Croatian President Zoran Milanovich wanted to block the entry of Finland and Sweden to NATO until the issue of reforming electoral law in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIG) is resolved. It is reported by TASS. Milanovich intends to instruct the republic’s ambassador to NATO Mario Nobilo to vote against the entry of two states into the Alliance.

Two informed Reuters sources said that investigators are working out a version that the crash occurred due to "intentional actions in the pilots cabin." The sources of the agency also noted that the evidence that the disaster occurred due to the technical malfunction was found. The China Eastern Airlines previously stated that all three flights were well qualified and did not complain about health.

The first defendant of war crimes during the war in Ukraine, Russian Vadim Shishimarin pleaded guilty in the Solomensky District Court of Kyiv. The broadcast of the meeting was led by a correspondent of the Ukrainian edition of ґrati. When asked by the judge, whether Shishimarin pleads his guilt in the murder of a resident of the Sumy region, the soldier replied: "Yes." The second clarifying question of the judge: "Completely?" - Shishimarin confirmed the answer.

News A criminal case of "fakes" about the Russian army - "Mediazon" was opened against the journalist Michael Naki. 18 May 2022 A criminal case of “fakes” about the Russian army was opened against the journalist Michael Naki. It is reported by "Mediazona." The publication was told about this by an investigator who made a request in court on the absentee arrest of an expert of the investigative project Conflict Intelligence Team (CIT) Ruslan Levieva. They both go through the same case.

The FSB of Russia announced the detention of a man in Kemerovo, who is suspected of damage to two supports of power lines. About this with reference to the Center for Public Relations (COOs) of the special services is reported by Interfax.

The company "Nanolek", partner of the developer of the Kovivak vaccine - the center named after Chumakova, stopped the production of the vaccine due to the lack of a need for it from the Ministry of Health. This was reported by RBC with reference to the first deputy general director of the pharmaceutical company Maxim Stetsyuk. According to him, Nanolek independently produced about 500 thousand doses of Kovivak, this party is currently in the company's warehouse.

In Belarus, they will ban the sale of Antiutopia Romange Jorge Orwell “1984” about life in a totalitarian society. About this writes "Our Niva" with reference to a copy of the order. “Remove from sale all options for the book Orwell D.“ 1984 ”. To report on the performance no later than May 19, ”the publication quoted part of the text from the order. Journalists do not publish a document for considerations of the security of the people who transferred it.

Confession “I can’t live in comfortable conditions, while most fellow citizens are deprived of this opportunity.” Why Ukrainians return from evacuation Diana Fishman May 18, 2022 According to the UN, since the beginning of the Russian invasion, 14 million residents of Ukraine left their homes, of which more than 6 million were outside the country. Having recovered from the first shock, many forced immigrants decide to make a return trip, even though the war is far from the end.

A resident of Blagoveshchensk again became a defendant in the criminal case of the "discredit" of the Russian army. This was reported by the Office of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Amur Region. This is the first thing in Russia under this article. The Blagoveshchensk City Court fined a man under an administrative article on the "discredit" of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation (part 1 of article 20.3.3 of the Code of Administrative Offenses) in March.

Antifacked “Komsomolskaya Pravda” wrote about the Plenum British, who did not see any corpses in Buch. But he was not in Buch The Insider May 18, 2022 The Komsomolskaya Pravda published a note signed by the deputy editor of the policy department by Valentin Alfimov, under the heading of the British mercenary: “We did not see any corpses in Buch”. We give the full text of the note: “Andrew came to Ukraine to defend its unnecessaryness.

MasterCard cards, which were released by the Belarusian Alfa-Bank, can again be used abroad, tie them to Apple Pay and pay for purchases and subscriptions in various services. This was reported on the bank's Twitter account. The cards stopped working outside Belarus on May 5 "because of the position of American banks." “We did a lot of work with colleagues from MasterCard, and here is its results: MasterCard cards from Alfa Bank are again working abroad,” the bank said in a statement.

Antifake Putin's press secretary resorts to fakery, claims Bucha murders are a «gory stage production» 18 May 2022 The Insider During the Knowledge (Znanie) Society marathon Vladimir Putin's press secretary Dmitry Peskov said : «The most terrible thing is probably what we have seen in terms of this monstrous information war – the stream of lies, fake news, stage productions, sometimes as monstrous as the human mind can possibly imagine.

News “Thousands of varieties of crops for sowing have been destroyed, but the main part of the genetic Bank of Ukraine is celest” - an employee of the Institute of Plant City 18 May 2022 Employee of the Institute of Plant Crime. Yuryev Sergey Avramenko, who yesterday said that as a result of shelling of the Russian army in Kharkov, the only Bank for the Genetic Resources of Plants of Ukraine was destroyed in Kharkov, told The Insider that the main part of the collection was still preserved.

Khoroshevsky District Court of Moscow arrested in absentia the former deputy head of Aeroflot Andrei Panov in a criminal case of fraud (part 4 of article 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation). The accused is put on the international wanted list. The investigation materials are talking about the development of the Aeroflot marketing strategy, which the largest Russian air carrier concluded with the American company Bain in 2019.

The Military Spasser of Cosmos-2555, launched on April 29 on a light-class launch vehicle "Angara-1.2", can burn in the atmosphere in the coming hours. This was told by The Insider Expert, a popularizer of astronautics Vitaliy Egorov. “I think the fall (satellite) is a matter of several hours. Maybe already, ”says Egorov. For 15 days, the satellite conducted only one short -term correction of the orbit - May 6. Since then, its orbit has been declining.