Russian passports. Photo: Grani.ru The Government of Ukraine recognized as invalid passports lined with Russia to Ukrainian citizens in the Donbass. According to UNIAN, such a decision was made at a meeting of the Cabinet of Ministers on Wednesday. According to these passports, it will not be possible to cross the border of Ukraine and use them in the country. The Ukrainian authorities will turn to other countries with an appeal to recognize Russian passports issued in the Donbass.

135 years ago, on May 8, 1884, the 33rd President of the United States Harry Truman, who headed the American state in 1945-1953, was born. In 1945, his birthday was the day of victory in the war in Europe. Truman was the initiator of the Marshall plan to restore Europe and the chief architect of NATO. He explained the difference between the decline and the crisis like this: "The decline is when your neighbor is losing work, the crisis is when you lose your work."

Vitaly Portnikov When the newly elected President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky meets the Second World War veteran and reconciliation, former Red Army Ivan Gutnik-Zaluzhny, who lost the only grandson in the Donbass of the Paraskeva Zelenchuk-Zatyak in the Donbass, he demonstrates the reconciliation of a new memory culture, which was finally confirmed in Ukraine after 2013-2014 and 2014 and 2014 Russian aggression.

Hassan Rowhani. Photo: President.IR Iran will suspend the fulfillment of some obligations within the framework of the so -called nuclear transaction. This was reported on the official website of President Iran Hassan Rouhani. Rowhani sent relevant notifications to the ambassadors of Russia, France, Germany, Great Britain and China. This was done on the anniversary of the US unilateral exit from the nuclear transaction ("Joint Comprehensive Action Plan").

Galina Ackerman. Courtesy Photo When the so -called Leninopad began in Ukraine after the victory of Euromaidan, I first thought about how important it is not only to demolish the monuments to Lenin, but - figuratively speaking - to throw out Lenin and the whole “adviser” from consciousness. After all, Sovetina is our past life, these are social codes, behavioral habits, films and books.

Dmitry Levitsky. Portrait of Nikolai Novikov 275 years ago, on May 8, 1744, a writer, journalist and publisher Nikolai Ivanovich Novikov was born. He was the publisher of the satirical magazines "Truck", "Painter" and "Wallet", then organized a printing house, library and school in Moscow, as well as bookstores in 16 cities. Moral searches led him to Freemasonry. The Morning Svet magazine, founded in 1777, was devoted to morality and self -knowledge, and Novikov opened two schools in St.

Ilya Milstein The text of Alexei Navalny and delicacy are things like inconvenient, but here is the case when the founder of the FBK is not like himself. Speaking with the appeal , Alexei Anatolyevich uses such words and verbal constructions as “respected”, “please”, “it seems to me”, he calls the interlocutor “decent person”, as well as “a person is unconditionally worthy and deserved”. He asks, conjures, and even begs to listen to his advice and rest his arguments.

Detention of "neo -Nazis", photo of the FSB The Presnensky district court of Moscow sent a 21-year-old student Daniil Bondar, suspected of creating a neo-Nazi group, Mediazona reports . The bonder is charged with part 1 of Article 282.1 of the Criminal Code (organization of the extremist community). In court, he denied guilt. At the same time, the investigator at the meeting claimed that Bondar gave a confession.

Evgeny Krylatov. Photo: kremlin.ru In Moscow, at the 86th year of life, composer Evgeny Krylatov, author of popular children's songs, died. "Father died this morning in the hospital. He had bilateral pneumonia," Tassu told the daughter of composer Maria Krylatova. Krylatov was born in a working family, grew up in a suburb of Perm. He graduated from the Perm Music School and the Moscow Conservatory in the class of essays and in the piano class. Krylatov wrote music for theatrical productions.

35 years ago, on May 8, 1984, the National Olympic Committee of the USSR announced its decision not to participate in the Los Angeles Summer Olympics. It was stated that the US authorities were allegedly incapable of ensuring the safety of Soviet athletes. In fact, it was a purely political response to the US and many other countries' boycott of the Moscow Olympics in 1980 due to the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan.

Evgeny Pind. Source: AP Russia sends two Swedish diplomats, TASS reports with reference to the press service of the Sweden Foreign Ministry. They explained that this is a response measure - earlier Sweden sent the Russian diplomat Evgeny Payvy, who was convicted of espionage, and refused a dipolomatic visa to another employee of the Russian Foreign Ministry.

The Krasnodar garrison military court sentenced an employee of the local FSB department Ivan the Old to 10 years in a maximum security colony for extorting a bribe of 20 million rubles. This was reported by "Mediazona" with reference to the court website. The decision was made on April 26.