A video posted to the YouTube channel Typical Krasnodar showed a preschool principal forcing a young child to get down on his knees and kiss the ground. The principal, whose name is reportedly Emma Milner, said the boy was difficult to work with and had said he “hated Russia.” In the video, Milner can be heard telling him to kiss “the soil that feeds and waters him” before pushing his head toward the ground.

British Prime Minister Theresa May has fired Defense Secretary Gavin Williamson due to a loss of confidence, Reuters reports. In a letter to Williamson, quoted by BBC News and Sky News , May said he was fired following an investigation into leaks from a UK National Security Council meeting. According to Reuters, we are talking about a meeting at which the authorities allowed Huawei to develop a fifth-generation (5G) mobile communication network in the country.

Special Counsel Mueller was dissatisfied with the short version of his report on the "Russian investigation", which was prepared by the US Department of Justice. This follows from Mueller's letter to the head of the Department of Justice and Attorney General William Barr, which was made public by Democrats from the US House Judiciary Committee. The letter is dated 27 March.

The Court of Arbitration for Sport has rejected South African runner Caster Semenya's appeal to the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF). The athlete sought to overturn new IAAF rules that bar athletes with elevated testosterone levels from competing in women's track and field.

The collections of the picture "Avengers: Endgame" in the Russian box office by May 1 exceeded one billion rubles. This is evidenced by the data of the Unified Federal Automated Information System of Information (UAIS) on screenings in cinema halls. The picture was watched by 3.5 million viewers in Russia. The tape broke two records in the domestic box office - in advance sales of tickets for sessions (308 million rubles) and in fees on the first day (430 million rubles).

Update : Magomed Darsigov, a deputy of the People's Assembly of Ingushetia, told Interfax that reports that he allegedly kidnapped a bride are not true. One of the deputies of the People's Assembly of Ingushetia kidnapped a local resident in order to marry her, Interfax reports citing a source. “The abduction of a woman took place in the Malgobek district of Ingushetia.

Igor Russak / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA More than 100 different demonstrations swept through Russia’s streets on May 1, and more than 120 participants were arrested in nine cities. More than 60 of those arrests took place in St. Petersburg when police officers stopped opposition activists carrying a banner that read “Petersburg against United Russia” from walking down the city’s central Nevsky Prospekt. Meduza correspondent Pavel Merzlikin summarizes the events of the day.

Porto goalkeeper Iker Casillas, 37, suffered an acute myocardial infarction during training on May 1. This information was confirmed by the press service of Porto. Casillas was hospitalized. Now his life is not in danger, the press service reports. According to the Portuguese edition of A Bola, the goalkeeper will not enter the field until the end of the season. Casillas moved to Porto in 2015 and won the Portuguese championship and the country's Super Cup with him.

Olena Zelenskaya, the wife of Ukraine's President -elect Volodymyr Zelensky, bought a penthouse in Crimea in 2013 for less than half the market price, Reuters reports, citing income and property declarations filed by the Zelenskys and the Ukrainian property registry. We are talking about a three-room apartment in the penthouse of the residential complex "Emperor" in Yalta.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on the isolation of the Russian segment of the Internet. The document is posted on the legal information portal. The law will come into force on November 1, 2019. A number of its provisions, including those on the national domain name system, will come into effect in 2021. The State Duma approved the law on April 16, the Federation Council on April 22.

Natalya Fedosenko / TASS / Scanpix / Leta Vladimir Putin withdrew Mikhail Babich from the post of Russian Ambassador to Belarus "in connection with the transition to another job." Senator Dmitry Mezentsev was appointed to Babich's place. Since 2015, Mezentsev has been a member of the Federation Council from the Sakhalin Region, his powers have expired in September 2019.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has dismissed the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Ingushetia, Dmitry Kava. The corresponding decree was published on the Internet portal of legal information. In early April, Interfax reported , citing a source, that Kava had submitted his resignation "against the backdrop of events in Magas." On March 26-27, a rally was held there against changes to the local law on referendums. Clashes began between protesters and Rosgvardia officers.

Russian president Vladimir Putin has signed an order allowing citizens of Ukraine and stateless individuals to apply for Russian citizenship on an expedited basis if they were born in the Crimea and lived there before Russia annexed the peninsula on March 18, 2014. The order also applies to individuals who were deported from the Crimea in the Soviet era or who lived in “certain districts of Donetsk and Luhansk Oblasts” before April 2014 but now have the documentation necessary to live in Russia.

More than 100 people were detained on the May Day actions in Russia. The most massive detentions are in St. Petersburg Igor Russak / Reuters / Scanpix / Leta In the cities of Russia, more than a hundred May Day actions have passed. In nine cities, they ended with the detention of the participants. More than 60 people were detained in St. Petersburg - the police did not allow opposition activists to go along Nevsky Prospekt with the Banner of Petersburg v. Osra.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree that introduces a simplified procedure for obtaining Russian citizenship for certain categories of citizens of Ukraine and other countries. The document was published on the Internet portal of legal information. According to the decree, citizens of Ukraine and stateless persons who were born in Crimea and lived there before March 18, 2014 , as well as those who were deported from Crimea during the Soviet era, may apply for a simplified procedure.