Another 68 patients with coronavirus and related diseases died in the capital, the situation with coronavirus infection reported on Friday to the operational headquarters on Friday. "In Moscow, 68 patients died who confirmed the diagnosis of pneumonia and a positive result of tests for coronavirus infection was obtained," the report said. In total, 1,358 people died in the capital, in whom a new coronavirus infection was confirmed.

Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that officials quickly resolve the issue of paying money to doctors working with coronavirus patients. According to TASS, at the next meeting, Putin noted that the amount of payments is the same for all doctors and other medical staff, regardless of the number of hours and days spent at work. “I called the specific figures for working with coronavirus patients: not for time, there are five, ten minutes or two hours-but for the fact of work.

The Ministry of Science and Higher Education said that close relations between students and teachers are unacceptable and harmful to the reputation of Russian education, Interfax reports with reference to the press service of the department. "The ministry is known about the emergence of an open letter of students of Moscow State University. The Ministry of Education and Science believes that such phenomena in universities are unacceptable.

The Executive Committee of the Figure Skating Federation of Russia ( FFKKR ) on Friday at his meeting in a video conference format approved the composition of the national team for the season-2020/21. The team included the Olympic champion Alina Zagitova, who suspended his competitive career in December last year.

Over the past year and a half, President Vladimir Putin presented 2755 state awards. According to “open media” estimates, only 5% of them were awarded to people who committed exploits. Almost 40% of the awards went to businessmen and employees of their companies, and 16% to officials, while scientists, education workers and doctors received only 11% of orders and medals.

Russian President Vladimir Putin demanded that the government restore order in the construction of construction documentation in order to speed up the processes of building various objects. He stated this, at a meeting on the opening of the medical centers of the Ministry of Defense in the regions.

"It has already been said that the current Russia is an exemplary personalist regime with all accompanying attributes. It, in fact, does not have a frame in the form of formal institutions and rules; it is organized as a process of daily redistribution of resources within the framework of the system of personified cartridge -changing relations," the political scientist writes on his Facebook page. "The prospects of such regimes are usually extremely vague.

The Canadian company Watfly began to take pre -orders for promising personal ATLAS aircraft, which is planned to start sales in the second half of 2021. At the same time, the first flight of Atlas is planned only at the end of 2020, reports Aviation Week . Watfly engineers have been working on the Atlas project for about two years.

The Moscow Department of Transport said that from May 12, passenger traffic in public transport grew in Moscow in Moscow. There are more personal cars on the roads, Interfax reports. "Compared to last week, there is an increase in the number of trips in the Moscow metro by 28%, in ground transport - by 21%, on a suburban railway - by 11%, on routes between Moscow and the region - by 44%," the department counted.

The Guinean forward of the Belarusian football club "Isloch" Momo Yansan said that his team has cases of infection with coronavirus. He asks to take quarantine measures. “I want to say that several members of our club fell ill with coronavirus, I wish them good health,” the Guinean football player on Twitter wrote.

The Chairman of the Public Chamber of Crimea Grigory Ioffe said that cope with coronavirus is as effectively as in the 1970s epidemic in 1970 is interfering with observance of human rights. He said this on the air of the Crimea 24 television channel, which Kommersant drew attention to. Ioffe said that during a meeting of the operational headquarters proposed to prevent the spread of coronavirus with the participation of the army and other power structures.

Tesla is preparing by the end of this year to present inexpensive batteries for electric vehicles with a long service life, the transition to which can noticeably reduce the cost of electric cars. It is reported by Reuters. It is expected that the presentation will be held in China and new batteries, which were created by Tesla specialists in cooperation with the Chinese company Contemporary Amperex Technology Co. LTD (CATL), the Tesla electric cars produced in China will be equipped primarily.

Russian President Vladimir Putin instructed to understand all the medical centers of the Ministry of Defense with domestic and imported devices of artificial ventilation (IVL) for patients with coronavirus. He announced this on Friday at a meeting on the opening of the medical centers of the Ministry of Defense in the regions, TASS reports. In total, 16 centers were built through the military department to help people with Covid-19 coronavirus for 1.6 thousand beds.

For sale at one of the forums of Darknet, a database with information about Russian car owners, numbering 129 million records, was issued. The founder and technical director of Devicelock Ashot Oganesyan announced the appearance of the base in the Telegram channel , and later the authenticity of the information from the base confirmed to open access to the Vedomosti employee of the car sharing company. Oganesyan said that the database includes 83 files, and its volume is 24 GB.

The hostel in Omsk police blocked because of quarantine in coronavirus. Local residents have to jump out of the balconies to buy products, said the editorial office of Siberia. Reali, a resident of the house Elena Nazarova. Due to quarantine, all the entrances and exits to the building along the 11th alternate street were closed from May 13. “For three days, the cordon is standing around the clock!