Specialists managed to restore the operation of the spacecraft of the Russian navigation satellite system GLONASS, which failed in mid-April. This was announced by Nikolai Testoedov, General Director of the Reshetnev Information Satellite Systems satellite manufacturing enterprise. “We were able to restore it. Now it is turned on and will collect statistics for eight days in order to enter the group.

The United States fears that Russia will install underwater reconnaissance equipment along the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline route in the Baltic Sea, said US Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Energy Diplomacy Sandra Oudkirk. According to her, Moscow may place some listening devices along the new gas pipeline that will connect Russia and Germany.

In the Vietnamese unit, Rosneft is afraid that the drilling in the South China Sea may cause Beijing’s discontent, Reuters said with reference to sources familiar with the situation. Rosneft Vietnam is developing a well at the Lan Do deposit, which is located in the Zone of the "Ninth-Puncture Line" in the South China Sea. China considers this territory its own. Lan Do of 85 km, it sets off inside the demarcation zone.

Telegram Messenger Inc. On May 11, she filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in the Northern District of California to the California company Lantah LLC. According to the newspaper Vedomosti , the plaintiff claims that the defendant violated his rights to the GRAM trading mark, and asks him to forbid him to use the sign in the future. We are talking about the cryptocurrency of the messenger called Gram.

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) seized the calendars at one of the private printing enterprises for the 2018 World Cup, which will be held in Russia, due to the fact that they depict a map where Crimea is part of the Russian Federation. In Kyiv, the peninsula is considered an annexed Ukrainian territory.

The Ukrainian police put on the wanted list of five accomplices of a daring robbery on a jewelry store in Kherson. Attackers were armed with automatic weapons and equipped as fighters of special forces. The crime was committed on May 14 at the shopping and entertainment center where the jewelry store was located. Two days later, the police on the official website published a video of an attack, disguised as a special operation of security forces.

Bishop Egorievsky Tikhon ( Shevkunov ), who is often called the confessor of the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin in the press, during the liturgy on the holiday of the ascension of the Lord in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior was elevated to the rank of Metropolitan Patriarch of Moscow and All Russia Kirill, TASS reports. The other day, the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church (ROC) decided to appoint Bishop Tikhon Metropolitan.

Igor Aidman "We are making a documentary with my colleagues about Russian TV -propaganda. Yesterday they shot all day in Berlin (Martsan and nearby) interviews with Russian -speaking. The results are disappointing. The vast majority of respondents are sitting on the Kremlin television agent," the sociologist writes on their Facebook page. "There is such a version that is popular among high -blade intellectuals that the Kremlin propaganda is the postmodernist in essence.

The American startup Lynq has successfully raised a tool for the production of a compact GPS tracker on the crowdfunding platform, which indicates the direction and distance to another user of the device. According to N+1 , the Lynq tracker is compared with a mobile phone in size.

Former Deputy Minister of Culture of the Russian Federation Grigory Pirumov, previously convicted of the "Restorers' case", was detained in a new criminal case of embezzlement of at least 450 million rubles allocated for the construction of a complex of buildings of the Hermitage. Former deputy Vladimir Medinsky was detained by investigators of the UK together with the FSB of Russia, TASS reports with reference to the official representative of the IC Svetlana Petrenko.

The Ministry of Emergency Situations (Ministry of Emergencies) began to develop amendments to the Law "On Fire Safety" on behalf of Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev after a tragedy in Kemerovo, where 60 people died in a fire center "Winter Cherry" .

The Kremlin evaluates as an occasion for the introduction of new sanctions against the Russian Federation the order of US President Donald Trump to prepare a plan for introducing additional restrictions on Moscow due to the alleged violations of the provisions of the agreement on the liquidation of medium and lower-range missiles (INFMD). This was reported to reporters by the press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov. "We believe, of course.

The lifetime portrait of Marina Tsvetaeva, who was written in 1931 by the artist Georgy Artemov, will be transported from Paris to Moscow. The picture as a gift will receive a house-museum of the poetess. The program will take place on May 25 during the exhibition and round table "Artistic Life of Russian Emigration: George Artemov." As TASS reported in the press service of the museum, Marie Artemova, the artist’s daughter, will come to Moscow to personally transfer the portrait.

St. Petersburg police detained a man suspected of robbing a station cafe. As it turned out, the attacker acted not so much out of self-interest, but out of a desire to take revenge on the sellers for selling “stone-hard” shawarma, on which the client broke a tooth. A criminal case has been initiated against the 27-year-old detainee.

The Saratov Airlines Airlines, whose An-148 plane crashed on February 11 in the suburbs, announced the suspension of activities from May 31 and forced dismissal of 1,200 employees who will now "be on the street," the press release reports. On Thursday, May 17, a letter was received from the Saratov Airlines from the head of the Department of Regulation of the Rosavision of Andrei Kruglov on the suspension of sales of air tickets from May 30, 2018.