The Lithuanian Lustration Commission found no evidence that the actor Donatas Banionis collaborated with the KGB, BNS reports, citing Commission Chairman Algimantas Urmonas. According to him, based on the commission's decision, Banionis' relatives can sue the Lithuanian Genocide and Resistance Research Center, which published documents on Banionis's cooperation with the KGB. The actor's son, Raimundas , told LRT that he does not yet know whether he will file a lawsuit.

Moscow Mayor Sergei Sobyanin, who is a member of United Russia, plans to run in the September 2018 elections as an independent candidate, Vedomosti reports, citing three sources. A source close to the presidential administration noted that such a decision was made because in 2013 Sobyanin also participated in the elections as an independent candidate. According to sources close to the capital's mayor's office, Sobyanin's personal rating is higher than the rating of United Russia in Moscow.

More than 130 scientific and cultural figures signed a joint appeal from the Free Word association, the St. Petersburg PEN Club and the Free Historical Society calling for the release of Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov. The text of the appeal was published on the website of the popular science newspaper “Troitsky Variant”.

Former US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle have signed a deal with the streaming service Netflix to produce films and series. The Obamas have founded a production company, Higher Ground Productions, which will produce both feature and documentary content for the service. Netflix has not disclosed the length of the contract, but is calling it long-term. It is not known how much compensation Barack and Michelle Obama will receive under it.

Grigory Rabolive / YouTube spontaneous rally in the village of Psebai after the murder of a local resident Natalia Dmitrieva, May 18, 2018 May 14 in the Krasnodar Territory brutally killed the mother of five children On the night of May 14, on one of the streets in the village of Psebai (southeast of the Krasnodar Territory), the police found the body of a woman. The killed was a local resident, 40-year-old Natalya Dmitrieva. She had a husband and five children aged two to 20 years.

Yandex and Sberbank launched a beta version of the Beru online store based on Yandex.Market.

Police in Moscow have detained Sergey Boyko, the coordinator of Alexey Navalny’s headquarters in Novosibirsk, on charges of repeatedly violating Russia’s laws on public demonstrations. According to Vyacheslav Gimadi, a lawyer for the Anti-Corruption Foundation, the evidence against Boyko is a tweet he posted on April 12, where he called on people to protest against Vladimir Putin on May 5.

Businessman Mikhail Prokhorov has filed a defamation lawsuit against politician Alexei Navalny, Lyudmila Morozova, spokeswoman for the Lublin Court of Moscow, told RAPSI. As follows from the case file on the website of the Moscow courts, the lawsuit was filed on May 21. Morozova said that the reason was the investigation “How an oligarch pays a bribe to a deputy prime minister,” published on Navalny’s website on April 26.

May 21. The abolition of the sentence Tesaku and Hillary Clinton in Ushaka Main British parliamentarians demanded to tighten sanctions against Russian officials and businessmen. The Committee on International Affairs of the House of Commons has prepared a report that notes that the conditions for people close to President Vladimir Putin remain favorable in the UK and they continue to hide their corrupt revenues in the country.

Sergei Boyko, the former coordinator of the Novosibirsk and Moscow headquarters of Alexei Navalny, was detained in Moscow. As Boyko himself told Mediazone, a protocol was drawn up against him under part 8 of Article 20.2 of the Code of Administrative Offenses (repeated violation of the procedure for holding mass events) for the action “He is not our king” in Moscow. Before the trial, he was left for the night in the Tverskoy police station.

One of the defendants in the "Penza case" Dmitry Pchelintsev retracted his words about torture in the FSB due to new torture. He told his lawyer Oleg Zaitsev about this, Novaya Gazeta reports. Pchelintsev was detained in October 2017. Initially, he confessed, but on February 6 he told his lawyer that he did it under torture. On February 14, Pchelintsev retracted his words of bullying and again confessed.

Anton Krasovsky, a journalist and director of the AIDS.Center charity foundation, announced his intention to run in the Moscow mayoral elections. He stated this on the air of the radio station "Echo of Moscow". “I will run not against [Sergei] Sobyanin, not against Yashin, not against Dmitry Gudkov, not against some person who wins the primaries of Yabloko, the Left Front or the Communist Party.

The Japanese video blogger, leading on Utube, Channel Kiwami Japan, constantly makes sharp knives from improvised materials. His last work is a knife from jelly! 圧倒的不審者の極み! Jelly knife Kiwami Japan took several small packages with jelly, melted their contents, gave the resulting mass the shape of a thin plate and cut out a figure in the shape of a knife. Then he dried this figure, leaving it for a day on the air cleaner, and grind the tip.

NASA published personnel from a broadcast from the International Space Station, on which the astronaut (presumably Andrew Fiustel) is trying to turn on the GoPro camera in outer space. The broadcast was the conversation of the astronaut and the Mission Management Center. “By clicking on the button, I see the inscription“ No SD ”. Do I need this for recording? And if she removes, should a red light burn? ”Astronaut asked.

Two analysts at Sberbank CIB have reportedly concluded that the main beneficiaries of Russia’s export gas pipelines to China (the “Power of Siberia”) and Europe (“Nord Stream 2” and “TurkStream”) are the contractors hired to build the pipelines, not Gazprom or its shareholders. These contractors include Stroygazmontazh (owned by Arkady Rotenberg) and Stroytransneftegaz (half of which is owned by Gennady Timchenko and his family).