Patriarch Cyril. Photo: Patriarchia.ru Atheism becomes the state ideology of Ukraine. According to TASS, this was stated on the day of Slavic writing and culture by the Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus' Kirill after worship in the Cathedral of Christ the Savior.

Marie Harf. Photo: Wikipedia The United States is deeply concerned about the adoption of the law on "undesirable" foreign and international organizations in Russia and require Moscow to observe freedom of speech. This is stated in a statement by the official representative of the State Department of Marie Harf.

John Forbs Nash Jr. Photo: Wikipedia American mathematician, Nobel laureate John Forbs Nash Jr. and his wife Alicia died in a car accident, reports The Washington Post. A taxi in which a married couple was located in an accident in New Jersey. The scientist was 86 years old, his wife was 82.

75 years ago, on May 24, 1940, the first attempt on the life of Leon Trotsky took place, which ended in failure. It was directed by Mexican communist artist David Siqueiros. At about four in the morning, 20 people in the form of the Mexican police and army, with the support of Robert Sheldon Hart, the guard of the Coyoacan villa recruited by the NKVD, broke into the courtyard of Trotsky's house. For 10-15 minutes they shot at Trotsky's bedroom.

Maxim Freudzon. Photo from the site: freedomrussia.org Radio Liberty deleted an interview with his website with the St. Petersburg businessman Maxim Freudzon, in which he spoke about the corruption scheme in St. Petersburg in the early 1990s, in which Vladimir Putin was involved. "The publication was deleted at the request of the interlocutor of Radio Liberty. We apologize," the radio station said on the page where the interview was posted. Remote text is available in the Google cache.

Photo by Evgenia Formation from the site Sholohov.dspl.ru 110 years ago, on May 24, 1905, the Russian writer Mikhail Aleksandrovich Sholokhov, the Nobel Laureate in 1965, “For the Artistic Power and The integrity of the Don Cossacks in a turning point for Russia,” was born. The presentation of the Prize to Sholokhov was predetermined by the events of the previous year, when the left French philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre abandoned the Nobel Prize.

Alexander Gladky. Photo from the site goman.com The responsibility for the murder of one of the leaders of the militants of the "Lugansk People's Republic" Alexei Mozgovoy took upon himself the Ukrainian detachment "Shadows". This was announced on his page on Facebook by the commander of the detachment Alexander Gladky. According to him, the detachment fighters undermined a brain car remotely with two mines near the village of Mikhailovka in the Perevalsky district of the Lugansk region.

Brodsky at the University of Michigan. 1972 75 years ago, on May 24, 1940, the Russian poet Joseph Alexandrovich Brodsky, the Nobel Laureate in 1987, “For Comprehensive Creativity, imbued with clarity of thought and poetic intensity”, was born. In January 1964, Brodsky was arrested on charges of parasitism and sentenced to five years of exile, but under pressure from the world community was returned from it in September 1965.