Manchester United beat Dutch side Ajax 2-0 in the Europa League final. The match took place in Solna, a suburb of Stockholm. The scoring was opened by Paul Pogba in the 18th minute. At the beginning of the second half, Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored the second goal. Manchester United, who have won the Champions League three times, won the Europa League for the first time.

Russian President Vladimir Putin responded with the words "Yes fools" to the questions of actor Yevgeny Mironov about the searches at the director Kirill Serebrennikov and at the Gogol Center theater. Andrey Kolesnikov, a Kommersant journalist, wrote about this. According to the publication, this is how Putin answered Mironov's question: “Why? Well, why do it?! You're flying to France on Monday!

In the Irkutsk region and the Krasnoyarsk Territory, 144 residential buildings burned down in ten settlements, Pavel Baryshev, Deputy Head of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the Russian Federation, said. Two people died in a fire in Kansk, Krasnoyarsk Territory. In total, 129 houses burned down in the Krasnoyarsk Territory (previously it was reported that there were about 80 of them). Between 250 and 450 people were left homeless.

At the parking lot of protesting truckers on the 51st kilometer of the Moscow Ring Road, 20 people were detained. According to OVD-Info, the drivers were pulled out of the cabs by armed fighters of the National Guard. At the time of the arrest, the truckers did not carry out any actions, however, the police pulled out protest posters from the cars and hung them on the cars to stage a picket, the newspaper reports.

Chechens in Berlin: death threats for choosing the "wrong path". Podcast Several tens of thousands of Chechens now live in Germany, most of whom have arrived in the country in recent years and claim refugee status. At the request of Meduza, journalist Dmitry Vachedin, who lives in Germany, found out how the life of the Chechen community in Berlin works and learned about the existence of an armed group whose representatives threaten fellow countrymen with death for immoral behavior.

The next “direct line” with Russian President Vladimir Putin in 2017 will take place on June 15. This was reported to RBC by sources close to the presidential administration, as well as a source on Russian television. The publication’s interlocutors called this date “the main one.” Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov refused to confirm or deny this information.

A new album of one of the most popular Russian-speaking rappers Scryptonite has been released. The record is called "Holiday on 36 Street", it has 13 tracks. You can listen to it through iTunes and Apple Music or VKontakte .

The HBO television channel published the first full -fledged trailer for the seventh season of the series Game of Thrones. The first episode of the season will be released on July 16. At the beginning of the video, Cersei Lannister says (probably his brother Jaime): “Enemies in the east, enemies in the west, enemies in the south, enemies in the north. No matter what stood in our way, we will overcome.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation did not find violations of the law in the transfer of property to the Sotsgosproekt fund, which the Anti-Corruption Foundation (FBK) of Alexei Navalny called associated with Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev. This is stated in the response of the department to the request of the deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Valery Rashkin.

In Taiwan, the Constitutional Court declared the country's ban on same-sex marriage illegal and ordered the authorities to change the law within two years. According to the court decision, the definition of marriage as a union between a man and a woman violates the principle of equality of all citizens and the right to marry. If the law is not changed within two years, same-sex couples should be allowed, like other citizens, to register marriages with registration authorities, the court ruled.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Chechens in Berlin: Threats with death for choosing a "wrong path" Several tens of thousands of Chechens now live in Germany, most of whom came to the country in recent years and claim the status of refugees.

Football player Guillermo Varelo spent a year in the German football club Eintracht from Frankfurt. He missed most of the season with an injury but played in the last four Bundesliga games and was scheduled to play in the German Cup final on 27 May before extending his contract with the team. But Varelo will not play in the final. On Monday, May 22, he made himself a tattoo, and it became inflamed.

Russian actress Elena Yakovleva was banned from entering Ukraine for three years. This was reported by Interfax-Ukraine with reference to the Ukrainian border service. According to the agency, Yakovleva was denied entry due to her visits to Crimea in 2015-2016 “bypassing official checkpoints”, that is, through Russia.

Studio STX Entertainment has published the final trailer for the movie Valerian and the City of the Thousand Planets with Kara Deleneine and Dan Dehan in the title role.

Photo: Victoria Votonovskaya / TASS On May 23, the Android Pay service launched in Russia, which allows you to make purchases with the help of the phone. It works like this: the user adds to the application on the phone C Android the data of his bank card, after which he pays already the device itself, applying it to the terminal. The launch of the system in Russia turned out to be crumpled. "Medusa" says that with Android Pay it was not so.