The Main Investigative Department of the Prosecutor General of Ukraine has launched a criminal case against ex-president Viktor Yanukovych, former General Prosecutor General of Viktor Pshonka, ex-head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Vitaly Zakharchenko and other former senior persons on suspicion and illegal isolation of the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church (Moscow Patriarchate) of Metropolitan Vladimir (Sabodan) for the purpose To remove him from the management of the Church, Interfax

Ilya Karpyuk Billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov is going to leave the post of head of the Federal Political Committee of the Civil Platform party. His place will be taken by the Rifat of Shaikhutdinov. At the same time, neither Mikhail Prokhorov nor his sister Irina are going to leave the party.

In Ukraine, with the participation of the National Security and Self -Defense Council, a foreign broadcast TV channel will be created, Victoria Syumar, Deputy Secretary of the National Security and Defense Council, said on her Facebook page. According to Syumar, the TV channel will "promote Ukrainian values, the values ​​of the new Ukraine." “Bring the Ukrainian position” The new channel will be in Russian and English.

The EU filed against Russia a lawsuit in the WTO regarding anti -dumping duties regarding light commercial cars from Germany and Italy. It is reported by ITAR-TASS . As stated in the EU representative office at the WTO, “anti -dumping duties are incompatible with the WTO norms”.

Helen Pastor, the head of the richest family of Monaco, who owns a significant part of the real estate of the principality, died in the Nice hospital. It is reported by France-Presse . 77-year-old Helen Pastor was seriously wounded as a result of an attempt committed on May 6. The unknown fired at the pastor car, injuring it and the driver. In a state of coma, she was urgently hospitalized and came into consciousness only a few days before his death.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs and the Prosecutor's Office of Ukraine announced the detention of killers of 46 Euromaidanists who were shot during the February riots in Kiev, TSN reports. In the Ukrainian media, the victims of the dead in the period from February 18 to February 20 are called “ heavenly hundreds ” - according to the number of shot rallys.

Mikhail Prokhorov leaves the post of chairman of the Federal Political Committee of the Civil Platform party, Izvestia reports with reference to the member of the Political Committee of the Party of Rifat Shaikhutdinov. The place of Prokhorov will take Shaykhutdinov. According to him, the rearrangement is caused by the weak training of the party for elections to the State Duma, appointed for 2016.

The Russian Foreign Ministry called the expansion of the United States of the Magnitsky List by a “cynical desire to use human tragedy for unscrupulous political purposes.” As stated in the Foreign Ministry statement , “sanctions lawlessness in relation to Russia” will not leave unattended.

The Ukrainian authorities refused to let the OSCE observers to the employees of the Russian Lifenews television channel detained in Mariupol. It is reported by ITAR-TASS with reference to a permanent representative of the Russian Federation under the European organization Andrei Kelin. Journalists Oleg Sidyakin and Marat Saichenko were detained by employees of the Ukrainian special services on May 18 in the vicinity of Kramatorsk.

Two filming groups of the VGTRK, which were heading to Ukraine to cover the presidential elections on May 25, were not allowed into the country's territory. It is reported by ITAR-TASS . “Our two groups that were supposed to illuminate the elections did not let in Ukraine. Journalists have already returned to Russia and are in Moscow, ”the press service of the media holding said.

The Cairo Criminal Court decided to sentenced to three years in prison as a result of the “Arab spring” of the former president of the country Hosni Mubarak to three years in prison. It is reported by ITAR-TASS . Mubarak was found guilty of embezzlement of state funds. The court also recovered a fine of three million dollars from the former head of state. In addition, the two sons of the ex-president were sentenced to four years each of similar charges.

Rosmolodezh is preparing for two large youth camps at once - the traditional Seliger, which will be held from July 13 to August 10, and the new Tavrida forum in the village of Orlovka near Sevastopol (August 10-19). This was reported by RBC with reference to the head of Rosmolodezh Sergey Pospelov. It is reported that the central topics of the camps will be patriotism and protection of the history of Russia.

Tikhon Kraev Part of the first strip The Daily Mail In a private conversation on the excursion of the Museum of Immigration in Galifax, Prince Charles commented on the accession of Crimea to Russia: "Now Putin does almost the same thing that Hitler did." The woman with whom this conversation was confirmed that the Prince of Wales really allowed himself a similar comparison, and The Daily Mail printed all this and even carried it into the first lane.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will take part in the ceremony of the liberation of the Amur Tigers in the Amur Reserve "Zhelendinsky". This was reported by the RIA Novosti agency with reference to the press service of the head of state. Saved animals will be released on Thursday on May 22. Vladimir Putin already has a fairly extensive experience in communicating with predators of the cat family.

The Daewoo Nexia passenger car took off on Wednesday in the sleeping area of ​​Simferopol, the investigation suspects this criminal trace. The driver of the car received burns and shells, he was taken to the hospital. According to the Investigative Department of the IC of Russia in the Republic of Crimea, the incident occurred at 17:50 Moscow time near the city hospital on the 1st Horse Army Street.