The Prosecutor General’s Office will send a request to Washington to check the groups, which included the founder of the Hermitage Foundation William Brauder, the representative of the department Alexander Kurenna told TASS. In fraud with securities, according to Interfax , they suspect employees of the American ZIFF Brothers. Brothers Daniel, Robert and Dirk Ziff manage the ZIFF Brothers Investments investment fund, New York.

In Moscow, the police came to the central office of the network of pharmacies in Moscow, Interfax reports. According to the company's employees, about ten police officers were included in the office. Employees of 36.6 do not know the reasons for the police visit. According to the Pharmaceutical Bulletin publication, searches are held in the office of the pharmacy network.

During the crisis in Crimea in March 2014, Russia transferred 9 thousand military personnel into the peninsula. Vladimir Chizhov told about this in an interview with Deutsche Welle under the EU. Responding to the replica of the journalist Tim Sebastian, who noted that the referendum in the Crimea was held in the presence of Russian troops, the diplomat emphasized that the military were legally there.

The courses of the main world currencies in the second half of the trading of the Moscow Exchange on May 19 sharply grew. By 17:00 Moscow time, the cost of the dollar for the first time from April 18 rose above 67 rubles - the US currency has risen in price by 1.05 rubles compared to the closure of the session the day before - up to 67.05 rubles. The exchange rate of the euro has updated the maximum of May 11. The EU currency added 99 kopecks to 75.07 rubles.

Russia took the last place in the ranking of the human rights organization Amnesty International, which studied the level of hospitality for refugees in different countries of the world. The study report is published on the organization’s website. During the survey, the respondents were asked to answer questions about how they evaluate the appearance of refugees in their country and if they would let them go home.

China denied rumors that Chinese companies allegedly supply human meat to Africa under the guise of canned beef. This was reported by the Sinhua agency. The Ambassador of the PRC to Zambia Jan Yumin made a refutation. He called the information about the supply of humanists, widespread by local journalists, "malicious slander." The ambassador called on the authorities of Zambia to conduct an investigation to find out how such rumors appeared.

The New York Governor Andrew Kuomo intends to amend the legislation that provides for the cancellation of the ban on the sale of alcohol in bars and restaurants until noon of Sunday. The governor himself said this at the opening of a new brewery in Rochester, reports Associated Press. According to the proposals of Kuomo, the implementation of strong drinks in bars and restaurants is planned to be allowed from eight in the morning, reports Newyorkupstate.

In the Mediterranean Sea, the wreckage of the victim crashing airliner was found, and Reuters quotes Greek state television. The channel refers to sources in the defense structures of Greece. It is clarified that the wreckage - red and white pieces of plastic - found 370 kilometers south of Crete. This is located next to the place where the signal was previously managed to catch, which, allegedly from the aircraft, the interlocutor of the agency notes.

A brief retelling of Alfred Jella's Book “Art and Action” (Alfred Gell. Art and Agency: Anthropological Theory). Context The book of British anthropologist Alfred Jella combines the ideas developed by the author throughout his scientific career. One of its most radical ideas is the rejection of the semiotic approach to art and the call to consider art as a social action. The book was finished shortly before the death of the author and, in fact, is rather a draft.

Frame from the film "From the Machine" DNA Films / Film4 / Collection Christophel / Reuters The development of artificial intelligence is one of the most exciting, but at the same time frightening topics in the modern world. We dream of highly intellectual machines, but at the same time we make films in which the main villains are computers that have become out of the human control (like “Terminator”, “Evil of Evil”, “Oblivion” and others).

The main feature of Chinese pro -government trolls is not binded into disputes and focus on positive AP / TASS On May 17, scientists from Harvard, led by Professor Gary King, specialist in the field of using empirical methods in social research, published a report entitled "China authorities to fabricate on social networks in order to divert users without inciting disputes." Scientists analyzed the archive of emails, which in 2014 posted the Chinese anonymous blogger Xialan to the network.

Over the past 25 years, the Russian economy has mainly been in two states: either growth or a landslide fall. The disasters, which were so afraid at the beginning of the current crisis, did not happen, but at the same time there is no prerequisites for confident growth. The authorities adapt to the new norm of GDP dynamics - zero percent, and the population seems to still hope to return to the state of “well -fed zero”.

Deputy Minister of Communications and Mass Communications, Alexei Volin, announced unprofessionalism of RBC employees, who claim that the editorial management was dismissed due to political pressure, Interfax reports. “When management, in fact, does not lead any changes in the economy of the enterprise and leaves for idiocy, find the policy of the most cute business. Because this is an excellent salvation of accusations of incompetence and unprofessionalism in his work, ”he said.

President of Sudan Omar al-Bashir, looking for an international criminal court for war crimes and genocide, filed an application for a US visa to participate in the UN General Assembly, agency France-Presse spokeswoman for the head of state Obliu Ezzeedin. The agency failed to contact the American embassy in Hartum. AFP recalled that in 2014, al-Bashir was no longer given to the US visa, but Sudan considered this a violation of the law.

The crew of the MS804 flight, missing over the Mediterranean Sea, got in touch 10 minutes before the passenger plane disappeared from radar, writes Egyptian Ahram. The connection with the liner, flying from Paris to Cairo, disappeared 16 kilometers after he entered the axid of Egypt. He was at an altitude of 11 thousand meters. It is reported that the Egyptian rescuers have already arrived at the alleged crash site Airbus A320, on board of which there are 66 people.