The British Air Force raised Typhoon fighters to the air to escort Russian Tu-95 aircraft (Bear-in the NATO classification), reports The Independent . Aircraft were in the area of ​​international airspace and were headed to the north of Scotland. According to the representative of the British Ministry of Defense, Russian bombers did not cross the border of the British airspace and were not regarded as a threat.

The automobile column of the Russian Emergencies Ministry delivered humanitarian aid to Donetsk and Lugansk, RIA Novosti reports with reference to the National Management Center in Crisis Situations of the Ministry of Emergencies. The convoy delivered 1.1 thousand tons of food, essential items, building materials and textbooks to Donbass. This is the 26th batch of humanitarian aid delivered by the Russian Emergencies Ministry to Donbass.

In the magazine ProChedings of the Royal Society B published an article by scientists from the UK and Sweden who decided to find out why some of the organisms are turning into fossils, while this does not happen. To this end, they studied the process of decomposition of small toadfly crooked crustaceans from the Artemia genus ( Artemia ). The vast majority of organisms are not preserved in the form of fossils.

Two -time Olympic champion with sixth jumping Elena Isinbaeva was awarded the title of Major, TASS reports with reference to the senior inspector of the physical training department of the RF Armed Forces Dmitry Vinograd. It is noted that Isinbaev will be present in Sochi on May 16 at the ceremony of the adoption of military oath of recruits - members of the national teams in Olympic sports, who were selected for service in sports companies.

In a traditional survey on its VKontakte page, Polit.ru readers are invited to answer the question of whether the Russian national team will be able to overcome the Swedes in the quarterfinals of the World Hockey Championship. The match will begin at 20:15 Moscow time on May 14. Most readers believe in the victory of Russia.

Five Iranian warships made warning shots at the Singapore oil tanker in the Persian Gulf. It is reported by Reuters with reference to a source in the US military department. It was noted that the ship was sent to one of the ports on the territory of the United Arab Emirates, and the head of the vessel immediately reported the actions of the Iranian military authorities in Singapore.

The Australian quarantine authorities ordered the Hollywood actor Johnny Depp, who is removed in the fifth of the “Pirates of the Caribbean”, immediately remove their illegally imported dogs from the country, reports Associated Press . The Minister of Agriculture Barnaby Joyce accused the actor of smuggling of the Yorkshire Terriers of the BU and the Pistol on board a private plane when Depp returned to the filming of the film in Australia after the operation.

Paypal payment system blocked the account, which received funds for printing Boris Nemtsov’s report “Putin. War, ” said Vsevolod Chagaev, engaged in the publication of the Solidarity movement on his twitter.

QIWI has concluded agreements with the opening financial group on the acquisition of money transfer systems Contact and NPO Rapida, Kommersant reports. According to Kommersant, Qiwi will release a share of class B in exchange for a 100 percent share in Contact and Rapida. In addition, QIWI and “Opening” will conclude an agreement on cooperation on the display of new products and services to the financial services market.

American senator John McCain will participate in the Council of Reforms of Ukraine, Ex-President of Georgia Mikhail Saakashvili said on his Facebook page. According to Saakashvili, McCain confirmed his participation in a personal conversation with the former Georgian president. At the same time, the American Senator will have to complete formal procedures according to the rules of the US Congress.

“The extension of the safe operation of the nuclear power plant is important for both Europe and Russia. We have a positive experience of joint work, and I am confident in the further strengthening of cooperation in this area, ”said Evgeny Romanov, General Director of the Rosenergoatom Concern JSC, in his speech during the plenary session of the International Congress on the Emperor of the NPP (ICAPP 2015) in Nice.

The organizer of the annual Eurovision song contest, the European Broadcasting Union (EUS), expressed the hope that the current political situation would not affect the results of the vote. This was stated by RIA Novosti by the official representative of EUS Dave Goodman. “Our competition is a non -political event that unites the nations, where all countries are equal and the disagreement remains aloof while 40 countries are going to share universal love of music,” Gudman said.

The Russian hydrometeorological spacecraft “Electro-L”, which was planned to be launched in June-July, will go to orbit in October using the Zenit missile, collected at the Ukrainian Enterprise “Yuzhmash” (Dnepropetrovsk), a source in the space industry told Interfax . The source explained that the transfer of the date is associated with the unpreparedness of a number of spacecraft systems.

The Russian tank T-14 Armata, demonstrated at the parade in honor of the 70th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War, will receive a new gun with a caliber of 152 mm. About this newspaper Izvestia was told by the Deputy Prime Minister of Russia Dmitry Rogozin. “We have a shell for this tank that burns a meter of steel, we will put on an“ Armata, ”Rogozin said.

The largest private Russian oil company Lukoil is leaving its projects in West Africa - Lukoil Overseas has left the deep -sea project of the Cape Three Points Deep Water (CTPDW) on Ghana’s shelf. This is stated in the materials of the American company Panatlantic Exploration, the partner of Lukoil on this project, Izvestia explain.