The famous Russian specialist Yuri Semin was among the candidates for the post of head coach of the Moscow Spartak, says the newspaper Sport-Express . According to the source, the red and white have already contacted a 66-year-old Russian specialist who is currently heading the Azerbaijani "Gabalo" . The leadership of Spartak sees in Semin a coach who can quickly establish discipline and put a game.

Moscow again called on the parties to the Ukrainian conflict to urgently sit at the negotiating table. According to the State Secretary, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation, Grigory Karasin, only the position of the Kyiv authorities prevents this.

Most Russian host operators record a significant reduction in the entrance tourist flow against the backdrop of Ukrainian events, the daily newspaper of the Russian Union of the RATA-News Turin industry reports. Tourists refuse armor, confirmed tours are canceled. The publication notes that residents of European countries most often refuse to travel to Russia for ideological reasons, while representatives of other countries proceed for security reasons and fear of getting into the war zone.

Three-time world athletics champion American sprinter Tyson Gay is disqualified for one year for the use of forbidden drugs, the press service of the All-Russian Athletics Federation reports. The disqualification period amounted to one, not two years, since the athlete himself refused to participate in the competition after detecting doping and collaborated with the investigation. Last summer, traces of androgenic anabolic steroids were discovered in the samples of 31-year-old Gay.

The acting President of Ukraine and the head of the Verkhovna Rada, Alexander Turchinov, said that in fact, the Russian leadership unleashed the war in the country, reports Newsru.ua . "There is a war against our country by the Russian Federation, both in the east of Ukraine and in the south. They try to completely destabilize the situation," said Alexander Turchinov. He noted that Russia managed to realize its plans in the east, but in Odessa patriotic local residents managed to resist.

The Pope Francis received representatives of the Italian football Federation, as well as players from the Fiorentina and Napoli teams, on the eve of the Vatican. During the conversation with athletes, the pontiff said that the economic factor cannot prevail over the “festive” measurement of a football meeting, and the players themselves should always be real people of sports, realizing the load of “great responsibility”, coming along with fame.

The Russian arms concern "Kalashnikov" promises not to spend budget funds on its own promotion, but to provide an advertising campaign at their own expense and with the participation of investors. The Kalashnikov concern will present a new brand in the fall of 2014. The new brand of weapons holding will be financed from its own funds and attracting investments, ”the press service of the RIA Novosti enterprise assured.

The State Duma of the Russian Federation until the end of the spring session plans to get a breakthrough in the development of domestic football by adopting a bill on the maximum bar of salaries in the Premier League. According to parliamentarians, the restriction of fees will lead to the outflow of incompetent foreign athletes and specialists, Mir 24 reports.

Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a law on an obscene vocabulary in television and radio, as well as a film distribution. The official text of the document is published on the portal of legal information. Another law that was supposed to be adopted before May also came into effect - on criminal punishment for the rehabilitation of Nazism .

The Foreign Ministry of Ukraine published a message about the temporary closure of some checkpoints across the state border located in the Crimea. The department refers to the order of the Government N424, adopted on April 30.

A schoolboy, who is 90 years old, appeared in Saudi Arabia. In the declining of years, the resident of the kingdom decided to complete his education, which coincided with the campaign in the Likbez in his province. Avaid Raja al-Aji decided to complete his education, despite his age, reports Al-Arabiya . The desire of a native of Saudi Arabia to the light of knowledge was not broken by either his advanced summer or pain in his legs.

In Tbilisi on May 17, a mass procession is planned in defense of Orthodoxy and the inadmissibility of gay propaganda. On this day, the first Georgian film about homosexuals will be displayed in Tbilisi cinemas. “We will try very much that there are no clashes, but we will definitely be protected by the supposedly comedy gay film,” Bek Tskhadadze said to reporters on Monday to reporters, the Interfax-religion portal reports.

The vice-president of the Congress of Jewish religious associations and organizations in Russia (Keror) Rabbi Zinovy ​​Kogan considers the surge of fascism and Russophobia the tragedy in Odessa. "The tragic death of 46 residents of Odessa is a terrible murder committed by people who are fed by the Maidan and poisoned by nationalism, Russophobia, hatred and cruelty," Zinovy ​​Kogan said Interfax -religion to the portal.

The Novgorod social activist Roman Yakovlev sent an appeal to the Russian Prosecutor General’s Office, in which he demanded to bring to the criminal liability of the creators of the anthem to the people's chosen ones , the newspaper “Your News” writes. According to Yakovlev, this work offends the feelings of front -line soldiers, since the melody of the anthem of the “chosen ones of Russia” is similar to the motive of the “German song”, which was the anthem of the Third Reich.

The director of the Ukrainian division of the Russian Internet search engine Yandex, Sergei Petrenko, went on an unlimited vacation to stop being the "public person of the company" and not to compromise the employer with his position on the tragedy in Odessa on May 2, the result of which was the death of 46 people . Petrenko announced the transfer of authority to another employee of the company in a personal blog . "Ukraine is in trouble today.