The US Justice Department has charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with 17 more counts, according to a press release from the ministry's press service. He had previously been accused of computer hacking.

Russia and Congo have agreed to send Russian military specialists to the African state, reports TASS . According to Deputy Defense Minister Alexander Fomin, this will affect the maintenance of Russian and Soviet military equipment in service with the Congo. “It [military equipment], of course, needs professional operation, service, maintenance, repair and modernization <..> Basically, today’s contract was signed on this topic,” said Fomin, who signed the agreement from the Russian side.

Participants in the “Alliance of Animal Defenders” conducted an action from the State Duma against the still not accepted bill on the legalization of wild animals driven into the aviary. In protest against the aviary, for several minutes, the participants in the action took turns coming and threw into the garbage bucket with the inscription “on the landing of history” portraits of the authors of the bill. The action was not agreed with the Moscow authorities.

The independence of the legislative branch of St. Petersburg from the executive can be assessed in square meters. The price of the issue is the former cottage of Valentina Matvienko The shore of the former cottage Matvienko. Photo from a bird flight A sixteen -story panel house in the sleeping area of ​​St. Petersburg. Absented tiles, destroyed fences, dirty walls.

UPDATE 21:44 After the passengers were removed from the blocked trains , traffic on the gray line resumed .& A faulty train blocked traffic in the north of the Serpukhovsko-Timiryazevskaya line, which caused two more trains with passengers to get stuck in the tunnel between the Altufievo and Bibirevo stations. This was reported by representatives of the subway. The train got stuck about 400 meters from the station, the reasons for the failure are not reported.

The Ministry of Communications has specified the cases of "threats to integrity, stability and security" in which the Russian segment of the Internet may switch to a centralized management mode under the law on the "sovereign Runet". The document was published on the portal of draft regulatory acts. Integrity threats imply the impossibility of establishing a connection between users.

The Department of Foreign Affairs blacklisted former US Assistant Secretary of State Victoria Nuland as a result of which she was denied a Russian visa in May. this to The Foreign Ministry reported Kommersant. It was included there "in response to the American sanctions lists." Because of this, Nuland was unable to attend the May 20-21 conference in Moscow, which was organized by the Russian International Affairs Council.

The results of the elections in the European Parliament in the country leaving the EU will show the attitude of subjects of the British crown to Brexit Photo: EPA Britain is involved in the elections to the European Parliament, although almost three years ago at a referendum she decided to leave the European Union. But while the kingdom is a member of the EU, its citizens have the right and obligation to elect and be elected to European structures.

Experts - on how to interpret the data of the VTIIMI survey on the construction of the temple Photo: Donat Sorokin/TASS On Wednesday, May 22, VTsIOM published a survey according to which 74% of respondents consider the square from the drama theater an unsuccessful place for the construction of the Church of St. Ekaterina. After that, the governor of Yekaterinburg Evgeny Kuyvashev stated that the “conflict has been exhausted”, and suggested finding a new place for the temple.

The governor Kuyvashev, after a VTsIA survey, proposed to refuse to build a temple in the square. The Russian Orthodox Church called his arguments "illegitimate" Photo: Natalia Chernokhvatova/Ura.ru/TASS On the evening of May 22, the Governor of the Sverdlovsk Region Yevgeny Kuyvashev published a post on his Instagram page, in which, referring to the VTsIOM data, he stated: most Yekaterinburgers did not want to see the Cathedral of St. Catherine in the square near the drama theater.

The Russian national ice hockey team beat the US team in the quarterfinals of the World Championship with a score of 4:3. The semi-final matches will take place on May 25, the final is scheduled for May 26. Among the Russians, Nikita Gusev (in the 2nd minute), Mikhail Sergachev (16th minute), Kirill Kaprizov (42) and Mikhail Grigorenko (48) distinguished themselves. Brad Skjei (23), Noah Hanifin (46) and Alex Debrinkat (58) scored for the American national team.

The law of negative selection on the body of the country Peter Sarukhanov / "New" A clear warm May day. The first -grader Luke has just returned from school, had lunch and plays on the floor with his cars. In the apartment, as usual, the background works. State channel "Russia 1". Day current show "Who is against?". The participants yell as before a big misfortune, but in principle, nothing portends something particularly foul, capable of damaging the fragile children's psyche.

In the Perm gymnasium, girls overestimated the introductory score. Prosecutors were sent to the institution Photo: RIA Novosti The prosecutor's office of the Perm Territory announced the beginning of the audit of the gymnasium No. 4 after the document with the list of those received in the first grade was distributed in social networks. The passing score for boys was 65.7, and for girls - 69.1.

The Americans shot a series that we had to do Frame from the series "Chernobyl" I do not know a single person of those who at the end of April 1986 was at a conscious age and would not remember those days. The essence of these memories (we are talking, of course, those who were far from the place of the tragedy) can be formulated as follows: “As we lied.” This was wittily written a few years ago at Kommersant, philologist Roman Leibov.

The world court in the Lipetsk region fined blogger Dmitry Pashinov 30 thousand rubles. Pashinov was accused of insulting Andrei Pazhetnykh, deputy prosecutor of the Dobrovsky district of the Lipetsk region. Two weeks before the verdict, Pashinov was taken into custody , although such a preventive measure is possible only under those articles of the Criminal Code that provide for imprisonment for more than three years.