Roskomnadzor found only 400 Internet resources affected by the blocking of the Telegram messenger in Russia, although the agency received several tens of thousands of requests.

On May 7, in Ussuriysk, a ceremony was held to name school N25 after the Hero of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Valery Asapov, who died in Syria. The city administration website reports this. It is reported that the wife of the deceased, Olga Asapova, took part in the event. She thanked those present for the honor given to her husband, and noted that Valery Asapov was a decent person, a hardworking officer who respected his country, and wished the guys to emulate him.

US President Donald Trump in a telephone conversation with his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron discussed the situation in the Middle East. According to The New York Times , the American leader during a conversation with the President of France, in particular, reported his decision to leave the nuclear deal with Iran.

Israel inflicted air strikes on the positions of the Syrian army in the al-Kiswa region south of Damascus. The attack was committed on Tuesday, May 8, as a result, no one was injured, the commander of the regional former, supported by President of Syria Bashar al -Assad, told Reuters. In addition, the Syrian State Agency Sana reported about the sounds that were heard in the al-Chiswe area, similar to explosions.

In the celebrations dedicated to Victory Day, more than half of Russians will take part in 2018. The significance of this holiday in recent years has grown significantly in society, sociologists found out. In 2010, 38% of Russians called Victory Day of the most important holidays, in 2014 - 53%, now - already 71% of respondents, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the study of the All -Russian Center for the Study of Public Opinion ( VTsIOM ).

For the first time in 20 years, hockey players of the Washington Capitals club reached the playoff final of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League (NHL), beating the holder of the Stanley Cup of the two previous seasons - Pittsburgh Penguins. One of the most fundamental confrontations of the League for the first time since 1994 and for the second time in history ended in favor of the capital's club, which closed the series with a score of 4-2.

Two launches from the Vostochny cosmodrome, planned at the end of 2018, in question: satellites do not keep up with the readiness of missiles. This was announced by the Interfax agency a source at the cosmodrome. According to him, on May 8, the Soyuz 2.1A and Soyuz 2.1B launch vehicles will be sent from Samara in the Amur Region in the Amur Region, which are designed to launch the Kanopus-B spacecraft number 5 and 6, as well as the Meteor-M satellite 2-2.

In the capital of Ukraine, hooligans staged a stabbing at a train station. As a result, the man received a serious wound to the head. The victim was taken by ambulance to the hospital's intensive care unit in a coma. The knife was removed from the victim’s head only during the second operation, reports the dtp.kiev.ua group on the social network Facebook. Shocking photographs of the victim on the operating table and an X-ray of a folding knife stuck in the skull were also published there.

In the State Duma of the Russian Federation, a meeting began, at which deputies must vote for the proposal of the newly taken office of President Vladimir Putin to approve the head of government Dmitry Medvedev. According to the schedule on the website of the lower house, the plenary meeting was supposed to begin at 15 hours, but judging by the broadcast , it began with a half -hour delay. After the start of the meeting, President Putin spoke to the deputies with a brief speech.

In Novorossiysk, the defendant in the case of the former head of the Republic of Komi Vyacheslav Gaiser was killed - finances manager of the former deputy chairman of the Komi Government, general director of the complex project management (Kupr) Alexey Sokolov. This was reported by the BNK Komi news agency without specifying the source of information. It is noted that Sokolov died as a result of an accident - in the evening of May 7, a car knocked him to death.

The 69-year-old Ian Mcueen, which is included in the list of 50 greatest British writers, in an interview with The Daily Mail spoke about the curious case from his youngest son Greg, who is now 30 years old. Once Greg received the task of writing an essay based on Mcueen’s novel “Unbearable Love”, published in 1997. Reasoning that the author of the novel knows better what he wanted to say by his book, he turned to his father for help.

I. about. The Prime Minister of the Russian Federation Dmitry Medvedev proposed to appoint Vitaly Mutko as Deputy Prime Minister , who was previously the Minister of Sports, and then, having received a promotion, became the deputy prime minister and oversaw the sports of the highest achievements, mass sports and tourism.

One of those who took part in skirmishes with rally on May 5 in Moscow told a Cossack which of his colleagues came to Pushkinskaya Square. Vasily Boxes explained to the Kommersant newspaper that only registry Cossacks receive funding from the state. According to him, there were only one or two of them on the shares. The rest are included in various Cossack associations, often conflicting with each other.

“Don’t listen to the mother hens. After the wonderful action on May 5, many mother hens appeared, writing in the style of “Navalny came and started leading the kids out to face the batons of the riot police.” Like, he knew, the bastard, that the police would answer. The police, of course, are to blame, but so is Navalny , so-and-so, Putin himself provoked. Remember - this is the role of the hen in the cell. Cackle in favor of the investigator.

On the eve of Victory Day, the Ministry of Defense of Russia published on its website unique historical documents dedicated to the events and people who became the prototypes of famous films about the Great Patriotic War. "The military department’s website has published unique archival documents that will talk about the real events of the war years and their participants, whose stories formed the basis of the famous military film," the text says.