Liverpool beat Barcelona 4-0 in the second leg of the Champions League semi-final to advance to the final. The first goal against the Catalans in the seventh minute was scored by Divock Origi. Georginio Wijnaldum scored a brace in the 54th and 56th minutes. In the 79th minute, Origi scored his second goal. The first meeting between Liverpool and Barcelona ended 3-0 in favor of the Catalan club.

Google introduced the Pixel 3a and Pixel 3a XL smartphones at the I/O 2019 developer conference. The new devices are budget versions of the Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL, which went on sale in the fall of 2018. Smartphones are equipped with an 8 megapixel front camera and a 12 megapixel rear camera (tech journalists call the cameras of these devices among the best on the market). The amount of memory of new products is from 64 to 128 gigabytes.

Sheremetyevo Airport has posted a minute-by-minute chronology of the Aeroflot Superjet crash on its website on May 5. The plane's crew reported returning to Sheremetyevo at 18:12, 10 minutes after takeoff. The reason for the return was said to be a radio failure. The Superjet landed at 18:30 and caught fire during landing. At 18:31, the evacuation of passengers began, and at 18:32, the first fire brigade arrived at the airliner. Three minutes later, rescuers entered the burning plane.

An administrative protocol for disrespect for the authorities was drawn up against Yaroslavl resident Kirill Poputnikov because he posted a photo of the graffiti "Putin *****" on the regional Ministry of Internal Affairs building on his Facebook page. Poputnikov published a copy of the protocol on Facebook. According to the protocol, on March 31, Poputnikov was driving past the Ministry of Internal Affairs building, saw graffiti and decided to take a photo of it.

AP / Scanpix / LETA Russian officials leading the investigation into a disastrous May 5 airplane fire that left 41 people dead are treating the actions of the pilots who were flying the Sukhoi Superjet 100 as a potentially central explanation for the airplane’s destruction, sources close to the investigation told Kommersant. Officially, Russia’s Investigative Committee wrote that it is looking into multiple potential explanations for the fire aboard the jet.

Episodes of the new Star Wars trilogy will be released in 2022, 2024 and 2026. This was reported by Reuters with reference to the Walt Disney Company, which owns the rights to the film saga. Disney also plans to postpone the premiere of the film “Avatar 2” (the company acquired the rights to the franchise along with the purchase of 21st Century Fox). The second part of James Cameron's blockbuster will be released in 2021, and not in 2020, as originally planned.

Rapper Noize MC on his Instagram condemned the actions of the police and the National Guard during the Hip-Hop Mayday rap festival at the Luzhniki stadium. Noize MC noted that videos were published on the Internet, according to which it can be concluded that, “responding to the inadequate actions of some visitors, the National Guard and the police with shocking cruelty ...

May 7. SSJ 100 disaster: Pilot negotiations with dispatchers and passenger story Airlines in Sheremetyevo. Investigators consider the crew error as the main version of the SSJ 100 crash: firstly, they led the plane through the thunderstorm front, secondly, they did not develop fuel before planting, thirdly, made mistakes during landing itself. The Baza publication published negotiations of pilots with dispatchers.

REN TV and BAZA published negotiations between the crew of the superjection and dispatchers Sheremetyevo. Brief retelling Sergey Fadeichev / TASS / Scanpix / Leta REN TV channel and BAZA publication published negotiations between the crew of the burned Sukhoi Superjet 100 and Sheremetyevo employees. The materials contain texts of two records.

The Kuibyshevsky District Court of St. Petersburg has cleared video blogger Ruslan Sokolovsky of a conviction for extremism. This was reported by the United Press Service of the Courts of St. Petersburg. The court made this decision at the request of the defense in connection with the partial decriminalization of the article on extremism, Vitaly Cherkasov, a lawyer for the Agora human rights group who is defending Sokolovsky, told Mediazona.

Aeroflot passenger Oleg Molchanov describes his escape from the burning jet at Sheremetyevo Oleg Molchanov / YouTube On May 5, a Sukhoi Superjet 100 owned by the Russian airline Aeroflot caught fire at Sheremetyevo airport. The airplane, which was bound for Murmansk, made an emergency landing at its departure point soon after takeoff. 41 people died in the fire out of the 78 people onboard the flight.

Facebook user Samir Jafri posted a photo of peeled nuggets and asked if anyone else does this besides him? It turns out he's not the only one! However, there were also those who considered peeling the nuggets blasphemous. In a couple of days, Jafri's post received more than eight thousand comments and nineteen thousand reposts. Do y'all peel your nuggets? Published by Sameer Jafri Friday, May 3, 2019 The photo also appeared in the Russian-language segment of Twitter.

The Russian Embassy in Belarus has received official notification that the Belarusian KGB has detained three Russians suspected of giving a bribe. This was reported to Interfax by the press secretary of the Russian diplomatic mission, Alexei Maskalev. According to him, the notification does not contain more detailed information about the suspicions against Russian citizens. The Russian Embassy has requested access to the detained Russians, Maskalev said.

Who poisoned oil in the Druzhba oil pipeline-and who, because of this, had to go to the pre-trial detention center. Investigation "Medusa" Andrey Lenkevich / EPA / Scanpix / Leta Pumping station of the Druzhba pipeline in Belarus On May 7, the Samara court arrested for two months four suspects in oil poisoning in the Druzhba oil pipeline . The transit of oil for export of Druzhba was practically stopped on April 20-because of a large batch contaminated with chlorological impurities.

A court in the city of Tromso sentenced a Russian to a year and two months in prison, who in December 2018 robbed a bank in Longyearbyen, the only city on Svalbard. The Russian was also ordered to pay 20,000 crowns (about 150,000 rubles) to each of the three bank employees he threatened.