May 2018

• 1st of May
  • In the summer of 2018, the first anime television channel, Fan ^[1], will appear in Russia.
  • In Brazil , a building caught fire and collapsed in Sao Paulo , as a result of which, according to preliminary data, about 45 people went missing and 1 died ^[2] .
  • The House of Commons of the British Parliament adopted a law on sanctions, which included the "Magnitsky amendment", which provides for the right to refuse visas to "persons accused of gross violations of human rights and corruption" ^[3] .
  • Morocco broke off diplomatic relations with Iran . The occasion was the delivery of Iranian weapons to the Western Sahara Polisario Front ^[4] .
  • The Dominican Republic broke off diplomatic relations with Taiwan and established with China ^[5] .

• May 2
  • The Basque separatist group ETA ( Euskadi Ta Askatasuna - “Basque Country and Freedom” ) announced self-dissolution ^[6] .

• May 3
  • The company Cambridge Analytica , which turned out to be in the center of a scandal around the use of the personal data of Facebook users, declared bankruptcy ^[7] .
  • At least 97 people died during a sandstorm in the Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan ^[8] .
  • In Moscow , Leonid Roshal, the president of the Research Institute of NDHT, was presented with the Legend of the Century award for his outstanding contribution to the development of health care, his many years of work in helping children and for fruitful social activities. ^[9] .
  • During takeoff from the Khmeimim airbase in Syria, the Su-30 SM fighter crashed. Both pilots died ^[10] .

• May 4th
  • At its last meeting, the Swedish Academy , which awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature , decided to postpone the award to the following year due to the weakening of global trust in the organization. ^[eleven]
  • Aircraft from the US aircraft carrier " Harry Truman ", located in the Mediterranean Sea ^[12] , attacked the terrorists of the "Islamic state" in Syria as part of Operation " Unshakable determination " ^[13] .
  • North Korea has returned to a unified time with South Korea ^[14] .

• 5 May
  • In Russia, at the call of Alexei Navalny , an action “He is not a king to us” took place against Putin’s inauguration. Rallies and processions were not allowed by the authorities. The demonstrators were dispersed by riot policemen, who were helped by the NOD and the "Cossacks" . A total of 1,597 people, including children, were detained in 27 cities of Russia ^[15] .

• • In the capital of Mexico, Mexico City , an official ban has been declared on holding performances in which dolphins and seals take part ^[16] .
  • The Altas V 401 launch vehicle launched a NASA InSight probe to Mars, equipped with a seismometer and a heat scanner, as well as two microsatellites (Kubsat) MarCO-A and MarCO-B ^[17] .

• the 6th of May
  • The Russian national team in wrestling at the European Championships in Kaspiysk ( Russia ) won first place in the team event in all three styles ^[18] .
  • The Pakistani Interior Minister Ahsan Iqbal was assassinated by a member of the ultra-religious Islamic political party Tehrik-e-Labayk. The minister received a gunshot wound to the shoulder ^[19] .
  • In the eastern part of Syria, a Ka-52 helicopter (“Alligator”) crashed. Both pilots died ^[20]

• May 7
  • Vladimir Putin for the fourth time took the oath and assumed the post of President of the Russian Federation ^[21] .
  • In Syria, during the ongoing operation of the Russian armed forces , the Ka-52 helicopter of the Russian Aerospace Forces crashed, both onboard the pilot were killed ^[22] .

• May 8
  • Nikol Pashinyan , for whom 59 deputies voted, was elected Prime Minister of Armenia ^[23] .
  • Sun Zhengcai, a former member of the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, was sentenced to life imprisonment for bribery ^[24] .
  • Israeli Air Force aircraft struck the warehouses of the Iranian military near Al-Kiswa in the province of Damascus (Syria) ^[25] . 13 people died ^[26] .
  • US President Donald Trump announced his withdrawal from the Joint Comprehensive Action Plan to resolve the issue of Iran ’s nuclear program ^[27] .
  • Due to the outdated bus fleet in Rome , the tenth bus of the year exploded ^[28] .
  • Australian authorities have announced the creation of a national space agency ^[29] .

• May 10
  • Malaysia’s opposition coalition, the , won a simple majority in parliament on the basis of the last parliamentary elections ^[30] .
  • Israeli-Syrian incident : From the side of Syria, 20 missiles were fired at Israeli positions in the disputed territory of the Golan Heights , some of which intercepted the Iron Dome , and the Israeli Air Force bombed the positions in Khan-Arnab ( Kuneitra province, Syria) ^[31] .
  • The Hungarian Parliament re-elected Viktor Orban as Prime Minister ^[32] .
  • The Cabinet of Ministers approved the new brand of the country Ukraine Now ^[33] .
  • The American company Walmart , the world's largest retailer , bought a 77% stake in the Indian company Flipkart , which is the leader of the country's e-commerce market, and it became the largest transaction in the history of e-commerce ^[34] .
• May 11
  • The SpaceX company launched the Bangladesh communications satellite Bangabandhu-1 , this is the first practical application of an improved modification of the Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket ^[35] .
  • On the Instagram service, the sound illusion Yanni or Laurel ^{[36] is} published.
• 12 May
  • The planes of the international coalition led by the US delivered a second airstrike on Syria (the first blow was on April 14). Nine people died in Hasakah province ^[37] .
  • In Catalonia , the first round of elections for the head of the generality took place , as a result of which candidate Kim Torr received 66 votes with the necessary 68. The second round will be held on May 14 ^[38] .
  • Netta Barzilai , who represented Israel in Lisbon, took first place at Eurovision 2018 ^[39] .
  • In Armenia, the president signed a decree on the formation of a new government headed by Nikol Pashinyan ^[40] .
• may 13
  • Negotiations in the Georgian parliament between the organizers of the protest action in the center of Tbilisi and the Minister of Internal Affairs of the country Georgy Gakharia ended, the minister promised to thoroughly understand the special forces operation carried out two days earlier in Tbilisi’s two night clubs ^[41] .
• May 14
  • Mass protests of Palestinians on the border of Israel and the Gaza Strip, as a result of the actions of the Israeli security forces killed at least 59 Palestinians who took part in the unrest ^[42] .
• May 15
  • The opening ceremony of the road part of the Crimean Bridge ^[43] .
  • The company-developer of games GSC World has resumed work on the continuation of its hit - a computer game STALKER ^[44] .
• May 17
  • In China, for the first time, they tested the commercial OneSpace OS-X nine-meter rocket capable of delivering up to 800 kg of payload to an altitude of 800 km above the Earth's surface ^[45] .
  • In the United States for the first time, a woman headed the Central Intelligence Agency . The head of the CIA became Gina Haspel ^[46] .
  • Tatyana Golikova left the post of chairman of the Accounts Chamber ^[47] .
  • In the course of the ongoing armed conflict in eastern Ukraine, the head of one of the DNI battalions, Oleg Mamiyev, was killed ^[48] .
• May 18
  • Russian President Vladimir Putin approved the composition of the new government of the Russian Federation , headed by Dmitry Medvedev ^[49] .
  • In several explosions, unknown persons destroyed the ammunition depots of the Syrian air force base, located west of the city of Hama ^[50] .
  • In the crash of a Boeing 737 near Havana (Cuba), 108 people were killed ^[51] .
• May 19
  • Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain granted her grandson, Prince Harry, the title of Duke of Sussex on his wedding day ^[52] .
  • Mass poisoning with mushrooms in Iran . More than 700 injured, 9 dead ^[53] .
• May 20
  • Early presidential elections were held in Venezuela ^[54] , based on the preliminary results of which Nicolas Maduro was re-elected president of Venezuela ^[55] .
• May 21st
  • Barack Obama and Michelle Obama signed a long-term agreement with Netflix and became its producers ^[56] .
• 22nd of May
  • Israel became the first country in the world to use the fifth-generation F-35 fighter in combat ^[57] .
  • Powerful explosions thundered at an Iranian base located in the Nadj area, south of Damascus ^[58] .
• May, 23rd
  • Nipah virus , from which there is no vaccine, has already killed 10 people. About 40 ^[59] are quarantined.
  • Matt Groening removed his first in 20 years new animated project Disenchantment ^[60] .
• May 24
  • Burkina Faso severed diplomatic relations with Taiwan ^[61] .
• May 25
  • The authorities of the Netherlands and Australia have officially accused the Russian side of crashing the Malaysian Boeing MH17 ^[62] .
  • In the EU , the rules of GDPR , toughening the rules for the protection of personal data ^[63] .
  • Producer Harvey Weinstein surrendered to the police in New York, he was charged with rape ^[64] .
  • In Ireland, a referendum was held in which the Irish supported the legalization of abortion ^[65] .
• 26 of May
  • The second meeting of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un with South Korean President Moon Jae-In ^{[66] took place} .
  • New metro stations Novokrestovskaya and Begovaya opened in St. Petersburg ^[67] .
  • Burkina Faso has established diplomatic relations with China ^[68] .
• May 27
  • The Muftiyat of Ingushetia decided to “deny the Muslim community” the head of the republic Yunus-Bek Yevkurov until he “stops his discrimination against the clergy and does not account for the funds raised for the construction of a mosque in the city of Magas ”. One of the reasons for this decision was the ongoing conflict for almost 10 years between Yevkurov and the mufti of Ingushetia, Isa Khamkhoev ^[69] .
  • Under the “ stupidity bridge ” in St. Petersburg, the 150th “ Gazelle ” was stuck ^[70] .
• May 28
  • Construction of the Mozhayskaya station of the Big Ring Metro Line began in Moscow . ^[71]
  • Syria recognized the independence of Abkhazia and South Ossetia ^[72] , with the result that Georgia announced the severance of diplomatic relations with the Syrian Arab Republic ^[73] .
• May 29
  • According to media reports in Kiev, they shot and killed a Russian journalist, Arkady Babchenko . ^[74] But the next day, information appeared that Babchenko was alive, and the attempt on him was a special operation by the SBU . ^[75]
  • The governor of the Magadan region, Vladimir Pecheny, and the head of Yakutia, Yegor Borisov, resigned ^[76] .
• May 31
  • A meeting took place between Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the DPRK leader Kim Jong-un ^[77] .

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