Ex-President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili was appointed head of the executive committee of reform, which is part of the National Council of Reforms under the President of Ukraine. The corresponding decree was signed on May 7 by the President of Ukraine Vladimir Zelensky on May 7, according to the official website of the head of state. The president of the Internet Invest Group, Imena.ua and Mirhost Internet companies and Mirhost, was appointed deputy Saakashvili.

The Governor of the Lipetsk Region Igor Artamonov and the mayor of Lipetsk Evgeny Vovarkin discussed at the meeting the use of disinfectants to “disperse people” from the places of mass accumulation of people, writes the publication “Mediazon” with reference to the audio recording of the conversation and commentary of the deputy of the Lipetsk Regional Council Oleg Khomutinnikov.

European and American astronomers found that the HR6819 giant star in the constellation of the telescope actually represents three different objects at once, one of which is the black hole closest to the ground, located at a distance of a thousand light years from our planet. An article about this opening was published in Astronomy & Astrophysics . “We were very surprised when we realized that this star system is the first point in space, where we can see the black hole with the naked eye.

Former deputy of the Legislative Assembly of the Krasnoyarsk Territory and entrepreneur Anatoly Bykov was detained on suspicion of organizing contract killings. This was reported to TASS by a source in law enforcement agencies. According to him, Bykov was detained by employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the FSB, the criminal case was opened by the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation. “It is anxious for the fate of Anatoly Bykov.

In the city of Rubtsovsk, the Altai Territory, a check was launched on the fact of violation of restrictive measures in the shopping center, where customers for sale gathered during the distribution of coronavirus. According to the regional government , the incident occurred on May 5 at the Eureka shopping center. A large number of buyers gathered in one of the stores. They ignored the self -isolation regime and arranged a crush in line for cheap things.

The founder of the human rights project "Ombudsman of the Police" Vladimir Vorontsov was charged with extortion with a former policeman, Interfax told the head of the information and public relations of the capital's head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vladimir Vasenin.

Over the past day, 11,231 coronavirus in 84 regions have been identified in Russia, of which 5471 (48.7%) - without clinical manifestations of the disease, reports the Telegram channel of the federal operational headquarters. In total, 177,160 sick in 85 regions were registered in the country, the number of dead is 1625 (88 people died a day). The number of recovered patients increased to 23,803 people, 2476 patients were discharged per day.

The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Belarus informed the Russian Embassy in the republic about the deprivation of the accreditation of two journalists of the Russian Channel One after the plot about the “sharp deterioration of the situation with the coronavirus” in the country, RIA Novosti was told in the press service of the diplomatic mission.

The Moscow Department of Health denies that the country for the production of purchased express tests for the diagnosis of coronavirus is China, as stated in the recent investigation of the publication "Important Stories". As evidence, the agency was published by the scan of the registration certificate for tests by Inzek International Tranding BV, in which the country of the manufacturer is the Netherlands.

The head of the German Football League (DFL) Christian Zabert at a press conference on Thursday announced that the highest division of the national football championship would be resumed on May 16. The day before, the federal and regional authorities agreed to resume the matches of the German football championship in the second half of May. This decision was made during a video conference with the participation of the country's chancellor Angel Merkel and the prime ministers of federal lands.

In the United States, a week that ended on May 2, the number of citizens who first applied for unemployment benefits amounted to 3.169 million, the Ministry of Labor said, Interfax said. According to the revised data, at the week ending on April 25, the number of appeals was 3.846 million. Earlier it was announced that the indicator was 3.839 million. Experts expected to fall the number of applications up to 3 million, Trading Economics testify.

The restrictions introduced in most countries due to the pandemia of coronavirus led to a decrease in mortality on the road by 50-60%. This was announced by RIA "Novosti" Special Supervisor of the UN Security Procedure Secretary of the Road Safety, Jean Todt. He noted that quarantine measures naturally reduced the intensity of the movement of all types of transport.

The authorities of South Korea will fine the South Korean division of Mercedes-Benz for $ 64.3 million for falsification of data on the emissions of harmful substances by engines of a number of diesel cars of the company. Such a decision was made by the Ministry of Environment of the country, Prime reports. Fines are also written out by Porsche and Nissan, but they will have to pay only 817.3 thousand and 735.6 thousand dollars, respectively.

In the past two years, sales of tablets in the Russian market have declined - users more often gave preferences to smartphones that grew in size or laptops. However, the coronavirus epidemic led to a surge of tablet sales, Vedomosti write with reference to the data of the United company M. Video - Eldorado. The company said that in the first quarter of 2020, 590 thousand tablets totaling 8.2 billion rubles were sold in Russia.

The head physician of the Moscow clinic N180 in Mitino Julia Sergeyeva died after a "long illness caused by a new coronavirus infection," according to the website of the capital's department of healthcare. She was on the artificial ventilation of the lungs and the apparatus of extorporepical membrane oxygenation (EKMO) for 43 days.