RA’s Daily Russia News Blast – May 18, 2017
TODAY: EU files information request with Ukraine over Russian website ban, Kremlin denies grounds on which the ban was imposed; Putin confounds the West by offering to share records of Trump meeting; Navalny election campaign opening postponed again; gay rights flash mob in St Petersburg; economy near stagnation but out of recession; pop star paid by Kremlin to shade activists; former FBI director named as head of Russia-US investigation.