Prague erects monument to Nazi collaborationist army, despite protests from Russia's Foreign Ministry On April 30, a monument and a memorial plaque commemorating soldiers from the Russian Liberation Army (ROA) was installed in Řeporyje, a district on the outskirts of the Czech Republic’s capital, Prague. According to the memorial, ROA soldiers helped participants in the Prague uprising liberate the city from Nazi Germany's army in May 1945.

The Governor of the Pskov Region Mikhail Vedernikov proposed to introduce a “glove regime” in the region in addition to the mandatory wear of protective masks. He announced this during a meeting of the regional operational headquarters on the coronavirus, which was broadcast by the Pskov Information Agency. “To the mandatory mask regime in public places, in transport, let's add glove regime,” the governor said.

In Moscow, 50 more people have died in the last 24 hours after being diagnosed with the coronavirus infection COVID-19, according to the Moscow Health Department. This is two people less than the day before. Since March 26, 866 people with coronavirus have died in Moscow. Since the beginning of the epidemic in Moscow, coronavirus has been detected in 80,115 people, of which 7,870 people have recovered.

A major fire broke out on the evening of May 5 in the city of Sharjah in the United Arab Emirates, Gulf News reports. The fire broke out on the tenth floor of Abbco's 47-story residential building. According to local authorities, the residents of the skyscraper and nearby houses were evacuated. Fire trucks and paramedics are on the scene. No injuries or deaths have yet been reported.

How Russian children are coping with life under quarantine and continuing to do their favorite things. A special cam-recorded photo series. Since Russia’s quarantine lockdown began, photographer Maria Ionova-Gribina has been taking people’s portraits by video. She has done nearly 90 of these shoots since the beginning of May alone. Meduza shares Ionova-Gribina’s latest photo series on how kids are continuing to play sports, make music, and pursue hobbies both old and new under quarantine.

Moscow and St. Petersburg have the largest coronavirus outbreaks in Russia. More than 70,000 people from these cities visit other regions around the country during the May holidays. Artem Krasnov / Kommersant A passenger on a train from Moscow arrives in Volgograd on April 29, 2020.

Writer Joan Rowling and Wizarding World announced a new project designed to bring the Harry Potter world to those who are now isolated due to pandemia of coronavirus. From May 5 to the middle of the summer, celebrities will read every week one chapter from Harry Potter and Philosopher's Stone. Wizarding World One of the project participants was the writer Stephen Fry, who had previously voiced books about Harry Potter.

Leading British epidemiologist Neil Ferguson, who persuaded the British Prime Minister to introduce strict restrictions in the country due to COVID-19, resigned from the government's scientific council. The Daily Telegraph newspaper reports this. According to the publication, Ferguson will no longer consult the British government because he violated the distancing rules introduced in the country.

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Community "Omsk VK" "VKontakte" The chief physician of the city hospital No. 1 named after Kabanov in Omsk Georgy Sobolev resigned on May 5 of his own free will. This happened the day after the clinic staff lined up in a huge queue in front of the hospital in order to pass the coronavirus check. The Minister of Health of the Omsk Region Irina Soldatova said that Sobolev "could not protect his team and could not take the necessary measures of epidemic security." On May 4, the city hospital No.

Artem Krasnov / Kommersant Passenger of the Moscow -Volgograd train enters the city. April 29, 2020 Despite the fact that the volume of air transportation in Russia fell significantly, about 70 thousand Russians will go to the May holidays by airplanes and trains to other regions. Many of them return to their home. For visitors from Moscow, the Moscow Region and St.

Shepherd Hou / EPA / Scanpix / Leta employees of the Biolaboratory of the Utan Institute of Virology. Wuan, Hubei Province, China, February 23, 2017 Donald Trump and the members of his administration seemed to feel the theme of the 2020 election campaign: China is to blame for the Pandemia of Coronavirus.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The media and social networks write about “starving migrants” and robberies. How and what do people actually live during the epidemic who have come to Russia? The coronavirus epidemic hit hard on the labor migrants remaining in Russia . Most of them worked at construction sites or in the service sector before the crisis, but because of quarantine measures they lost their jobs.

In the Netherlands, police have detained about 50 people who participated in a protest against quarantine in The Hague. The action took place at the railway station of the city. The organizers did not notify the authorities about its holding - when people began to gather at the station, the mayor of the city allowed them to protest on the condition that they retreat to a square located 100 meters away and keep their distance. When this did not happen, it was decided to disperse the event.

Kim Puffen / Shutterstock.com All Medusa materials about coronavirus are open to distribute Creative Commons CC BY for distribution. You can reprint them! The license does not apply to the photo. Seven years ago, more than 40 chimpanzees from Kibala National Park in Uganda, where scientists have been studying the behavior of monkeys for more than 30 years, infected with a respiratory infection.