Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed amending the law on education to expand the concept of educating students. The document was published in the database of the lower house of parliament. Now the law on education defines upbringing as an activity for the development of a child's personality, creating conditions for his self-determination and socialization "on the basis of socio-cultural, spiritual and moral values ​​and rules adopted in society ...

Wilson Roosevelt Jerman, a former White House butler who served under 11 US presidents, has died. This was announced to Fox 5 by his granddaughter Jamila Garett. German was 91 years old. He died on May 16th. The cause of death was coronavirus. Wilson Roosevelt German with Barack and Michelle Obama German served in the White House for 55 years, from 1957 to 2012. He started out as a janitor. He was promoted to butler by Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of President John F. Kennedy.

The Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) for the Irkutsk Region accused the French television channel France 24 of provocation due to a story about the riot in IK-15 in the city of Angarsk. According to the agency's statement, this is about the France 24 story from May 20. According to the FSIN, it is based on unreliable information from citizens "interested in destabilizing the situation" in the institutions of the Russian penal system.

Pandemic be damned, a movement of volunteer medical workers is providing a lifeline to the country's unsheltered Artem Leshko / Charity Hospital “Charity Hospital” volunteers help unsheltered people in St. Petersburg at a “Nochlezhka” heating tent post in December 2019 Under normal circumstances, unsheltered people face enormous obstacles to getting necessary medical care.

In 2020, real disposable income of the Russian population will fall by 3.8%. This is stated in the adjusted forecast of socio-economic development for 2020-2023, Interfax reports. In the second quarter of 2020, revenues will decrease by 6%; without the government’s anti-crisis measures, they would have fallen by 7.5%, said the head of the Ministry of Economic Development, Maxim Reshetnikov, during the presentation of the forecast. “The main part affected will be business income,” he added.

The Central Electoral Commission has unfrozen funds for preparations for voting on amendments to the Constitution. The corresponding decision was published on the website of the CEC. The document lifts the ban, which has been in effect since March 28. Now the election commissions can resume funding for the supply of goods, work and services, and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Ministry of Defense - for the formation of precinct election commissions abroad.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The history of rural teachers about the distance. How to teach via the Internet without computers? And convince the gypsy family to leave the child at school? The quarantine measures introduced in Russia due to coronavirus also affected education systems. Schools switched to remote training - lessons were conducted through video conferences. Urgent technology development often caused discontent from both teachers and families of schoolchildren.

Car sharing will be able to resume work in Moscow from May 25. This is provided for by the decree of Sergei Sobyanin on the first stage of easing quarantine, according to the website of the Moscow mayor. You can rent a car for at least five days. You will need a digital pass to move around the city. Before handing over to the client, the machine is subject to mandatory disinfection. “Of course, such a mode of operation is not car sharing in the full sense of the word.

The Russian division of the Dove cosmetic brand released the video “Beauty is in courage” dedicated to the heavy work of doctors during the coronavirus epidemic. The video without comment shows photographs of four employees of Russian infectious hospitals. The pictures were taken after the work shift, when there were still traces of protective masks and glasses on the faces of doctors.

Any resident of Moscow from May 27 will be able to take tests for antibodies to coronavirus in Moscow free of charge. This was on the air of "Russia 24" said the mayor of the city Sergei Sobyanin. The mayor also noted that the first statistics of selective testing, which began on May 15, will be published on May 22. The mass testing program for antibodies to coronavirus began in Moscow on May 15.

Coronavirus was suspected in Ramzan Kadyrov. The Unified State Exam will begin on June 29. Five million people have fallen ill worldwide Pulse Over the past 24 hours , 8,849 cases of COVID-19 have been identified in Russia. A total of 317,554 people have been infected since the beginning of the pandemic. Coronavirus was suspected in Ramzan Kadyrov . During the day, 7,289 patients with Covid recovered. Total - 92,861 people. Dmitry Peskov's wife Tatyana Navka has recovered .

Russian Defense Ministry / TASS / Scanpix / LETA A field hospital at the Yeruda workers’ settlement, Krasnoyarsk Krai. May 20, 2020. An employee of the Olimpiada Gold Mine in the Siberian region of Krasnoyarsk Krai died of the coronavirus on May 21. This is the first death from the disease among the mine’s workers, hundreds of whom became infected with COVID-19 over the course of the last few weeks.

Maxim Samorukov reviews the book “The rise and fall of Belarusian nationalism”: carnegie.ru UllStein Bild / Getty Images nurses in Minsk, 1918 In the book “The rise and fall of Belarusian nationalism, 1906–1931”, the American historian of Swedish descent, Pers Anders Rudling, talks about who, when and how he came up with the Belarusian national project - and why he survived, despite the fact that he appeared several decades later than Ukrainian or Lithuanian.

Updated : Trump confirms US withdrawal from Open Skies Treaty. American President Donald Trump has decided to withdraw the United States from the Open Skies Treaty . This was reported by The New York Times , The Washington Post , Associated Press and other media outlets, citing sources in the Trump administration. The Trump administration, on his instructions, reportedly spent eight months analyzing the costs and benefits of U.S.

Joe McNally / Getty Images Scientists from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology presented a prototype of an artificial electrochemical eye, the structure and principle of the work of which are similar to ordinary human eye. Unlike ordinary cameras, which are orders of magnitude exceed bio -onic eyes in detail, photosensitive elements in it are located on a concave spherical surface - this significantly improves its viewing angle and depth of sharpness.