How the head of Moscow's Ukrainian literature library landed in court Photo: Artem Korotaev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA On Monday, May 29, a Moscow court heard closing arguments in the case against the former director of the Library of Ukrainian Literature, Natalia Sharina, who stands accused of distributing extremist materials and embezzling government funds.

Uber has fired Vice President Anthony Lewandowski, who led the self-driving truck program. It is reported by Reuters. This was previously reported by The New York Times, citing a letter sent to company employees. As follows from the publication, the decision is related to Lewandowski's unwillingness to appear in court in a lawsuit filed by Waymo (owned by Alphabet, the parent company of Google), which accused him of stealing technology.

Roshydromet's forecast for the weather in Moscow on May 29 did not imply an emergency warning of people, since it said that the wind was not strong enough. This was stated by the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia. “According to the classification of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of Russia, <…> the forecast did not fall under the criteria of “emergency”, since the wind speed was expected to be less than 25 meters per second, that is, 17-22 meters per second.

Dozhd journalist and member of the Public Monitoring Commission of Moscow, Kogershyn Sagieva, visited the former accountant of the Seventh Studio, Nina Maslyaeva, who was arrested on May 27 in a case of embezzlement of budget funds, in the detention center on Petrovka in Moscow. In a conversation with Sagiyeva, Maslyayeva stated that she was “ready for anything” to be released. “I want to go out, I'm not a young man to sit here.

Advertising posters appeared in St. Petersburg with the text “Calling to participate in a protest action? Think with your head, don’t be fooled by provocations.” The photo was posted on Twitter by Fyodor Gorozhanko, an employee of the Anti-Corruption Foundation. The text on the advertisement is illustrated with an image of a man being manipulated using strings, like a puppet. It is unknown how many such posters are hung in the city.

Between the English-language Twitter accounts of Russia and Ukraine on May 30 there was a skirmish over the words of Russian President Vladimir Putin about Princess Anna, the daughter of Prince Yaroslav the Wise, said at a press conference with French President Emmanuel Macron.

Picture of the day in seven limericks (send your options!) 1. Bishop, who was called Nectarios, He cut through the "Toyota" donated . Governor in response To the reproaches of the newspapers He answered: gentlemen, God is not a fraer to you. 2. Son of Igor Ivanovich Sechin To the envy of everyone, fate provided : He is not thirty But already in Rosneft And well-deserved before the Fatherland. 3.

Photo: Evgeny Feldman / Project "This is Navalny" On Tuesday, May 30, the Lublin Court of Moscow began to consider on the merits a lawsuit to protect the honor and business reputation of businessman Alisher Usmanov against politics to Alexei Navalny and his Fund for the fight against corruption (FBK). Usmanov demands that Navalny publicly refute a number of statements that sounded in the investigation “He is not Dimon for you” and published on the website and the opposition Facebook page.

What to do before starting to watch the fifth season (and no spoilers!) Photo: David Giesbrecht / Netflix The Netflix channel opened access to the fifth season of the series “House Card” on May 30, and on the night of the 31st, the subscribers of “Amediates” will be able to watch new episodes. It is better to prepare for the viewing of new episodes - therefore, “Medusa” tells what to see, read and listen to the “card house” before the fifth season. 1.

The YouTube channel Conceptual TV has published a video showing the moment hurricane winds destroyed the “Golod Pyramid” structure outside Moscow on Monday. The video includes remarks from “Radmir the Vedic shaman,” who says he performed a pagan Slavic ritual just before the pyramid collapsed. When his ceremony ended, the lights went out and everyone ran from the structure, he says. Seconds later, winds knocked the building to the ground.

A charity concert will be held at Old Trafford Stadium in Manchester on June 4, proceeds from which will go to help the victims of the May 22 terrorist attack at the Ariana Grande concert. Ariana Grande herself, Justin Bieber, Coldplay, Miley Cyrus, Pharrell Williams and other performers will take part in the concert. Visitors to the concert on May 22, after which the attack occurred, will be able to visit the show for free.

Yandex showed a prototype of an unmanned car. In the video "Toyota" travels around the site at a speed of not more than 13 kilometers per hour. At the end of the video, two people pass in front of the car, and the car travels around them. Yandex Yandex.Taxi Self-Driving Car-First Demo The development of an unmanned car is conducted by Yandex.Taxi.

The Russian Ministry of Culture has proposed charging a "mandatory deduction" of five million rubles to the Cinema Fund for the development of Russian cinematography from films released for distribution. The corresponding bill is planned to be submitted to the State Duma, said the head of the department, Vladimir Medinsky.

Photo: Sergey Ilnitsky / EPA / Scanpix / Leta On May 29, 2017, 16 people died in Moscow and the Moscow Region due to the storm, almost one and a half hundred were in hospitals. The wind tumbled down 27 thousand trees and more than a hundred lamock pillars. The system of notification of citizens worked poorly: many people did not know about the danger or could not evaluate it correctly. "Medusa" answers several important questions arising after the storm. So is it a storm or a hurricane?

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko called Yaroslav the Wise an "ancient Ukrainian prince" and said that Vladimir Putin tried to "abduct into Russian history" Princess Anna Yaroslavna. Poroshenko made an appeal in connection with the ratification by the Netherlands of the Association Agreement between Ukraine and the EU.