Facebook will amend the algorithm for showing news after accusations of political bias. This was reported on May 23 on the company's blog. The report emphasizes that the internal investigation did not confirm rumors that the feeds more often show news with the “liberal” point of view than with the “conservative”. Nevertheless, Facebook decided to go to a number of measures to exclude even the theoretical possibility of this.

The Kremlin was highly appreciated by the primaries of United Russia, which took place on May 22, said the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov. “The creation of an atmosphere of openness, transparency and a political competitive environment, of course, is what is now very in demand, and sets in our country very high standards as a whole in the political field,” Peskov quotes Interfax .

14 Russians suspected doping at the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. This was reported to TASS by a source in the Olympic Committee of Russia (OKR). According to him, the OKR received an appropriate notice from the International Olympic Committee. The source noted that the “vast majority” of athletes turned out to be athletes, but their names are not disclosed. Previously, the IOC double-check 454 doping tests taken at the 2008 Olympics.

The Board of Directors Rusnano recommended the meeting of shareholders not to announce and not to pay dividends in 2015. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of the state-owned company. The management of Rusnano also recommended 9.43 billion rubles from the profit to be sent to repay previous losses. It is planned to send another 496 million rubles to the formation of the reserve fund of the organization.

The Google office in Paris is taking searches, AFP reports citing a source in the police. According to the agency, searches are related to the investigation of the case of tax failure. According to Le Parisien, searches at the headquarters of the American corporation are going on from five in the morning on May 24. According to the publication, they were “strictly classified”, the financial prosecutor's office of France did not notify the searches in order to avoid leaks.

The President of FIDE (World Chess Federation) Kirsan Ilyumzhinov sued the US Treasury because of the sanctions imposed against him. It is reported by Interfax . The sanctions against Ilyumzhinov were introduced in connection with suspicions of his cooperation with Syria President Bashar Assad. The head of Fide chained the sanctions, however, according to him, he did not receive a response from the Ministry of Finance in the deadlines agreed by law.

The Supreme Court of Russia approved the bill on criminal liability for insulting the Russian anthem. This was reported by Interfax with reference to the press service of one of the authors of the initiative Vadim Tulip.

A room for the death penalty in one of California prisons. Reuters The US published a malfunction of the death penalty in Oklahom. It turned out that the local department of execution of sentences violated the established procedures, and an anonymous supplier of drugs for deadly injections at least mixed the drugs at least twice.

Twitter shares at the beginning of the auction of the New York Stock Exchange on May 24 fell by almost 4% to $ 13.77 per share. As a result of the quotation of the microblogs service, they were at a minimum since November 2013, when the company entered the exchange. According to Marketwatch, for the first half hour of the session, Twitter securities have exceeded 9 million shares, although the average daily bidding amount is 22.5 million.

The statement of the Minister of Defense of the Russian Federation Sergei Shoigu about the intention to resume massive air strikes by Russian VKS in the northwestern Syria on the positions of groups that did not join the Armistry Agreement, it is noteworthy not to inflict such blows to the USA (including Assad aircraft), which the Americans immediately dissolved .

Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev removed a disciplinary sanction from his assistant Gennady Onishchenko. The corresponding order is published on the official Internet portal of legal information. The document dated May 21 was published on May 24. Prior to this, Onishchenko took part in the primaries of United Russia, where he became the winner in the 206th single-mandate district.

Russia has placed the release of ten -year -old European -levels for $ 1.75 billion at 4.75% per annum. This was reported by Interfax and Reuters with reference to sources in the banking sector. Later this information was confirmed by the head of the Russian Ministry of Finance Anton Siluanov. RBC clarifies that the Ministry of Finance closed the book of applications at 20:00 Moscow time.

VTB Bank prepared a draft provision according to which the payment of remuneration to members of the Supervisory Board will depend on the number of meetings attended meetings. About this "Interfax" was told by a source in the bank. According to the document, the basic part of the remuneration member of the Nabsy Council will be paid if it participated in 50% of full -time meetings and 50% of correspondence votes within a year.

The Presidium of the All -Russian Athletics Federation (VFLA) banned the participation in the selection for the Olympic Games to athletes previously convicted of the use of doping, Interfax reports. “The Presidium of the WFLA on May 20, 2016 amended the selection criteria for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.

The TV channel Match TV called the names of 14 Russian participants in the Beijing Olympiad in 2008, convicted of the use of doping. Among them are 10 medalists and one winner of the Olympiad - Julia Cherksoshanskaya, who received the first place for the baton, according to the channel’s website.