Entrepreneur Alisher Usmanov demanded that opposition leader Alexei Navalny refute his 2012 investigation. It said that Usmanov gave a bribe to Deputy Prime Minister Igor Shuvalov. The demand is mentioned in the lawsuit that Usmanov filed with the Lublin Court of Moscow. The Dozhd TV channel got acquainted with the document.

Opposition leader Alexei Navalny called businessman Alisher Usmanov to a debate. Live on his YouTube channel , he stated that he considered Usmanov's video message posted on May 18 as a threat. “RBC and Dozhd wrote that they were ready to organize some kind of debate and if I was afraid to come to such a debate, I was asked many times. Not afraid. I am also addressing Alisher Burkhanovich Usmanov (in “you”). I say yes, I am ready to participate in such debates,” Navalny said.

Chelsea Manning spent about seven years in custody for passing classified military material to WikiLeaks. She was sentenced to 35 years in prison, but US President Barack Obama reduced the sentence. Previously, Chelsea was called Bradley - she began the sex change procedure in prison. On May 18, the day after her release , Chelsea Manning posted her first photo.

May 18 News about Russia, the States and Russian-American relations The car hit people in Times Square in New York. At least one person died and 12 others were injured. The police officially announced that this was not a terrorist attack: the 36-year-old driver got behind the wheel while intoxicated. He was detained. The person involved in the March 26 case was imprisoned for eight months. Aspiring actor Yuri Kuliy was sentenced to imprisonment in a colony-settlement.

The Ministry of Education did not find propaganda in the fact that the students of Vladimir State University were shown a film about the fact that Alexei Navalny was a criminal. This is stated in the department's response to a request from the creator of the Municipal Scanner project, Mikhail Maglov.

Ten coes about the billionaire appeal to Alexei Navalny On May 18, billionaire Alisher Usmanov published a video message to politics Alexei Navalny. One 12-minute video turned out to be full of bright statements, which immediately dispersed into memes . And the video with Usmanov turned out to be the perfect material for the manufacture of coes: users imposed on the video the tracks of “caste” and “bloodstream”, as well as mixed the words of a billionaire with excerpts from films.

On May 18, a car hit pedestrians in Times Square in New York. At least one person died and 20 others were injured. The police said that this was not a terrorist attack - a 36-year-old driver from the Bronx got behind the wheel while intoxicated. Meduza publishes photos and videos from the scene.

The NYPD has concluded that the accident in Times Square, where the car crashed into passers-by on the sidewalk, is not related to terrorism. It is reported by CBS. NBC also reports that, according to preliminary data, we are talking about a traffic accident, not a terrorist attack. The driver of the car, 26-year-old Richard Rojas, was detained. He had previously been arrested twice for drunk driving. The police have no information about his connections with terrorist organizations.

The Russian national team beat the Czech Republic with a score of 3:0 in the quarterfinal match of the Ice Hockey World Championship. The puck was scored by Dmitry Orlov, Nikita Kucherov and Artemy Panarin. In the semi-finals, Russia will face the winner of the Canada-Germany pair. The match will take place on Saturday, May 20. The goalkeeper of the Russian national team Andrey Vasilevsky was recognized as the best player of the match. He chalked up the third game without conceding goals.

In New York, a car at high speed crashed into passers-by in Times Square - an area where there are always a lot of locals and tourists. At least 20 people were injured, according to Reuters; another pedestrian died. According to police, the collision was not a terrorist attack. May 18, 2017 7:45:07 pm Chronicle closed. May 18, 2017 7:40:10 pm US President Donald Trump was briefed on the incident in Times Square. May 18, 2017 07:37:29 PM Police said the driver was 26 years old.

In New York, a passenger car crashed into passers-by on the sidewalk in Times Square. According to preliminary data , one person died, about 10 were injured. One of the victims said that the driver of the car acted deliberately. The car was driving in the opposite lane.

Derk Sauer, founder of Independent Media and former CEO of RBC holding, will buy The Moscow Times, which is owned by the family of Vedomosti owner Demyan Kudryavtsev. This was reported by RNS with reference to unnamed sources. Meduza's sources in the media market also confirm the upcoming deal. According to RNS, "the parties are close to a deal." Derk Sauer did not respond to an RNS request and Kudryavtsev declined to comment. Update.

The Dozhd TV channel found a woman who calls herself the "first" transgender from Chechnya. According to Dozhd, Leyla (as she asked to be called) fled from Russia to the United States in 2016, because her compatriots pursued her here. Layla's real name is unknown. The channel claims to have confirmed her identity through human rights activists who helped her move abroad. Leyla underwent a biological sex correction operation in the mid-2000s.

Photo: IWAMUSICBAND / YouTube The Belarusian-Russian pop group Iowa released a clip for the new song “Beauty”-in fact, about the variety of beauty. 50 people starred in the video, most of whom are not professional models or actors, but ordinary people. Iowa is one of the most popular Russian pop groups (in fact Belarusian-Russian). “Minibus”, “Smile”, “My poems, your guitar”-you probably heard something of this: not in your own headphones, so in the transition or in the store.

Former national security adviser to US President Donald Trump Michael Flynn refused to comply with the subpoena from the US Senate Intelligence Committee as part of the investigation into Russia. This was stated by the head of the committee, Richard Burr. “We will decide what to do with General Flynn now, if anything needs to be done at all,” the senator added. Now the Senate can start the process of formally bringing Flynn to justice for contempt of the investigation.