Photographer Evgeny Feldman’s snapshots of the Russian capital on the day after the end of the ‘non-working’ days May 12 marked the end of the “non-working” days in Russia, which were introduced at the end of March in a bid to stop the spread of the coronavirus.

The incidence of "pneumonia" in Minsk has halved since the military parade on May 9, President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko said. His words are reported by Interfax. “Let me tell you about the parade. I was absolutely convinced that people are in the air, it’s no worse than they will be locked up somewhere,” Lukashenka said at a meeting on May 12.

SpaceX has launched simulator a browser-based Crew Dragon docking with the International Space Station (ISS). This is reported in the NASA blog. The first manned flight of Crew Dragon to the ISS is scheduled for May 27. The docking of the spacecraft with the ISS will take place in fully automatic mode, but astronauts can switch to manual control. The simulator is the actual interface that the astronauts would then use. According to TechCrunch, the simulator is quite simple.

On May 12, in Russia, the period of non - working days announced in late March due to the spread of coronavirus infection. The work of construction and industrial companies resumed in Moscow. On the same day, a mask regime began to operate in the city: in stores, in public transport and at work, residents are required to wear masks and gloves under the threat of a fine of up to five thousand rubles.

Telegram co-founder Pavel Durov has announced that plans for the launch of his $1.7 billion blockchain project TON have been cancelled. “I am writing this post to officially announce that Telegram’s active involvement with TON is over. You may see — or may have already seen — sites using my name or the Telegram brand or the ‘TON’ abbreviation to promote their projects. Don’t trust them with your money or data,” Durov wrote on his official Telegram channel.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Konstantin Krylov, a fantasy politician and fantast writer, died. About him and his ideas - political strategist Gleb Pavlovsky and researcher Andrei Tesl On Tuesday, May 12, a politician, publicist and thinker Konstantin Krylov died . He was one of the leaders of the movement of Russian nationalists, and also wrote fantastic prose under the pseudonym Mikhail Kharitonov.

Russian energy giant “Rosneft” is reducing its investment program to 750 billion rubles (approximately $10.3 billion) in 2020, which is 200 billion rubles less than it was in 2019. This was reported by Rosneft CEO Igor Sechin during an in-person meeting with President Vladimir Putin on May 12 (a transcript of the meeting is available on the Kremlin’s website ).

Putin's press secretary (and his wife) fell ill. Russia has surpassed everyone in terms of the number of infected people (except the USA). The regions began to ease restrictions (in vain) Good evening, This is Meduza's newsletter about the coronavirus during the pandemic. It is published on weekdays instead of Evening Medusa. If this letter was sent to you by someone you know and you have not yet subscribed to the mailing list, subscribe here .

Telegram founder Pavel Durov announced the completion of the TON blockchain project. “I am writing this post to officially announce that Telegram’s active participation in TON has ended. You may see – or have already seen – sites using my name, the Telegram brand, or the acronym TON to promote their projects. Do not trust them with your money or data,” Durov wrote on his Telegram channel.

Facebook moderators discovered 50 million pieces of misinformation content about COVID-19 in April. This is stated in a Facebook message received by Meduza. Facebook has tagged content with false information. “We know these alerts work because when people see the alert label, 95% of the time they don’t click on the content presented,” the social network said in a statement.

TV presenter Regina Todorenko made a donation in the amount of two million rubles to the Violence.net Center for Assistance to Victims of Violence. As explained in the center itself, this is the largest one-time donation in its entire history. On April 23, an interview with Todorenko was published on YouTube, in which she condemned the victims of domestic violence. In particular, she called "psychologically ill" women who say that their husbands beat them.

Passenger traffic in April 2020, amid restrictive measures due to COVID-19, fell by 91.8% compared to the same month in 2019. Such data is provided by the Federal Air Transport Agency. In total, the airlines transported 771.2 thousand people. S7 turned out to be the largest in terms of passenger traffic - the company carried 213.9 thousand passengers, the drop in its results was the smallest among the largest companies (-78.9%).

A San Diego, California man wore a Ku Klux Klan hat to a store after local authorities made masks mandatory to protect against the coronavirus, CNN reports. Supermarket staff asked the customer to remove the cap, but he ignored their requests. The county sheriff's department said it would not prosecute the man. He told the police that he put on the hood as protection from infection, and not as a symbol of racial intolerance, CNN writes.

Petr Kovalev / TASS / Scanpix / LETA Firefighters at St. Georgy's Hospital in St. Petersburg. A fire killed five people at St. Georgy’s Hospital in St. Petersburg on the morning of May 12. The blaze broke out on the sixth floor, in the department where coronavirus patients were being treated. All of the victims were patients diagnosed with COVID-19, who had been connected to ventilators.

Flightradar24 In Novosibirsk, on May 1, a procession with absurd slogans and posters "Monstrium" is arranged annually on May 1. This year, “monstration” due to an epidemic of coronavirus in its usual form did not take place . Instead of the procession, the participants posted their photos taken at home, hung posters on balconies or went to single pickets.