The German Ministry of Transport at the beginning of the summer season of 2015 introduced new advertising posters, the purpose of which is to remind the Germans that bicycle helmets are protected from serious traumatic brain injuries, and can also save from deaths, falls or other unforeseen situations. Unusual visual agitation within this action will appear in six large cities of Germany, among them - Berlin, Cologne and Munich.

The new head of the investigative group in the case of the murder of Boris Nemtsov Nikolai Tutichevich appointed examinations in order to find out whether it was a sign of Psychological and physical pressure, the Kommersant newspaper said.

Monitoring, conducted by activists of the All-Russian Popular Front, showed that there are not almost 30% clinics throughout the country, the press service of the movement said. Activists checked the presence of cardiologists in 407 clinics in the 71st region. "During the monitoring, it turned out that only 294 medical institutions (72%) have such specialists.

The Council of the Federation of the Russian Federation approved on Wednesday, May 20, at a plenary meeting, a law that cancel the visa regime for members of the jury and participants of the XV International Competition named after P.I. Tchaikovsky.

“As soon as Ivan Petrovich came to power, he changed our whole life in the most dramatic way: rent and utilities are now paid impeccably, and the security of the entrance is entrusted to the concierge, so the number of syringes and condoms on the fire escape has sharply decreased. Each resident now has a sufficient number of basins to place them under the leaking roof, and the door to the basement is always closed and sealed, so the stench from the sewer doesn’t bother us at all.

The Moscow prosecutor’s office canceled the resolution of the Main Investigation Department of the Investigative Committee of Russia (Main Investigative Directorate of the Investigative Committee of Moscow on the initiation of a criminal case against entrepreneur Konstantin Ponomarev, Vedomosti reports.

Messages that the organizers refused to let women into shoes without heels on the red carpet of the 68th Cannes Film Festival, caused a negative reaction and misunderstanding not only from bloggers and journalists, but also by the actresses themselves participating in the current film screen. The organizers of the event say that for all guests the same dress code is provided, according to which women should be in heels and should not be violated.

The Kaliningrad Autotor Auto-Production Seto and the German Auto Concert BMW agreed on a shift in the opening of an enterprise in the Kaliningrad region as part of the autoclaster created, TASS reports, citing the press service of the enterprise. Earlier, the media reported on the decision of the BMW to abandon plans to build a plant.

There are legal grounds for transferring elections to the State Duma for the fall, said the chairman of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko. “But the State Duma itself should decide on this: no one else can do this for it,” she emphasized in an interview with reporters on May 20. At the same time, Matvienko spoke out for holding all the elections on a single voting day, calling this idea correct and correct, TASS reports.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) did not inform the International Skating Union (ISU) about the intention to exclude dances on ice from the Olympic Games program, said the President of the Figure Skating Federation, Alexander Gorshkov. “Nothing such a development of events does not portend. If there was such an intention from the IOC, then the International Federation would be informed, including us - including.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Kirill, who arrived on Wednesday in Ulyanovsk, made the rank of consecration of the stele there in memory of the patriarchal locomotive of the war years, Metropolitan of Sergius (Stragorodsky). The stele is installed at the place of the deployment of the Moscow Patriarchate during the evacuation during the Great Patriotic War.

Sergei Polonsky, accused of embezzling equity holders’ funds, has no assets left in Russia, the businessman himself and his lawyers said. But he kept several projects abroad, writes RBC . Let us remind you that last Sunday Polonsky was deported from Cambodia to Russia. On Monday, May 18, the former billionaire was charged with fraud committed on a particularly large scale.

Banks should have sources of long-term financing with rates at 2-5.5% so that citizens of the Russian Federation can receive mortgage loans at 7-8% per annum. There have never been such conditions in the market, and their achievement, even in case of a significant improvement in the economic situation in the country, is impossible without state support, RIA Novosti told the market participants.

Russian singer Polina Gagarina, representing Russia at the Eurovision-2015 song contest in Vienna, reached the final of the song competition, whose first semifinals took place late in the evening on Tuesday. She made his way to the top ten leaders with the song "Million Voices" and now will perform in the second part of the final on Saturday, May 23. She pulled such a lot during a press conference, which all 10 participants came to, qualified during the first semi-finals.

Russian citizens Alexander Alexandrov and Evgeny Erofeev, detained by Ukrainian security forces, were charged with the creation of a terrorist group. In the SBU, Alexandrov and Erofeev are called "GRU officers", the Ministry of Defense says that at the time of detention they were already retired. However, the former colleague of Erofeev claims that he did not submit a dismissal report.