Participants of the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion (“Rise of the Endangered”) held a rally in the center of Paris on May 12, pouring 300 liters of fake blood on the steps of the Chaillot Palace on Trocadero Square. Thus, activists drew attention to the threat of extinction of rare species of animals and plants, urging the authorities to take measures to preserve biodiversity on the planet. The action took place with a large gathering of journalists and tourists.

The Israeli government has identified a site in the Golan Heights where a settlement will be built in honor of Donald Trump. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced this at a government meeting on Sunday. Thus, the country's authorities want to thank the US president for recognizing the Golan as the legitimate territory of Israel. According to The Jerusalem Post, the settlement will be built in the north of the plateau.

Reuters / Scanpix / Leta more than a hundred Cuban LGBT activists went to the gay parade and passed almost a kilometer from the central park of Havana towards the sea until they were stopped by the police. At least, three of them were detained, the rest was ordered to disperse. A single -party communist dictatorship is preserved in Cuba, but local authorities relate to LGBT quite liberally.

The family of the winner of the show "The Voice. Children" Mikella Abramova did not try to keep the results of the investigation into the voting results in the final of the program secret. This was stated by the director of the singer Alsou Sergey Fadeev.

The reigning champions of the English Premier League, Manchester City football club defended their last year's title by winning the championship again. On 12 May, City beat Brighton 4-1 away and scored 98 points in 38 games. The intrigue this season of the Premier League continued until the very last round, as Liverpool, which was second in the standings, was only one point behind Manchester. Liverpool won their last game of the season against Wolves 2-0 and scored 97 points in 38 games.

Moscow police have detained mixed martial artist Alexander Emelianenko for drinking alcohol in a public place, a law enforcement source told TASS. According to him, Emelianenko was detained on May 12 on Vostochnaya Street and taken to the police station, where an administrative protocol was drawn up for disturbing public order. He faces a fine of up to one and a half thousand rubles.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that he often wins Night Hockey League matches because he plays alongside brilliant players and stars. “This is not Putin's team, this is a team of hockey stars, they win. They are easy to play with - they play brilliantly, brilliantly. Champions of the world, the Olympic Games, the Stanley Cup won, more than once. They are stars, they win, this is natural, ”he said in an interview with the Rossiya 1 TV channel.

Premiere of a trailer for a film about protest raves in Georgia A year ago, on May 12, 2018, mass anti-drug raids took place in Tbilisi in the Basiani and Gallery nightclubs. The police acted harshly, using force on rave lovers. In response, the youth staged a spontaneous protest in front of the Georgian parliament building on Rustaveli Avenue. Two days later, the Georgian Interior Minister personally apologized to the protesters for the victims of the actions of the police.

Alyssa Pointer / Atlanta Journal-Constitution / Ap / Scanpix / Letae protest against the new ATLANT Law, Georgia, May 7, 2019 The Governor of the state of Georgia, the Republican Brian Kemp 7 signed a law prohibiting abortion after you can clearly hear the fetal heartbeat - that is, with pregnancy periods later than six weeks. Exceptions have been made for women who have been abused, and only if the victim turned to the police.

The Russian national ice hockey team in its second match at the World Championship in Slovakia on May 12 defeated the Austrian team with a score of 5:0. The pucks in the meeting were thrown by Evgeny Dadonov (12th and 40th minutes), Nikita Kucherov (34th minute), Ivan Telegin (34th minute), Ilya Kovalchuk (45th minute). In the opening meeting against the Norwegians, held on May 10, the Russians won with a score of 5:2.

Fragment of the comic book on "Medusa" In June, the Komilfo Publishing House will release a comic book based on “Very strange things” - one of the main fantastic series of our time. His events take place simultaneously with the action of the first season of the show. The comic book tells how a boy named Will (with his disappearance and the series begins) survived in a parallel dimension, where bloodthirsty monsters live - demogorgons. Medusa publishes a comic book fragment.

Ingush activist Ismail Nalgiev was deported from Belarus and placed in one of the pre-trial detention centers in Nalchik, Kavkazsky Uzel reports. Nalgiev, the coordinator of the Choice of Ingushetia organization, has been charged with using violence against a government official (Article 318 of the Criminal Code), his lawyer Andrei Sabinin told Ekho Moskvy radio station. The criminal case was initiated due to clashes at protests that took place in the republic at the end of March.

How the UPSALA-CIRK works, which has become a house for dozens of dysfunctional teenagers from St. Petersburg and received a "golden mask" Alexey Loshchilov for "Medusa" Since 2000, the UPSALA-ZIRK has been working in St. Petersburg-a social project where adolescents from dysfunctional families have been taught to circus art. The circus was founded by German student Astrid Shorn and Russian theater director Larisa Afanasyeva.

At the action "Immortal Regiment", which took place in Saransk on May 9, the head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Mordovia, Yuri Arsentiev, the prosecutor of the republic, Alexander Filimonov, and Bishop Veniamin (Kirillov) came with a photograph of the same veteran.

The actress Peggy Lipton, known, among other things, for the role of the mistress of the diner norm, Jennings in the series "Twin Pix" and its continuation, died at the age of 72 years. Everett Collection / Vida Press The cause of Lipton’s death, reports Associated Press with reference to the statement of the actress’s relatives, was an oncological disease. Before Twin Pix, Lipton played one of the main roles in the series “Stelaagi Squad”, which was released from 1968 to 1973.