US President Donald Trump called on the Venezuela government to hold "free and honest elections" in the country after the predictable re -election of Nicholas Maduro to the post of head of state. Earlier on Monday, the United States introduced new sanctions against Venezuela related to its state debt.

Despite the 27 years of operation in Russia of the law “On the privatization of housing stock,” which provides for the free transfer of apartments to citizens into private ownership, today not all of the housing stock in the country has been privatized. In Moscow alone, there are still about 400 thousand non-privatized apartments, the city property department reported.

The 44th US President Barack Obama and his wife Michelle Obama signed a long-term contract with Netflix, which is engaged in production and showing on the Internet of films and television programs. The presidential couple will shoot films and TV shows on a wide variety of topics, in particular, will deal with documentary and popular science films, as well as series and adaptation of literary works, Netflix Twitter reported.

In the Indian state of Kerala, located on the Malabar coast in the southwestern part of the country, 10 people died from the outbreak of the NIPA virus (NIV). Nine more local residents who have infected a dangerous infection are currently hospitalized. This was reported by the CNN channel with reference to the statement of the official representative of the Department of Health and Family Welfare Raji Sadanandan.

The Krasnodar radio -television transmitting center in connection with the preparation of the city of Sochi for the matches of the World Cup made a decision from May 21 to May 31 to limit the broadcast of television channels and radio stations. During this period, the lighting of the television tower will be carried out.

The new Deputy Prime Minister for Construction and Regional Policy Vitaly Mutko announced the launch of a new national project in the housing sector. The project will be developed by October 1, 2018. Mutko emphasized that the new May presidential decree poses serious challenges for the construction industry. “Our task before October 1 is a new national project.

In March of this year, Russian President Vladimir Putin devoted a significant part of his message to the Federal Assembly to the revolutionary Russian armament , especially highlighting a cruise missile with a nuclear engine that can “carry the load to any distance” and “fly for days”. However, according to the American television channel CNBC , Russia has yet to conduct at least one successful test of advertised new products.

Mikhail Krutikhin "In vain you condemn the Gazprom megagobroboles . You forgot about the" multiplier effect "? I don’t need a damn that no one needs the idea - but how many people are involved in this!" - writes the orientalist and expert in the oil and gas market on his Facebook page. "The country's leadership decided that the Germans-Japanese should not be bought from a large diameter, but to do in Russia. Patriotism and import substitution in Russia.

Yakov Kogan “Can you imagine, in two hundred years, just like now in, say, Peterhof or Kolomenskoye, hordes of tourists will be led to the dachas, country houses and huge apartments of the current deputies, prosecutors, ministers and other nobility,” writes the artist and blogger on his Facebook page.

The Internet Ombudsman Dmitry Marinichev suggested that the Prosecutor General’s Office verify the actions of Roskomnadzor when blocking the Telegram messenger, because of which many third-party companies and resources had problems. According to TASS, Marinichev’s corresponding proposal is contained in the annual report to the President of the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin “Book of complaints and proposals of Russian business”, submitted by the business ombudsman Boris Titov.

Radical -minded British football fans announced their readiness for an organized confrontation with Russian fans during the 2018 World Cup in the Russian Federation. They promised to arrange the "Real Hell" and "Third World War" to the owners of the mundial, notifies the local publication The Daily Star .

The website of the Dissernet community, which examines the dissertations of officials, scientists and other famous people, was blocked due to the ongoing struggle of Roskomnadzor with the Telegram messenger. According to MBKH Media , users lost access to the Dissernet website on May 20. According to expert Philip Kulin, the day before, Roskomnadzor added the Network Layer Technologies Inc subnet, which includes over 32 thousand IP addresses, to the register of prohibited ones.

Oleg Navalny, who is serving a 3.5-year sentence in the Yves Rocher case and should be released in almost a month, was again placed in the penalty area. The transfer of the convicted person in the schizo was reported on Twitter by the press secretary of his brother, oppositionist Alexei Navalny, Kira Yarmysh. At the same time, on Friday, May 25, Oleg Navalny had to have a date with his family, the comrade -in -arms of the opposition figure said in her microblog .

The Falcon 9 launch vehicle with five telecommunications satellites of Iridium Next and two Grace-Fo landing satellites on board started on May 22 from the U.S. Air Force, Vandenberg. The launch broadcast is carried out on the website of SpaceX. The start of the launch vehicle occurred at 12:47 Time of the Western coast of the United States (22:47 Moscow time). 11 minutes after the launch, the Grace’s capturers were successfully brought to the support orbit, the company said on Twitter .

Since July, AvtoVAZ will stop the production of the Lada Priora model, Vedomosti reports with reference to the top managers of the brand dealerships. At the same time, AvtoVAZ will remove the Drestyling Granta and Kalina from the assembly line and prepares to release updated models in the X-style, according to the publication. Priora production started in 2007, and once it was a sales leader among all Lada models.