The authorities of the Swiss canton Basel-Land decided that students who profess Islam should greet the hands with women's teachers. Otherwise, their parents will find a fine of up to 5,000 francs, reports The Local . The scandal happened in one of the schools in the commune Tervil in April 2016. The school leadership allowed two Muslim students to abandon the handshake with teachers. The boys said that religion forbids them to touch women who are not in close relationship with them.

In Russia, a criminal case has been instituted on the murder of the Russian pilot Su-24 Oleg Peshkov in Syria. Earlier, on May 10, the Turkish court concluded that law enforcement agencies have no convincing evidence of the guilt of Alparslan Chelik , arrested on suspicion of the murder of a Russian military. Then the local prosecutor's office removed all the charges from him and released.

The Chinese company Xiaomi has expanded the range of goods produced, announcing its first consumer drone, equipped with a camera, the Phone Arena reports. A quadrocopter called Xiaomi Mi Drone outwardly resembles many drones presented on the market (for example, the DJI Phantom line). The device is equipped with a 360-degree camera posted on a special suspension and capable of shooting a video with a resolution of 4K (a version with a cheaper camera is also provided).

In the near future, the leadership of the European Union will extend the action of anti -Russian sanctions for the last time, and by the end of this year, some of the restrictions may be removed. One of the reasons is disagreements on the issue of sanctions within the EU. This was said by RIA "Novosti" by the diplomatic source in Brussels.

The British The Sun claims to be who will get Walther PPK after Daniel Craig said goodbye to her Majesty's image. If the assumptions are justified, Jamie Bell, the star of Billy Elliot and Fantastic Four, can become a new bond. According to the publication, the 30-year-old actor has already entered into negotiations with the creators of the cult spy franchise. The producer of the films about James Bond Barbara Broccoli is a longtime fan of Bella and is very impressed with his last work.

Engineers of the Russian Rocket and Space Corporation Energia developed a project of a reusable manned ship "Verk" for delivery to the Moon of goods and astronauts from the International Space Station. According to them, the implementation of the project will cost less than the launch of the new ship "Federation".

Voentorg , subordinate to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, opens the Army of Russia store in Moscow, in which US goods will be sold in Moscow, in which domestic goods with patriotic symbols will be sold, including clothes under the brand "Polish People" , which gained certain popularity after the annexation of Crimea to Russia. The store, decorated with a five -pointed "attacking" star, will open on May 26 at Novinsky Boulevard, house 18, Interfax reports.

The Pension Fund of Russia (PFR) detained the transfer of funds to non -state funds (NPFs) under the program for co -financing pensions, the newspaper Kommersant writes. The funds, as the participants in the pension insurance market told the publication, were supposed to come on May 15, but did not come. In the FIU, the fact of a delay in the transfer of state financing was recognized, explaining it by technical reasons.

The countries of the Vsevograd group signed a declaration according to which they are going to send their troops to the Baltic states. According to Interfax , soldiers of Hungary, Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic will be part of NATO forces. Currently, the authorities of the countries of the Vsegrad group will develop a plan for sending soldiers to the Baltic countries, which will be presented at the NATO summit in Warsaw in July this year.

The authorities of the Amur Region allocated 500 thousand hectares in the area of ​​forest stands and 50 thousand hectares of agricultural land in the Arkharinsky district for the issuance of the first plots to citizens of the Russian Federation as part of the State Program "Far Eastern Hectar". This was announced by the Minister of Property Relations of the region Sergey Khovvt.

The Arab -Kurdish alliance began a large -scale attack on Syrian Rakka - the main city controlled by the Islamic State terrorist group (IG, prohibited in Russia). DW reports that at first the Alliance plans to capture the region northwest of Rakka, but the city itself has not yet entered. At the same time, the Kurdish source of RIA Novosti said that the “tens of thousands” participate in the offensive, who can take the city and cleanse it from terrorists.

Investigators of the Kaluga region opened a criminal case against the head of the administration of the municipality of the rural settlement "The village of Akhlebinino". The official is suspected of making a fake certificate. For her actions, she received a bribe in the form of chocolate and other sweets. The suspect is charged with Part 1 of Art.

A few days after the incident with an American reconnaissance aircraft in the Far East, due to which the Russian air traffic controllers had to change the height of two foreign liners, a similar incident occurred above the Japanese Sea. According to Interfax , referring to a source familiar with the situation, on the morning of May 25, due to an unidentified aircraft, the dispatchers urgently changed the height of the Liner flying from Tokyo.

The Ukrainian pilot Nadezhda Savchenko is on board an airplane that flies from Russia to Ukraine. Reuters told about this a source close to the exchange. According to TSN, Savchenko will arrive at Kiev Airport Borispol at 14:45, RBC notes. The Ukrainian Agency of UNN confirms with reference to its own sources in diplomatic circles that Savchenko had already gone to Ukraine. The presidential board flew out of the Rostov-on-Don airport at 12:15 Moscow time.

President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko promised to return the Crimea and Donbass following the return of the pilots of Nadezhda Savchenko. He stated this at a briefing in his administration, the presidential website reports. “Nadezhda and firm faith returned to us to our victory. How we returned hope, so we will return Donbass, so we will return Crimea to Ukrainian sovereignty,” Poroshenko said.