Donetsk militia fights with a division of the National Guard of Ukraine near Kramatorsky. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the representative of Slavyansk self -defense headquarters. According to him, as a result of the battle, an armored personnel carrier of the National Guard was shot down. Nothing is known about the dead and wounded.

The Swiss artist Hans Rudolf Giger, a representative of fantastic realism, most famous for his artistic design for the American fantastic film "Alien", died on May 12 in Switzerland at 75 years of life, communicates the SRF television channel. According to information received from a source close to the artist’s family, Giger died in the hospital from injuries he received when falling from the stairs.

State Duma deputy Roman Khudyakov (LDPR) sent an appeal addressed to the Minister of Transport of Russia Maxim Sokolov, in which he asked to evaluate the possibility of applying international sanctions to Russian airlines that would serve flights to Crimea, as well as a threat of prohibition on international air travel. In the event of a reality of threats, the legislator invited the department to work out the issue of creating the Crimean regional airline, Izvestia writes.

The European Union published on Monday in the EU Official Journal additions to the Black List for Russia in connection with the situation in Ukraine. They relate to 13 individuals and two legal entities, Interfax reports. The list includes the first deputy head of the President of Russia Vyacheslav Volodin, the commander of the Russian Airborne Forces Vladimir Shamanov, the head of the Duma committee on constitutional law Vladimir Pligin.

The Ministry of Economic Development of the Russian Federation adjusted some parameters of macrogenosis for 2014-2017. This was reported by Interfax with reference to a source in one of the departments of the financial and economic bloc. At the beginning of April, the ministry unveiled the working version of the forecast, according to which the GDP in 2014 in the base scenario will grow by 1.1%, in conservative - by 0.5%, in 2015 - by 2.4% and 2.6%, respectively.

Moscow calls unacceptable US sanctions against Tempbank working with the Syria government. Further sanctions will complicate the joint work on Syria and Russian-American relations, said the official representative of the Foreign Ministry Alexander Lukashevich, ITAR-TASS reports. According to the diplomat, the US sanctions list, directed against the Syrian regime and its supporters, violates the norms of international law, subordinating them to the norms of American legislation.

Vyacheslav Ponomarev said the “People’s mayor” of Slavyansk in an interview with Rossiy Gazeta , which will most likely continue to participate in the political life of the Donetsk People’s Republic. Ponomarev confirmed that he intends to exhibition his candidacy in the Donetsk Republic. Ponomarev also expressed hope for restoring order in the city - as in terms of organizing power, so in the field of economics.

The head of the Ministry of Industry and Trade Denis Manturov criticized the idea of ​​Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Rogozin about the termination of the work of GPS ground stations in Russia, ITAR-TASS reports. “This can be done, but technically, why do this? The global positioning system is beneficial for users, including Russian, ”the head of the department said. In his opinion, the GPS system allows duplicate the work of satellites of the GLONASS national system.

Russian hockey players defeated the US team in the match of the group stage of the World Cup, which is held in Minsk, RIA Novosti reports. The meeting account was 6: 1 (2: 0, 4: 1, 0: 0). As part of the Oleg Znarki team, the puck was abandoned by Nikolai Kulemin (in the 7th minute), Alexander Ovechkin (19), Victor Tikhonov (21, 40), Evgeny Kuznetsov (30) and Sergey Plotnikov (32). The Americans have Justin Abdelcader (21).

The earthquake of magnitude 6.8 occurred off the west coast of Panama on the morning of May 13, reports Reuters with reference to the US Geological Service. The service also adds that the earthquake occurred at 06:35 at a depth of 10 kilometers at sea, 132 kilometers south of the city of David in the west of Panama. There was no data on the destruction or threat of tsunami.

The state program for the development of space activity of Russia until 2020 provides for the allocation of 1.8 trillion rubles from the budget, the press service of Roscosmos reports. The corresponding state program was approved by the Government Decree in April 2014.

The District Administrative Court of Kiev banned the activities of the pro-Russian political party "Russian Blok", Interfax-Ukraine reports. The Ministry of Justice of the country petitioned this in court. The party’s activities were prohibited in connection with calls for the overthrow of the constitutional system and violation of the territorial integrity of Ukraine. The party has 10 days to appeal the sentence.

The National Bank of Ukraine destroyed 30 million hryvnias located in the Simferopol regulator storage. This was told by the First Deputy Prime Minister of Crimea Rustam Temirgaliev, reports Interfax . “In the Crimean branch of the National Bank, the destruction of hryvnias and more than 30 million hryvnias began (at the current rate of about 93 million rubles) was destroyed. We could not allow this.

The Ministry of Justice proposed to give employees of the supervisory authorities the right of non-judicial suspension of non-profit organizations (NPOs) funded from abroad and refusing to register as a “foreign agent”. The corresponding document on Tuesday was posted on a single portal of information on the development of draft regulatory legal acts and the results of their public discussion.

The senior police sergeant Vladimir Krokhin, who was seriously wounded during the detention of an armed high school student in a Moscow school, was awarded the Order of Courage, the press service of the metropolitan police reports. The high state award was presented by the head of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow, Lieutenant General Anatoly Yakunin. He thanked the policeman for the service, wished him a speedy recovery and returning into service.