The ex-employee of the Russian anti-doping agency (Rusada) Vitaly Stepanov was disappointed in plans to expose the doping system in Russian athletics, since the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) slowly reacts to his information, reports Reuters. He also noted that since the beginning of his active actions, he often came across doubts. “I fell asleep and told myself that I was an idiot,” R -Sport quotes Stepanova. “This thought came to me many times.

“I went to the “Immortal Regiment” - it was very cool, honestly. There is no resemblance to ordinary state rallies where state employees are herded. As a rule, from all kinds of concerts for the Crimea, despondency spreads beyond the third transport ring: poor state employees come there with one desire - they would rather run away, even if they have nothing against Crimea.

On May 9, 91-year-old veteran Claudia Malashkin died in the Leningrad Region on May 9 in the hospital. According to preliminary data, a woman without water and food locked her own granddaughter in the apartment for three days. According to 47news.ru , on May 6, in the city of Volkhov, the Leningrad Region, employees of the Ministry of Emergencies at the request of the neighbors opened the apartment where the 91-year-old war veteran lived.

Pentagon representatives believe that Russia and China are building a potential that will allow them to attack the United States in space. This was written by The Washington Post newspaper with reference to officials of the American defense department. As the newspaper notes, while the United States has mired in anti -terrorist operations in Iraq and Afghanistan, representatives of the Pentagon say that Russia and China are developing the opportunity to attack the United States in space.

The United States did not confirm the information that appeared in the media that their new ambassador to Ukraine will be Mary Jovanovich, who was an ambassador to Kyrgyzstan and Armenia in the past, and now, apparently, does not work in public service at all. According to TASS, the official representative of the US State Department Elizabeth Trudo was asked at a regular briefing for journalists if it could confirm the indicated information. “No, I can’t.

The DPRK leader Kim Jong -un led a multi -thousandth demonstration and rally, which took place on Tuesday on the central square of Pyongyang on the occasion of the end of the VII Congress of the Korea Labor Party (TPK), Reuters reported. Kim Che Yun was elected at this forum as chairman of the TPK. Earlier, he headed the party as its first secretary. Next to him on the rostrum for honorary guests were leading party, state and military figures in the country.

The Israeli company General Robotics introduced a prototype of a compact caterpillar robot armed with a Glock 26 pistol and intended to participate in special operations, writes the Defense News portal. The robot, which received the name Dogo, claims the title of the world's first in the world of such a device with its own weapons. The weight of the robot is about 12 kilograms, and the maximum speed of movement is 6 km/h.

Mikhail Yakunin, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Crimean Russian National Commercial Bank (RNKB), which has been owned by the Federal Property Management Agency from December 30, wrote a letter to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin with a request for a 21 billion rubles in 2017-2019, the Vedomosti newspaper writes. This bank is a system -forming bank of Crimea and is under US sanctions.

The Canadian mining company Lucara Diamond Corporation received a record $ 63 million for a huge diamond found in Botswan. Under the terms of the transaction, the company will be able to apply for 10% of profits from any transactions that will be made with a stone after its processing. According to Lucara, an exceptionally pure LLA stone, that is, not containing impurities of boron or nitrogen, was found in the Karowe mine in November last year. He was called the "Constellation".

Tourists from Russia in 2015 spent 30% less during rest abroad than a year earlier. This, as Interfax reports, is evidenced by the data of the United Nations Tourist Organization of the UN (UNWTO). In total, the Russians left abroad $ 35 billion against more than $ 50 billion a year earlier. At the same time, according to the results of last year, Russia took sixth place in the world in terms of tourist expenses, descending in this rating one line below.

The front -line soldier Vladimir Etush, heavily wounded in battles near Zaporozhye in 1943, was not invited, as in the last years, to the Kremlin, but to Red Square, where the Victory Parade took place, thanks to the efforts of his wife and publicity.

The most valuable player of the regular championship of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for the second year in a row was recognized as the defender Golden Steit Warriorz Stephen Curry. The fact that he received 100 percent of the vote of the jury members is unique. This was not possible to achieve this in the rich history of the association, notes The New York Times . Curry received the maximum possible number of points - 1310.

The upcoming alleged exchange of the Ukrainian military personnel of Nadezhda Savchenko , convicted in the Russian Federation for the murder of VGTRK journalists in the Donbass, in the Russians Evgeny Erofeev and Alexander Alexandrov , found guilty of the aggressive war and terrorism in Ukraine, may not take place. This "Radio Freedom" was stated by Erofeeva Lawyer Oksana Sokolovskaya. "As far as I understand, we all understand - this is a bilateral agreement.

Employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia and the FSB of Russia detained the active participant in the Hizb-T Tahrir al-Islami International Terrorist Organization, the official website of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation reports.

Moscow leads among all regions of Russia in the number of migrants sent from the country: in the capital, a third of all decisions on their expulsion are adopted. The record for the largest number of expulsions belongs to the judge of the Golovinsky court Sergei Bazarov, whose consideration of such cases took less than five minutes.