Approving the composition of the first cabinet of ministers, President Macron took a pause to verify tax returns Photo: Gonzalo Fuentes / Reuters In France on Wednesday, May 17, the composition of the Cabinet of Ministers - the first for President Emmanuel Macron was announced. The announcement was shifted for a day - the Champs Elysees explained this by the need to carefully check the candidates for their “financial cleanliness”.

The prefect of the Southeast Administrative District Andrei Rybin held a meeting with residents on renovation issues. The meeting discussed the issue of communal apartments. According to the prefect, each owner of the room in them, with participation in the renovation program, will receive a separate apartment corresponding to the area. Those who are now paying a mortgage will also not have problems, Tsybin assured. Prefect of the Southeast Administrative District Andrei Rybin (in the center).

The police detained the soloist of the rock group "Bi-2" Yegor Bortnik, performing under the pseudonym Lev Bi-2 at the football match "Spartak" with "Terek" at the stadium "Otkritie Arena". A bag of marijuana was confiscated from the musician , TASS reports.

The decree of President Vladimir Putin on security measures during the World Cup and the Confederations Cup may be relaxed. It is reported by RBC with reference to sources in the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Duma. We are talking about easing restrictions on the circulation of weapons. As the newspaper notes, this will be done so that employees of private security companies, collectors and sports organizations can continue their work.

The abbot of the New Jerusalem Monastery Theophylact (Bezukladnikov) called on State Duma deputies to ban abortions and allow parents to use physical punishment on children. The clergyman stated this at a meeting of the inter-factional working group of the lower house of parliament for the protection of Christian values, reports . RBC “Abortion should be recognized as murder. This law still needs to be paid attention to, and it must be adopted, ”RBC quotes Archimandrite Theophylact.

The Central Bank said that it had revealed violations by the largest insurers in the sale of electronic OSAGO policies (compulsory third party liability insurance - ed. ), TASS reports with reference to the Deputy Chairman of the Central Bank Vladimir Chistyukhin. According to him, the regulator checked the twelve largest insurers. Each company found violations. In particular, we are talking about the complexity of buying an electronic OSAGO policy.

Sobyanin’s bill on the details of renovation was adopted in the Moscow City Duma - the matter of the State Duma Photo: Victoria Odissonova / "New Gazeta" Moscow deputies adopted the Moscow Law “On additional guarantees of housing and property rights of individuals and legal entities in the implementation of the renovation of the housing stock in the city of Moscow”.

VKontakte set a record of attendance among Ukrainians after the announcement of the upcoming blocking of the social network in the country. This is stated in the official group of the company in Ukraine. “VK set a new record in Ukraine: 18 million unique visitors per day, two million more than the previous record. Yesterday, our social network became the most popular Internet resource in the country,” the message says.

Lithuania granted asylum to two people from Chechnya who were persecuted in the republic because of their non-traditional sexual orientation. They have already arrived in the country, said Lithuanian Foreign Minister Linas Linkevičius. “I can confirm that we issued visas to two people who came from Chechnya who were persecuted because of their sexual orientation,” Interfax quoted him as saying, citing the BNS news agency.

The Chechen Minister for National Policy, Foreign Relations, Press and Information, Dzhambulat Umarov, published a post on his Instagram in which he turned to the demon hiding behind the “inviolable sign of a journalist, artist, liberal or human rights activist.” Umarov declares that being “an enemy of a Chechen is an unattainable honor” and invites “evil spirits” to look into his eyes.

The coup that he makes in the astronautics is not based on unique technologies, but on a sober calculation Photo: EPA/Paul buck In No. 37 of April 10, 2017, Sergey Krichevsky, a doctor of philosophical sciences and cosmonaut tester, outlined his eyes on the development of world and domestic cosmonautics, including commenting on a successful demonstration of the technology of the returned stage of the Falcon 9 Ilon Mask carrier.

President of the European Parliament Antonio Tajani and Minister of the Interior of Malta (presides over the EU) Carmelo Abela signed an agreement on granting Ukraine a visa-free regime. It is reported by UNIAN. President of Ukraine Petro Poroshenko attended the solemn ceremony in Strasbourg. Earlier, he called the visa-free regime with the European Union the “final divorce” of Ukrainians from Russia. The agreement will soon be published in the Official Journal of the EU.

Charitable foundations decided to work together to fight front organizations acting on their behalf The situation with charity in Russia is changing rapidly. If we recall in this regard the end of the 90s and the beginning of the 2000s, one can only be surprised that if someone then helped someone, then only directly, targeted. The very word "fund" was discredited, disgusted.

classified information to WikiLeaks, has been released Former US Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, convicted of leaking . Manning's verdict at the end of his presidential term was softened by Barack Obama. In 2013, Wikileaks whistleblower Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years in prison. The day after the sentencing, Manning announced that he was a woman named Chelsea.

Mobile laboratories of the Ministry of Emergency Situations and Roshydromet did not record an excess of hydrogen sulfide concentration in the south-east of Moscow. This was reported in the capital's department of the Ministry of Emergency Situations. Recall that on Wednesday night, Mosecomonitoring reported that in the Kapotnya area, where the Moscow Oil Refinery is located, the maximum allowable daily concentration of hydrogen sulfide was exceeded 51 times.