Recent events revived the debate about the official status of the Russian language in Ukraine, which is generally not new for the political life of the country. Local political parties, heated by external actors, have been using the language factor as the main trump card of their election campaigns for many years.

1. Travel from St. Petersburg to Moscow. Early morning. We pass the Levoberezhnaya station. On the shield there is two-meter graffiti: KAIL PUTIN. THERE WAS NO HOLOCAUST. Before Ostankino station I think about the timeliness of the fight against Ukrainian fascism. As is typical, new graffiti distracts me from this activity in the Ostankino station area: “Putin, kill everyone.” Just below is a clarification: “Ukraine, Transnistria, Kazakhstan.” Well, well, at least not everyone... 2.

The Ministry of Regional Development prepared and agreed with other departments a draft concept of the Federal Target Program for the Development of Crimea until 2020. The accession of the peninsula will cost the Russians not cheap - almost to trillion rubles, of which 95% will be paid from the federal budget. The rest will be taken from the regional (already scarce) budget and extrabudgetary sources.

Around Russia The authorities can eliminate the Crimean Tatars Majlis May 5, 2014 Alexander Podrabinek The prosecutor of Crimea Natalya Poklonskaya issued a warning to the head of the Crimean Tatars, Refat Chubarova, which says the inadmissibility of conducting extremist activities. Earlier, Chubarova was invited to the prosecutor’s office to meet with the deputy prosecutor, but they did not explain the reason for this call.