During the day, 71 people died in Moscow with confirmed pneumonia and a positive test result for coronavirus, the city operational headquarters said on the evening of May 16. The total number of deaths in Moscow, who were confirmed COVID-19, reached 1503 people. Since the beginning of the epidemic, almost 139 thousand cases of coronavirus infection have been recorded in Moscow.

Danila Beglets, who was sentenced to two years for pulling a police officer by the hand during a protest in Moscow, is under pressure in the penal colony. Stanislav Rybchinsky, the lawyer for the defendant in the "Moscow case", told Kommersant about this. According to the lawyer, Beglets is being forced to sign a document on receiving a cassation ruling.

Lokomotiv striker Jefferson Farfan has tested positive for coronavirus, TASS reports citing Anatoly Meshcheryakov, chairman of the board of directors of the football club. “He will be treated in accordance with the recommendations of the doctors. We wish him a speedy recovery," Meshcheryakov said. Farfan is the first player in the Russian Premier League to be infected with the coronavirus. It is reported that since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, he has not left Russia.

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In the Moscow region, to monitor violators of the self-isolation regime, the Russian Guard began using the OKO high-altitude video surveillance complex based on a balloon, RIA Novosti reports. “The complex allows you to monitor the situation from a height of up to 300 meters within a radius of up to five kilometers,” the main department of the Russian Guard for the region said in a statement.

The Russian government approved the distribution of 22.4 billion rubles among the regions for additional payments to doctors working with patients with COVID-19. Payments, according to the website of the Cabinet of Ministers, "will be calculated based on the very fact of working with such patients, without reference to time." to apply just such a scheme .

Martin Meissner / AP / Scanpix / Leta from May 16 resumed matches of the German Football Championship-Bundesligs that have not been held for more than two months due to Covid-19 pandemia. In the first, after the break, the match met the Dortmund Borussia and Schalke 04. Because of the coronavirus, the Bundesliga matches are still held without spectators.

Armavir ambulance workers recorded a video message in which they stated that they had not received payment for working with coronavirus patients. “We have not received the promised payments,” the video message says, which, in particular, is published by the Novaya Kuban publication. - Nobody. Not a ruble, not a penny. The prosecutor's office of the Krasnodar Territory organized an inspection after the publication of the video message.

At Sheremetyevo Airport, more than 65% of aircraft parking spaces are occupied by aircraft that do not fly due to the coronavirus pandemic. This was reported by Interfax with reference to Andrey Nikulin, First Deputy General Director of JSC Sheremetyevo International Airport (SIA). According to him, there are 290 aircraft parking spaces in Sheremetyevo, of which 190 are occupied by aircraft that are temporarily not flying.

The Volkswagen plant, located in the Kaluga region, announced a reduction in staff and invited employees to voluntarily apply for resignation, promising to pay six salaries, writes Forbes. In one of the divisions, there were more people willing to leave on such conditions than planned to be fired, the newspaper writes, citing a message from the trade union of employees of the ASM enterprise on the VKontakte social network.

Four Russian citizens became defendants in criminal cases on the rehabilitation of Nazism because of photographs of Hitler, Himmler and other Nazi criminals posted on the website of the Immortal Regiment campaign. Criminal cases, according to the website of the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, were initiated against Daniil Simonov from Perm, Andrey Shabanov from Samara, Denis Vorontsov from Volgograd, and Vyacheslav Kruglov from Ulyanovsk.

Moscow authorities believe that the free distribution of masks will provoke the emergence of a "black market" and speculation. Alexei Nemeryuk, First Deputy Head of the Office of the Mayor of Moscow, Head of the Department of Trade, said this on the air of Ekho Moskvy. “Any free giveaway leads to speculation,” Nemeryuk said, adding that this, for example, happened in Paris.

The co-founder of the Qiwi group, Sergey Solonin, decided to provide a loan to Pavel Durov, in whose TON blockchain project he invested $17 million. “I decided to renew my loan. Pavel has an intelligent team, I hope they will come up with something, ”Solonin told Forbes.

Sergey Kiselev / Agency "Moscow" According to the recommendations of Rospotrebnadzor , the Moscow City Hall may already begin the second stage of removing the restrictions introduced in the city due to the Covid-19 epidemic. However, the Moscow authorities have not yet carried out even the first stage of removal, to which, according to the federal department, the city was ready a few days ago.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky expanded the sanctions list to include some Russian museums and educational institutions. The corresponding decree was published on the website of the President of Ukraine. In particular, the Hermitage, the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and Moscow State University were sanctioned. Restrictive measures, in particular, provide for a ban on any contacts with organizations on the list, including cultural exchanges and scientific conferences.