What are they talking about this morning

The DPR adopted the “preliminary” text of the Constitution, the mayor of the Latvian town requires an apology from NATO, the GDP of Japan reached 5.9%in the first quarter of 2014, and the film festival opened in Cannes for the 67th time

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- The Supreme Council of the DPR approved the approximate text of the Constitution. In the future, they are going to refine it, taking into account the interests of various segments of the population, the representative of the press service of the Donetsk People’s Republic Vitaly Ivanov told RIA Novosti. He called the text that appeared earlier in the media inconsistent. - The results of the “round table of unity” can be fixed by law. The results and recommendations that will be developed during the nationwide dialogue on settlement can be implemented by making changes to the legislation, the Foreign Ministry of Ukraine said on the environment. The first “round table” as part of such a dialogue took place on May 14 in Kyiv, the second can go in the near future in Donetsk. - In the Crimea, the adoption of orphans by foreigners was suspended. This was notified in the press service of the Ministry of Education, Science and Youth of Crimea. In particular, in accordance with the legislation of the Russian Federation, the child can be adopted by foreign citizens only a year after it was putting it in the State Bank of Data about orphans, children left without parental care. - The head of the National Security and Defense Council of Ukraine said on Wednesday that the security forces will act in the East even tougher. Secretary of the Council of National Security and Defense of Ukraine Andrei Parubiy, who is now at the site of the operation in the east of Ukraine, said that the cause of the military under Kramatorsky was the reason for more decisive actions on May 13. - On the outskirts of Slavyansk on Thursday morning shots are heard. RIA Novosti correspondent reports that the battle is supposedly in the area of ​​the feed factory, ruptures of artillery shells and machine -gun queues are heard. On the eve of the “People’s Mayor” of Slavyansk Vyacheslav Ponomarev said that in a clashes on May 14, one militia died, several were injured.

- The head of the Donetsk regional state administration, Sergei Taruta, does not exclude the suspension of a special operation in Mariupol. The Ukrainian news agency UNN transfers the words of the head of the region, according to which it is proposed that the security in Mariupol is guaranteed by local squads. Taruta said that today several thousand people have already signed up for the squads, another 20 thousand plan to join.

-The decision on the dissolution of the Lugansk Regional Council was not made on Wednesday due to the lack of a quorum. Nevertheless, deputies of the Lugansk Regional Council are preparing an appeal to the Verkhovna Rada with a demand for the immediate consolidation of the federal structure of Ukraine and the state status of the Russian language in the Constitution, according to Wednesday on the site of the regional council.

- The authorities of Slavyansk ceased to transfer taxes to Kiev, deductions only go to the pension fund. This was told by the "People’s mayor" of the city Vyacheslav Ponomarev, who also stated that the first battalion of the army of the liberation of Donbass began to form on the basis of the people's militia in Slavyansk.

- The number of victims of the accident at the mine in Turkey exceeded 270 people, the Turkish media reported . The explosion at the mine in the village of Soma 250 km south of Istanbul occurred at 16:10 Moscow time on Tuesday at a depth of about 2 km. According to preliminary data, a short circuit occurred, which led to the fire. At the time of the incident, 787 people were underground. Earlier it was reported about 245 dead. 450 people were saved.

- The accusations of the murder were brought by four members of the crew of the Sevol ferry. The Renhap agency transferred on Thursday that the prosecutors were made by the captain of the vessel, his two assistants, as well as the chief engineer who refused to evacuate hundreds of passengers from the drowning ferry. “Sevol”, on board of which were 476 people, mainly children and adolescents, crashed on April 16 off the southwestern coast of South Korea. 172 people managed to save, at the moment 281 people are listed dead. The fate of another 23 passengers of the vessel is still officially unknown.

- The mayor of the Latvian Port Ventspils Avars Lembergs asks the Secretary General of NATO Anders Fog Rasmussen to apologize to the inhabitants of the city and all of Latvia for the behavior of the alliance sailors. Local media learned that in a letter of the mayor, addressed not only by the NATO chapter, but also in the Latvian Foreign Ministry, he expresses doubts about how safe the presence of NATO ships in Ventspils is safe for society. At the end of last week, for violation of public order - mainly for the reference to the need in a public place in a drunk form - 23 NATO military were detained and fined in Ventspils.

- The Ministry of Economic Development awaits the federal budget surplus at 0.5% of GDP in 2014, according to the results of the meeting on the eve. But the GDP of Japan grew in the first quarter of this year by 5.9%.

- Moscow housing rose in price over the quarter, as for the whole of 2013. Prices in the Moscow real estate market began to rise - people are shifting savings from banks to apartments. So far, however, mostly inexpensive apartments in the secondary market are valued, they say “Vedomosti”. - The tariffs of monopolies will grow above the forecast. The Ministry of Economic Development revised the forecast of indexation of tariffs of monopolies: in 2015 they will grow by 6%, in 2016-by 5%. Such data are contained in the new forecast of macroeconomic development, which today will be discussed at a meeting of the government. - Infrastructure construction sites “RusHydro” and “Inter RAO” will probably pay “Rosneftegaz”, writes Vedomosti. RusHydro will receive 17 billion rubles from Rosneftegaz for the construction of the Verkhne-Naryn hydroelectric power stations in Kyrgyzstan and the reconstruction of the dispersed hydroelectric power plants in Abkhazia. In addition, Rosneftegaz can finance the construction of the international project of the Kambaratinsky hydroelectric power station, for which Inter RAO is responsible. - In the United States, they found arguments to lift the ban on the export of raw oil. The White House administration is considering the possibility of canceling the existing 40 years of restrictions on oil export, the country's energy Minister Ernst Monitza admitted . Too rapid pace of prey and the specifics of the capacities of American refineries do not allow solving the problem of processing raw materials, he noted. - What else to read in the morning: the editorial column in Vedomosti about the devaluation of Putin's May decrees; there about how Iran gradually conquers international positions and influence; The Kommersant suggests that the hasty adoption of amendments to the electoral legislation in St. Petersburg may indicate the intention of Georgy Poltavchenko to go to early elections; As well as four scenarios of development and exit from the crisis in Ukraine from the oligarch Rinat Akhmetov. -And by the way, on May 13 in the evening the Cannes Film Festival opened for the 67th time. The main competition included 18 tapes. Among them are Leviathan Andrei Zvyagintsev, the “queen of the night” of the atom Egoyan, “Two Days, One Night” by Jean-Pierre and Luke Dardenov with Marion Kotiwyar in the title role, “Star Map” with Robert Pattinson directed by David Kronenberg, “Words, Farewell!” Jean-Luka Godard, “local” Tommy Lee Jones and others.