Sooner or later, everyone who sits on the Internet is faced with trolling addressed to him. A person begins to be angry, nervous, cursing, and this only more strongly appeals the troll.

I try to treat Russia objectively, relying on reliable quantitative data. In part, this is a reflection of how I think it is right to think and write (and in general I think that the now turn to the direction of “data journalism” has long been r opened). And partly the point is that I, as an analyst living in the USA, cannot rely on an interview with eyewitnesses of events.

The Russian Severstal, one of the world's largest metallurgical companies, received a proposal to sell two plants in the USA. It is reported by Bloomberg with reference to unnamed sources. According to the agency, the American US Steel Corp. became interested in assets in the states of Michigan and Mississippi. and Brazilian Companhia Siderurgica Nacional. Earlier, The Wall Street Journal wrote that Severstal expects to help out to both plants up to $ 1.5 billion.

Investors called Russia the worst of the eight largest economies in the world during a global survey conducted by Bloomberg Markets. The survey was published on Monday on the website of the Bloomberg news agency. So, 73% of respondents assess the situation in the Russian economy as a worsening, 17% - as stable, and 3% believe that things are going uphill, and the rest did not determine.

- The presidential elections were held in Lithuania and a second round was announced. The current president Dalya Grybauskaite (45.89% of the vote according to preliminary data) and the candidate from the Social Democratic Party Sigmantas Balchitis (13.63%) reached it. In 2009, Gribauskay won in the first round, gaining 68.21% of the vote. - But the organizers of the referendum in Lugansk will definitely not need the second round.

Pavel Kanygin The correspondent of Novaya Gazeta Pavel Kanygin, who was detained by the fighters of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR), were released. Kanygin himself told about this on the live the Rain TV channel. During the detention, as the correspondent said, representatives of the Donetsk People’s Republic asked him why he writes a negative nature about the referendum in the Donetsk region about independence.

The independence of the self -proclaimed Lugansk People’s Republic (LPR) supported 96.2% of voting in the regional referendum on May 11. This was reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the statement of the chairman of the Central Election Commission of the LPR Alexander Malykhin. CEC refers to data 32 of territorial election commissions in the entire region. The turnout in Lugansk was reported, amounted to 81% of voters, but the organizers did not name the total number of voters.

Yesterday, residents of the Lugansk and Donetsk regions thought that they were going to rare polling stations (which were not so easy to find) to choose their future. Many of them sincerely believe that a serious step has been taken in the direction of independence from Kyiv, and at best, even in the direction of joining Russia. And many of the referendum participants are also convinced that Vladimir Putin is ready not only politically, but also military terms to support the choice made.

In January - April 2014, the net profit of the Russian Bank increased by 30% compared to the same period last year and amounted to 1.9 billion rubles. This was reported in an official press release from a financial organization. The assets of Russia over the past year (from May 2013 to May 2014) also increased by 30%, to 411 billion rubles. The capital of the bank over the same period increased by 35%, to 45.7 billion rubles.

Russia is ready to discuss a decrease in gas prices for Ukraine if Kyiv repays existing debts. This was stated by Deputy Minister of Energy of the Russian Federation Anatoly Yanovsky, Interfax reports . According to Yanovsky, the transfer of the Ukrainian side to the prepayment of fuel supply from Russia is not the opportunity, but the duty of Gazprom, which is registered in the contract. The official noted that the Russian concern pays the customs duty on gas for foreign supplies with advance.

The acting President of Ukraine Alexander Turchinov said that the referendums about independence in the Donetsk and Lugansk regions will not have any legal consequences. Turchinov’s appeal is given on the website of the Verkhovna Rada. “The farce that terrorists with separatists call a referendum is nothing more than a propaganda cover of murders, abductions of people, violence And other serious crimes, ”Turchinov added.

This year, the first issue of the scientific journal Soft Robotics proclaimed a new stage in the development of robotics: robots become soft. One of the main articles of the room, for example, talks about a robot fish developed by MIT specialists. This is an autonomous organism that can make quick movements with a body, in a split second, avoiding a meeting with an obstacle and changing its direction through convulsive compression.

The leadership of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic announced the sovereignty and asked to include the DPR in the Russian Federation The leadership of the self -proclaimed Donetsk People’s Republic announced the sovereignty and asked to include the DPR in the Russian Federation. The direct broadcast of the "appeal" of the DPR was led by Russia Today. The document was read by the co -chair of the Government of the DPR Denis Pushilin.

The Consumer Protection Agency of Kazakhstan from June 1, 2014 will ban the import of alcohol into the territory of the republic. This was reported by the press service of the department. The reason for the ban is a violation of national legislation and the technical regulations of the Customs Union in the trade in imported alcohol.

Colonel General Viktor Zolotov was appointed head of the internal troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation and the deputy head of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. This was reported on the Kremlin website. In 1999, Zolotov headed the security service of Vladimir Putin, who then held the post of Prime Minister of Russia. From 2000 to 2013, Zolotov headed the Presidential Protection Service and was deputy head of the Federal Security Service.