Iran will not negotiate with the United States, despite the statements of US President Donald Trump. According to the Tasmin agency, this was stated by the representative of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (Iranian Armed Forces) Yadalla Javani. According to him, the US is unreliable in terms of negotiating and concluding agreements. Javani also expressed confidence that the US would not resort to military action against the country.

The US authorities have raised import duties on Chinese goods from 10% to 25%. The increase in fees will affect $200 billion worth of cargo. The decision has been repeatedly postponed, it came into force today. The Chinese government has vowed to take retaliatory measures. According to The Wall Street Journal, US administration documents say that the increase does not apply to goods shipped from China before May 10.

The Chinese authorities expressed regret over the actions of the US administration and promised to take retaliatory measures. This, according to TASS , is stated in a statement by the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China. The agency expressed the hope that the parties, however, will be able to overcome differences on the trade issue. Earlier, US President Donald Trap announced the decision to raise import duties on about $200 billion worth of Chinese imports from 10% to 25%.

Russia can be declared a country that manipulates its own currency for profit. The US plans to expand the list of such states. According to Bloomberg , in addition to Russia, Vietnam, Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia and Ireland can be added to the list. Thus, the list will grow from 12 to 20 countries. Agency sources say that the US Treasury was supposed to provide the White House with an updated list in April, but is postponing it for now.

The cause of death of Sergei Dorenko was a rupture of the aorta. The journalist became ill the night before when he was riding a motorcycle in the center of Moscow. The causes of his death were reported by the radio station Moskva Speaks, which was headed by Dorenko, with reference to the conclusion of a forensic medical examination. On the evening of May 9, the journalist was driving along the Garden Ring on his motorcycle.

On May 10, Aeroflot airline canceled the flight of another 14 Sukhoi Superjet-100 aircraft. These are paired flights to different cities of Russia and to Vilnius. According to the online scoreboard on the company's website, 12 more flights on these aircraft were canceled the day before. This has been happening since early May, after the company's SSJ-100 caught fire during an emergency landing.

The police opened a criminal case into the destruction of the memorial to the participants of the Great Patriotic War in the village of Orlovka near Sevastopol. Unknown smashed granite slabs with the names of the dead. The monument, according to Interfax, was opened before May 9. The names of 63 people are engraved on it, including 57 Crimean Tatars. The monument was made at the expense of local residents. The criminal case was initiated under Art. 214 of the Criminal Code (vandalism).

The Austrian police have put the leader of the Voina art group Oleg Vorotnikov on the international wanted list. According to the group on its Twitter account, he is accused of arms trafficking and the creation and leadership of the militant anti-fascist organization Der Krieg. On the eve of Vorotnikov charged in absentia, he faces up to five years in prison.

FSB officers detained the producer of the Mash Telegram channel for forging documents of the Prosecutor General's Office. Searches were carried out in the editorial office of the channel. According to RBC , a criminal case was opened against Mash employee Mikhail Kubimov.

Blogger and activist from Ingushetia Ismal Nalgiev, who was detained in Belarus, was sent to Russia. Earlier, he stated that in this case he would go on a hunger strike. According to MBH media, the decision was made by the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Belarus. Nalgiyev was detained on May 8 at the Minsk airport while trying to fly to Europe. He was not charged and left in the temporary detention center for two days.

This year, the state TV channels that covered the festive events have outdone themselves: the concentration of vulgarity has reached unprecedented strength, states publicist Igor Yakovenko The broadcasting grid of Russian TV channels on May 9 brings to mind a joke about Soviet TV during the next congress of the CPSU: a person turns on one channel, there Brezhnev mumbles, turns on another - again Brezhnev, turns on the third, and there a man in a gray suit threatens with his fist: I'll change the