The organizers of the Asturias Squash Championship women's ward tournament awarded the winners of the competition with sex toys, which caused a grandiose scandal and accusations of sexism. The champion and finalist as a prize received vibrators called Durex Pure Fantasy. The ladies who took lower places got wax sets for hair removal and electronic foot exfoliators.

Chinese researchers are actively developing person recognition technologies, and their developments can also find application in other areas. An example of this is the application for recognizing giant pandas, which people distinguish with great difficulty. According to The Verge , the application was created by developers from the Center for Research and Breeding Giant Pands in Cunde.

The composition of the male national team of Switzerland in Biathlon for the new season was represented in social networks in a very extraordinary way. The leader of the national team Benjamin Veger posted on Instagram a couple of group shots, in which the athletes are captured naked. "Lady and gentlemen, let me introduce you to the male team of Switzerland of the 2019/20 season," wrote Veger.

“ The scandal with Austrian Vice-Chancellor Strache clearly demonstrates precisely the lowering of the bar of what is permissible,” writes the publicist and political scientist on his Facebook page. “After all, it is well known that Kremlin intermediaries are knocking on all doors today. They “trade” their capabilities in Europe at Putin’s court - sometimes successfully, but more often not. And the point is not how serious the offer made to Mr. Strache was.

The associate of the opposition Alexei Navalny and the former head of his election headquarters Leonid Volkov was detained in the morning on the exit from the house on the Volodarsky highway and taken to the police to draw up a protocol. This was announced on Twitter Volkov himself.

Alexey Roshchin “I looked - with envy, which is already hiding - the inauguration of Zelensky, even his Ukrainian speech was not so annoyed. Young, lively, smart, artistic - and president! Some fiction, it’s still difficult to believe. Lucky Ukrainians. Moreover, they themselves managed to find, choose and insist on their own. Just bravo,” writes a social psychologist on their page on Facebook .

The Office of the President of the President of the Federal State Budgetary Institution “Management of the Customer of Construction and Reconstruction of Objects in the North-Western Federal District” included in the structure of the President of the FSBU, the restoration of the former farmstead of the Employees of the Theodorovsky Sovereign Cathedral in the city of Pushkin near St. Petersburg (Theodorovsky Gorodok) to turn the facility into a new residence for the Patriarch Kirill.

On May 21, a subsidiary of the Chinese Huawei brand introduced the Honor 20 and 20 Pro and 20 and 20 Pro. The devices made their debut in difficult times: due to pressure from the United States, the future of the Huawei and Honor mobile business remains in question . Like the previous Honor devices, new smartphones boast of flagship characteristics and a bright design of the rear glass panel at a relatively affordable price.

To the journalists of the policy department of the Kommersant newspaper, who submitted applications for dismissal after the scandal around the article about the speaker of the Federation Council Valentina Matvienko, closed access to the editor, blocking the pass. This was reported on Facebook by the Deputy editor of the Political Department of Maria-Louise Tirmaste and told RBC two current editorial staff.

The head of the Ukrainian state, Vladimir Zelensky, signed the first decree, which appointed himself the supreme commander in chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (Armed Forces). The corresponding document is published on the presidential website . It is published at 300. According to the Constitution, the president is the supreme commander in chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine.

Three-time world champion in car races in the class of Formula 1 cars, Austrian Nicky Lauda died at the age of 70. This was reported by the ORF television channel with reference to the application of the family of the former highway. According to the source, Lauda died on May 20 with his family. "In deep sadness, we announce that our beloved Nicky fell peace peacefully on Monday, on May 20, 2019, being surrounded by relatives. His unique achievements in sports will not remain forgotten.

The Russian edition of the authoritative financial magazine Forbes has compiled a list of the most promising citizens under 30 years. The winners in the category "Sports and Eystones" were football player Alexander Golovin, hockey player Kirill Kaprizov, as well as e -sportsman Roman Kushnarev.

The current champion of the National Basketball Association (NBA) - the Golden STAT WARRIRES club - the fifth time in a row reached the final of the playoffs of the tournament. In the semi-final series, up to four victories of the “warriors” dried Portland with a score of 4-0. The fourth match of the confrontation ended in overtime with a score 119: 117 (36:35, 29:34, 22:26, ​​24:16, 8: 6). The most productive player in the match was the playing Golden Steat Stefen Curry, who scored 37 points.

The State Duma on Tuesday adopted in the final, third reading the law on the right of relatives and friends of the patient to visit him in intensive care or in the intensive care unit. This is stated on the website of the lower house of parliament. The law was proposed for consideration by the Duma by a group of deputies, led by a member of the Duma Health Committee, Nikolai Gerasimenko (United Russia party) and was adopted in the first reading back in July 2018.

The principles for calculating the reference values ​​of the kilogram, ampere, Kelvin and the mole of the International SI system changed on World Metrology Day, which was celebrated on May 20. New definitions were approved in November 2018 in Versailles at the 26th General Conference on Measures and Libra, TASS reports.