The court in the Czech city of Pardubitsa sentenced the Czech army to Erica, who fought in eastern Ukraine on the side of pro -Russian separatists in Donetsk for some time in 2015, Czech Radio reports. Estu was sentenced to three years in prison with a delay in the execution of the sentence - if he has no problems with the law within 4 years, he will not have to serve his sentence. In addition, he was deprived of a military rank.

Chelsea Manning The court in the United States again sent detention the former US soldier Chelsea Manning for a second refusal to testify to the large jury in the case of the WikiLeaks website and its founder Julian Assange. In March, Manning was taken into custody for disrespect for the court, who analyzed the WikiLeaks website, which in 2010 betrayed the service documents of the Pentagon and the State Department. She spent two months under arrest and was released on May 10.

Former deputy of the State Duma of Russia Ilya Ponomarev received citizenship of Ukraine. The decree was signed by President Petro Poroshenko. According to Ponomarev, he will use a new status to attract foreign investment and increase the state budget of Ukraine. In 2016, Ponomarev was deprived of the mandate deputy of the State Duma of Russia from the Just Russia party. He was accused of systematic absenteeism. In 2015, Ponomarev was deprived of deputy inviolability.

The deputy faction of the Popular Front announced on Friday about leaving the coalition in the Verkhovna Rada, Ukrainian Pravda reports . This should block the dissolution of the parliament by the elected president of the country Vladimir Zelensky. The day before, Zelensky Dmitry Razumkov on the air of the 1+1 channel stated that the elected president will dissolve the parliament after taking office, taking advantage of the fact that the ruling coalition was not created in the Rada.

The most interesting of our common past. Incomplete story. Unjust wounds. Still live hopes. Could Russia go the other way? Radio Liberty this week 20 years ago. Archive project. Ivan Tolstoy chooses from our ether still relevant and turned out to be eternal.

Far Swimming Captain Anna Shchetinina, 1971 How many sea professions do you know? Which of them are female? What difficulties do women of the sea face and what do they study from each other? Is it easy for a woman to become a captain of a transatlantic liner, a pilot or a docker today? The employee of the Marine Museum of Barcelona Mirea Majolas decided to find answers to these questions.

“And again I am in the fight against Bandera,” Facebook described on Facebook on Russian television Polish politician from the National Polish Party Korwin, a native of Donetsk Lilia Moshechkova. She calls the “struggle against the Bandera” in the TV show on the pro -Kremlin NTV channel, in which she played the role of the spokesman of the “Polish point of view” on issues related to the Second World War at least five times.

Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory The first thing on the basis of the data obtained by the Moscow Anti -Doping Laboratory may be open within a few weeks. This was stated by the head of the Department of Investigation of the World Anti -Doping Agency (WADA) Gunther Junger, reports the portal of Inside the Games. According to Yunger, the process of preparing a “number of serious cases” has already been launched, the investigation on them can be completed in the last quarter of this year.

Scientist Viktor Kudryavtsev The court in Moscow extended for two months the arrest of the 75-year-old scientist Viktor Kudryavtsev, who is accused of treason. The meeting was held closed. It is reported by "Interfax." On May 13, Kudryavtsev was hospitalized from the Lefortovo investigative insulator to the 20th Moscow hospital.

Bay Yuymin (archive photo) In the United States, an American architect of Chinese descent Bay Yuymin, who created the glass pyramid of the Louvre Museum in Paris. It is reported by Associated Press. BREAKING: IM Pei, the architect who designed the Louvre Pyramid and added elegant buildings to landscapes worldwide, dies at age 102.

The results of the competition "Voice.Deti", in which Michella Abramova, daughter of singer Alsou and banker Jan Abramov, won, are invalidated . This decision was made by the first channel following the investigation of Group-IB, which revealed a wrapping of votes using SMS: The analyzed traffic made it possible to identify the fact of the presence of a massive automated sending of SMS to a short number in favor of one of the participants in the Voice project. Children".

The Council of Europe is ready to return to Russia the right to vote in the parliamentary assembly (PACE). Moscow was deprived of this right in 2014 for the illegal annexation of Crimea. The readiness of PACE is said in a statement adopted by the Foreign Minister of 47 states - members of the Council of Europe at a meeting in Helsinki on Friday, May 17. The document was adopted by a majority of votes. Representatives of Ukraine, Georgia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania voted against the proposal.

A group of deputies of the State Duma from the Communist Party developed a bill on the celebration of September 3 of the Victory Day over Militarian Japan in 1945

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In St. Petersburg, police detained the participants in the action in support of the International Day of Combating Homophobia, Mediazon reports . The action took place in the Hyde Park on Lenin Square. According to the correspondent, the police detained seven participants in the action. Activists talk about eight detainees. During the promotion, britow -headed young people in sportswear chased behind activists. The police did not detain them.