The ex-Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, who was serving a sentence in the Kharkov colony, refused to move to the Central Clinical Hospital of the Ukrainian Railways “Ukrzaliznitsa” to pass the rehabilitation course under the observation of the German Clinic Specialist “Shashit”. “She (Tymoshenko) motivated her decision by the fact that she still needed time for reflection and communicating with lawyers,” the press service of the State Penitentiary Service of Ukraine said on Tuesday.

The young woman died in Moscow from a lightning strike during a thunderstorm on Tuesday, Interfax reports citing a source in the capital's law enforcement agencies. According to him, a 29-year-old woman, visiting Tatarstan, was hit by a lightning in the area of ​​house No. 29 on the 2nd Vladimir Street. The husband delivered her to the emergency room nearby, where doctors stated the death of a woman, the agency’s interlocutor added.

The forward of the NHL Club "Nashville Predatorz" Alexander Radulov, whose team on the eve flew out of the Stanley Cup, will most likely not be able to help the Russian national team at the World Cup, the newspaper Sport-Express writes. The reason is the knee injury, which he received during the performance for Salavat and bothering him all last weeks. According to the publication, in the near future the striker will lie down for the operation.

The head of the Central Election Commission Vladimir Churov, during a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin, handed him the certificate of the head of state, Interfax reports. "Let me give you a certificate. This, by the way, is the only document that certifies that you are the President of the Russian Federation," Churov noted. Putin, in turn, thanked the head of the CEC and his subordinates. I know that it was not easy, hard work, and in difficult conditions of political work worked.

Irek Murtazin “The police provocation was prepared in advance. The last doubts were dispelled by Ksenia Sobchak, who wrote: “...

Conflicting data come from China about the fate of the blind dissident Chen Guangcheng , who provoked the China conflict with the United States with his decision to leave the country and applied to the American embassy in Beijing for this. According to one report, the critical situation that has developed around it is practically permitted.

The Moscow CSKA did not please the fans scored in the last home match of the championship of the Russian Football Premier League, sharing points in the meeting of the 43rd round from the Krasnodar Kuban-0-0. The match did not abound with dangerous moments and fairly ended in a draw, although one day the ball still visited Igor Akinfeev’s gates.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs clarified data on the number of detentions made the day before, on Monday, in Moscow during the opposition shares. According to the press service of the metropolitan head of Interfax , on Tuesday, on May 7, the police officers "In order to prevent the inconsistent shares," 327 detentions and subsequent deliveries of persons to the attendants were carried out.

The CIA managed to reveal the conspiracy to undermine the passenger airliner, which was supposed to be sent to or from the United States. This was reported by representatives of US law enforcement agencies. According to them, a similar plan was carried by one of the terrorist groups in Yemen, associated with al-Qaeda, ITAR-TASS reports. Thus, she intended to "celebrate" the anniversary of the death of Usama Ben Laden, which was destroyed by American special forces last May.

President of Belarus Alexander Lukashenko announced that the ex-president of France Nicolas Sarkozy received from the former leader Libya Muammar Gaddafi $ 100 million for his first presidential election campaign. “Muammar Gaddafi personally told me about this when he came to Minsk,” Lukashenko said, answering the questions of the Belarusian parliamentarians, without specifying exactly when it was.

The Communist Party of the Communist Party and "Fair Russia" in the State Duma will not support Dmitry Medvedev’s candidacy for the post of head of the Russian government. So, the leader of the Fair Russia faction Sergei Mironov called on his colleagues “consolidated” to vote at the plenary meeting of the State Duma on Tuesday against the candidacy of Dmitry Medvedev, whom Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed to the post of premiere.

A group of American engineers from the University of Arkansas created a smart bra, which can help doctors control the patient anywhere in the world and, if necessary, send an ambulance to the right place. The invention, combining nanotics and smartphone technologies, has built-in sensors that measure the state of health and send information on a wireless network like Bluetooth or Wi-Fi, reports TSN.ua.

In the American city of Santa Fa (New Mexico), the cat named meow died, which was called the Thick Cat in the States and, possibly, all over the world. According to MSNBC , an 18-kilogram animal died on Saturday, May 5, but the employees of the shelter, where it lived for the past few weeks, reported this only now. Myu was only two years old. The cause of his death was pulmonary failure, which developed against the backdrop of obesity.

In Syria, the elections to the People’s Council (Parliament) of the country ended. According to the authorities, the vote took place with a fairly high activity of voters. The exact percentage of turnout in the elections is not yet known. Currently, all provinces of the country are counting votes. Preliminary election results can be announced in a few hours, RIA Novosti reports. For the first time in almost half a century, the elections in Syria were held on a multi -party basis.

The leader of the movement "In Defense of the Khimkinsky Forest" Evgeny Chirikova was detained by the police in the center of Moscow, since then there is no connection with her, Blogger Oleg Kozyrev reports in his "Live Journal" . Kozyrev says that Evgenia Chirikova left at night to the opposition’s protest at the Ilyinsky Gate in Moscow, her last records were from Maroseyka Street.