The authorities of North Korea decided to liberate the Russian yacht "Elphin", captured earlier in the waters of the Sea of ​​Japan. This was written by TASS with reference to the ambassador of the Russian Federation to the DPRK Alexander Matsegor. According to the ambassador, now employees of the Russian diplomatic mission are checking the data that the yacht left the Korean port of Kimchak to Vladivostok: they are trying to contact the captain by phone.

The metropolitan police will check all Moscow cemeteries after shooting, as a result of which three people were killed. This was reported on the website of the Moscow Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs.

The DPRK authorities asked Russia to understand the detention of the Elfin yacht, which occurred by a misunderstanding, said Yuri Bochkarev, General of Consul General in the North Khondzhina, RIA Novosti. “The explanation came down to the fact that a misunderstanding occurred,” he said. According to the diplomat, the North Korean fishermen alerted that the Russian yacht with inscriptions in Korean went to the Japanese Sea from the South Korean port.

The Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus' Cyril called the disaster the departure of Europeans from Christian moral values. He stated this after the consecration of the Cathedral of Mary Magdalene in Nalchik, Interfax reports. “We know what huge forces are used today in order to first tear Christians from an authentic understanding of the divine moral law. And we know what a catastrophe occurs in Western Europe and in general in a rich American-European world, ”Cyril explained.

The Chairman of the Supreme Court of Chechnya Magomed Karataev left his post after criticism by the acting head of the Chechen Republic Ramzan Kadyrov. The judge told about this by the TV channel "Grozny". According to Karataev, on May 5, at a meeting with the judicial corps of the republic, Kadyrov cited federal judges with specific examples of violations committed in district courts. The chairman of the Armed Forces of the Republic considered the claims justified and therefore resigned.

The eighteen-year-old Dutchman Max Berstappen, who replaced the Russian pilot Daniil Kvat in the Grand Prix of Spain Formula 1, became the youngest winner of the race in its entire history. This was reported on the site "Formula-1". https://twitter.com/f1/status/731847327162507264 Before him, the youngest laureate of the Formula 1 Grand Prix was the German Sebastian Vettel, who won the 2008 Italy Grand Prix, when he was 21 years old.

The court in the Rostov region arrested the 67-year-old pensioner Alexander Kovalev, who was suspected of killing a policeman and an employee of the rural administration, the Office of the Investigative Committee for the region. The incident occurred on May 13 in the administration of the Fedorovsky rural settlement of the Neklinovsky district at about 9:30 local time.

The organizer of the mass fight that occurred in the Khovansky cemetery was a 42-year-old resident of the Astrakhan region, Leychy Yakhiev. This was announced by the 360 ​​° channel. Earlier it was reported that in connection with the incident on the wanted list, a native of Chechnya was born in 1974, and on May 15, information appeared that after the incident in the Khovansky cemetery, the Moscow police will check all the cemeteries in the capital.

The Ukrainian singer Jamala with the song “1944”, telling about the fate of the Crimean Tatars during the Stalinist repressions of 1944, took first place at Eurovision 2016 in Stockholm. The singer scored 541 points. The direct broadcast of the competition was conducted on the TV channel "Russia 1". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4CBWGSCPKJU Australian representative of Korean Dami with the song “Sound of Silence” took them the second place. She has 511 points.

President of Salvador Sanchez Serene withdrew the ambassador of the country from Brazil. He reported this on his Twitter. “We decided not to recognize the Provisional Government of Brazil and asked our ambassador to return to our homeland,” writes Seren. Earlier on May 14, Venezuela announced the recall of her ambassador from Brazil.

Due to the mass fight at the Khovansky cemetery of Moscow, about 300 law enforcement officials participated in the police operation, a source in power structures told Interfax . According to him, 252 employees of the metropolitan police and 40 of their colleagues from the Moscow Region were sent to the cemetery, 111 people were detained in total.

Mosque in Inchuan, China Goh Chai Hin / AFP In December, ISIS (the organization is prohibited in the territory of the Russian Federation) first turned to Muslims living in China. In Nasda (Muslim chant), recorded in Chinese, terrorists called on them to rebel against the "centuries -old slavery", referring to the pressure of the Chinese authorities on the Muslim population. China is not the first time accused of infringing on the rights of this religious minority.

In the explosion produced by a suicide bomber in Yemen, at least 47 policemen were killed, AFP reports with reference to doctors. More than 50 people are injured. The explosion occurred at the center of reception of police recruits in El Mukhall, where the head of the province was located, General Mubarak Al-Aubtani. According to security services, it was he who was the goal of the suicide bomber, but the general was not injured.

Beijing demanded that Washington change the contents of reports on the state and plans of the Chinese army, the Sinhua reports the representative of the Ministry of Defense of the People’s Republic of China Yana Yuitsyun.

Russian Minister of Sports Vitaly Mutko apologized for doping athletes before not convicted of this, Sunday Times reports . Excerpts from the publication are cited by TASS. “We apologize that the athletes that tried to deceive us and the whole world were not caught before. We are very apologized for this because Russia has undertaken obligations to maintain the highest standards in sports, and confronts everything that poses a threat to the Olympic values, ”Mutko wrote.