US President's wife Melania Trump underwent kidney surgery to treat a benign tumor. It is reported by CNN with reference to the office of the first lady of the United States. The operation took place on May 14 at the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland; she was successful. Melania Trump will be in the hospital for about a week before returning to work, her communications director Stephanie Grisham said. Donald Trump was in the White House during his wife's surgery.

In the Yekaterinburg shopping center "Alatyr" a security guard attacked a teenager with cerebral palsy Roman Valitov. The mother of the victim, Elena Lavrentyeva, informed the local edition of Ekaterinburg Online about this. The incident occurred on May 13, when 19-year-old Valitov was leaving the Media Markt hardware store. “On weekends, he sometimes goes to Media Markt. He looks at phones, tablets there and, like all normal, healthy people, loves to play on them.

The mother of Ilya Shakursky, the defendant in the Penza case, Elena Bogatova, filed a complaint against Mikhail Grigoryan with the lawyers' commissions of Moscow and Penza. She asks to bring him to disciplinary responsibility for violation of lawyer ethics. A copy of the complaint is at the disposal of Mediazona. In particular, Bogatova claims that Grigoryan did not convey to her the words of her son that the security forces were torturing him with electric current.

About a dozen Google employees decided to quit in protest against the company's cooperation with the Pentagon under the Project Maven program. This is reported by Gizmodo, citing sources in Google. As part of Project Maven, Google is developing artificial intelligence for the US military that could analyze video from drones and automatically separate inanimate objects from people. Google employees who decided to quit said that cooperation with the Pentagon is unacceptable.

We analyze the examples of Great Britain, Italy, Switzerland Abingdon School The value of a prestigious foreign education is that it gives a wide set of applied knowledge, teaches self -discipline and reveals the potential. It is easier for graduates of private European schools to enter the best universities in the world than Russian schoolchildren.

The court rejected Mikhail Khodorkovsky's claim to recognize the illegal blocking of the websites Khodorkovsky.ru, Open Russia, Instead of Putin and MBKh Media. The lawsuit was filed against the Prosecutor General's Office and Roskomnadzor. In court, a representative of the Prosecutor General's Office argued that all four projects were connected, citing materials on the Open Russia website, as well as the "Projects" item on the Khodorkovsky.ru and Instead of Putina.ru websites.

The British Film Classification Board (BBFC), a non-governmental organization responsible for classifying and censoring films and games, has offered special "porn passes" to be sold in shops and kiosks. It is assumed that with their help, the British will be able to anonymously visit porn sites. The idea for special passes came about as part of discussions about legislation that would restrict children's access to porn sites.

The Russian national ice hockey team defeated the Slovakian team in the group stage match of the World Championship. The meeting ended with the score 4:0. Russians scored pucks Maxim Mamin, Nikita Gusev, Maxim Shalunov and Ilya Mikheev. The last two goals were thrown in the last minutes into an empty net. Russia won five out of six matches at the World Cup, losing only once in overtime to the Czech Republic. The Russians will play the last match of the group stage on May 15 against the Swedes.

The Tverskoy Court of Moscow fined Yevgeny Fedorchunkov, a member of the Cossack organization, who was found guilty of petty hooliganism at a rally on May 5, RAPSI reports, citing Anastasia Dzyurko, press secretary of the court. During the trial, Fedorchunkov himself admitted that he was a Cossack and a member of a public organization. The name of this organization is not reported. According to Interfax, citing a source, the amount of the fine amounted to a thousand rubles.

Video disassemble "Medusa" Vaccinations appeared more than two hundred years ago - about the same time, the first fighters against vaccinations appeared. People were afraid of vaccination as something unknown and dangerous, they are also afraid of it today. Why can anyone inspire people that vaccinations are harmful, and why are vaccines more afraid of more diseases? We explain less than five minutes.

May 14. Palestinians against the US Embassy in Jerusalem: dozens of dead The United States today officially transferred its embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem. The ceremony was attended by the Minister of Finance Stephen Mnuchin and the daughter of the President of the United States Ivanka Trump, as well as the majority of senior Israeli politicians, led by the country's prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu.

The Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church appointed Bishop Tikhon (Shevkunov) as the ruling bishop of the Pskov Metropolis. As priest Alexander Volkov told TASS, Shevkunov will also retain the position of head of the Patriarchal Council for Culture. Tikhon is expected to receive the rank of metropolitan in the near future. Bishop Tikhon was repeatedly mentioned in the media as the confessor of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

A court in Iraq has sentenced to death by hanging a terrorist involved in the kidnapping and murder of Russian diplomats in 2006. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the statement of the representative of the Supreme Judicial Council of Iraq Abdel Sattar Birkadar. The accused confessed to kidnapping four Russians along with an armed group.

The Investigative Committee changed the measure of restraint for the former director of the Gogol Center, Alexei Malobrodsky, from detention to a written undertaking not to leave. The corresponding decision was made by the investigator in the Seventh Studio case.

Festival de Cannes At the festival in Cannes, the film was shown the Italian director Alich Rorvacher “Happy Lazarus” - about the peasant Lazzaro, who suddenly dies, but then resurrects. The film critic of Medusa Anton Dolin believes that “Happy Lazarus” is the most amazing film of the film festival, which clearly claims to be the main prize. Quite little is known about the Gospel Lazar. He lived in the village of Bethany with the sisters, Maria and Martha; Jesus loved their family.