Accused of fraud, businessman Valery Pshenichny, who was found dead in SIZO No. 4 in St. Petersburg in February 2018, committed suicide. This was stated to TASS by the head of the main investigative department of the RF Investigative Committee for St. Petersburg, Alexander Klaus. He added that investigators have not yet established whether Pshenichny was driven to suicide. “It is reliably established that suicide took place.

Why is Deadpool afraid of cows? Why can't Deadpool just get plastic surgery? Does Deadpool make people horny? Ahead of the worldwide release of “Deadpool 2,” Meduza correspondent Sultan Suleimanov sat down with Ryan Reynolds, and asked him some of the strangest questions now circulating on Russian social media about the motormouth superhero Reynolds portrays in the film. Meduza Weird-ass Deadpool questions for Ryan Reynolds

In the early nineties, the German Federal Intelligence Service received the formula for the Novichok toxic substance, which is believed to have been used to poison Sergei and Yulia Skripal. This conclusion, after a joint investigation, was made by journalists from the German newspapers Die Zeit and Süddeutsche Zeitung, as well as the TV channels WDR and NDR.

Former United Russia expert council member Yuri Kotler, who was found dead in Moscow, was declared bankrupt shortly before his death. He owed 50.4 million rubles to VTB Bank, where until 2015 he held the position of senior vice president. As follows from the materials of the Moscow Arbitration Court, a person whose name and date of birth match the data of the former member of the expert council of United Russia and Vice President of VTB Yuri Kotler took a mortgage loan from VTB in May 2015.

AP / Scanpix / Leta Oleg Sentsov during the announcement of his sentence, August 25, 2015 Director Oleg Sentsov, who was serving in Russia 20-year prison term under an article on terrorism, on May 14 announced a hunger strike. Through his lawyer, he transmitted a note, which says that he would starve until Russia releases all Ukrainian political prisoners (the Ukrainian Foreign Ministry considers 64 citizens of his country in prison in the Russian Federation).

Elena Gremina died - playwright, director, director of theater.doc Glory to the plans / Asi On May 16, in Moscow, the playwright, director, co -founder and director of theater.doc, Elena Gremina, died of heart and renal failure. She was 61 years old.

Michigan University will pay $ 500 million to women affected by sexual violence by the sports doctor Larry Nassar. 425 million dollars will be paid to 332 women who sued the university. Another 75 million will be intended for payments to possible future applicants. “The University of Michigan is glad that we were able to reach an agreement fair in relation to the victims of Nassar’s crimes,” said the university representative (English).

Actor Benedict Cumberbatch is set to star in Brexit, a film about the UK's Brexit referendum. The plot of the picture will focus on the use of new technologies in the struggle to attract votes. Cumberbatch will play the role of Dominic Cummings, leader of the NGO Vote Leave. The film will be shown on Channel 4 shortly before the completion of the UK's exit from the EU, which is due to take place in March 2019.

The jury of the Woodhouse Prize - the only prize in the UK, awarded for the best humorous work in English - decided not to call the winner in 2018. All because of the 62 applicants for the prize, no one wrote a truly funny book. One of the jury members, publisher David Campbell, said that the decision to not present the prize was caused by the desire to maintain “high standards of humorous literature”.

16th of May. Hunger strike of Oleg Sentsov and secret pages of Anne Frank's diary Main news Director Oleg Sentsov, who is serving a 20-year sentence on charges of terrorism, went on an indefinite hunger strike . Sentsov demanded the release of 64 Ukrainian political prisoners held in custody in Russia. The director's lawyer said that he intends to refuse food either until the requirements are met, or until his own death. In Moscow, died the head of "Teatr.doc" Elena Gremina .

On the morning of May 16, in the city of Sunzha in Ingushetia, an attempt was made on the life of a prosecutor who is acting as a prosecutor in a case of torture at the republican Center for Combating Extremism of the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Center “E”). This was reported by Interfax, citing a source. The name of the employee of the prosecutor's office is not named by the agency. There is no information yet on the suspects in the case.

A member of the expert council of United Russia, a former member of the supreme council of the party, Yuri Kotler, was found dead in Moscow, TASS reports citing a law enforcement source. According to the interlocutor of the publication, Kotler was found with a gunshot wound to the head in an apartment on Bolshaya Nikitskaya Street. It is assumed that he committed suicide. A gun was found next to the body, sources told RIA Novosti and Kommersant .

Memory of the American writer who came up with "new journalism" David Corio / Redferns / Getty images Tom Wolf, 2004 On May 15, Tom Wolf, a journalist and writer, the author of the novels “Bonfires of Abites” and “Full Men”, died in New York. He was 87 years old. Wolf is the founder of “New Journalism”, the genre at the junction of artistic prose and a document that developed the idea of ​​emotional, “personal” reporter texts.

On May 20, an agreed-upon rally against torture in law enforcement agencies will be held in Ovsyannikovsky Garden in St. Petersburg. This was reported on Facebook by the Rupression community dedicated to the “Penza case”, some of the defendants of which announced torture in the FSB. As Elena Shendera, the applicant for the action, told OVD-Info, the organizers initially wanted to hold a procession; they applied to the administration of St.

Peter Dejong / AP / Scanpix / Leta Aleas of the Anna Frank diary. May 15, 2018 Secret pages Employees of the Anna Frank House-Museum in Amsterdam announced that they were able to find out the contents of the two pages of the girl’s diary, which remained a secret for about 70 years. Anna herself seized these pages with dense brown gum paper, which was impossible to peel off without spoiling the diary.