Новости за 01.05.2017

French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s statement that France could leave the EU is an attempt to bring voters on his side, Russian senator Franz Klintsevich told reporters on May 1.

'A recruit' by Ivan Repin (1879). / Source: Russian Museum

Conscription of young Russian men for lifetime service began in 1699 during the rule of Peter the Great. The goal was to establish a standing army and increase its size for the emperor's many military campaigns. During the reign of Nicholas I, in the second quarter of the 19th century, the possibility to pay a substitute for one's military service was legalized in order to give new life to the recruitment system.

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Some 17 people, including 15 Russians, remain in hospital in Thailand’s capital Bangkok after an incident with a plane of Russia’s flagship air carrier Aeroflot that hit an air pocket, a Russian diplomat said.

1. Free Wi-Fi for all passengers

The Soyuzmultfilm train. / Photo: Kirill Zykov / Moskva Agency

Muscovites can no longer imagine urban life without free wireless Internet on the metro. In fact, Wi-Fi has been available on the city's underground transportation system since 2013, but now it has merged into a single network with a similar system on public ground transportation. Thanks to this, users no longer need to register in the network several times (accessing free Wi-Fi networks requires registration in Russia). Читать дальше...

Twenty-six-year-old Muscovite Maxim Krylov used to earn extra money driving a taxi at night. But with the rise of the Uber and Yandex.taxi apps two years ago he started working as a taxi driver full-time. "Before, I would wait around for hours for an order, but now there's no dead time – the orders are coming in non-stop. I can drive around my neighborhood the whole day," says Krylov.

An unwillingness to expose its systems to additional risks probably convinced the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) not to invite Russian cybersecurity specialists to participate in its “bug bounty” program to hack the Air Force.

A total of ten planes are ready to take off from Moscow airfields to ensure good weather during the May 1 celebrations in the Russian capital, Moscow’s traffic control center told media.

Russian servicemen conducted six humanitarian missions in Syria in the past 24 hours to distribute 3 tonnes of humanitarian aid, the Russian Center for the reconciliation of the warring parties in Syria said in its daily bulletin May 1.