A French journalist was wounded near Slavyansk, the Rossiya 24 TV channel reported on May 24. Other details of the incident are not yet known.

The Russian men's team won the gold medal in the team all-around at the European Artistic Gymnastics Championships held in Sofia, RIA Novosti reported on May 24. The Russians scored 267.959 points in the final, while the silver-winning team from Great Britain scored 265.953 points. The Ukrainians won bronze (262.087). The competitions take place at the Armeets sports complex in Sofia.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande discussed the situation in Ukraine and expressed interest in the presidential elections being held in a peaceful and calm environment, RIA Novosti reported on May 24. The telephone conversation took place at the initiative of Western European partners. The acute crisis in Ukraine was discussed in a trilateral format.

In the village of Andreevka near Slavyansk, Donetsk region, on the evening of May 24, an Italian journalist and his translator were killed, and a reporter from France was wounded, RIA Novosti was told at the headquarters of the people's militia of Slavyansk. “In the village of Andreevka near Slavyansk, an Italian journalist and his translator were shot and a French correspondent was wounded.

On the evening of May 24, the Directorate of the World Hockey Championship will consider the behavior of the head coach of the Russian national team Oleg Znarok in the semi-final match with the Swedes, the press service of the International Hockey Federation (IIHF) told RIA Novosti . On Saturday, the Russians beat the Swedes in the semi-finals of the tournament with a score of 3:1 and reached the final.

In Moscow, more than 500 cars took part in a car rally in support of journalists from the Russian TV channel LifeNews detained in Ukraine, Interfax reported on May 24. “More than 500 cars took part in the motor rally from the Sparrow Hills to the Garden Ring, which took place late yesterday evening in support of LifeNews television company journalists Oleg Sidyakin and Marat Saichenko,” said Mr. Galiakberov. Ukrainian military detained M. Saichenko and O. Sidyakin in Kramatorsk on May 18.

Russia is determined to implement the Nord Stream and South Stream projects, but if the European Union prevents the implementation of the latter, Russia will consider other options for laying a gas pipeline - through countries outside the European Union, RIA Novosti quoted Russian President Vladimir Putin as saying on May 24.

Trading on US stock exchanges ended on May 23 with an increase in the main quotations. The S&P 500 index (includes the 500 largest companies in the American market) at the end of trading for the first time in history rose above the psychologically important mark of 1900 points, Prime reports. It rose 8.04 points (0.4%) to 1,900.53. The index crossed the 1800 point mark on November 22 last year.

Kommersant FM correspondent was not allowed into Ukraine Natalya Suvorova was heading to Kyiv by train, but border guards refused her entry, citing the fact that the correspondent did not have enough money on her. Natalya Suvorova told the host Maxim Mitchenkov the details. Photo: Evgeniy Nadalinsky, Kommersant / buy photo Early presidential elections will take place in Ukraine on Sunday.

Alexander Bastrykin sent a special commission to Khanty-Mansiysk Chairman of the Investigative Committee of Russia Alexander Bastrykin sent a central office commission to the investigative department for the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Okrug to find out the reasons for the “blatant fact of ignoring the appeal of a girl who came to the investigator for protection.” Earlier, local resident Yulia Pykhteeva was killed in Khanty-Mansiysk, who contacted the ICR department with a statement of rape

The leader of the gangster underground “Abdullah” was identified among the militants eliminated in Ingushetia; his gang was responsible for a number of high-profile murders of civil servants and police officers, the National Anti-Terrorism Committee reported on May 24. The day before, FSB officers learned that militants from the “Malgobek bandit group” were hiding in one of the houses in the village of Sagopshi, Malgobek district.

A video message, presumably from the shooter, who killed six people in the city of Santa Barbara, California, not counting the attacker himself, was posted on the popular video hosting site YouTube, RIA Novosti reported on May 24. The video, titled "Elliot Rodger's Revenge," was posted on a young man's YouTube channel shortly before an unknown man in a black BMW opened fire on people in the Isla Vista area. The cover of Roger's channel features himself sitting in a black BMW.

It is expected that it will include eight south-eastern regions of Ukraine “Donetsk People’s Republic” (DPR) and “Lugansk People’s Republic” (LPR) signed a document according to which they unite into a single state “Novorossiya”. This was reported on the official DPR page on Twitter. The document on unification was signed in Donetsk at the congress of regions of south-eastern Ukraine by the Prime Minister of the DPR Alexander Borodai and the head of the LPR Alexei Karyakin.

Structures close to Vladimir Plotnikov turned out to be co-owners of the territory of PVVKIKU As Kommersant learned, one of the large sites for complex residential development - the territory of the former PVVKIKU landfill on Novogaivinskaya - has expanded the composition of its owners. The co-owner of this site was LuxStroy LLC, close to the influential city Duma deputy and businessman Vladimir Plotnikov. He himself does not deny that the company is familiar to him.

The Sverdlovsky branch of OJSC TGC-9 (part of IES Holding) will allocate 1.796 billion rubles for a repair campaign, technical re-equipment and reconstruction in 2014, the press service of the branch said in a statement. Thus, the planned costs for repairs will amount to about 700 million rubles, the program for technical re-equipment and reconstruction of energy facilities - 1.1 billion rubles.