Club "Zenith" ahead of schedule won the title of champion of Russia in football for three rounds before the end of the championship. On May 4, the St. Petersburg team played a 1-1 away draw with Akhmat in Grozny and scored 58 points in 27 games. In turn, the closest pursuer of Zenit in the standings and last year's champion, Lokomotiv Moscow, lost 0:2 on the road to Arsenal Tula, remaining in second place with 49 points.

The head of the municipal campaign of Alexei Navalny's headquarters in St. Petersburg, Alexander Shurshev, filed an application with the Investigative Committee to open a criminal case against the police officers who attacked him during a demonstration on May 1. The activist appealed to the Investigative Committee through Vitaly Cherkasov, a lawyer for the Apology of Protest human rights organization, Kommersant reports.

Makhachkala resident Olga Moskvitina, detained on May 1 at the "Monstration", stated that the police threatened to kill her and published her personal information on the Internet. As she herself told the OVD-Info publication, she was threatened because she is an intersex person and has the status of a transgender person. Moskvitina did not plan to participate in the "Monstration", but was detained during the action for supporting local journalist Svetlana Anokhina.

The American hockey team "Carolina Harrikaines", which is considered one of the weakest in the current NHL playoffs, reached the finals of the Eastern Conference for the first time in ten years. After two defeats, the club won six in a row-including the favorites of New York Ilanders and Washington Capitals, where striker Alexander Ovechkin plays.

Like a kickboxer Batu Khasikov, avoiding defeats, became the head of Kalmykia Elena Porotikova / TASS / Scanpix / Leta On March 20, 2019, Batu Khasikov, Kikbokser, known for the film “Battle with Shadow” and presented the region in the Federation Council, became the acting head of Kalmykia.

Writer, journalist, State Duma deputy Sergei Shargunov has been appointed editor-in-chief of Yunost magazine. “Thanks to the editors who proposed such a case and approved me unanimously,” he wrote on his Facebook. In this position, Shargunov replaced Valery Dudarev, who has been in charge of the magazine since 2007. "Youth" is now going through a difficult time. I would like to keep what is, try to make it brighter and stronger.

Is it possible to “lock” your cry in a saucepan if you quickly cover it with a lid? Of course not - sound doesn't work that way. But many still try! It all started with an old video posted on Twitter in January 2018. In the video, the girl first screams into the pot, then covers it with a lid, and after a few seconds she takes it off. At the same time, her scream is allegedly heard from the dishes.

17 tourists from Russia cannot leave the province of Bayan-Ulgii in western Mongolia due to the plague quarantine introduced there. This was reported to RIA Novosti by the press attache of the Russian embassy Ksenia Pankova. Earlier, Mongolian authorities confirmed the death of a married couple, presumably from bubonic plague. According to The Siberian Times, despite the existing ban, the 38-year-old man hunted marmots, which are carriers of the plague.

Pressley Ann / Getty Images for Libertine / AFP / Scanpix / Leta On April 27, the artist from Rostov-on-Don Svetlana Shubina posted a video on Instagram how she draws the American actress genre Burleske Dita von Tiz in the form of a tamer. Von Tiz reposted the video (the post was deleted, here is his literal quote ), promising to work with Shubina in the future. Two days after the video, Shubina laid out a post on her Instagram with an advertisement for South Korean jewelry companies.

The State Security Committee of Belarus announced the arrest of the general director of the Beltelecom enterprise, Sergei Sivodedov. He is suspected of receiving a bribe of 15 thousand euros "for assistance in the supply of telecommunications equipment." The bribe giver, Russian citizen "K", was detained along with him, the KGB said in a statement.

Collector Boris Friedman - About Livre DʼArtiste and why Ilya Zdanevich almost does not know in Russia Artem Geodakyan / TASS In the Pablo Picasso House-Museum in Malaga (Spain), with the support of the Pushkin Museum, the Ilyad and Picasso exhibition opened (will go until June 23). The exposition tells about the joint project of the theorist of the Russian avant -garde Ilya Zdanevich and Pablo Picasso: together they created several Livre DʼArtiste publications.

TV presenter Jimmy Fallon and actor Ryan Reynolds played an unusual version of the Russian roulette. 12 closed glasses were placed on the table in front of the participants. In five of them, water was poured, other liquids (for example, brine) were poured into the rest. Players should drink from a glass in their move. If it has water, you need to spit in the opponent’s face, and if something else, swallow and pass the move. The one who is the first to spit in the face three times.

Updated . Palestinian militants fired more than 200 rockets from Gaza in one day, the Israeli military said . According to preliminary data , as a result of launches and retaliatory shelling, an Israeli woman was seriously injured and one Palestinian was killed. More than 90 homemade rockets were fired on the morning of May 4 into Israel from the Gaza Strip. According to a tweet from the Israel Defense Forces, dozens of these missiles were intercepted by the Iron Dome system.

One soldier was killed and four were injured as a result of an explosion of ammunition at a training ground in the Sverdlovsk region, TASS reports. The incident occurred on May 3 in a military unit in the village of Yelansky, where the training center of the Central Military District is located.

The investigative department of the KGB of Belarus has charged Andrei Vtyurin, deputy state secretary of the republic's Security Council and former head of security for President Alexander Lukashenko, with bribery. His arrest became known at the beginning of the week.