Ted Cruise. Photo: Senate.gov Ted Cruz's Senator from Texas announced the exit from the presidential race, after on Tuesday he lost to the most likely candidate Donald Trump on the primaries of the Republican Party in Indiana. It is reported by Politico. Trump received votes of more than half of the voters and all 57 delegates of the party congress from the state. After that, as CNN reports , Cruz remarked: "From the very beginning, I said that we would fight until we have a chance of victory.

Sergey Shoigu and conscripts. Photo: mil.ru To counteract the increase in NATO forces near the borders of Russia, the Ministry of Defense will form three new divisions. This was stated by the head of the military department Sergey Shoigu, reports TASS. "The Ministry of Defense takes a number of measures to counteract the buildings of NATO forces in the immediate vicinity of Russian borders.

Ilya Milstein Receps Erdogan did just that. At first he pretended to be an ally and best friend. Then suddenly, for no reason, he began to convince Vladimir Vladimirovich with different diplomatic means that the Turkish sky is not a passing yard for friendly military aircraft. Why, actually? Naturally, Putin did not believe him.

55 years ago, on May 4, 1961, the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a decree "On intensifying the fight against persons who evade socially useful work and lead an antisocial parasitic lifestyle." Citizens who did not work for four months a year were now subject to criminal liability. Only housewives with children were allowed not to work.

Selfie. Photo: hi-tech.mail.ru The court in Kurgan sentenced an 18-year-old local resident at 100 hours of compulsory work, the press service of the regional department of the TFR reports . It is found guilty under Part 1 of Article 282 of the Criminal Code (excitement of hatred or enmity, as well as humiliation of human dignity).

Pyotr Pavlensky in the Tagan court. Photo by Yuri Timofeev/Grani.ru In the Meshchansky District Court of Moscow, preliminary hearings in the case were ended with respect to the activist artist Peter Pavlensky on the arson of the front door of the FSB building on Lubyanka. On May 18, the court will proceed to the hearings on the merits of the case, RAPSI reports citing lawyer Dmitry Dinze.

Aleppo. Photo: veteranstuday.com Washington and Moscow agreed to expand the ceasefire in Syria to the territory of the Aleppo province, where the battles of government forces with the opposition are still continuing. This is stated in the statement published on the website of the US State Department.

Dmitry Kiselev and Alexey Navalny Judge of the Savelovsky District Court of Moscow Boris Udov, on the second attempt, accepted the lawsuit of the founder of the FBK and the leader of the Party of Progress Alexei Navalny to the Russia-1 television channel and personally to the authors of the film "Effect of Brauder" Dmitry Kiselev and Evgeny Popov. The politician reported this on his blog. Pre -trial training in the case was scheduled for May 19.

Vadim Tyumensev. Photo: TV2.tomsk.ru Judge of the Tomsk Regional Court Andrei Emashov confirmed the verdict of Blogger Vadim Tymentsev, sentenced to five years of general regime on charges of extremism. It is reported "in Tomsk". Emashov softened only an additional punishment imposed on the political prisoner. The court of first instance forbade him to use the Internet for three years after release.

The number "Buka-M1" with an unreadable average number. Source: Bellingcat.com The Bellingcat International Expert-Journalist Group has unambiguously set the number of the Russian air defense system "Buk-M1", from which the Malaysian Boeing-777 over the Eastern Ukraine was shot down on July 17, 2014. Such information is given in the report of the community published on Tuesday evening.

The logo of the anonymizer Tor The prosecutor's office of the Pervomaisky district of Murmansk demanded to ban 13 websension sites, according to the website of the regional prosecutor's office. What kind of resources are in question, is not specified.

Currency exchange point. Photo: mirsovetov.ru In the morning on Wednesday, when the first trading in the Moscow Exchange was opened in May, the dollar and euros rose sharply by more than 2 rubles. It is reported by RBC. At the peak, the dollar rose to 66.8 rubles, which is 2.17 rubles higher than the closing level of trading on April 29. This is the maximum price of the American currency since the 25th. The euro grew up to 76.7 rubles - it is 2.68 rubles more than when closing the bidding.

Donald Trump. Photo: Donaldjtrump.com OGIO Governor John Keisik, participating in the struggle for nomination by a candidate from the Republican Party to the President of the United States, leaves the election race, reports Associated Press. Thus, billionaire Donald Trump remains the only contender from the party. During the campaign, Keisik won only in Ohio.

Andrey Gost. Photo: 63.mvd.ru The fourth defendant in the case of the murder of the deputy head of the headquarters of the Ministry of Internal Affairs in the Samara region Andrei Gosta and his family was detained. This was reported on the website of the TFR. According to Life, the suspect is the name of Mahmadali Akhmadov. Akhmadov was detained at the metropolitan airport of Domodedovo after arriving from Dushanbe.

Nadezhda Savchenko to announce the sentence, 03/22/2016. Photo: @Evgenyfeldman The FSIN began to collect the documents necessary for further resolving the issue of extradition of the Ukrainian prisoner of war of Nadezhda Savchenko to his homeland. This was reported by TASS with reference to the press service of the prison department. The documents will be sent to the Russian Ministry of Justice "to agree on the issue of transfer with the competent authority of Ukraine", the FSINITS noted.