US President Donald Trump has extended until May 2021 a ban on US companies from using telecommunications equipment from companies that pose a threat to national security. It is reported by Reuters. Although the ban does not specify specific companies, in fact, we are talking about China's Huawei and ZTE, recalls . as The Verge The ban on working with firms that threaten US national security has been in effect in the US since May 2019.

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov was diagnosed with bilateral pneumonia. Peskov spoke about this in an interview with Kommersant.

The Russian government has allocated 23.4 billion rubles to airlines to compensate for losses due to the coronavirus epidemic. Interfax reports this with reference to the government press service. Subsidies are intended for salaries (no less than 60% of the total), leasing payments (no more than 30%), payment for aircraft parking (no more than 10%), as well as for operating activities and property maintenance. To receive the money, the airline must contact the Federal Air Transport Agency.

The Russian government signed a directive to extend the contract of the head of Rosneft Igor Sechin for another five years. This was reported to Vedomosti by three people familiar with the management of the company, and a federal official. Rosneft's board of directors should decide whether to renew Sechin's contract at a meeting on May 14 or 15, one of the newspaper's interlocutors specified.

Response workers outside Moscow describe the lack of PPE and coronavirus testing, which is forcing local patients to wait more than 24 hours for emergency assistance Tatyana Makeeva / Reuters / Scanpix / LETA Emergency responders outside Moscow say they are working without necessary protective equipment, even after appeals to the regional governor and the Health Ministry On the morning of May 10, the inter-regional medical workers’ union “Deystvie” (“Action”), reported that employees of the

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In the city of Revda, Sverdlovsk Region, the newspaper "Revdinsky Rabochiy" is published. The newspaper, like all other small publications in other cities of Russia, talks about local news, but it has one difference, because of which it is known far beyond Revda - these are amazing headlines. Here, for example, is the first page of the last issue. I have become a fan of theirs since the last cover. Now it turned out very well too.

Some State Duma deputies came to plenary meetings on May 12 and 13 with badges in the form of a white cross on a black background. Such icons, parliamentarians believe, "scare away the virus." Press Service of the State Duma of the Russian Federation Plenary meeting of the State Duma on May 12, 2020 Igor Molyakov asked about badges at the end of the meeting on May 13: “I am already a meeting of the deputies who wear white crosses on my chest.

IA "Free News" On May 13, the lines of people who wanted to apply for payments for children appeared in Russian cities departments in Russian cities on May 13. Such payments to Russian families were promised by President Vladimir Putin. The queues were reported in Saratov, Krasnoyarsk, Barnaul, Chita, Sochi, Smolensk, Tyumen, Bryansk and other cities. In most cases, people did not comply with the distance prescribed by the rules on self -isolation in the regions.

Epic Games has announced the fifth version of the popular Unreal Engine game engine. It is on this engine that, for example, they make Stalker 2. The developers have gathered a technical demo and showed how the PS5 new generation console will look like Unreal Engine 5. This is the first presentation of the game (albeit in the form of technodemo) for the platform. Unreal Engine Epic Games notes that the video presented is precisely that the videos on the game engine recorded in real time.

A resident of St. Petersburg, 98-year-old Zinaida Korneva, raised three million rubles for families of Russian doctors who died from coronaviral infection. It is reported by Fontanka. Money was collected through the website of the All -Russian Public Organization of War and Labor Veterans. The goal of the collection is three million rubles, according to the meter on the site, by the evening of May 13, 3 million 21 thousand were collected.

A chain of events Brendan Smialowski / AFP / Scanpix / Leta March 6 ↓ Ilon Musk spoke for the first time about coronavirus. He wrote on Twitter that panic around the infection is stupidity. At that time, the number of infected Covid-19 in the world exceeded 100 thousand people. In the United States, 47 cases of infection were identified .

Students and graduate students of Moscow State University published an open letter in which they called on the leadership of the university to create legal mechanisms that protect students from harassment by teachers. The letter was published by the student magazine DOXA.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. Belarus is a country of state covid dissident. Why does Lukashenko downplay the threat? And how do Belarusians relate to this? In Belarus, quarantine has not yet been introduced due to an epidemic of coronavirus. According to May 13, the country has more than 17 thousand active cases of the disease. And in all, more than 24.8 thousand people managed to get sick. According to official statistics, 142 people died from coronavirus infection.

From May 13, Sberbank is extending the servicing of cards that expired in March 2020 and later. This is stated in the message of the financial institution. Previously, Sberbank refused to service such cards, despite the recommendation of the Central Bank. As follows from the bank's message, expired cards allow cash withdrawals and replenishment at Sberbank ATMs, as well as payment for purchases. “Other operations with such cards are not available,” the bank said.