John Kerry. Photo of the press service of the State Department of the United States The United States will help Tbilisi in moving towards membership in NATO. According to RBC, this was stated in his appeal dedicated to the Independence Day of Georgia, US Secretary of State John Kerry. "We intend to help Georgia implement an association agreement with the European Union and in its promotion on the way to NATO membership," the message says.

Alexey Mozgovoy. Frame of the video Seven people, including the commander of the Brigade of the LPR militants "Ghost" by Alexei Mozgovoy, died near Lugansk. They became victims of the assassination attempt, RIA Novosti reports. Mozgovoy died as a result of a sabotage on the Perevalsk-Lugansk highway, said Sergey Gorenko, First Deputy Prosecutor General of the Self-proclaimed LPR, whose words are quoted by Interfax.

A gas pipeline. Photo: press service "Gazprom" Norway in the first quarter of 2015 surpassed Russia in terms of gas supplies to Western Europe, increases Lenta.ru with reference to The Local. Thus, the European Union confirmed its intentions to abandon Russian gas, notes the publication. In the period from January to March of this year, the Gassco gas operator exported 29.2 billion cubic meters of gas, while Gazprom is only 20.29 billion cubic meters.

On May 23, from 12:00 to 22:00, the Sakharov Center (Zemlyanoy Val, 57, bldg. 6) will host the traditional Festival of Freedom, timed to coincide with the birthday of Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov. This year the festival is charitable. The organizers hope to raise 300,000 rubles, the fine that was awarded to the Sakharov Center for refusing to register as a “foreign agent”.

Sergey Korzun and Alexey Venediktov. Photo by V. Bartholomeev The founder and first editor-in-chief of Echo of Moscow Sergey Korzun quit the radio station due to disagreements with the current leader Alexei Venediktov. The “Echo” that we started in 1990 did not, ”Korzun wrote on his blog.“ The body still works, but “The Death of the Brain” has already occurred.

Dmitry Medvedev. Frame "Russia 1" The current ruble rate reflects its real price. According to RBC, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev stated this in an interview with the Vesti program on Saturday with Sergey Brilev "Russia 1". "Now the ruble reflects a whole set of factors that have developed in the foreign exchange market and in the country's economy as a whole.

Vladimir Putin. Photo of the Kremlin press service Vladimir Putin signed a law that allows foreign and international non -governmental organizations the status of "undesirable in Russia", the corresponding document is published on the official portal of legal information.

70 years ago, on May 23, 1945, the SS Reichsfuhrer Henry Himmler, one of the main Nazi war criminals, responsible for the Holocaust and the death camp, committed suiconfuhrer. Shortly before his suicide, April 28, Hitler shifted Himmler from all posts for trying to separate negotiations with Western allies. Himmler tried to hide, changing into the form of a non-commissioned officer of the field gendarmerie and stored with documents in the name of Henry Hitsinger.

Daria Polyudova. Photo from a personal page in VKontakte The Krasnodar activist Daria Polyudova lost her job, reports the OVD-info. She worked as a lawyer in the Red Army Central District Hospital, located in the village of Poltava. May 21, acting The chief physician Karmiryan decided to dismiss Polyudov with the formulation of the “imperative of the trial period”, however, the head of the Yurotel of the hospital insisted that the activist be able to quit “of his own free will”.

Evgeny Erofeev (left) and Alexander Alexandrov. Frames of video recordings of the SBU The Security Service of Ukraine announced the impossibility of the exchange of Russians captured in the Donbass Evgeny Erofeev and Alexander Alexandrov. According to Interfax, Schuster Live reported on the air of the television program by the negotiator of the Center for Assistance to the Liberation of the hostages under the department, Yuri Tandit.