The Belarusian police have detained popular video blogger Sergei Tikhanovsky, the host of the YouTube channel "Country for Life" , which has 145 thousand subscribers. According to the human rights center "Viasna", blogger Sergei Petrukhin has also been detained. Tikhanovsky was detained on May 6 near Mogilev, after which he was taken to a temporary detention facility in Gomel. Two drivers were detained with him, but were later released.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, by his decree, provided additional insurance guarantees to doctors working with patients who have been diagnosed or suspected of having a coronavirus infection. The text of the decree is published on the portal of legal information. Doctors, paramedical and junior medical staff, ambulance drivers who fall ill with COVID-19 during work will be able to receive a one-time insurance payment.

The number of registered unemployed Russians reached 1,243,000 people at the end of April. What's more, 735,000 of these people registered as unemployed between March and April of this year. These figures were reported by Russia’s Labor and Social Protection Minister, Anton Kotyakov, during a May 6 conference with President Vladimir Putin, focused on issues related to supporting the economy. According to the Labor Ministry’s data, over 208,000 people lost their jobs after March 1 specifically.

On the morning of May 4, Star Wars Day , police officers in the Canadian city of Lethbridge in Alberta detained a 19-year-old girl dressed as an Imperial Stormtrooper from George Lucas' space saga. This was reported by the Canadian television channel CTV News. A video taken by bystanders shows a young woman named Ashley walking around in a stormtrooper costume with a plastic blaster near the Coco Vanilla Galactic Cantina restaurant where she works before being arrested.

The Russian Interior Ministry’s internal security department questioned two journalists from the news outlet Baza due a viral video of the arrest of Moscow resident Jesus Vorobyov. Baza uploaded the video in question on April 5, the day after police detained Vorobyov while he was walking his dog near Patriarch’s Pond in downtown Moscow. Off-camera, a man’s voice can be heard asking for permission to take the dog home.

The Belarusian Foreign Ministry has revoked the accreditation of Channel One correspondent Alexei Kruchinin and his cameraman Sergei Panasyuk, RIA Novosti reports, citing the Belarusian Foreign Ministry. Channel One stated that the correspondent was expelled from the country, and the film crew was deprived of accreditation. “We consider these actions of the Belarusian authorities to be absolutely groundless,” the TV channel’s press service said.

Bing Liu, a 36-year-old researcher at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, was killed on May 2 at his home in a Pittsburgh suburb. The man named Hao Gu, who shot him, committed suicide, CNN reported , citing police. A police spokesman said both men knew each other, but there is no evidence that Bing Liu died because of his ethnicity - he was Chinese.

In Moscow, 39 people who were diagnosed with a new coronavirus infection have died over the past 24 hours, the city health department reports. This is 11 people less than a day ago. The total number of deaths from coronavirus in Moscow has reached 905 people. Since the beginning of the epidemic in Moscow, 85,973 people have been diagnosed with coronavirus, which is about half of all cases in Russia.

Banksy's painting on coronavirus pandemia appeared in the English hospital The street artist Banksy published his new picture on Instagram. She appeared in the Southampton hospital in the English county of Hampshire, BBC News reports . On a monochrome canvas with an area of ​​one square meter, a boy is depicted in a jumpsuit and a T-shirt, sitting near the paper basket in which the figures of Spider-Man and Batman lie.

An announced a plan to exit quarantine. How to treat coronavirus correctly. The number of unemployed exceeded a million Good evening, This is the Medusa newsletter about the coronavirus during the pandemic. She comes out on weekdays instead of the "evening jellyfish." If one of your friends sent this letter to you and you have not yet been subscribed to the newsletter, subscribe here . Pulse 10,559 new cases of coronavirus were registered in Russia per day in Russia.

“Omsk VK” VKontakte community The head doctor at the Kabanov City Hospital No.1 in Omsk willingly resigned on May 5, after media reports drew attention to the clinic's staff forming a long lineup outside of the hospital building the day before. The employees were reportedly waiting to undergo coronavirus testing.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The United States and Europe suspect that the Chinese knew about the threat of coronavirus, but hid it. And it's not about the pandemic, but in the rivalry of the East and the West Western publications publish materials in which China’s behavior is criticized during the distribution along the planet of coronavirus.

Facebook Corporation has named the first 20 members of an independent oversight board that will resolve disputes over content moderation on Facebook and Instagram. The council included journalists, activists and lawyers involved in freedom of speech issues. They have lived in more than 27 countries and speak 29 languages, according to a press release received by Meduza.

Microsoft Surface Go 2 tablet Microsoft introduced the new Surface Go 2 tablet. It will replace the smallest planet of Surface Go, which was released in August 2018 . The main difference between the new model is an enlarged display with a diagonal of 10.5 inches (instead of 10 inches in the original version). The dimensions of the tablet remained the same, but the frames became smaller, notes The Verge. In addition, the company increased the battery battery life from 9 to 10 hours.

Kraftwerk founding member Florian Schneider has died. His relatives confirmed this information to the French edition of Ouest France. Schneider was 73 years old. Officially, the cause of his death was not reported, according to the Belgian radio station RTBF, Schneider had cancer. Schneider founded Kraftwerk, one of the most influential and important bands in the history of electronic music, in 1970 with Ralf Hütter. Schneider took part in the recording of all Kraftwerk albums.