The International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in Hamburg ruled in the case of Ukrainian sailors captured by Russian border guards in the Kerch Strait in November 2018. The court ruling says that Russia must release both the sailors and the three Ukrainian ships. Russia does not recognize the proceedings as legitimate. What's happened. The UN International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS) agreed with the demands of Ukraine, whose representatives filed a lawsuit against Russia.

31.7% of Russians trust Vladimir Putin, follows from the VTsIOM survey on May 19. This is the lowest result since 2006, when VTsIOM began to publish ratings according to this technique. Details Despite a decrease in trust, Putin still leads the rating of politicians in this indicator. In second place with a large lag - Minister of Defense Sergey Shoigu (14.8%), in the third - the head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov (13%).

On Friday, the expected, but still historical event-Teresa May, the second woman-prime minister in the history of Great Britain, announced the departure from her post. So far, the most likely candidate for her replacement is the former Foreign Minister Boris Johnson - the “night nightmare” of the European Union, and at the same time all supporters of the Great Britain’s smooth exit from the EU. Photo: Wikimedia Commons This article was written for the weekly final mailing of The Bell.

The main events of the end of the week were the annual events of two companies that are going to share the Russian market between their ecosystems in the coming years - the YAC conference, at which Yandex spoke about its plans for the conquest of the car market, and the meeting of the shareholders of Sberbank, where Herman Gref spoke about the successes in the transformation of Sberbank into a technological company.