In Moscow, one of the letters "A" fell from the facade of the State Duma due to a strong wind. Now the inscription on the facade looks like “State Duma”. As Elena Krylova, the press secretary of the Administrative Department of the President of the Russian Federation, said, the department has already called in specialists who "will fix everything in the near future." Updated . On the morning of May 16, the letter "A" was returned to its place.

Geoffroy Van Der Hasselt / AFP / Scanpix / Leta in Paris on May 15 took place in support of Palestinians against the background of the continuing exacerbation in the gas sector. The event was prohibited by the Minister of Internal Affairs of France Gerald Darmanen-due to the fact that a similar action during the previous escalation in Gaza in 2014 caused riots. This decision considered the legitimate court, but the organizers refused to cancel the event.

Haithham IMAD / EPA / Scanpix / Leta consequences of the Israeli Army missile strike for targets in the gas sector. May 12, 2021 On the night of May 14, 2021, on the tapes of the leading world media and news agencies, including the New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and Agence France-Presse, the news is released in the Gaza Stre Exacerbation of the situation in the region.

Changes to the WhatsApp user agreement that allow data to be transferred to Facebook may contradict Russian legislation, and the authorities may react to this, the head of the State Duma Committee on Information Policy Alexander Khinshtein told RIA Novosti.

Your browser does not support the audio element. What’s treason in Ukraine today? The case against Viktor Medvedchuk On May 13, a Ukrainian court placed pro-Kremlin oligarch and lawmaker Viktor Medvedchuk under round-the-clock house arrest pending trial for high treason. The country’s Prosecutor General had signed off on the charges two days earlier, indicting not only Medvedchuk, but also his closest ally and fellow lawmaker, Taras Kozak, in connection with three episodes of illegal activity.

An Israeli airstrike in Gaza destroyed a multi-story building housing the Associated Press and Al Jazeera bureaus. About an hour before the strike, the Israeli military called the owner of the building and warned that it would be a target and that people needed to evacuate. A low-yield projectile was then dropped on the roof of the building as a warning.

Amazon Prime has shown footage from the upcoming Cinderella movie for the first time. The published photos show Camila Cabello and Nicholas Golitsyn playing Cinderella and her lover, as well as Billy Porter playing the role of the fairy godmother. The film, directed by Kay Cannon (No Sex, Studio 30), will be released in September 2021.

Miss Grand International / AFP / Scanpix / Leta Khtar htet htet, 32-year-old sports gymnastics coach, in the past, model, representing Myanmar at international beauty contests (at the 43rd second of this video , her exit in the national costume at the Miss Grand International contest in Bangkok in 2013) published photos on the field equipment and with Facebook and with rifle.

The Ukrainian authorities allow the possibility of exchanging politician Viktor Medvedchuk, who is accused of treason, for Ukrainians convicted in Russia. This was stated by the Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine Oleksiy Danilov on the air of the program “Freedom of Speech”. During the program, Danilov was asked whether "it is possible to exchange MP Viktor Medvedchuk for Ukrainian patriots who are being held in Russian prisons" if Medvedchuk is sentenced.

Your Browser Does Not Support the Audio Element. The successor parade: who (so far is purely theoretically) can change Putin? And why in 2020 he was going to leave, but not left? When Vladimir Putin announced changes in the Constitution at the beginning of 2020, it seemed that in this way he began the process of transferring power (in particular, the variant of the transit according to the scenario of Kazakhstan was considered).

“Elena Shubina” completes the “I-trilogy” by Dmitry Bykov (the first parts of the X 2012, about the secret of the authorship of the “Pacific Don” and “June” of 2017 about the two years before the Great Patriotic War), “Fighter” novel. The events and characters easily guess their real prototypes - it is clear that the lupus and kandelaki are chkalov and Kokkinaki.

The total wealth of Russian billionaires is 35% of the country's GDP. The corresponding calculations were made by The Financial Times. Among all the countries included in the survey, Russia ranked first in terms of the share of the wealth of billionaires. In 2020, this share increased by 10 percentage points at once. In second place on the list was Sweden - the state of the country's billionaires is 30% of GDP. The top five also includes India (20%), the US (19%) and France (17%).

During the year, Moscow authorities fined about 410,000 public transport passengers for not wearing masks and gloves. This is reported by "Open Media" with reference to the State Institution "Organizer of Transportation", which is subordinate to the Department of Transport. Most often, violators were fined at the stations "Komsomolskaya" of the Circle Line, "Chkalovskaya" and "Teply Stan". Most violations were recorded in the spring of 2021; during the May holidays, 10,000 people were fined.

On the night of May 15, mutual shelling between Israel and Hamas militants continued in the Gaza Strip. The Israel Defense Forces said it had destroyed the office of Hamas security chief Tawfiq Abu Naim in an airstrike, which Israel said was used to manage the movement's military infrastructure. It also struck several rocket launch sites.

Mikhail Tereshchenko / TASS / Scanpix / Leta ambulances at the entrance to the coronavirus hospital in Kommunarka in New Moscow, May 10, 2021. After the May holidays of 2021, in Moscow, the growth of the number of coronavirus and community -acquired pneumonias accelerated sharply in Moscow. At the end of April, about a thousand people a day fell into the hospitals, and in the last week more than 1200. On May 13 and 14, 1324 people were hospitalized, an operactor to combat coronavirus said.