According to the results of 2020, housing sales in Russia can decrease by 15%, but there will be no serious fluctuations in the market. This opinion was made by the vice president, director of the Sberbank credit and processes division, Sergei Bessonov, writes RBC .

A group of engineers from the Swiss Higher Technical School Zurich introduced a robot capable of cutting figures of complex polystyrene form. An article with a description of the robot is planned to be presented at the Siggragraph 2020 conference. The development, in fact, is a thermal cutter with a wire actively bending during cutting, which heats up with electricity, which allows you to melt polystyrene foam when contacting it.

The head of Chechnya, Ramzan Kadyrov at a meeting of the government of the republic, demanded to dismiss the hospital employees in Hudermmes, who complained about the lack of protective equipment for working with sick coronavirus. “The provocateurs must be dismissed. We have enough equipment, costumes, masks, oxygen, medicines. We, on the contrary, can provide assistance to other regions. We have 30-40 thousand.

The analytical center (AC) under the Government proposed to reconsider the deadlines for a number of projects of the National Program "Digital Economy", as well as exclude the measures from the project "Information Security", which provided for the state support of 1.6 billion rubles. The cause of such recommendations was the pandemic of coronavirus and the crisis caused by it.

Data violators of the self -isolation regime in Moscow could get into open access after the publication of screenshots of the decisions themselves fined. This was announced by RIA "Novosti" Head of the Main Control Department of Moscow Evgeny Dantikov. He noted that the leakage of data of the fined can occur only when the decree on the Internet is published on the Internet, which indicates a unique number (Win). It is almost impossible to choose it manually, according to Dantchikov.

The Ministry of Labor has developed a bill, according to which the monthly amount of the funded pension of citizens in 2021 will decrease compared to 2020 due to an increase in the term of payment of savings by an additional six months. As explained to Izvestia in the department, this is due to the data of Rosstat on an increase in the life expectancy of Russians. Politicians and experts note that the pension system is imperfect, and in old age they themselves do not count on it.

In April, the mortality rate in Sweden, whose authorities refused to introduce quarantine due to pandemia, became the highest for this country in almost 30 years, Interfax reports. According to the National Institute of Statistical Data, in April, more people died in the country than in any other month since 1993. The counting of all months were taken into account. In April 2020, 10.4 thousand people died in Sweden.

The VKontakte social network has officially announced the launch of group video calls with the participation of up to eight people in their mobile applications. The testing of this function was reported in early May. "The function is available in the latest version of the VK mobile application. To start a conversation, you need to open a suitable conversation, press the pipe icon and choose which of the chat to the call. You can add the interlocutor right during the communication.

The US Air Force and United Launch Alliance (ULA) carried out the sixth in the orbit of the Boeing X-37B experimental cosmoplane. Initially, the launch of the X-37B was scheduled for Saturday, May 16, but due to the bad weather it was first postponed for two hours, and then transferred to Sunday. As a result, the Atlas V missile with a cosmoplane on board started on May 17, at 16 hours 14 minutes Moscow time from the Cosmodrome at Cape Kanveral (Florida), TASS reports.

The Tambov and Nizhny Novgorod football clubs, whose cities shares more than 500 kilometers, can be combined at the end of this season, says Sport-Express . Such a scenario is possible if the Tambov residents remain in the Premier League (RPL). The new club will play on a handsome stadium in Nizhny Novgorod. If Tambov flies out the football National League (FNL), the club will play in its city. After 22 rounds of the RPL, Tambov takes 10th place with 25 points.

In St. Petersburg, in the LenExpo exhibition complex, where from the beginning of May a temporary hospital for patients with a light course of the disease has been deployed, additional places have been introduced due to an increase in the number of cases. So far, about 1000 beds in the N7 pavilion for patients with a mild form of coronavirus infection were allocated under the hospital. But from this week, patients will be placed in pavilions 8 and 8a, where 474 beds are equipped, the St.

The founder of the British company Dyson, James Dyson, during an interview with The Sunday Times, demonstrated the prototype of an electric car of the company, the development of which was canceled last year for economic reasons.

Russian President Vladimir Putin said that the situation with the spread of coronavirus in Dagestan requires additional urgent measures. According to RIA Novosti , this was said on an online meeting with the leadership and representatives of the public of Dagestan. The President said that in recent days, the regional healthcare system has been working with a serious load, and people complain that the necessary medical care can be obtained not always and not everywhere.

The US Minister of Health Alex Azar assigned to the World Health Organization (WHO) responsibility for a large number of victims during the Pandemia of the Coronavirus, Interfax reports. “We must be honest about why this outbreak (coronavirus. - Approx. Interfax ) got out of control. This organization was unable to get information that the world was needed, and this inability turned into many victims,” the Azar said during the performance at the Session of the World Health Assembly.

In more than 12 regions of Russia, violations were revealed regarding incentive payments, which were promised by Vladimir Putin doctors for the fight against coronaviral infection. This was reported on the website of the Prosecutor General of the Russian Federation. Among these regions are Samara, Novosibirsk, Vladimir, Oryol, Kursk, Belgorod, Nizhny Novgorod, Murmansk, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk regions, as well as the Krasnodar and Perm Territories.