Nikolai Travkin "We had one Minister of Economics in Russia. He loved to express himself very figuratively and constantly encouraged the president and the people, saying that the economy reached the bottom, now we will follow the rebound and we will begin to survive.

The Lunar Reconnaisance Orbiter device, which works in the orbit of the moon, found and photographed the place of the fall of the Israeli lunar landing probe “Bereshit”, which crashed during the landing in early April due to a chain of failures, which led to the refusal of the main engine before the landing itself. The pictures were posted in the NASA microblog on Twitter. According to N+1 , a bright area is visible in the pictures, from which rays of up to one hundred meters leave.

The Russian Football Union (RFU) appealed to the Ministry of Internal Affairs about the possible non -portable nature of the match of the professional football league (PFL) "Chaika" - "Chernomorets" (3: 1), held on May 13 as part of the 27th round of the South Zone. “We are studying the information about the“ Seagull ” -“ Chernomorets ”match. We have reason to believe that its result is an unsportsmanlike.

Oppositionist Alexei Navalny posted a post on his blog and recorded a video, devoting them to one of the two main sponsors of the construction of the temple in Yekaterinburg, against the construction of which the townspeople actively protest on the site of the square. We are talking about oligarch Igor Altushkin , who is the owner of the Russian Copper Company (RMK) and takes 25th place in the Russian Forbes rating.

“A little about the cornation of the bishops. It is clear that the Yekaterinburg scandal causes considerable damage to the church. I'm talking about the church with a capital letter - the one that is sad about every soul lost to her,” Protodiacon Andrei Kuraev writes on Facebook . "The scandal around the Square-Square, probably, had not given one soul a reason to decide and get into the anti-cellism.

On the next competitive day of the World Hockey Championship in Slovakia, the national teams of Canada and Sweden won third victories at the group stage, correcting their tournament position. The ancestors of the hockey of the Canadian match of the fourth round match in Kositz with a score of 5: 2 outplayed the French and scored nine points, reaching the second position in group A.

Businessman Igor Kolomoisky, who left Ukraine in June 2017, returned to the country, reports The Babel online publication, whose investor is the oligarch. The first about the return of the businessman to the country was written by journalist Mikhail Tkach in his Telegram channel . According to him, the oligarch flew at 2:30 am on May 16 at the Dnieper airport (formerly Dnepropetrovsk) on the Privat group with an on-board UR-PRT.

The head coach of the Yaroslavl Club of the Continental Hockey League (KHL) Lokomotiv was appointed 60-year-old Canadian specialist Craig Maktavish, a contract with which was concluded for two years. In this post, he replaced Dmitry Kvartalnov, who previously headed the Kazan Ak Bars. “I am impatiently waiting for my cooperation with the Lokomotiv HC and Personally Mr. Yuri Yakovlev (President of Lokomotiv).

The US Department of Transport issued an order on the suspension of passenger aircraft with Venezuela. "The conditions developing in Venezuela threaten the safety of passengers, aircraft and crew members who fly to this country and from it," the document refers to Interfax refers.

On May 16, the State Duma adopted in the second reading a bill on technical inspection, designed to eradicate the practice of selling and buying diagnostic cards without presenting the car for technical inspection.

The news of the discovery of WhatsApp (belongs to Facebook) of a serious vulnerability , which allowed attackers to put the spy program on the users smartphones, inspired the founder of the Telegram messenger Pavel Durov to write a column dedicated to the safety of messengers. In it, Durov criticized WhatsApp and accused Mark Zuckerberg's head of Facebook of hypocrisy.

The native of the Altai Territory Maria Motuznaya, who left Russia due to criminal prosecution on charges of extremism, filed a lawsuit for compensation for moral damage to the Barnaul Central Court. This was announced in his Telegram channel by the head of the Agora human rights group Pavel Chikov. According to him, the motive asks to recover 1 million rubles from the Ministry of Finance of the Russian Federation for an illegal criminal case.

According to the results of the first quarter of 2019, the weighted average price of a new car in Russia amounted to 1.52 million rubles, which is 12% more than for the same period of last year. This is evidenced by the data of Avtostat agency. Analysts also found out that the weighted average price of a foreign car in January-March reached 1.77 million rubles (+13%), and a domestic car-662 thousand rubles (+9%).

The US Treasury B, on the basis of the Magnitsky Act, a Chechen special detachment of the rapid response of the Terek Rosguard and five Russians, including the commander of the detachment Abuse Vismuradov. This is stated in the statement of the department distributed on Thursday. In addition to Vismuradov, Gennady Karlov, Sergey Kossiev, Ruslan Geremeyev and Elena Trikul fell under the sanctions, TASS reports.

Kirill Shulik In connection with the words of Vladimir Putin about the need to make a decision on the construction of a disputed temple in the center of Yekaterinburg based on the results of a public survey and a politician summarizes in his Telegram channel some results of this story, noting that it is a systemic crisis of power. "These are what considerations in Yekaterinburg. Several considerations. 1. The main thing is that power should not be stupid than the population.