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Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Ukraine turns off Runet Oleksiy Ponomarev and єvgen Berg are discussing the sanctions of Ukraine against Russian Internet resources, the confrontation of Alexei Navalny and Alisher Usmanov, the depolitization of city protests and fresh antiprostesis hits.

The board of directors of Gazprom at a meeting of shareholders will ask them to deprive the former Minister of Economic Development Alexei Ulyukaev of remuneration for 2016. This is stated on the website of the disclosure of corporate information. The same document names the amounts that other members of the board of directors will receive. Chairman of the Board of Directors Viktor Zubkov will receive 31 million rubles, his deputy Alexei Miller - 30.1 million rubles.

May 19. "Megafon" was left without communication, and Muscovites - without garages Megafon subscribers were left without communication. Alisher Usmanov’s company has had a lot of problems lately: exactly a week ago, its computers were infected with a ransomware virus, and today tens of thousands of people all over Russia could not use MegaFon’s mobile communications for several hours due to technical failures.

Photo: Adrian Dennis / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Founder WikiLeaks Julian Assange speaks with reporters from the Balcon of Ecuador Embassy in London on May 19, 2017. The prosecutor's office of Sweden decided to remove the charges of rape from the Assange and withdraw the warrant to his arrest. Nevertheless, the British authorities promised to detain Assange if he leaves the embassy.

Anita Sargsyan fought with sexism in video games for four years, and Trump supporters - with her Photo: Tomb Raider Lara Croft, the main character of the game Tomb Raider, rebuilt in 2013 They wrote a lot about Anita Sargsyan in 2015, and Time magazine included it in the list of 100 most influential people of the year - it was a key figure in the so -called gamergate, a high -profile sexist scandal in the video game industry.

State Duma deputy, boxer Nikolai Valuev participated in the opening ceremony of the bench in Taman. In addition to him, the ceremony was attended by representatives of the administration of the Taman rural settlement and builders of the bridge in the Crimea. Photo: Official Information Site of the Construction of the Crimean Bridge The bench is installed so that the construction of the bridge is visible from it. Her back is made in the form of navigable arches.

Director John Cameron Mitchell, writer Neil Gaiman and actress Elle Fanning have released teasers for the fantasy drama How to Talk to Girls at Parties. The film will premiere on May 21 at the Cannes Film Festival. The film tells about an alien (played by Elle Fanning) who travels the galaxy and ends up in London, where she meets local punks. The role of the "queen of punks" was played by Nicole Kidman.

Snup DOGG released his 15th album “Neva Left” on May 19. And this is a good reason to talk about the personality of the musician himself - one of the greatest rappers, a devoted friend of Tupac and a very funny commentator in the world, from sports to the world of wild animals. But first - a new album Neva Left can be listened to in Yandex.Music or Apple Music .

The problems with communication in Megafon networks occurred due to a failure in the subscriber data storage. Unnamed employees of two operators told Vedomosti that the failure occurred in the HLR system. A Megafon representative refused to officially name the cause of the failure. The newspaper's sources explained that due to this failure, even Megafon subscribers outside of Russia may have problems connecting to the network, since the system will not be able to identify them.

Photo: Christian Veron / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta Police Uses Vodomet to disperse the promotions of opponents of Venezuela President Nicholas Maduro in Karakas on May 18, 2017. Mass opposition performances have been continuing in Venezuela since the beginning of April. During this time, more than 40 people died in clashes with the police.

Photo: Sergey Guneev / Sputnik / Scanpix / Leta On May 18, billionaire Alisher Usmanov recorded a video message to politics Alexei Navalny. Among other things, he called Navalny’s manipulation that the businessman “sat for rape” by the verdict made in 1980. On May 19, the publication of RBC reported that representatives of the billionaire provided the editorial board of the court - and it only refers to economic crimes.

A spotted eublefar gecko named Tomo lives in Japan. And he's the most photogenic lizard you've ever seen. Look, here it is, on the left: Tomo is always happy and nice. And he also has a toy - a copy of himself. Tomo even knows how to wink!

How the Moscow authorities demolish garages throughout the city. Report "Medusa" Photo: Alexander Zamaraev / Photobank Lori Long before a large -scale program for the demolition of residential buildings in Moscow, another began - to eliminate garage cooperatives that appeared in Soviet times. On May 15, on the site next to the 60th anniversary Avenue in Moscow, the demolition of the garages located there began.

The Zamoskvoretsky Court of Moscow awarded compensation of 200,000 rubles for moral damage caused to the brother of a suspect killed in police custody. The plaintiff sought payment of 3.3 million rubles. His interests were represented by the lawyers of the Committee against Torture. Killed by the police - a resident of the Moscow region Farrukh Urozov - was detained in September 2014. He was suspected of using violence against a six-year-old girl.