Russian President Vladimir Putin commented on the investigation by the international investigation team, which on May 24 declared that the Buk that shot down the Malaysian Boeing near Donetsk in 2014 belonged to the Russian army.

Members of the Pussy Riot group published in the French newspaper Le Monde an appeal to French President Emmanuel Macron calling on Russian President Vladimir Putin to release Ukrainian director Oleg Sentsov. Pussy Riot writes that Sentsov, who went on a hunger strike in the colony on May 14, showed himself to be a "man of iron will" who "cannot be forced to turn off the chosen path"; because of this, his relatives fear that the hunger strike can really threaten his life and health.

Cannes Film Festival Sergey Loznitsa’s new film “Donbass” was screened at this year’s Cannes Film Festival. The film shows life in the self-declared Donetsk and Lugansk Peoples’ Republics both during and after the war's most violent phase in 2014 and 2015. Meduza ’s film critic, Anton Dolin, says the movie won’t please many Russian and Ukrainian viewers, but that doesn't make the motion picture any less frightening, paradoxical, or outstanding.

One of the hostages taken in an apartment in eastern Moscow on May 24 has died, Interfax reports, citing police. The invader was arrested. According to police, he stabbed himself with a knife and is being taken to the hospital. Mash writes that the name of the deceased was Valery Eremin. His wife and child, also taken hostage, were not hurt. Hostages in an apartment on Molostov Street in eastern Moscow were taken , according to media reports, by artist Alexander Borovoy.

In the east of Moscow, an armed man keeps his neighbors, a family of three with a child, in an apartment. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the police and law enforcement sources. “A man in the apartment fired a shot at the ceiling and illegally keeps a family of three people who live in the next room in the room,” the police said. TASS reports possible victims. The police are "carrying out activities to arrest" the attacker.

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A chain of events JIM LO Scalzo / EPA / Scanpix / Leta 2017 ↓ North Korea, which is under international sanctions due to nuclear and missile programs, increased tests all year. Against this background, the new US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un exchanged insults (Trump called Kim a “little mankete man”, and Kim Trump-“a demented old man”) and began to threaten each other with the use of military force .

Elon Musk wants to open his own ‘Pravda.’ Here’s what Russia’s ‘Pravda’ says about Elon Musk.

Eight women anonymously told CNN they had experienced sexual harassment or inappropriate behavior from actor Morgan Freeman. Eight other people confirmed that they observed such behavior on his part. Update.

May 24. Disaster MH17: New accusations against Russia The main topic of the day The international investigative group officially stated that the Buk complex, from which the Boeing Malaysian Boeing near Donetsk belonged to the 53rd anti-aircraft missile brigade of the Russian Armed Forces, deployed near Kursk. The Buka route from Russia to Ukraine has been restored . At a press conference in the Netherlands, investigators showed a nozzle and a rocket engine that found in the east of Ukraine.

Applications of Dadin and other convicts about torture in IK-7 are true. The head of the colony confessed to the mockery and extortion of money David Frenkel / Kommersant In November 2016, Medusa published a letter from activist Ildar Dadin from correctional colony No. 7 in the Karelian city of Segezh. Dadin, who was serving there, said that torture and bullying in IK-7 are systematic and are encouraged by the leadership of the colony, headed by Major Sergei Kossiev.

Charles Sykes / Rex / Vida Press Mia Farrow and three of her children (Moses on the left), March 2002 On May 23, the adoptive son of actress Mia Farrow and director Woody Allen Moses Farrow published a post in his personal blog, where he supported his adoptive father. In 1992, Mia Farrow accused the director Woody Allen of sexual violence against their common adopted daughter, seven -year -old Dylan.

"Tesla is very expensive, not all available electric cars" Ekaterina Duplenskaya / Photobank Lori Ilon Musk, the founder of SpaceX and Tesla, announced on May 23 to launch the next project-a site that will evaluate the reliability of the work of journalists (or something like that). Mask plans to name the resource by the Russian word Pravda. Probably, Musk hints at the most famous Soviet newspaper, which now belongs to the Communist Party.

The trailer for the film “Brothers Systems”, shot according to the nominee of the Buker Prize of the same name, was released. The picture talks about two brothers who are given the task of finding and killing a dishonest gold detector. The main roles in the Systems Brothers were played by Jake Jillenhah, Joakin Phoenix, John See Railey and Rutger Hauer. Director - Frenchman Jacques Odiar (“Read the lips”, “Prophet”). One Media "Brothers Systems".

A beautification effort brings a little color to one of Russia's notoriously dreariest cities Elon Musk now watches over a street in Chelyabinsk, where a local “urbanist” group has painted his portrait on a transformer box as part of a new beautification campaign.