The Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill addressed Petro Poroshenko with a personal message, who won the presidential election in Ukraine, in which he shared his hopes for a quick cessation of bloodshed in the country and asked the new president to listen to the opinion of all its inhabitants. As stated in a letter posted on the official website of the Moscow Patriarchate, "the news of the events in Ukraine every day brings all the new pain, because people die and suffer.

The head of the Russian Foreign Ministry, Sergei Lavrov, is confident that the Western countries imposed sanctions against Russia not because they are dissatisfied with the policy of the authorities in Ukraine, but because of the desire to infringe on the interests of the Russian Federation. "Long before the tragic events on the Maidan began ... There were many complaints about Russia - on the Syrian theme, the Iranian nuclear program, in connection with Snowden," Lavrov said.

Anton Oreh “What’s so funny about the elections in Ukraine? It’s not even that colleagues from Channel 1 dug up a table somewhere, which they themselves seemed stunned by. A table in which Dmitry Yarosh scored some wild percentage, but the rest were not only smoking on the sidelines, but couldn’t even light a cigarette. The funny thing is that after all this hysteria around Ukraine, Russians really don’t know what kind of guy won there!

In St. Petersburg, the FSB officers detained an employee of the Investigative Committee of Russia, who, together with two accomplices, extorted a bribe. The attacker demanded to transfer him several tens of thousands of rubles, threatening to otherwise bring a citizen to criminal liability.

Rostransnadzor called the cause of the railway accident in the Naro-Fominsky district of the Moscow Region, where six people were killed as a result of a collision of passenger and commodity trains, at least 50 were injured.

Director Mark Zakharov, speaking at a meeting of the Council for Culture under the chairman of the State Duma, where the project of the "Fundamentals of State Policy" is being discussed, called carefully to treat such concepts as patriotism. “If we talk about such a loud patriotism, when one person declares to another:“ I am a patriot ”, looking into his eyes, this implies that his interlocutor will hire the US State Department or simply the enemy of the people,“ The fifth column.

Investigators of the Main Investigative Department of the metropolitan police opened a criminal case of fraud on theft of 94 million rubles owned by the Slavic Bank battery, ITAR-TASS reports with reference to the press service of the metropolitan police. The defendant was involved in the case, who was already undergoing criminal cases on the facts of theft of funds in banks. The group of fraudsters by criminal means managed to legalize 94 million rubles withdrawn from the Slavic Bank battery.

While in Donetsk, the Ukrainian military “cleared” the local airport from the rebels, the border of Ukraine with unknown intentions crossed armed people. The State Border Service of Ukraine reports that “militants on trucks” broke out from Russia to the Lugansk region on the night of May 27. Unknown armed people managed to cross the border of Ukraine in the area of ​​the Ukrainian village of Astakhovo and the Russian Khutor Novopkhorovka.

In Crimea, only 20-30% of taxes from the predicted volume were collected. This, according to Interfax , at a meeting with reporters on May 27 in Simferopol, said the acting head of the Republic of Crimea Sergey Aksenov. "From the (taxes) that we had to collect, based on the plans at the beginning of the year, 20-30%is now going to," Aksenov told reporters in Simferopol on Tuesday.

The Russian-Ukrainian Zenit-3SL launch vehicle with the Eutelsat 3B communications satellite started on May 27-according to the Sea Start program, from the Odyssey floating platform, from the equatorial part of the Pacific Ocean. “The launch of a launch vehicle equipped with a DM-SL acceleration unit was made at 01:10 Moscow time,” said the SEA Launch AG launch operator, Interfax reports.

In the criminal case, a new accused appeared about the riots in Bolotnaya Square. Two years after the events in Moscow, which the security forces call "riots", the prosecution was charged with a resident of St. Petersburg Polina Strongina, the website of the Investigative Committee of Russia (SKR) reports. "Strongina was charged with committing a crime under Part 2 of Article 212 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation (participation in the riots)," the text of the message said.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny, who, on the eve of the first time in a long time, left his apartment , having previously received permission to this, as it turned out, violates the conditions for being under house arrest. The Federal Penitentiary Service is sure that the politician uses the Internet. "If we have such information (about violation of the conditions of preventive measure. - Approx. Newsru.com ) appears, we inform the investigator and continue to work special units.

At the Tunisian resort of Mahdi, the police detained a tourist from Russia, who is suspected of detubaine. According to investigators, the woman killed her young daughter in a hotel room. The Embassy of the Russian Federation in Tunisia confirmed the fact of the murder of an eight-year-old Russian tourist, Interfax reports with reference to the press attaches of the embassy Alexander Linnik.

The GAZ Group received a unified European approval of the type of vehicle for the Gazelle -Next car family, and along with this document, the right to officially supply the model to the European Union countries, reports “Russian machines” Manfred Aibek. To undergo European certification, the engineers of the model for more than a year have been finishing and testing the car. The compliance of 43 safety requirements was confirmed, and 113 international certificates were received.

The Prime Minister of Italy Matteo Renzi approved the sending of a government aircraft to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to return 48 Italians to his homeland, the Italian version of The Local reports.