharov Avenue by 15:45 Moscow time.

A protest rally has begun on Sakharov Avenue in Moscow to protest the renovation program, under which the city authorities plan to demolish five-story buildings. The organizers of the action received permission to hold a rally with up to five thousand participants. By 13:30 Moscow time - half an hour before the start of the action - according to the White Counter project, about 3.5 thousand people gathered on Sakharov Avenue, Ekho Moskvy reports .

Cases of computer infection with the WannaCrypt ransomware virus have been recorded in 150 countries around the world, said Rob Wainwright, head of Europol, the European Union's police service. According to Europol, at least 200,000 organizations, individuals and companies, including major corporations, have become victims of the virus. “We have never seen anything like it,” Wainwright said in an interview with the British television channel ITV, according to The Daily Star .

Photo: Patrick Kovarik / EPA / Scanpix / Leta in Paris took place in the inauguration of the new French President Emmanuel Macron. Before taking the oath, Macron held a meeting in the Champs Elysees with his predecessor Francois Hollande. After the meeting, Macron, by tradition, led the outgoing president to the car awaiting him. 39-year-old Macron became the youngest head of France after Napoleon.